Microsoft has published the corresponding portion of monthly security patches for August 2011, and the bugs fixed include a vulnerability which became popular in the 1990s, called 'Ping of death'.
The vulnerability is labeled as "CVE-2011-1871? and is similar to a discovered in 1996 known as the 'ping of death', when an attack with heavy ICMP packets managed to block the system with the blue screen of death and the restart of the computer."
This vulnerability does not only affect Windows, also to others such as Unix, Linux and Mac. was patched in all of them and it was assumed that it did not affect operating systems modern.
It is not known if the new bug is the same 'Ping of Death' and has been incorporated in any software development process or if it is a variant of the original. In any case it is important to update your system with the patch provided by Microsoft that affects Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
Good move, if not excellent, which just made Amazon with kindle cloud reader, the new integrated service of its popular eBook reader and the Amazon book store. It basically consists in moving all the qualities of the Kindle, including his sublime synchronization service Whispersync making use of HTML5 to a browser, which include the iPad, Google Chrome and Safari, for Windows and Mac, Firefox being the notable exception, which currently does not support the new service.
Una de las características más notorias del iPhone es que la mayoría de sus usuarios usan una combinación de 4 caracteres o PIN para evitar acceso no autorizado a su celular. Este tipo de medida de seguridad ya ha sido criticada porque la gente es perezosa a la hora de crear un PIN y son demasiado comunes combinaciones tontas como 1111 o 1234. Sin embargo, un nuevo reporte indica que incluso aquellos que combinan números totalmente aleatorios están en peligro de que su teléfono sea vulnerado con facilidad en caso de que caiga en las manos equivocadas.
In stock market problems arising from debts of United States, the vast majority of businesses are collapsing in the stock market, but Apple has managed to withstand the shocks and thus now Exxon Mobil beat for the first time in its history (at least on a transitional basis) as the company with the highest market value in the world.
A few days ago Lenovo filed a new all-in-one for school, but it can also be used for business. The machine is known as thinkcentre m71z and 15 seconds after we prendemos it already is ready for use, all thanks to its optional 160 GB SSD.
Anonymous recently announced an attack on Facebook for the 5 November, on the pretext of the violation of privacy of the users from the social network.The goal is nothing less than making it disappear. No doubt the company of Mark Zuckerberg has means to protect themselves, but the 'hackers' group has proven to be able to get very far. Those who fear that the network can fall - or also those who want to prevent account theft - can download all your data with a few 'clicks'. It is an option quite visible and accessible but little-known.
Many you will ring and others have perhaps forgotten. In early December of last year announced the imminent release ofOpenLeaks, an alternative to WikiLeaks created by former members of the Organization with the figure of Daniel Domscheit head (WikiLeaks spokesperson). At the time announced a model similar in origin to the composed Assange although with some differences. Would be tried to avoid harassment from Governments and invest the internal pyramid had Assange as head of everything by a more egalitarian, an organization "democratically governed by all its members, rather than a group or individual". Its three guidelines were:
La velocidad de crecimiento de Google+ está siendo realmente sorprendente. Tan sólo 5 semanas después de su lanzamiento alcanzó los 25 millones de usuarios, y eso que aún sigue en fase de pruebas. Ahora Google ha lanzado una nueva posibilidad para invitar a 150 contactos de un solo link.
Amazon released today Kindle Cloud Reader, an application that allows to read eBooks from the web browser on different devices, both online and without an internet connection and without downloads or installations.
Via Techdirt we learned that the State of New York at the United Statesamended its legislation related to recording aofensas for adding drives, USBs and memory cards among other things, to the list of demonic device that damage the music industry. The music industry has always been victimized under the most ridiculous arguments, but now the lobbyistas have a law cited. Pity that intellectual property laws lack legitimacy in our days.
Now any user can upload an image to Twitter using the official images, service that was introduced a few months ago and that time was only available for some developers. The few times that I had seen it was making use of the new Twitter integration in iOS 5 and any other lost account from now on, and from the website, next to the button's geolocation is another with a small camera that allows you to upload an image directly.
