I know that most people arent really lining up to care about this but Google Chrome has finally come out of beta. Now why is that really a big deal? Well thats because it seems like Google never takes anything out of beta. So why are they starting now. Also what is Google"s plan for this browser? I really like potential for spyware protection and security but what else?
I have to admit after being out just 100 days of development and achieving 10 million active users around the globe, Google deserved to remove the “Beta” label from their software. I think we are just owed a bit of an explanation. I am sure that is what Mozilla Firefox is lookin for. If i was them I would be shaking right about now. The Chrome user base is probably made up of almost all Firefox users.
Some of the upcoming features that Gogole is working on includes RSS support, form auto-fill, extensions, bug fixes, security patches, etc. The adoption of the extension system by developers could also play a major role in eroding even more marketshare from Firefox. Lets see where Google goes now that Chrome is out of beta.
Google Chrome is now out of Beta
How to Use and Turn on GMail to send free SMS
Google is giving the whole SMS through Gmail thing a second try. The Gmail Labs feature that lets people send text messages to people's mobile phones was originally taken off of line because Google was not able to figure out some of the issues with the SMS gateway they were using. "A few weeks back, we ran into a few snags when we first started rolling this out, but starting today you can turn on text messaging for chat," said Leo Dirac, a Google product manager, in a blog post Wednesday.
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Just like all features that Google enables. They first must be enabled by going into the settings of your of your Gmail account.
Ok so the first thing that you have to do is enable the "Text Messaging in Chat" option inside of your Gmail account. Login to your Gmail account and then in the upper right hand corner click on the link that says "Settings". Now this will open up the settings tab for your account. Now click on the tab that says "Labs" which is right next to "Themes" and "Web Clips" in your Gmail account. Inside of the Labs section you are going to see a number of features that Google is releasing but I guess they don't feel is ready for primetime. Here is where you can enable the "Text Messaging in Chat Feature" Now this feature will be enabled on the left hand side inside of the window that you normally use when chatting. Pretty simple. Now you can send chat messages to your friends phones and they will be automatically converted to SMS messages. When they respond they show up inside your chat window. Same as any othe Google chat user.
Now your friends arent going to see your name inside of the message. Instead they are going to see a "406" area code number. This is a unique ID . So they can add it to there phone and text back to you whenever they want. Its is a great setup.
Sapyto v0.98 Released - SAP Penetration Testing Framework Tool
sapyto is the first SAP Penetration Testing Framework, sapyto provides support to information security professionals in SAP platform discovery, investigation and exploitation activities.
sapyto is periodically updated with the outcome of the deep research on the various security aspects in SAP systems.
Although sapyto is a versatile and powerful tool, it is of major importance for it to be used by consultants who are highly skilled and specialized in its usage, preventing any interference with your organization’s usual SAP operation.
New in This Version
This version is mainly a complete re-design of sapyto’s core and architecture to support future releases. Some of the new features now available are:
- Target configuration is now based on “connectors”, which represent different ways to communicate with SAP services and components. This makes the
framework extensible to handle new types of connections to SAP platforms. - Plugins are now divided in three categories: Discovery, Audit & Exploit.
- Exploit plugins now generate shells and/or sapytoAgent objects.
- New plugins!: User account bruteforcing, client enumeration, SAProuter assessment, and more…
- Plugin-developer interface drastically simplified and improved.
- New command switches to allow the configuration of targets/scripts/output independently.
- Installation process and general documentation improved.
You can download sapyto v0.98 here (you may have to fill in a form):
sapyto Public Edition (v0.98)
World First Wireless USB Hub
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The kit contains a wireless card put into the PC card slot and a hub that can also be plugged into the computer for non wireless use. The hub has three USB ports, But you can this wireless usb hub with only and Win XP and Win Vista.
It transfer Data with amazing speed that is near about 480Mbps for the USB 2.0 and wireless speed is also about 400-450 It will be helpful when you don’t have to move around three hard drives just to be able to plug them into a USB hub
Firefox issues eight patches for Web browser
Two of the critical Firefox problems could allow an attacker execute a cross-site scripting attack, in which scripts or commands from one Web application that shouldn't run in another are successfully executed. The third problem relates to Firefox's browser engine, and could make it crash or possibly allow someone to remotely execute code on a PC, Mozilla said in its advisory.
Mozilla defines a critical vulnerability as one that could allow an attacker to run code on a machine in the course of normal Web browsing.
The patches are for Firefox version numbers 3.04 and 2.0.0.18. Mozilla has said this round of patches will be the last for Firefox 2, which it will now stop supporting. The update also removes the phishing filter in Firefox 2 because the browser uses an outdated version of a protocol used to import a blocklist of phishing sites supplied by Google. Firefox 2 users are being promoted to upgrade to Firefox 3.
Firefox's auto-update mechanism should automatically download these latest patches, and users will be prompted to restart the browser to complete the process.
How to Delete Files Permanently from the Computer
When you delete a file from your computer, it moves to the Windows Recycle Bin. You empty the Recycle Bin and so many might think that the file is permanently erased from the hard drive.
but its worng! When you delete files or folders, the data is not initially removed from the hard disk. Instead, the space on the disk that was occupied by the deleted data is "deallocated." After it is deallocated, the space is available for use when new data is written to the disk. Until the space is overwritten, it is possible to recover the deleted data by using a data-recovery software.
To permanently erase files and prevent your confidential files from getting into wrong hands, Microsoft offers a free command line utility - SDelete (Secure Delete) - that overwrites all the free space to prevent data recovery.
You can use SDelete both to securely delete existing files , as well as to securely erase any file data that exists in the unallocated portions of a disk (including files that you have already deleted or encrypted)
Download SDelete
