Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook users

Quoted from Reuters (05/15/2009) that Hackers launched an attack on Facebook's 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack.

He said that Facebook was blocking compromised accounts.

Schnitt declined to say how many accounts had been compromised.

The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites.

Those sites were designed to look like the Facebook home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords.

The purpose of such attacks is generally identify theft and to spread spam.

The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. Facebook has deleted all references to those domains.

Schnitt said that Facebook's security team believes the hackers intended to collect a large number of credentials, then use those accounts at a later time to send spam hawking fake pharmaceuticals and other goods to Facebook members.

The site fought off a similar attack two weeks ago, he said.

Privately held Facebook and rival social network MySpace, which is owned by News Corp, require senders of messages within the network to be members and hide user data from people who do not have accounts. Because of that, users tend to be far less suspicious of messages they receive.

Hackers used a phishing attack last year to spread a malicious virus known as Koobface (a reference to Facebook). It was downloaded onto Facebook members' PCs when they clicked on a link sent to them in an email that looked like it had been sent by a friend on Facebook.

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Windows 7 Build 7137 download x32 and x64 + screenshots

Here the list of download links for Windows 7 build 7137 for x32 and x64. First download links of Windows 7 Build 7137 download x32 and x64 available here!

Build 7137 x86 also leaked:

MD5 2f7520915dff55380e979e67ae4687db
SHA1 ff9c8751095e77be0fd4a0a0a937e3eab0c18943
CRC32 3d4eef0c
Size 2.37 GB.

build 7137 x64 leaked:

MD5: 0d863472414efc337d032e8ed33c347b
SHA1: 8e35d15281a554fd890ad682249e485b9b82278c
CRC32: 06047573
ISO size 3.04 GB
Download:
x86: http://odsiebie.com/pokaz/3124432---1564.html
x64: http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1882348

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta Updated Log Collection Utility

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are now available, here are the new update for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 by Microsoft.

One illustrative example in this regard is the Collect.exe log collection utility. The tool was updated and tailored to the successor of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. The Redmond company is asking testers running the Beta development milestones of Visual Studio 2010 Beta and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta to download the utility and use it to collect logs for submission when bugs are reported to the support website.

“While we have worked hard to reduce install times and installation issues and hope you don’t encounter any, in case you do experience an issue we encourage you to gather and upload logs using our updated log collection utility available for download. This will automatically package a lot of logs and product information we can use to diagnose problems and compress them into %TEMP%\vslogs.cab by default,” Heath Stewart, software design engineer DDCPX, Microsoft, revealed.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta have been offered as public downloads starting on May 20, 2009. Stewart emphasized that the Collect.exe log collection utility was designed to help Microsoft deal with any issues testers came across during the setup process of the next version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework.

“If you encounter any setup issues, we will need all relevant logs. Please follow the instructions below to collect all those logs. Download collect.exe. You may choose to save the tool for later use, or to run directly. The utility creates a compressed cabinet of all the VS and .NET logs to %TEMP%\vslogs.cab,” Stewart said. At the same time, he indicated that testers should initially check to see whether their issue hadn't been already submitted.

Download:
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (link 1)
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (link 2)
.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (link 1)
.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (link 2)

source: softpedia.com

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Facebook raises $200 million from Russian Internet firm

Thats amazing, i need to setup a Facebook acc too..

Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it has raised $200 million from a Russian Internet firm in a deal that values the online social-networking service at roughly two-thirds the amount set when Microsoft Corp. came on board as an investor in late 2007.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook said Digital Sky Technologies will take a 1.96% ownership stake that values it at $10 billion. Microsoft's /quotes/nls/msft (MSFT 20.34, +0.59, +2.99%) $240 million investment in Facebook less than two years ago, for a 1.6% ownership stake, implied a valuation of $15 billion. See full story.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, in a conference call with reporters, cited external economic conditions for the difference in valuations, in addition to the more complete partnership implied in the Microsoft deal.

"We did the Microsoft investment ... at the absolute peak of the market," Zuckerberg said. "That was a year and a half ago, and the world was in a pretty different place at the time."

In addition, Zuckerberg said, Microsoft's investment "was just one piece" of a deal that also involved developing online advertising formats. "Relative to the economic conditions for when the Microsoft deal happened... we feel really good about the progress we've made," the CEO said.

Zuckerberg said Facebook is in no urgent need of the new money. He said the company expects 70% annual revenue growth, and to become "cash flow positive" in 2010.

Founded in 2005, Facebook is expected to pull in some $230 million in revenue this year, compared with an estimated $210 million last year, according to research firm eMarketer. As a private company, Facebook doesn't disclose financial results.

In addition to its current investment, Digital Sky has also agreed to acquire as much as $100 million worth of common shares from current and former Facebook employees looking to liquidate some of their holdings in the company.

Facebook has long been searching for a way to allow employees to cash in on their equity, in lieu of a sale of the company or an initial public offering of its stock -- both an unlikely prospect any time in the near future. Late last year, Facebook delayed a plan to allow employees to sell a limited number of shares, citing the economic environment. See story about Facebook's delayed employee share sale.

Digital Sky Chief Executive Yuri Milner said that the purchase of Facebook employee shares "will happen in the next few months," but offered no further details.

