Tag: LEAK

OK, so the Windows 7 service pack 1 beta has been leaked online and you can now download it from various torrent sites. For the sake of some of our less-experienced readers, here's a short PSA: you might not want to install it. Apart from the obvious reason that it's a beta release, there's an annoying little problem I've been fighting with on a handful of my customers' systems. It seems that ...

Over the last few days, news has emerged that a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, was the source that recently leaked classified information to Wikileaks. But he didn't just leak 260,000 classified cables and a brutal video of an Apache helicopter mowing down civilians and journalists in Iraq -- no, he also leaked the code name and details of the government investigation into the ...

Last week, we told you how Facebook had been caught by the Wall Street Journal leaking user data to advertisers. The source of the leak was in the URLs that the advertisers would see as referrers, because Facebook URLs contain unique usernames or user ID numbers. Now, Facebook has closed up that privacy hole, according to a new post on their official blog. Facebook's Matt Jones writes, ...

If you thought people were overreacting to the privacy issues with Facebook, think again. No less an outfit than The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook, MySpace, and others were caught releasing user data to advertisers. Facebook was giving away enough info that advertisers could identify your individual account and see which ads you'd clicked on. The companies receiving this data ...

A couple of days ago the second beta of Office 2011 for Mac OS X leaked. I didn't want to report it immediately because it's always a little bit dangerous to download pre-release software, especially from infamous torrent sites... But enough people have now tried it -- and apparently it's awesome! The Boy Genius Report has the best hands-on information and also a ton of screenshots to feast ...

Microsoft has already clued us in about two big additions coming to the enterprise in Windows 7 SP1 -- Dynamic Memory support and a more robust Remote Desktop client which uses RemoteFX -- but not much else is known about the upcoming release. It will, of course, also include the various fixes which have been delivered via Windows Update prior to SP1's release. If intrepid users have their ...

With everyone expecting Apple to announce a tablet less than 24 hours from now, the CEO of textbook publisher McGraw-Hill let the cat out of the bag in a CNBC interview earlier today. Yes, the tablet is going to be announced at Apple's event today, and yes, "the tablet is going to based on the iPhone operating system." I'm not going to debate whether this was an accidental last-minute leak or a ...

Should anyone ever starts giving out an award for the being the worst company for keeping secrets, Microsoft will win in a landslide. If it's not an early build of new software like Windows 7 or Office 2010, it's the retail box art. The latter is the case this morning, with CentrumXP.pl sharing the latest round of sneak-peeks at Office 2010. Posted are designs for four of the 78 six versions ...

It's been a little while since Microsoft had leaked bits distributed on torrent trackers by -- shall we say enthusiasts? Everything is cyclical, though, so I wasn't totally surprised to find reports of the updated Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2010 making a public appearance on one of the more popular torrent sites. The torrent is labeled as build 14.0.4514.1009, which matches up with what some ...

First you got your hands on a leaked copy of the Windows 7 RTM. Bad idea, says Microsoft. Then you tracked down 7loader, which took advantage of a leaked Lenovo product key. We know it's out there, came the nonchalant reply from Redmond. And now, thanks to a cooperative effort, the workaround has already been defeated. The official blog post touts improvements in Windows 7, which "already ...

Microsoft is head-over-heels excited about this announcement: Build 7600.16385 has been officially declared the RTM version of Windows 7. Strike up the marching bands! Bring in the dancing girls! But hang on just a tic. Isn't build 7600.16385 already floating around all over the P2P filesharing ether? The previous incremental build 7600.16384 looked pretty real, based on what Softpedia shared. It ...

Twitter's Evan Williams certainly isn't the first famous person to have a "secret question" figured out by a hacker, but I'm always surprised when someone in IT circles falls victim to such an elementary attack. It's not news that secret questions are a terribly bad idea for enabling password resets or protecting account information. For a question to work, the answer truly needs to be a secret. ...

Our good friends at Engadget have gotten their hands on yet another tasty Windows 7 leak, though this time it's not just another marginally interesting build update. This time it's upgrade pricing information courtesy some careless generous Best Buy employee. The presell cost to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium will be a paltry $49.99 and the Professional Upgrade will run $99.99. That's a ...

To quote Boney M, "Oh, those Russians!" According to UX Evangelist the crew at Wzor and Torrents.ru have leaked another Windows 7 build. It's been a while since we last reported on a leak, though they have appeared since the RC was made publicly available. This one may be a bit more significant because of the build number - 7201. As with the jump to 7100 for the RC, the move to 7200 could well ...

Remember the panic a while back about social music site Last.FM supposedly leaking listener data to the RIAA? TechCrunch sure does, because they started the rumor, and then faced accusations of shoddy reporting from basically the whole Internet when it turned out to be false. Well, now TechCrunch have uncovered some new information that shows they were right after all ... sort of. Last.fm's ...