iTunes 10.5 Released for Free Download for iOS 5 Support

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The new version of iTunes 10.5 has been released by Apple ahead of arrival of highly anticipated and long awaited iOS 5. iTunes 10.5 is essential to support iOS 5 and iCloud, as well as bring some minor changes to the program’s user interface.



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iOS 5 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Released for Download

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The most anticipated software update for iDevices, namely iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been released at around 10 AM PST, October 12th, 2011, a date as promised by Apple. iOS 5 brings over 200 new features and enhanced functionalities to the iOS mobile devices, including the Notification Center, iMessage, iCloud support and PC Free, and it’s the prerequisite to enjoy iCloud.



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Windows 8 Developer Preview (Pre-Beta) Build 8102 Released

Microsoft has officially released the developer preview version of Windows 8 during the BUILD developer conference. The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, and thus is not suitable for those looking for stable or intending to run on production system, as the downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice.

The released Windows 8 Developer Preview has the build version of Windows 8.8102.0.WINMAIN_WIN8M3.110824-1030, or full build string for x86 edition of version 6.2 (Build 8102.101.x86fre.winmain_win8m3.110830-1739), or indicating it’s compiled and signed off on August 30th, 2011, and is still a build within M3 development brand. Meaning it’s pre-beta.

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iOS 4.3.4 and iOS 4.2.9 Released (IPSW Download)

A new version iOS for Apple mobile devices has been released by Apple, mainly to plug a security hole which relates to security vulnerability when viewing malicious PDF files. The vulnerability allows Comex, an iOS hacker of iPhone Dev Team to update the web-based JailBreakMe hack to support jailbreak of iOS devices running on iOS version 4.3.0 to 4.3.3.

Two versions of iOS software are made available for GSM and CDMA versions of iPhones and iPads, plus iPod touches, which are iOS 4.3.4 and iOS 4.2.9. As the upgrade fixes the security flaw used by JailBreakMe hack, users who update to the latest version of iOS will effectively remove the jailbreak too, although a patch is available from Cydia which allows the vulnerability to be fixed while preserving the jailbreak.

Apple details the security related patches for iOS 4.3.4 update in HT4802.

iDevice users can get the automatic update by connecting the device to iTunes. Users who want to manually download the IPSW file for iOS 4.3.4 can use the following direct download links:

iOS 4.3.4 Official Direct Download Links

iPhone 4 (GSM): http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1923.20110715.BnATg/iPhone3,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3GS: http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1921.20110715.ItuLh/iPhone2,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPod touch 4G: http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1918.20110715.MgWsk/iPod4,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPod touch 3G: http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1919.20110715.ShHh4/iPod3,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPad 2 (Wi-Fi): http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1924.2011.0715.qP4r3/iPad2,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPad 2 (GSM): http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1914.20110715.Xdw2Q/iPad2,2_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPad 2 (CDMA): http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1917.2011.715.ZbLkn/iPad2,3_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw
iPad: http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1913.20110715.cvTyu/iPad1,1_4.3.4_8K2_Restore.ipsw

iOS 4.2.9 Official Direct Download Links

iPhone 4 (CDMA): http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1916.20110715.V5rUA/iPhone3,3_4.2.9_8E501_Restore.ipsw

Older version of iDevice no longer have upgrade supported, where iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G continues to use iOS 4.2.1 while iPod touch 1G uses iOS 3.1.3.

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New 1-Click Installer for Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio released

The installer includes

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual StudioWindows Azure SDKVisual Web Developer 2010, if you do not have Visual Studio 2010Required IIS feature settingsRequired hot fixesThese tools have been developed by Microsoft, partners, and community members and to help you develop, deploy and manage your hosted services and storage accounts in Windows Azure.

If you are not using Visual Studio, you can download the standalone Windows Azure SDK by itself. It provides developers with the APIs, basic tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop Internet-scale applications that run on Windows Azure.

Head over to Microsoft to download and install everything with one simple installer!

Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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Free Sophos anti-virus for Apple Mac released

November 3rd, 2010. Filed under:News. Tags: AntiVirus, Mac
Its great news for Mac users! Sophos has just released a Free anti-virus for Mac. As malware attacks on Apple computers grow, they’re now an increasingly-enticing and easy target for hackers.

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Massive Patch Tuesday Released

Microsoft really outdid themselves this month by releasing the biggest patch Tuesday ever and fixing a whopping 49 vulnerabilities. Computer World reports that there are 16 groups of patches total and two patches in particular should get priority. One is patch MS10-071 for Internet Explorer and the other is for Windows, number MS10-076. Microsoft feels that it is very likely that attack code will be developed targeting the vulnerabilities fixed by those two patches.

