Draw Something scam targets players via Twitter

The Draw Something game is a soaraway success, with hundreds of millions of downloads onto iPhone and Android smartphones since it was launched early last month.
Everyone's talking about it, and the hype became even huger when OMGPop, the New York software house that created the app, was sold for a cool $210 million to gaming goliath Zynga.
But with so much buzz and interest in the Pictionary-style game, it's perhaps not a surprise to find scammers trying to make a quick buck by leaping on the bandwagon.
Here's a Twitter account we found, that's spamming users telling them that they have won a prize. 

But with so much buzz and interest in the Pictionary-style game, it's perhaps not a surprise to find scammers trying to make a quick buck by leaping on the bandwagon.

What you will discover, however, is that you are taken to an all-too-familiar survey scam. Your chances of ever receiving a prize are remote - chances are that you will either end up handing over personal information, or will be helping the original scammer earn commission.

We've reported the account as spam to Twitter, and hopefully they'll shut it down soon. But it wouldn't be a surprise to see more Draw Something-related scams both on Twitter and perhaps on Facebook also given its tremendous popularity.
Update:
Well, what do you know.. as soon I tweeted about this, I instantly got a response from a different Twitter scam account:

So I've reported that account as a spammer too. :)

Mitini – Siri For Windows FOR REAL

Yes, this is sort of for real. Mitini is a voice over control application (like Siri) but made for Windows. Developed by a Canadian out of his curiosity, here comes Mitini, you can download Mitini here.

Exactly what it’s capable of doing is still unsure to me, the application is still in the early stage of development. However, I have tried some commands that people give to Siri and got some fair response. But I do ran into some issues majority with the voice recognition. Nonetheless, you can still enter the command by text and you will still get a response back.

Here are some of the command that I’ve tried that appears to be working.

If all those screenshots doesn’t mean anything, you should really checkout this video below. When I first saw it, it really blows my mind. But too bad I could never to get the application to interpreters the commands like he did in the video. But hey it’s certainly one step in the right direction, ever since the new iPhone 4S came out, numbers of hackers are trying to port Siri to other iOS devices, but this is the first “alternative” I’ve seen to comes to close to the Windows platform.

via addictivetips

Dominican Republic Police arrested 6 Anonymous hackers

Dominican Republic Police has arrested six hackers , Milton Corniell David Jimenez (Zerohack), Juan Rafael Leonardo Acosta (Nmap), Cristian de la Rosa Jose de los Santos (Mot), Robert Reynoso Delgado (Frank-Ostia) linked to Anonymous and accused by the authorities of attacking websites of state and private companies. Public Prosecutor German Vasquez alleges the six hacked into government websites, including ones for the president and the education ministry. He says the suspects range in age between 17 and 23.

The members of combat cyber crime unit made the arrest in an joint operating in the country early Sunday in the capital Santiago. Defense lawyer Carlos Guerrero denies the accusations and says the government has no evidence.

The defendants are accused of cyber terrorism, which the prosecution defined as a new form of threats and vulnerabilities in the Internet. denunciations of the "hacks" to institutions DG Internal Revenue filed a complaint of "hacking" 30 August 2011

SpeedFan 4.46 Final

Description:

utility for monitoring a motherboard - the temperature, voltage, fan speed, as well as the temperature hard drives (if they support this feature). 

It is a positive feature of SpeedFan, this program distinguishes among the similar - the ability to change the fan speed, including, 

depending on the temperature inside the system unit. 

The program is a compact but very functional tool to monitor the computer's hardware. Allows you to read voltage, fan speed and temperature monitoring with the chips.

 Displays data about the state of the parameters SMART, as well as the temperature hard drives. Works with the HDD interface EIDE, 

SATA and SCSI (most of the "software» IDE / SATA RAID controllers, unfortunately, is not supported). You can also adjust the system bus frequencies on some motherboards, 

but development in this direction is actually frozen. Works in the operating systems Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and 7, as well as x64. 

The main highlight of the program is to adjust fan speed depending on conditions (eg temperature of the processor), but again, if you have hardware support equipment. 

