BackTrack 4 R2 is released

BackTrack 4 R2 had been out for a week. I heard good news and great review of it. For those who do not know what BackTrack is, basically its THE distro to load when you are doing hacking, penetration test etc using Linux tools such as Metasploit etc.

Its 2GB in size for both favors of ISO or VMWare. VMWare had some shortcoming in Wifi testing obviously...

Grab it:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

義海豪情 (電視劇 "巾幗梟雄之義海豪情" 主題曲) ~ 古巨基

古巨基 - 義海豪情 (電視劇 "巾幗梟雄之義海豪情" 主題曲) 







作曲：鄧智偉／葉肇中
填詞：陳詩慧
編曲：Johnny Yim
監製：鄧智偉

未懼身上被子彈留痕　維護妳我卻甘於捨身
站在風浪下對抗黑暗　而為妳　是毫無疑問

烈火熊熊升起　圍牆徐徐倒地
嗅著漫遍夜空血鏽味
蝴蝶長埋土地　情愫長留於天地
亂世中煙火　摧毀不了傳奇

漫天的炮火混亂地湧起　處身危城可不理
為只要捍衛　驚恐的妳　就是未怕死

*
未懼身上被子彈留痕　維護妳我卻甘於捨身
就讓天下在見證足印　誰為愛活過而無憾
*
漫天的炮火混亂地湧起　染污無瑕的手臂
在這裡抱著　驚恐的妳　就是未怕死

Repeat*
遇著苦難亦堅守同盟　情義不會淡　即使地陷
就讓天下在見證足印　誰為愛活過而無憾

Drive Extender Technology will be gone for newer Microsoft Server OS

And you read right... And we all thought that was what brought WHS to its heights. And *poof* its gone. That includes the upcoming "Vail" aka WHS : The Next Generation.

Read about this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20101125/tc_zd/257392?

Adobe Reader X Finally With a Sandbox But Turn OFF Your Antivirus???

Adobe had tried pretty hard to improve their security image with the new Adobe Reader X (now with kinda sandbox). But take a look at this...

Its a bit small, but the line highlighted in yellows says "You may have to temporarily disable your antivirus software". Suddenly I feel so safe... Don't you? Why would a software like Adobe Reader requires the user to turn off their Antivirus? This is only typical for installation of malwares! 

Ted Bear ~ Cyanide and Happiness

This is a very funny animation from Cyanide and Happiness.


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Manual Update of Flash

As much as Flash is very vulnerable, we probably still needs it around for a while. But that doesn't mean that there is nothing we can do about it. At least, we can update it regularly to ensure we have a updated copy.

However, the update process often fails due to network, firewall, proxies etc And it becomes very frustrating to keep doing it over and over again especially in IE where the download manager is some kind of ActiveX. But there is a easier way, and you wonder why Adobe wants to complicates a simple solution.

Download Flash manually from the following URL and run it for update.
Firefox:
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe

Internet Explore:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_ie

And if you need for whatever reason, the Uninstaller:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe

Trend Micro Titanium Internet Suite 2011 1 Year Trial

Yes, there exist a 1 year trial by courtesy of some China promotion. Simply grab the file from:

32 and 64 bits:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/VmmZzUT

32 bits only
http://www.fileserve.com/file/VmmZzUT

The catch is that the interface is in Chinese though. If you want interested to change the interface to other languages, do this:

Right click tray icon. Exit (Last option).
Open UIProfile.cfg from\Trend Micro\UniClient\UiFrmwrk\

Patch : Line 75, 85
"ZH-CN" -->  "EN-US"

PSP 5.50 Prometheus 3 v2

This had been released for a while and I had tested it with a PSP Slim. With no new firmware, sticking to 5.50 will means you cannot play many games which requires 6.x firmware. This is where the Prometheus patch comes in. It enable the 5.50 Firmware to run 6.x required games.


Prometheus 3 v2 fixes some bug with the XMB return. Just copy my archive to the root of your PSP memory stick and execute the patch from XMB. You most likely needs a reboot.

Grab it from:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/8EPmXeh

A brief history of XCP and Sony / BMG DRM Rootkit

I found an article which details the whole incident from the start:

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/20244

That turns out to be a pretty good read and therefore I am recommending you go take a look and understand what the big fuss it was all about and why we should not allow companies like Sony install rootkit on our PC.

Most classic quote:

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" Sony BMG's Hesse