NCircle Director of Security Operations Andrew Storms agrees that those two updates should be a top priority as they could be leveraged in a drive-by Internet attack. In this common type of attack, a hacker tricks the victim into visiting a Web page that takes advantage of the bug to install a malicious program on the victim’s machine.

The MS10-071 update for IE fixes 10 bugs, 2 of which are rated Critical and could be used in a drive-by attack. MS10-076 fixes a single bug in the Windows Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine which Internet Explorer uses. Newer versions of Windows have ASLR (address space layer randomization) that protect from attacks on that kind of bug. Therefore, Windows XP is expected to be the target for exploits on the EOT bug along with other older versions of Windows.

Two other updates that are regarded as crucial are MS10-077, a fix for a .NET framework bug that affects only x64 systems, and MS10-075 which fixes a bug in Microsoft Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service which is used by Windows Media Player to share media over the network. In addition to the high profile updates there are a number of lower-ranking vulnerabilities that are regarded as possible avenues of attack, specifically 35 out of the 49 bugs could allow unauthorized code execution. As a result, Microsoft expects a number of exploits for lower-ranking bugs.

Stuxnet teaches us that bugs that aren’t ranked Critical can still be dangerous,

one of Tuesday’s updates — MS10-073; rated important by Microsoft — fixes a Windows XP bug that was leveraged by the creators of the Stuxent worm. Stuxnet is the first publicly known worm built to attack industrial systems and it has made headlines during the past weeks amidst speculation that it was designed to target nuclear systems in Iran.

For more info see the official Microsoft bulletin.

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Huge Adobe Reader Patch Released A Week Early

Adobe patched an impressive 23 vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat today, setting a record for this year. Computer World reports that the patches are mostly critical and include one for a flaw that has been actively exploited for a month or more. This update comes to us a week ahead of schedule after Adobe promised to move the date up for this patch to address a new vulnerability in font parsing that is seeing attacks.

Recently Adobe has had to put out quite a few zero-day patches, with an attack on Flash in September that required an out-of-band patch and now this new font bug. The patch put out today includes the Flash patch as well because Reader and Acrobat include code to run Flash embedded in pdfs.

The most notable patch is for the exploit found in early September by Mila Parkour. This exploit was lauded as “scary” and “clever” because it bypassed built-in Windows protections with ease and used a stolen signed digital certificate. The exploit was later named after David Letterbeater who was the subject of many rigged emails as part of the attack.

Adobe notes that 20 of the vulnerabilities being patched could lead to code execution where hackers could hijack the computer. Unlike Microsoft, Adobe does not assign official threat ratings to patches. Two of the remaining bugs could be used to crash Reader or Acrobat and the last is a bug just for the Linux version of Reader. To update your copy of Reader or Acrobat fire up the auto-updater or grab the link from the official Adobe advisory.

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HDCP Exploit Encryption/Decryption Software Code Download Released

The master key of HDCP anti-copying for HD content has been leaked and published on World Wide Web. While Intel has claimed that the hack or crack to exploit the HDCP is hard to implement, and most likely to be hardware-based, a software code that implements the HDCP encryption and decryption algorithm has been developed and published.

The open source (BSD licensed) HDCP Encryption and Decryption Code is developed by Rob Johnson and Mikhail Rubnich. The release source code is proof of concept only, though it’s capable of cracking and decrypting the HDCP protected signal from a 1080p (Full HD) source at real-time on a very powerful machine.

The code includes the block cipher, stream cipher, and hashing algorithms necessary to perform an HDCP handshake and to encrypt or decrypt video. The code passes the test vectors provided in the HDCP specification and can encrypt video at a rate of about 180 640×480 frames/second on a 2.33GHz Intel Xeon CPU. The machine is not quite fast enough to decrypt 1080p content in real-time on a single core, as HDCP cipher is designed to be efficient when implemented in hardware but inefficient in software, primarily because it makes extensive use of bit operations. But decryption can be parallelized across multiple cores, and the implementation uses bit-slicing to achieve high speeds by exploiting bit-level parallelism. With bit-slicing method, output can be generated at up to 64 frames of video in parallel.

The developers hope that the code might be useful to other people researching or implementing the HDCP protocol, as there are many opportunities for further optimization, such as using SSE instructions.

Users who interested can download HDCP Encryption and Decryption Code (current version 0.3: hdcp-0.3.tgz) from http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/

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Longhorn PowerPlus Final theme for Windows 7 released

September 20th, 2010. Filed under:Downloads. Tags: Themes
Theme enthusiasts! You might want to check out the Longhorn PowerPlus theme for Windows 7, especially if you’d like add a bit of color to your Windows 7. This Longhorn PowerPlus theme for Windows 7 has just been updated to its final version now.

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