Additionally, you may collect statistics on removable parameters and record the information in the log-file, draw graphs of temperatures, voltages and fan speeds. 

Please see the list of supported sensors, motherboard, allowing to change the fan speed, and hard disks can be on the official site 

Changelog: 

- Greatly improved DELL support 

- NVidia I2C support works again with driver 275 + 

- Now ATI Radeon support resets Manual Fan Control to the state it had when SpeedFan was started (no more unexpected video card fan set to 100% on program exit) 

- Added support for Intel X79 (Patsburg) SMBus 

- Added support for ServerWorks HT1000 SMBus 

- Added SAT support for USB enclosures 

- Added support for USB enclosures using SunPlus, IoData and Logitech chipsets 

- Added voltage reading tweaks and configurations for several Intel motherboards 

- Added full support for Fintek F71858AD 

- Rewritten Areca RAID support and improved support for Areca SAS controllers 

- Slightly refactored hard disk USB vendor guessing 

- Added support for AMD Family 12h (LLano) temperature 

- Added support for AMD Family 14h (Bobcat) temperature 

- ATK0110 tries to find the best interface when multiple ones are available in ACPI BIOS (please, report if support is broken for your motherboard model) 

- Added preliminary support for Fujitsu-Siemens Hades 

Opera 11.62 Build 1347 – Final

Changes in Opera 11.61:

Angry Birds Space hits 10 million mark in three days

In its opening weekend (give or take a day or two) Rovio's space-based reinvention has picked up more than 10 million downloads. Presumably assisted by its freebie status on Android devices, Rovio's self-congratulatory tweet didn't give a breakdown across platforms. While we're now assured that a Windows Phone version will join the intergalactic fight, Rovio doesn't appear to need the help.

I Hate Facebook Timeline” Phishing Scam Targets User Credentials

Facebook Timeline removal scams are not new, but this time cybercrooks took it up a notch and launched a phishing campaign that relies on the fact that some users are outright desperate to remove the newly introduced feature.

In reality, the Timeline is here to stay and like it or not everyone who still wants to use Facebook will have to accommodate to the change.

However, until all Facebook users get accustomed to this idea, phishers and other scammers will keep making shady sites that either want just a few Likes or, in some cases, the user's entire profile.

Bitdefender experts came across a Facebook community page called “I Hate Faceb0ok Timeline”. After providing a number of arguments which should demonstrate the evil that hides behind the Timeline, the page's creators request a Like from the visitor.

MacBook Air Pro 2012 update: Everything we know so far

With iPad season now beginning to slow for another year over at Apple, it's time to move onto their next big product launch, which will most likely be a refresh of the MacBook range.

At the new iPad 3 launch, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased a big year ahead for the Cupertino company:

"Only Apple could deliver this kind of innovation in such a beautiful, integrated way. It's what we love to do. It's what we stand for. Across the year, you're going to see a lot more of this kind of innovation. We are just getting started."

As such, we're expecting exciting new things from the latest MacBook line, and so far the rumours we've been hearing seem to point towards exciting changes for the line.

For your convenience, we're collecting together all the most significant rumours surrounding the MacBook update in one handy spot below. We'll continue to update this post as new rumours come in, before doing a final round up when Apple eventually, inevitably unveil their goodies.

Super Slim MacBook Pro, Or A 15-inch MacBook Air?

Depending on which sources you read, Apple are either preparing to slim down their 15-inch MacBook Pro offering so that it's as lightweight and skinny as a MacBook Air, or that the MacBook Air line is expanding to include a 15-inch model.

Those two stances don't necessarily mean the same thing either. A thin MacBook Pro would be suggestive of the same processing grunt (or more) that the current Pro line offers, squeezed into a smaller chassis. A large 15-inch MacBook Air, a first for the line, may sport a bigger screen in that same lightweight design, but wouldn't necessarily have to boast the discrete graphics chip or processing power of the Pro line.

What's more interesting is whether the production of a 15-inch MacBook Air or a superslim 15-inch MacBook Pro means that the production of the other will not happen. Which leads to our next rumour...

MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines to merge?

Some rumours have suggested that the MacBook Pro and Air lines are to be combined, streamlining Apple's laptop range under the simple "MacBook" banner once more.

