Mozilla marks 10th birthday, warns of Firefox bug

The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating what it regards as its 10th anniversary this week.

On 22 January, 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced its plans to make the source code for the Netscape Communicator client software available with free licensing on the Internet. The Communicator 5 source code was made available on 31 March, 1998. The code became the basis of the Mozilla Suite, which comprises the Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail application.


Mozilla, originally the codename for the Netscape Navigator browser code, became the name of both Mozilla's red lizard mascot and the open-source community that was created to develop the open-source Netscape suite.

The outgoing chief executive officer of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker, has asked the Mozilla community for ideas on how to celebrate Mozilla's 10th year. Mozilla.org, the organization launched to co-ordinate Mozilla developers' efforts, will celebrate the event on 23 February.

Meanwhile, Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, warned on Tuesday of a flaw in Firefox's user interface, which is called "chrome". Following the notification of the flaw by vulnerability researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, Snyder confirmed on Tuesday that the flaw would affect users who had installed "flat" Firefox extensions--add-ons, such as Download Statusbar and Greasemonkey, that do not store files in a Java archive .

Insufficient security validation of input file names in the Firefox header lets an attacker order the browser to access files it is not supposed to be able to access, a technique known as directory traversal.

Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers.

Mozilla marks 10th birthday, warns of Firefox bug

The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating what it regards as its 10th anniversary this week.

On 22 January, 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced its plans to make the source code for the Netscape Communicator client software available with free licensing on the Internet. The Communicator 5 source code was made available on 31 March, 1998. The code became the basis of the Mozilla Suite, which comprises the Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail application.


Mozilla, originally the codename for the Netscape Navigator browser code, became the name of both Mozilla's red lizard mascot and the open-source community that was created to develop the open-source Netscape suite.

The outgoing chief executive officer of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker, has asked the Mozilla community for ideas on how to celebrate Mozilla's 10th year. Mozilla.org, the organization launched to co-ordinate Mozilla developers' efforts, will celebrate the event on 23 February.

Meanwhile, Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, warned on Tuesday of a flaw in Firefox's user interface, which is called "chrome". Following the notification of the flaw by vulnerability researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, Snyder confirmed on Tuesday that the flaw would affect users who had installed "flat" Firefox extensions--add-ons, such as Download Statusbar and Greasemonkey, that do not store files in a Java archive .

Insufficient security validation of input file names in the Firefox header lets an attacker order the browser to access files it is not supposed to be able to access, a technique known as directory traversal.

Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers.

iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak Released for Mac!

Not long after the Windows version of iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak (by Nate True) was thrown in the wild, the Mac version too made its appearance on the web. It's already available for download, but keep in mind that this particular jailbreak may be hazardous to your iPhone, as the cre.ations.net themselves note in the statement of risk.

As all upgrades are risky, this one is doubly so. You may have to restore your
phone using iTunes and start again if it fails. Make sure to back up first!

Backup can be performed on iTunes, while 1.1.3, just like like the 1.1.2 jailbreak, comes as an upgrade which means that you need to have a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone already, before you can begin.

If you're the owner of an unlocked phone, it seems to make little to no difference, since an update on the cre.ations website confirms that unlocked phones appear to remain unlocked and work properly after the update. This information is reportedly scattered across several reports.

You'll need to start with a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone with Installer.app installed,Plug in your phone via USB to your computer, download, extract, and run iBrickr Special 1.1.3 jailbreak edition (ibrickr.exe in the archive). iBrickr will confirm what firmware you are running on your phone, thus making sure you can run the update.

Next, iBrickr will start guiding you through the process of obtaining and modifying the 1.1.3 firmware, uploading the new firmware image to your phone. iBrickr should do its job in about 10 minutes, after which it would allow to finally run the installer for the "1.1.3 soft upgrade" package.

That as far as we go with cre.ations.net's how-you-do-it, the rest you can check out for yourselves. Remember that this particular jailbreak may be hazardous to your iPhone. If you proceed with installing it, you're doing it at your own risk.

How to Turn an Old HDD Into an External USB Drive: Just $11

Remember the times when a 40 GB of HDD was enough for a laptop computer? These days are long gone and people tend to shrug when it comes to notebooks with less than 160 GB of storage space
. Older laptops came with low-capacity drives that need to be changed in order to take advantage of the home theater capabilities: high definition television, lossless audio files and so on.

If you have already considered upgrading the hard-disk drive, you now have a spare, low-capacity disk that you could send back into production. Just plug it inside an external 2.5-inch HDD enclosure and you're ready to go. I know this would squeeze some extra money, but there is an extremely cheap and rugged offering from Meritline. The producer is giving away their aluminum SATA to USB external enclosure for as much as $11.

The device is compatible with all 2.5-inch IDE and SATA drives and comes with both IDE and SATA external interfaces. Meritline is bundling everything you would need during its assembly (apart from the HDD, of course). Inside the package you will find a carrying case, the USB cable and a little screwdriver that makes the removing of the enclosure's protective casing really easy. Since the drive is powered through the USB cable directly from the computer's USB port, there is no need for an external AC adapter.

The enclosure is just a little larger than the notebook drive itself, and the lack of a brick-like power adapter makes it extremely portable. All you have to do is remove the USB cable from the computer and the HDD enclosure, then put the latter into a pocket. It goes without saying that the Meritline enclosure does not come with any kind of data protection or encryption technology, so you'd better watch out your drive should you have stored important data on it.

