Adobe provided the following security bulletin this evening: An important vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.22 and earlier versions for Android. This universal cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107) could be used to take actions on a … [Read more...]
How To Edit The HOSTS File In Vista or Windows 7
The HOSTS file is where your computer goes first to translate a domain (404TechSupport.com) to an IP address (96.30.24.98). It's mostly been replaced by the use of DNS because it would be impossible to keep up with all the new websites created or server changes that occur daily. Despite that, it still has its uses for correcting something locally or filtering sites. Malware … [Read more...]
Use a Windows PC? Enjoy Some Music.
This has been around for a while but it's still fun. Open Computer/My Computer Click on C: Open the Windows folder. Open the media folder. Double-click on onestop.mid (or just onestop). Enjoy. … [Read more...]
Inside The Google Music Beta
Announced earlier this month, I've been playing around with the Google Music Beta for the past week. (The Google Music beta is far more stable than Google Wave and I received my invite much sooner too.) Overall, the concept is something I'm interested in as I've been looking at different software that allows me to stream music and video from my computer to my phone or other … [Read more...]
Android App FaceNiff is the “FireSheep for Android”
Using WiFi became a little more risky once FireSheep was introduced, a simplified way to snatch authentication info out of wireless packets, and a few big companies (Facebook, Twitter) responded by enabling HTTPS-by-default settings to mitigate the problem. The next incarnation of this threat has made its way to Android smartphones through an app called FaceNiff. FaceNiff is … [Read more...]