With super-slim 11, 13, and 15-inch notebooks seemingly in production, that's pretty much every portable computing base covered, though we're not sure where that leaves the 17-inch MacBook Pro.

Streamlining would simplify the line, perhaps tempting more PC users to the Apple fold. This makes sense when you think again back to the launch of the latest iPad; rather than call it the iPad 3, or iPad HD, we're back to plain old iPad. We wouldn't be surprised if the "Air" and "Pro" suffixes are dropped altogether.

However, we'd hate to see the MacBook Pro lines forced into thinner form factors if this means specs take a hit. If there's one criticism regularly levelled at Apple portable computers, it's that their high price doesn't match the relatively low specs that the machines tend to ship with. If a slim, light design leads to the two lines merging and comes at the further expense of performance, you'll likely see the MacBook Pro faithful up in arms.

No Optical Drive in MacBook Pro 2012?

In order to achieve the super-slim profile seen in the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro would have to go on a serious diet. Something has got to give, and we expect it to be the optical disc drive that's first on the scrapheap for Apple.

Apple had no qualms cutting the disc drive from their MacBook Air machines, and with the Mac App Store now well stocked, and broadband speeds more than capable of downloading giant applications, the optical drive is indeed looking a little long in the tooth.

There's also the rumour that the MacBook Pro may cut out cabled Ethernet connectivity in order to shrink down in size, which won't be much appreciated by those with poor Wi-Fi signals or those who spend much time in hotel rooms where cabled connections are the only way to get online.

Ivy Bridge Processors Onboard

Though there was a panic that Intel's brand new Ivy Bridge processors were going to be delayed significantly, missing the expected date they'd need to be ready for in order to make it into the next line of MacBooks, it seems now that their once again on track for inclusion.

With Ivy Bridge heat efficient enough for Quad-core CPUs to fit into even the 13-inch MacBook chassis for the first time, when compared to the current Sandy Bridge generation of Intel processors the new models will offer up to 20% increase in CPU performance and 30% to 199% increase in integrated GPU performance.

High Resolution "Retina" Display

As well as the super-slim new chassis, Apple are also rumoured to be considering bringing their super-high resolution Retina displays to the MacBook line up. Much like the screens used in the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and new iPad 3, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models for 2012 could have screens with resolutions up to 2880 x 1800.

In terms of pixels-per-inch, a 2880 x 1800 resolution would bring the 13-inch MBP to a whopping 261ppi, the 15-inch to 226ppi and the 17-inch to 200ppi. That's pretty mad, and will likely be of great benefit to graphic designers.

NVIDIA Could Cause Discrete Graphics Supply Issues

After a spell with AMD as the MacBook Pro's discrete graphics chip provider, Apple had been expected to turn to NVIDIA for the 2012 laptop, popping the next-generation graphics card code-named "Kepler" into their machines.

However, there are rumours of supply issues surrounding the chips now, which could mean that all but the most expensive, larger MacBook Pro models this year could rely solely on integrated graphics solutions. Hopefully the new Ivy Bridge chips will be up to the task, and while they may be sufficient for moderately intensive graphics tasks, it's very unlikely they'll be able to come anywhere near the performance NVIDIA's dedicated chips could manage.

No Thin 17-incher?

The 17-inch MacBook Pro, so often favoured by road-weary creatives for visual editing thanks to its larger screen real estate, has been rumoured to be discontinued by Apple. Though often not the most accurate of sources, DigiTimes made no mention of its production when they claimed that the 13-inch and 15-inch 2012 MacBook Pro offerings had hit the factory lines.

Could this mean that Apple are looking to further streamline the MacBook product category, doing away with larger laptops as well as merging the Pro and Air lines? In respect of CEO Tim Cook's push towards the "post-PC age", it's totally possible.
Possible, that is, but unlikely. The 17-incher has always had a strong following, with its larger size allowing for more powerful components and, naturally, a larger screen that's great for visual pursuits. It may simply be that the industrial design constraints building the super-slim 13 and 15-inch MacBooks mean that a similar design overhaul isn't possible for the 17-incher, with production taking place beyond the reach of DigiTimes sources.

