Pebblesbysea

How many times you have used google services and found that you have to enter some characters written in strange style in an image. It seems very simple to recognize them and proceed with the authentication.

But sometimes you may want to hear the characters so that there is no mistake what the word is made up of.Hearing the word is also easy for them who can not read properly.

Now here it is:

Now here the word.

You can not properly make out what the lady is saying. Either she is talking to her dead mother and she is also speaking in reverse. Or rather she is launching a satellite.

Now second captcha:

And listen this also.

We know that everyone is waiting patiently for Vista SP1 which is still in beta. Organizations are also waiting for SP1 because they don’t trust the security of Vista which is completely different from the previous version and secondly there are lots of driver conflicts resulting in upgrading the hardware which is costly also. But the main attention is still on security aspect of the vista. How secure it is after all?

This guy on his blog has shown in a video that Vista’s architecture is not that strong as it is said (by the manufacturer of cource). infact if you see the video you will be surprised that how come a small programme act against the Vista architecture.

I think after seeing this video originations will be more cautious to migrate their systems to Vista and will probably give more favour in terms of deployment to XP though the support to XP is near to an end.

This guy has raised 9 points -

1. Login through Run as Administrator.
2. User with Dual Identity.
3. Invisible Ghost Super User.
4. Two users Logged in Same Session.
5. Multiple Users Logged in Simultaneously on a Standalone system.
6. Dual sign-on of a User(User Logging in Twice without Logoff/Shutdown).
7. User with Dual set of Privileges.
8. UAC shutdown without any change in security policies.
9. Dual UAC behavior.

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An article from Infoworld

Microsoft Corp. has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent Web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities, the company said Wednesday.

All of the cases are against individuals who attempted to capture the log-in and password details of users by constructing fraudulent Hotmail and MSN.com sign-in pages, said Jean-Christophe Le Toquin, a Microsoft attorney. A total of 253 sites were investigated, he said.

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