LulzSec: Attack on the IT service provider “CSS Corp.”

Once the hacker group LulzSec Reborn recently a single market for military-called crack Militarysingles.com successfully and was able to make numerous personal data into the network, now another attack became known.

About the microblogging platform Twitter informed you that you could in the IT service provider server CSS Corp. penetrate successfully. In this regard, the attackers procured access to the e-mail database of the company.

A complete dump of the associated database is on file hosting services, according to a pastebin Embedupload contribution available. In the above mentioned post some excerpts are included. Apart from the e-mail addresses can be found in it, the passwords used for employees.

As already mentioned, was recently reborn LulzSec take Militarysingles.com server and also publish numerous pastebin personal information. Altogether, these are more than 170,000 records.

In the last week announced that the activist group LulzSec on ​​1 Report back to April of this year officially wants. This was preceded by a major blow by the FBI. Several activists were LulzSec after hints from Hector Xavier Monsegur be arrested, better known as Chief of LulzSec and under the name Sabu.

Actually, the activists have been in the past year – or at least the former members – officially separated .

In 2012 we will see streaming movies on discs

According to a study published by Bloomberg in 2012 will be the year of streaming. And why is that? Because finally the number of movies seen in 2012 by streaming will exceed the number of movies seen in CD, DVD or Blu-Ray. Assuming the data as a truth of faith, leaving aside considerations like the series or have views on Youtube, there are a few considerations on which we can shed some light.

And is that one thing is clear: we are big consumers of audiovisual material. Every week movie releases in theaters and in the video (yes, they still exist). But all Samanas, for example, also have the movie of the week from the iTunes Store. No shortage of options, but where do we go from here?

The tendency

Every month we get a little older, the act of introducing an optical device on a tape recorder or a player looks more and more outdated. Large collections of series and movies downloaded, recorded and you kept in huge archives of CD / DVD begin to be worthy of a museum of history. Will you continue working? Did he hit the plastic and will scratch the disc?

But not only have the means. Her coat over my pajamas and go down to the video store to rent a movie also becoming a tradition that in a few years extiguirá. Not only seem obsolete physical media, but the consumption trend has changed. Increasingly, we see a video on demand. We have the command and control of what appears in that little (or not so) screen that adorns our living rooms.

The solution that the market and technology has found these aspects has been streaming. Connect your TV to the computer or directly to the Internet, and get the movie you want, we just want to charge you a eurillos. But not just about movies, television began to have more and more audience in their programs broadcast in streaming deferred. It is to be subject to a fixed schedule, it is increasingly outdated.

The reality

The CDs are disappearing since early 2000. That’s over ten years when it seemed a death foretold, but there remain. Whether in the back of a book, magazine, gifted with a newspaper or on the music market, the lucky CDs will not just disappear. The trend is clear: more and sold less physical disks, are increasingly being used more for movies DVD s (or Blu-Ray), but ten years later, still there, like a bad zombie.

Another reality is very different quality of content consumed. This is no time or place to judge the quality of the movies or TV shows that most people display in their house, but if the quality of picture and sound with which they do. And it is clear that today many people prefer quantity to quality, and thus, it is clear that the battle will be won by streaming.

It seems that the only stronghold of optical devices end up being the Blu-Ray. Buy CD music album on the Internet is becoming increasingly common and increasingly, if someone wants to have a movie because you particularly like, surely value the purchase of a Blu-Ray, and buy it to see it in condition. Have you tried one of those movies that occupy 700 megabytes? It’s like putting the TV and see images of the Sydney Olympics, was not so long ago, but we’ve changed a lot over the years.

Skip Tunes, small controller for iTunes, Spotify or Rdio

Skip Tunes is a utility to control playback of iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. It has a very demure, 0.79 euros although not that we do not offer great CoverSutra frills style, Coverstream or similar.

It does not provide keyboard shortcuts to access the replay, which do make many other utilities, either directly from the menu you can go back in play. As its name suggests it is always jumping forward, although it is true that we can also control the playback and go back if we click on the icon will display the main program interface, one of the highlights of this application.

If you want something cheap, without much complication, that allows you to control iTunes in addition to other players like Spotify and you can always be accessed via the System Menu, do not hesitate descargaros this application from the Mac App Store.

Facebook brings full-screen mode for photo display

The social network Facebook has released a new feature for viewing photos. This will in future no longer be confined to the past, quite small in size, for which the existing for some time viewer of the platform was designed.

In the future it will be possible for users to display pictures up to a size of 2,048 x 2,048 pixels in full screen mode. These are the maximum dimensions that Facebook allows the upload. This corresponds to up to four times that which is represented by the current layer.

However, there is a limitation. The new viewer currently works only once in the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox browsers. There, users now get a fullscreen button appears, allowing them to switch to full screen mode. Alternatively, click on the arrow at the top right of the image possible.

The full-screen display can also stay active while you navigate through all the photos in an album. Only if another choice is to be selected, one must return to the default interface. The presentation of the images should also be optimized through an improved color profile that provides images with richer colors faded, it said.

Google Chrome: New version includes 8 holes

The creators of Google have released version 17.0.963.83 house of their own browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. With this version of Chrome will be closed including eight security vulnerabilities.

For more information about this topic, the Google employee Jason Kersey on the official Chrome blog together. According to him, a total of eight vulnerabilities were eliminated from the world of which we classify six in the category “high” in relation to the hazard.