We'd hazard a guess that a 17-incher is still in production, and will be considerably more powerful than the re-worked 15-inch and 13-inch thin Pro models. Perhaps even the 17-incher will retain the optical drive in the thicker chassis, and become the sole laptop to bear the MacBook "Pro" title.

Release Date

All production rumours and release cycle info points at an April unveiling event for the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops.

The last MacBook Air release was seen on July 20th 2011, while the last MacBook Pro update came in only last October. However, in the case of the MacBook Pro update, it was merely an incremental spec bump, and didn't represent a truly new model.

In that respect, we'd expect a July release for the laptops if Apple were to continue a year-on-year update. But with the iPhone launch window now re-jigging Apple's usual product cycles, we expect the MacBook releases a little earlier this year, likely in late April or sometime in May.

Facebook Warns Users About Timeline Adware

Facebook issued a video warning to its hundreds of millions of users on Thursday about the dangers of adware programs that lure users with promises of special features.

In a video message from the Facebook Security group, the company said that a growing number of companies are fooling Facebook users into installing add-on software that can cover their Facebook account with adds, result in slower site performance and compromise user security.

The warnings come as online advertisers are looking for ways to capitalize on the Facebook platform and the hours each day that avid users can spend on the giant social network.

In a phenomenon that seems a throwback to the go-go days of the Web, Facebook users are now complaining to the company about their page and Timeline being overrun with noisy, distracting ads that also bog down site performance.

The adware programs may be promoted on the Walls and timelines of Facebook users, but are not part of the site. Instead, most are bundled with browser plugins and toolbars that must be installed on the user's Web browser.

Adware On Facebook: (courtesy of Facebook)

In a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) post on the adware problem, Facebook Security warned that sanctioned Facebook ads will never appear as banners, in the center, top or left column of the Facebook Web site. "If you're seeing ads in these locations, or ads that flash or play sound automatically, you probably have adware," the company said.

Facebook has posted a list of around a dozen known adware programs that are specific to the site, including applications with names like Facetheme.com, Pagerage.com and Pagemood.com. It also provided written and video instructions for removing adware by disabling the browser plugins, toolbars or add-ons.

Online scammers are gravitating to Facebook because of the relatively high levels of user engagement on the site. As with traditional, Web based attacks, scammers use interest in major news events (like the death of Osama bin Laden) to seed links to phishing, click fraud and malware sites. But they're also using Facebook's real estate to direct users to survey Web sites and other for-profit ventures.

In August, 2011, security firm Websense studied two Facebook scams and found that both achieved enormous penetration on the site. According to Websense, a July, 2011 scam based on malicious Wall posts took just over a week to hit peak numbers while a second in August took only two days, with upwards of 1700 Facebook users interacted with the scams every few seconds during each campaigns’ peak days.

In the August scam documented by Websense, malicious links posted on a users Facebook Wall with suggestive titles pointed users to a scam survey. Using an estimated average of 130 Facebook friends per user, Websense calculated that the survey may have reached over 800,000 people at its peak. A Web site associated with the scam saw roughly 1,267,200 visitors.

The new Photoshop CS6 is ready for download, in beta

Adobe has launched Photoshop CS6 Beta for you to test out. It’s available as a free download from the source link below and once installed will greet you with loads of new features and improvements.

Right off the bat, you’ll notice that the user interface of the new Photoshop has been redesigned. Gone is the default light theme of the application and replacing it is a darker styled look, which Adobe says creates a more distracting-free environment to work in. Don’t despair, though, because you can choose between four different color presets for the UI, in case the dark theme doesn’t suite your liking.

The Adobe team hasn’t stopped there. About 1800 icons and 250 cursors have been redesigned to give the old dogs a completely fresh experience and help newcomers navigate more easily.

But new looks isn’t the only weapon in Photoshop’s arsenal. There are a ton of little additions which boost performance such as “rich cursors”, which display various information like angle of rotation, dimensions and other parameters.

Speaking of performance improvements, you can now save a document and continue working on other files as the saving progresses. Additionally, you can set Photoshop CS6 to automatically save files at some interval. Let’s get on with some new functionality that has been introduced.

