Some of you may know this situation:
You sit around your computer with some guys and really, really need to go to toilet or something but you don’t want that these guys play with your computer/laptop.

So you lock your screen and went away. As soon as your back you type in your password (hopefully no one will see it). Maybe its really long and takes some time. Wouldn’t it be great your computer locks itself if you went away and unlocks if your back?
No problem!

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Tavis Ormandy released an exploit for the “Windows Help Center” of Windows XP ServicePack 2 and ServicePack 3.
By just clicking on an malicious link you can get exploited by an attacker.

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Everyone knows that situation where you see a video on a website and want to have it offline but only a few sites have a download option.
This post shows you how you still can get these videos.

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status messages for DiskDump (dd)

On June 7, 2010, in Hacks 'n Tricks, by hardez

If you copy images with dd (DiskDump) you never know how much is already copied.
There are now progress bars or status messages but you can get these information easily.

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