Digital Sky, with offices in Moscow and London, focuses on Internet investments in the Russian and Eastern European markets, and says it has poured more than $1 billion into over 30 companies since 2005.

Facebook said Digital Sky will not receive a seat on the company's board as part of the investment.

"I have my own business to run," Milner said.

According to media reports, Facebook has been shopping around for some time to raise additional funding. The soaring popularity of its social-networking service has resulted in more than 200 million users, boosting the costs of its infrastructure such as data centers.

Zuckerberg said the company doesn't have "any specific plans to talk about" in terms of putting its new round of funding to work.

Source : marketwatch.com

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FireAtlas : ASP.NET AJAX debugging.

FireAtlas is an extension to Firebug dedicated to ASP.NET AJAX debugging.

Still experimental this extension will provide you with useful services when developing ASP.NET AJAX web sites:

PageRequestManager events tracing
WebService calls tracing and inspection
Partial Update inspection within Firebug Net Panel
More to come!

Before download the latest version remember that you will need Firebug and Firefox.

This extension requires Firebug version 1.4X.0a27 and later.

You may download the Firebug standard version or Firebug with tracing enabled.

Platform support

FireAtlas has been designed using Firebug 1.4.0a. You may try to use Firebug 1.3 it has not been tested using this version.

Compatibility has been tested with Firefox 3.0 only. Please send us feedback if you experience issues newer versions.

More : FireAtlas Website

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Wolfram Alpha Versus Google, who is the winner?

LONDON - Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine that could recast the way we use the website.

As a new competitor of Google, often compared to Google.

Since launch last week, the  millions website users want to try the ability of this new search engine.

Stephen Wolfram, creator of the website says this on the first 24 hours Wolfarm Alpha started life online, he has received 10,000 messages as feedback from our users.

"Feedback that they send a very useful and entertaining. They give a lot of advice for Wolfarm Alpha progress in the future," he said as quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (5/20/2009).

Some analysts trying to compare Wolfarm Alpha with Google's to know the importance in which ability is often compared between Google and Wolfarm.

Here are five Wolfarm Alpha comparison with Google:
1. Estimated weather
Wolfram Alpha: the present results are grid-style seem less visually satisfying as is done by Google. However Wolfarm Alpha presents the latest information about the temperature, conditions, wind speed and relative humidity. Even equipped with the same historical weather data that occurred on the same day in different years in the past.

Google: With as many as 4,340,000 search results, Google also provides a glimpse weather in particular regions with the temperature data and weather forecast three days future.

Which is better? for practical use, Google is winning in this case. Meanwhile, Wolfram Alpha has advantages in providing historical weather words.

2) What is 46 km per hour in a matter of feet per second?
Wolfram Alpha: Results from Wolfram tells that 46km per hour, equivalent to 41.92 feet per second. This information is very helpful to know the speed in meters per second, miles per minute even in knots.

Google: While Google can do many tasks and the conversion only with the 1.8 m in ft, for example, but Google should admit the benefits of Wolfarm Alpha in this case. If users want to get the answers questions such as this precisely through Google, must avoid the acronym. While Wolfarm Alpha can do this better.

3) Plot Ai(x)

Wolfram Alpha: When typing this sentence, analysts do not know the purpose this question. However, Wolfarm Alpha respond with a graph showing two believed that the sense of a genius mathematic owned by Wolfarm Alpha.

Google: What about Google? This search engine provides search results of 674,000 that is not useful. Fact, for this Wolfarm Alpha be more responsive and genius in responding to difficult questions such as this.

4) The characters in Star Wars
Wolfram Alpha: this search engine respond to questions with answers Spock-like, appears to be Wolfarm Alpha does not seem confident with the answers that result in a search engine.

Google: top results on Google showed the link to the Wikipedia page of a site that displays detail information of a characters in Star Wars. This adds the benefits of Google.

5) The highest mountain
Wolfram Alpha: In surprise, the results do not reveal anything on this search. Apparently an error occurred on the input language search bar. When replaced with a sentence that is correct, then Wolfarm Alpha search results display the five highest mountains. However, it can be seen that Wolfarm Alpha does not have the capacity in correction input language automatically.

Google: Instead, as predicted earlier, Google is more responsive. Google automatically presents a list of 100's highest mountain with the height data, the point coordinates, and completeness of data supporting the other more comprehensive.

Visit: Wolfram Alpha and Google.com

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Windows 7 Superbar for Vista

This is my modyfication Windows 7 superbar theme for Windows Vista

Theme work on Vista x32 / x64 SP1 and SP2 RC , SP2 RTM
Thanks for mufflerexoz and giannisgx89

UPDATE 20.05.2009

Disable tooltip and infotip from taskbar icons !
UPDATE 14.05.2009

update start button
update icon animation on quick launch
update wallpaper

Requirements:
Run Theme patcher
Install invisible1.ttf font ( right click on font and install )
Enable large icons on taskbar ( right click on quick launch , unlock , set view to large icons ) and import this registry
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"MinWidth"="56"

next copy theme to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and change settings to this theme

The package contains:
Theme patcher for Windows Vista SP1/SP2/RC/RTM x32/x64
Icon style registry key
Font file : invisible1.ttf
Windows 7 SuperBar Theme

BEST Theme patcher !!! Work with Vista SP2 x64 RTM
[link]

Download : http://alazifart.deviantart.com/

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