MSI to Announce the R3870X2, R3600 & R3400 Series

Micro-Star International unveiled its latest series of graphic cards, the ATI R3870X2, R3600, and R3400, built on AMD's 55-nanometer GPUs in the Radeon HD 3000 series. The graphics cards
come with industry-leading HD quality and improved gaming experience with life-like 3D graphics.

The ATI R3870X2 graphics card mixes high-definition with 3D processing performance. The card comes with full support for the upcoming version of Microsoft's DirectX, the 10.1 that will arrive with the Windows Vista SP1. The dual ATI R3870 GPUs can deliver a GPU computing power of over 1Teraflops. Moreover, the graphics performance can be scaled thanks to the included ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology.

The ATI Radeon HD 3600 series of graphics card are aiming at the mainstream computer users. The new 55-nanometer graphics processors are made of 378 million transistors and feature the second-generation integration built-in rendering framework.

"The new ATI Radeon HD 3600 family core has 256 bit ring-bus memory control capabilities, with high-speed GDDR3 512MB, and other ultra-realistic graphics memory particles, and efficiency is superior to the same price competitors products. This mid-range product gives user adequate multilateral geometry, color rendering, and high-speed image pixels, and other computing support, it can be said that this product has all the cost-effective advantages," said Vincent Lai, MSI global marketing director.

The MSI R3400 series graphics cards are built around the ATI Radeon HD 3400 family of graphics processors. Just like the above-mentioned chips, the R3400 is also built on the 55-nanometer process node. The GPU is a scaled-down version of the R3600 and comes with less stream processors, texture units and ROPs. The MSI R3400 is fully compatible with the upcoming DirectX 10.1 and also allows performance scaling via the ATI CrossFireX link. The low-end and mid-range card offerings include ATI Hybrid Graphics, that is based on the CrossFireX multiGPU technology.

PlayStation 3 Hacked ... Almost

Be advised that we don't encourage piracy, but we're surprised to see that the homebrewers have (almost) finally made it, after such a long research. Word goes that Team ICE has found a way of running SELF files in GamesOS on the PS3's 2.10 firmware. Translation: they managed to run an unsigned code on a retail PS3 through a Resistance: Fall of Man exploit, surfaced on the latest
firmware.

There's a video proof of this major breakthrough for homebrewers and you can check it out below. The Resistance: Fall of Man exploit allowed homebrewers to hack into the PS3 GameOS and run the above-mentioned unsigned code. The release of the files and apps needed for this exploit to work was followed by numerous attempts of taking down the site hosting them plus many fake files appearing on the Internet, claiming that they can hack your PS3.

Since these homebrewing wars are still going on, we advise you not to download apps or files used in the process of exploiting the PS3, because they might be fake. Such initiatives were also seen when Dark_Alex released his PSP hacked firmwares and various fake files were made available bricking many consoles. These are the times when you can't trust a homebrewer, specially because his software gets tempered with and put up for download, in search for cheap fame, by various individuals who only want to have a good laugh and destroy a couple of PS3 consoles.

Hacking your console is obviously your choice, but you probably know that the PS3's not doing as good as Sony wanted it to, so a mod is the last thing they need right now. Imagine Sony having to retire from the game biz because of this issue...

BREAKING: Windows 7 M1 Ultimate Edition Lives! - Video Proof!

Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate Edition is alive, kicking and as real as they get! Although it's but one year away from the moment Windows Vista hit the shelves, and despite being in the final stages of development of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft is also building Windows 7. At this point in time, Windows 7 is being dogfooded inhouse by Microsoft. However, the successor of Windows Vista was also shipped in an early stage to a select pool of the Redmond company's key partners.

On January 24, you were able to feast your eyes on the first ever leaked screenshots from Windows 7 Ultimate edition version 6.1 (Build 6519.1.x86fre.winmain.071220-1525), courtesy of ThinkNext. Because of numerous
accusations that the images had been tampered with, and were fake, the Chinese blog posted the video embedded at the bottom of this article. Yes, this is Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate edition 6519.1.071220-1525.

"I was about to share something interesting about Windows 7 in my last post, Windows 7: The Real Thing. The ISO image, installation, evaluation and the screenshots are all real. I mean there is no Photoshop or anything like that involved," reads a fragment from ThinkNext. "I’m not a person who makes himself complacent by faking something hot, neither will I be unhappy if someone denies the real information I posted. I don’t mean to draw much attention, especially from those suckers. When I post images, there is Photoshop, when a piece of video, there is something called Premiere, or DreamWorks?"

In the video, you will be able to see the boot screen of Windows 7, as well as the desktop and a presentation of the new Windows Media Center that comes as a component of the next iteration of the Windows operating system. Users that are running Windows Media Center under Vista Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs will undoubtedly notice differences when it comes to the WMC running in the Ultimate edition of Windows 7. While the interface is approximately the same, the text size has changed, and so has the number of categories.

Windows 7 M1 comes, as all software under development from Microsoft, with an expiration date. Windows 7 M1 is time-bombed for May 2008. This only confirms the fact that the Redmond company will deliver Windows 7 Milestone 2 by May of this year.

"I don’t think there is anything wrong, disappointing or weird that Windows 7 Milestone 1 isn’t greatly different from Vista. It’s only Milestone 1 so lots of code may be reused. Besides, even we can’t see much visual changes (say, user interfaces), that doesn’t mean Win7 internals don’t change greatly. Here from the release notes, I read: 'the software will stop running on May 7, 2008. You may not receive any other notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running'," added ThinkNext.