The most curious among them is the Content-Aware move tool. We already showed you a demo of how it works and you should check it out.

Another new addition is the Blur Gallery. As its name suggests, it brings new blur tools, which help you make quick blurs on various photos. It’s accessed via the Filter > Blur menu and you have different options and sliders like Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt Shift that would hopefully get you that longed for bokeh effect that wide-aperture lenses offer.

Photographers will appreciate the new Camera Raw 7. it uses Process Version engine 2012 and features updated and tweaked algorithms.

The Crop tool has seen some improvement as well. Now, when you select it, a crop is automatically made around the entire image and when you move it, the image behind the crop gets moved and not the crop itself. If this new behavior isn’t to your liking, you can choose Classic mode option, which reverts it.

Adobe has packed updated video support in Photoshop CS6 and now you can mute audio tracks, use the Text tool on videos and create various transitions and fades. This will undoubtedly save designers and photographers some serious cash for those times when they need to quickly edit some videos.

Adobe has listened to multiple users requests and has implemented more than 60 different little JID (Just-Do-It) features including quick insertion of Lorem ipsum dummy text and increase in brush size up to 5000px. If you have any constructive suggestion for the final release of Photoshop CS6, you should drop Adobe a line. They might listen.

The pricing of the latest Photoshop hasn’t changed. It’s standalone version will cost $699, while the extended version will retail for $999. If that is too steep for you, you can always use the subscription-based purchase of the whole Creative Suite 6 when it comes out.

There are so much updates, improvements and tweaks in the new version of Photoshop that we don’t have time to list them all. To check them out, see the second source link below.

Galaxy Note Android 4.0 update to include special content

Earlier this year, Samsung had promised a Q1, 2012 time period for the roll out of the Android 4.0 update for the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note. But while its younger brother has started receiving the update, the Galaxy Note users are still munching on Gingerbread that is well past its expiry date.

Samsung recently announced that the Android 4.0 update for the Galaxy Note has been pushed to Q2, 2012. This means it could be coming as soon as April or as late as June.

But to make sure that the wait is worth the while, Samsung has announced that the update will come with some extra goodies exclusive to the Galaxy Note. This includes a Premium Suite of applications and extra multimedia features.

The Premium Suite includes the S-Pen application, which allows you to scribble with the provided capacitive stylus, as well as draw tables and grids that are automatically digitized, along with solving hand-drawn numeric formulas. The Premium Suite also includes My Story app, which lets you create personalized digital cards for friends and family.

Along with this, you will also get a special version of Angry Birds Space. This version will include 30 extra Danger Zone levels, not found on any other platform.

And then of course, it's Android 4.0 itself, which will bring new features like Face Unlock, redesigned multitasking view, GPU accelerated UI, etc.

Souce:GSMarena

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a drive-by download attack that evades hard-drive checkers by installing malware that lives in the computer's memory. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in memory until the machine is rebooted.

This Malware doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped on to the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack.Drive-by download attacks are one of the primary methods of distributing malware over the web. They usually exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software products to infect computers without requiring user interaction.

The attack code loaded an exploit for a known Java vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544), but it wasn't hosted on the affected websites themselves. Once the malware infected a Microsoft machine, the bot disabled User Account Control, contacted a command and control server and downloaded the 'Lurk' Trojan. The malware also attacked Apple devices.

The Java exploit's payload consisted of a rogue DLL that was loaded and attached on the fly to the legitimate Java process.Normally this malware is rare, because it dies when the system is rebooted and the memory is cleared. But the hackers do not really care because there is a good chance that most victims would revisit the infected news websites.Once the malicious DLL loaded into memory it sends data and receives instructions from a command and control server over HTTP.

MS DOS in Colour

Are you getting boar with your command prompt (CMD) black color

if yes want to change it with other happening cool colors then here is the tricks for you

To do this follow these steps:

1) Click on Start >Run then Type CMD

2) Command Prompt will open.

3) Type "color z"

4) List of numbers of colors will appear...Example: Blue=1

5) So, for changing CMD color to Blue color type:-"color 1"and then press Enter.