Two other security problems with the danger level “low” have been fixed by the developers through the release of version 17.0.963.83. Apart from that we have dealt with problems at Google for flash games and this solved successfully.

Some of the vulnerabilities were discovered by well-known security researchers. This includes, for example, Sergey Glazunov, among other things, in the wake of the hacker contest “Pwnium” in this month found critical gaps in the Chrome browser and has an exploit could even break out of the sandbox.

Best Virus Scanner 2012 – Free Anti Virus wins

On the basis of a large dataset of about 170,000 computers, the company OPSWAT has studied the spread of virus scanners. OPSWAT provides the tool AppRemover. Were examined, therefore, only the computers on which AppRemover is installed. With 11.91% of these computers was avast! Free Anti-Virus detects that it is the most popular anti-virus software. In second place, the Security Essentials from Microsoft are followed with 9.96% of Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus with 9.75%.

Source: opswat.com
Also represented in the Top Ten AVG Anti-Virus Free (6.83%), ESET NOD32 AntiVirus (6.75%), Norton AntiVirus (5.00%) are, Kaspersky Internet Security (4.62%), AVG Anti-virus (4.19%), McAfee VirusScan (3.34%) and ESET Smart Security (2.59%). The three largest producers of anti-virus software avast!, Avira and AVG, which is present even with two products in the top ten. Two products in the top ten has otherwise only with ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Smart Security.

Overall, the providers that offer free virus scanner, among other things also, vendors such as Kaspersky and Symantec are clearly superior in the spread. However, there are regional differences. Sun Symantec is widespread in the U.S. almost as much as avast! by world standards. Especially popular among U.S. users are also Microsoft Security Essentials, which lie just under 15 percent market share in the U.S. even at number one. International are the only Microsoft Security Essentials to almost 10 percent.

How to recover text buttons in Gmail

Like everyone, I hit the Gmail redesigned presented by Google late last year, but I think in general has been an improvement for the experience of using this service. That has not stopped the complaints have been ongoing since then.

One item that has received many protests is the new buttons to manage your inbox, displayed as icons instead of text. That sometimes makes it complicated to find a role, especially with icons that are not exactly intuitive, as the choice to mark spam.

Google has decided to hear the complaints in this section and included in the section of Gmail settings section to choose a new icon or text-traditional buttons, easier to use but also less attractive. Buttons with icons will remain the default option, but it’s always good to decide.

Arrival Notice, application that performs a missed call when we arrived at a site

Today we find in the shops of mobile tools that can do almost anything with our phones, but yet one never ceases to surprise. The most striking proposal comes the day of Arrival Notice account, which allows you to configure the terminal to automatically perform a missed call the number you want to reach a particular place.

At first glance it might seem downright vague application, but some utilities Arrival Notice is quite interesting. For example, you do very good job when we are driving and want to tell someone that we have reached the destination to pick, but obviously we can not take the phone behind the wheel.

Available for free on Google Play and compatible with versions of Android from 2.1, the application sets consultations GPS not bleed intermittently to the battery, increasing the frequency of checks as we approach the goal. You can set the duration of the call and the distance to the destination you want to come into action, so you have everything you need to fulfill their simple but practical purpose.

First test of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680

It does not really like any big launch: An NDA is there to be broken. So it is not surprising that barely a week before the supposed launch date on the GeForce GTX 680 22nd March, a first full test has turned up – of course in Asia.

And while the local press keeps scrupulously to the rules, the first test of HKEPC makes the rounds on the Internet so much that the site suffers from chronic congestion. So show your colleagues that did not previously have, for example, a new AA modes “TXAA” advanced features of the Turbo Mode ‘, so some things. The eyes may be closed computer base is not in front, even if it is officially under NDA. But the information is freely available to everyone, so here’s the short summary.

At the beginning of the article , the specifications will be revealed, which had already occurred by the rumors in recent days to light. The GeForce GTX 680 will compete with a core clock speed of 1,006 MHz, which operates 2 GB of GDDR5 memory with effective 6 GHz – a record figure for a reference model. The 294 mm ² die size as well as many more details to its predecessor and will be offered direct competition.

First test of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 (picture: hkepc.com )
Besides the few game benchmarks, the GTX 680 is easy to see in almost every test in front against the HD 7970, and the interesting new features around the TXAA and the turbo mode, something cracked.

First test of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680

The rumors are already traded in the pricing of 549 U.S. dollars as well as confirming the TDP of 195 watts and a total package (complete system) with a lower power consumption than HD 7970, says the test continues.

St. Patrick’s Day: Fox & HTML5 capabilities

Today is celebrated not only in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day. The developers from Redmond have this remembrance of the Irish patron saint Patrick took the opportunity again and show the possibilities HTML5 features.

Specifically, Microsoft is of course in this regard not only to HTML5 as the technology itself, but the interaction with in-house products. Especially in the Internet Explorer 10 and the recently released Windows 8 Beta this should be clear.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Tobin Titus, in the home as a program manager for Microsoft Internet Explorer active, makes the demo site set up on the ‘ IEBlog ‘attention. In this regard, it relies on various HTML5 elements, which may include HTML5 Canvas and HTML5 audiobelong.

If you do not have a touch screen available so you can try out the possibilities of this demo website either with the mouse. In principle, also support other browsers, the presentation of this website. The best multi-touch support and hardware acceleration, but only if Microsoft promises that Internet Explorer is 10.