Supercharge Windows Vista’s Startup Time

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Windows Vista boots up quickly—but seeing the desktop is hardly a sign that the OS is ready for use. When your familiar wallpaper and icons appear, you better not start clicking, because in the background the OS is still finishing up its startup process. Sometimes it seems like you have ...

Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product. This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at ...

Firefox 2.0.0.14 Released

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

For those of you who are not trying out a BETA version of Firefox 3, version 2.0.0.14 has been released and can be downloaded from here.

Hacker releases working GDI-bug attack code

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Security researchers on Monday spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned users of other editions to expect attacks. Symantec confirmed that the proof-of-concept code publicly posted to the milw0rm.com site earlier in the day successfully attacks Chinese editions of Windows 2000 ...

Crack Rar, 7z, and zip files with RarCrack in Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Ever run into the problem where you created a password protected zip/rar file and you forgot the password or accidentally deleted it? Or just dont know the password at all? Well I have come across a nice solution for cracking zip/rar files. Its called rarcrack, If you forget your password ...