Kaspersky Internet Security Memory Corruption Vulnerability

          Vulnerability-Lab Team discovered a Memory & Pointer Corruption Vulnerability on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011/2012. A Memory Corruption vulnerability is detected on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011/2012.           The vulnerability is caused by an invalid pointer corruption when processing a corrupt .cfg...

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Backdoor in Android for No-Permissions Reverse Shell

          Security expert Thomas Cannon working at viaForensics as the Director of R&D has demonstrated a custom-developed app that installs a backdoor in Android smartphones – without requiring any permissions or exploiting any security holes.           Thomas built an app which requires no permissions and yet is able to give an attacker a remote shell and allow them to execute commands on the...

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US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

         A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the Chamber’s network more than a year before they were discovered. It is not confirm when the initial break-in occurred but security officials from the Chamber quietly shut the breech down in May of 2010.            ...

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Windows 7 64-bit Memory Corruption Vulnerability

          A person known by the alias of "w3bd3vil" on twitter released an HTML snippet that will cause the 64 bit version of Windows 7 to blue screen if  viewed under Safari. The underlying vulnerability is however not a flaw in Safari but rather a flaw in the Windows kernel mode device driver, win32k.sys. "A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's...

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Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit

          Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help them find new ways to jailbreak Apple's phone software & Jailbreakers use Apple crash reports to unlock iPhones.           Jailbreaking is basically modifying the iPhone’s firmware so that you can get access to the internals of its operating system and install a whole slew of third-party applications on...

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Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack

          An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft’s navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems (GPS).           The U.S. Department of Energy notes that GPS is widely used, but insecure, although few users have taken note. GPS...

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1.8 Million Accounts Hacked from Square Enix Japanese Game Company

          Square Enix stated yesterday that somebody "may have gained unauthorized access to a particular Square Enix server" and took its members service offline in both Japan and the U.S. Today, the company clarified that 1.8 million customer's accounts had been affected.           The company said it noticed that unknown parties had accessed the server for its free "Square Enix Members" site on...

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Anonymous hackers claim responsibility for Stratfor cyber attack

          Anonymous hacktivists said they were able to attack Stratfor’s website as the company did not encrypt it. The activist hacker group Anonymous said it has hacked the website of the US-based security think tank Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor).           Stratfor's chief executive George Friedman confirmed that the site had been the victim of a hack attack. Credit card details, home addresses and some other personal details of its 4,000 subscribers were made public on a website named Pastebin, according...

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See the Aero Glass Animation effects in slow motion

This is how aero glass looks when we minimized the window For those of you have have the Aero Glass interface on your computer, it is possible to hold down the shift key while closing, opening, and minimizing a windows to see the animation in slow motion.  If you would like to test this out, just follow the steps below: Open up Regedit. Navigate thru HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, DWM. Create a new DWORD called AnimationsShiftKey inside the DWM folder....

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Create a Flip3D Taskbar Icon in Windows 7

Flip3D was a fun and cool looking feature in Windows Vista that can be very useful for switching between windows. With the improved Windows 7 taskbar, Flip3D was replaced with improved thumbnails and Aero Peek. Those are both good alternatives but I like the speed of viewing all my open windows at once and switching with just two clicks. This article will show you how to create a Flip3D icon on the Windows 7 taskbar:     Right click on the Desktop and select...

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Customize your Desktop : Rainmeter

What's on your desktop?    Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are only limited by...

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Denial of Service Attack Vulnerability in Windows Phone 7.5

          Microsoft's range of Windows Phones suffer from a denial-of-service attack bug that allows attackers to reboot the device and disable the messaging functionality on a device.             A malicious SMS sent to a Windows Phone 7.5 device will force it to reboot and lock down the messaging hub. WinRumors reader Khaled Salameh discovered the flaw and reported it to us on Monday. WinRumors...

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