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  • Safari 5 Pwned at Pwn2Own Hacking Contest in 5 Seconds

    March 10, 2011 // Gradly // Apple, blog, Funny, Jailbreak, Microsoft, News, Rants & Raves Tags: blog, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Pwn2Own, Pwned, Safari No Responses

    The folks at computerworld reports that in just a few minutes before Pwn2Own contest, Apple released Safari 5.0.4 along with iOS 4.3. At the contest, MacBook Air and Safari 5.0.4 pwned in five seconds. The French security firm Vupen which won a cool $15,000 and a MacBook Air for beating its perks in pwning Apple’s browser. It took the team just a few seconds to exploit an unpatched Safari vulnerability. “We pwned Apple Safari on Mac OS X (x64) at pwn2own in 5 seconds,” they tweeted.

    Besides, Internet Explorer 8 was taken down by Stephen Fewer, who used three separate vulnerabilities to get out of Protected Mode and crack that browser’s best locks.

    Google made a proud challenge as it said it’d pay $20,000 to any team or individual who could successfully hack Chrome. Till now it’s still safe.

    Hoping that Apple will get a Safari fix out soon.

  • VMWare brings Windows to iPad as Apple readies iPhone 5

    March 9, 2011 // Gradly // Apple, blog, iPad, Microsoft, News, Rants & Raves Tags: Apple, blog, iPad, iPhone 5, VMWare, Windows No Responses

    Today, VMWare 3 allows you to run remote Windows, Linux, images remotely from your iPad with ‘VMWare Viewer’.  VMWare is a much more popular virtualization solution in big business so this may have a lot more people moving off their PCs and onto iPads.

  • Latest Windows Phone Commercial Shows off UI Eye Candy

    March 6, 2011 // Gradly // blog, Microsoft, Mobile Tags: blog, Commercial, Microsoft, Mobile, UI, Windows Phone 7, WP7 No Responses

    The commercial  is entitled “Everything a smartphone should be” and uses quotes from ordinary users and sites to demonstrate SMS, Live Tiles, Outlook, Calendar, Office, Zune, Xbox LIVE integration and a few choice applications like Netflix and Amazon’s Kindle. The commercial features AT&T’s Samsung Focus device.

  • Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 Walkthrough

    March 4, 2011 // Gradly // blog, Microsoft Tags: blog, Microsoft, MS DOS, Windows No Responses

    “YouTube user Andrew Tait has uploaded a video titled Chain of Fools: Upgrading through every version of Windows. Tait starts with MS DOS 5.0 running Windows 1.0 and keeps upgrading the operating system until he reaches Windows 7, taking note of the changes to system settings and application compatibility along the way.”

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