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 Tuesday afternoon, and decided to shut down the service the same day. Users register on the server with their email addresses and sometimes their names, addresses and phone numbers, but the server holds no credit card information, a spokesman said.

 

          The intruder breached an unknown number of servers that could hold data for the service's one million members in Japan and 800,000 members in North America, but left untouched the servers with its 300,000 European members. In May, Square Enix said it suffered hacking attacks into the web site of a Canadian subsidiary and two product sites. It said 350 applicants' resumes and up to 25,000 email addresses were stolen in that attack.

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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 to Stratfor. The company stated in an email that as a result of this incident the operation of its servers and email had been suspended.

          Anonymous hacktivists, who had been reportedly responsible for attacking the websites of companies and institutions that opposed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, claimed they were able to attack Stratfor's website as the company did not encrypt it. Stratfor in a statement said it was "working closely with law enforcement in their investigation and will assist them with the identification of the individual(s) who are responsible."

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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:

1. Open up Regedit.
2. Navigate thru HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, DWM.
3. Create a new DWORD called AnimationsShiftKey inside the DWM folder.
4. Set the new DWORD that you just created to a value of 1.
5. Click on start >> cmd >> (right click) run as administrator
6. Run net stop uxsms at administrative rights command prompt followed by net start uxsms to restart the DWM engine.

Once you have restarted the DWM engine, just hold down the shift key to see any of the window animations in slow motion.

Tip: Hold down shift and start Flip 3D. Very Cool!

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