As previously reported, Pwn2Own took place Wednesday through Friday at CanSecWest this past week. Although, the TippingPoint blog wasn't updated as the source of winners, we can report the browsers or mobile devices that were compromised based on reports coming out of the conference. Browsers "Safari goes down first at #pwn2own" "Stephen Fewer @stephenfewer just successfully … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Microsoft Brings March Madness To Your Outlook Calendar
As if productivity in March didn't take a big enough hit already, Microsoft has created a free calendar you can add to Outlook in order to keep track of all the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament games. If you have Outlook 2007 or 2010, you can subscribe to a calendar and the schedule, teams, and locations will be updated as the tournament advances. Visit the March … [Read more...]
IL Governor Quinn Signs “Amazon Tax” Into Law, Overstock and Amazon Terminate All Illinois Associates
I previously reported on the "Amazon Tax" Bill (HB 3659) making its way through Illinois Legislation and landing on the Governor's desk. Two months later, Governor Pat Quinn (recently elected Governor by .9%) has signed the bill into Public Act 096-1544. The Act "closes the loophole" (a.k.a. twists the law in lobbying groups' favor) so that the same law that requires businesses … [Read more...]
Readability
Readability is a company with the goal of making the Web a more reading-friendly place. Readability removes a lot of the distractions from a website and allows you to format documents the way you like for a consistent and improved reading experience. You can utilize Readability as a web app or a mobile app to remove the distractions or to save something to be read … [Read more...]
What Does MS Paint Sound Like?
From YouTube, user r2blend has discovered that importing an executable into an audio editing program can have some interesting results. To be specific, they imported the MSPaint executable from Windows 7 x64 into Adobe Audition as 22050hz 8-bit stereo audio raw PCM data. The description of the YouTube video: Just made a really weird and awesome discovery. If you import an EXE … [Read more...]