تسرب الشفرة المصدرية لمكافح الفيروسات Kaspersky Security Suite

يبدو أن خبر تسريب الشفرة المصدرية لمكافح الفيروسات العملاق Kaspersky صحيح، فقد تم تأكيد تسريب الشفرة المصدرية للإصدار 8.0 من Kaspersky security suite على الإنترنت من قبل موظف سابق لدى الشركة، والذي يقضي حاليا عقوبة 3 سنوات في السجن ستتبعها 3 سنوات أخرى تحت المراقبة المشروطة، وذلك لقاء انتهاك قوانين الملكية الفكرية.

الشفرة المصدرية مكتوبة بلغة C++ و Delphi وتتناول محرك مكافح الفيروسات، بالإضافة إلى تقنيات anti-phishing, anti-dialer, anti-spam, parental control و وحدات أخرى.

الإشاعات حول الاختراق الأمني وسرقة الشفرة المصدرية وتسريبها بدأت منذ عام 2009 وسرى الاعتقاد بأن مرتكبي هذا الجرم قاموا بعرض الشفرة المصدرية للبيع على الإنترنت.

من ناحية أخرى، أكد ناطق باسم شركة Kaspersky بأن أمن منتجاتها الحالية ليس في خطر وذلك لأنها لا تحتوي إلا جزء يسيرا جداً من الشفرات المسرّبة والتي لا تؤثر في وظائف الأمن في برامجها.

من المنطقي الاعتقاد بأن شركة كـ Kaspersky لديها علم بالتسريب الذي تم منذ سنتين ، و قد قامت بإعادة كتابة معظم الأجزاء الحساسة في برامجها وأجرت تغييرات جذرية في التقنية التي تستخدمها.. مع هذا، يبقى كل هذا تكهنّات لا يمكن التأكيد على صحتها إلا بسرقة نسخة حديثة من الشفرة

للحصول على الشفرة المصدرية المسرّبة لـ Kaspersky Security Suite 2008، عليك بالبحث يا صديقي.. أم كنت تعتقد أني سأساعدك بانتهاك القانون؟

المصادر:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Former-Kaspersky-Employee-Responsible-for-Leaked-Source-Code-181367.shtml

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-Source-Code-Leaked-Online-181297.shtml

How to Print from Gmail on Your Android or iPhone Using Cloud Print

Google recently launched the ability to print to your local printers from anywhere in the world using Google Cloud Print, but it didn’t work anywhere until today. Here’s how to set it up, get it running, and print from your mobile phone.

At the moment, the only desktop way to use Cloud Print is from a Google Chrome Notebook, which most people don’t have access to, or from the Gmail Mobile web site that you can access from iPhone or Android. It’s also worth noting that only Windows is supported for the Cloud Print server portion.

Install Chrome with the Beta or Dev Channels

If you don’t have Chrome installed yet, download the latest beta or developer release from the link below. If you currently have the stable release of Chrome you will need to install the latest beta release to get cloud printing to work.

Note: Once the installation has finished you will need to restart Google Chrome if it is already running

Set up Cloud Print

Once the developer version is installed click on the wrench menu and then options.

Click on the under the hood tab and then scroll down to Google Cloud Print at the bottom.

Sign in with your Google account.

Once you have successfully signed in you should get a confirmation window and then your options will change to have a disable button and a manage print settings button.

If you click on Manage print settings you will be brought to another web page to delete printers from cloud print. This is also the page you can view active print jobs and share printers.

Note: It does not appear that printer sharing is currently enabled.

Once your printers are configured head over to the test print link below and print out a test. A pop-up will ask you which printer you want to use. You can select it and change any options from the link on the right.

If you head back to the printer management page you will see your test print show up under active print jobs.

The job should print out but you might have mixed results with virtual printers such as PDF printers. Just remember, the feature is currently in beta but like always, it will get better with time.

Using Google Cloud Print

Since we don’t have access to a Google Chrome notebook, we’ll show you how it works for regular people—as in, anybody with an iPhone or Android phone. Simple login to gmail.comfrom your mobile browser, click the drop-down button on the upper bar, and then click Print.

Then you’ll see a list of your printers, and you can select one.

Once you select one of the printers, you can expand the Options, and choose the mode, color, and how many copies you want.

Once you’ve selected the printer, click the Print button in the lower right, and your document will show up on your printer. Who needs trees?

Google Chrome Cloud Print and download

How to Assign Tasks to Other People in Outlook 2010

The Tasks feature in Outlook is a great way to keep track of what you need to get done, but it’s also a good way to help collaborate with others and assign tasks to them. Here’s how to assign tasks to other people easily.

Note: the ability to assign tasks to others has been around for a while, so you can use it in previous versions out Outlook as well, it’s just in a slightly different place.

How to Assign a Task to Someone

There are a couple of ways you can assign tasks, including while you’re creating a new task—all you need to do is click on “Assign Task” on the Ribbon.

Or while you’re looking at the Tasks pane in Outlook, you can right-click on it and select Assign Task from the menu. This should work from any of the Tasks views.

Now you just need to enter the email address of the person who you’re assigning the task to.

Then the person you assigned the task to can add it to their list and send updates on it.

If you’re new to Outlook and the Tasks feature, this should get you started, and don’t forget to delegate your tasks!

Add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive

The registry hack for this article comes to us courtesy of jd2066, one of our helpful forum members.

Normally when you want to access the Disk Cleanup tool, you usually have to either find it through the start menu, or open up the drive properties window. Instead of going through all that, we can use a simple registry hack to add a menu item to the drive right-click menu.

Using the Hack

After installation, you can simply right-click on a drive and choose “Disk Cleanup” from the menu:

If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you’ll be asked whether you want to clean up your files or all files…

And then disk cleanup will begin:

 

Manual Registry Hack

Open up regedit through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Create a new key called “diskcleanup” and set the default value to “Disk Cleanup”. Then create another key underneath it called “command” and set the value to the following:

cleanmgr.exe /d %1

The change should be immediate, just right-click on the drive and you should see the new menu item.

Downloadable Registry Hack

Simply download, extract, and double-click on DiskCleanupDriveMenu.reg to enter the information into the registry. You can use the included RemoveDiskCleanupDriveMenu.reg file to reverse the changes.

Download DiskCleanupDriveMenu Registry Hack

20 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know

Mastering the keyboard will not only increase your navigation speed but it can also help with wrist fatigue. Here are some lesser known Windows shortcuts to help you become a keyboard ninja.

Image by Remko van Dokkum

Global Windows Shortcuts

Win+1, 2, 3, 4, etc. will launch each program in your taskbar. It is helpful then to keep your most used programs at the beginning of your task bar so you can open them one right after another. This also works in Windows Vista for the quick launch icons.

Win+Alt+1, 2, 3, etc. will open the jump list for each program in the taskbar. You can then use your arrows to select which jump list option you want to open.

Win+T will cycle through taskbar programs. This is similar to just hovering over the item with your mouse but you can launch the program with Space or Enter.

Win+Home minimizes all programs except current the window. This is similar to the Aero shake and can be disabled with the same registry key.

Win+B selects the system tray which isn’t always useful but can come in very handy if your mouse stops working.

Win+Up/Down maximizes and restores down the current window so long as that window has the option to be maximized. It is exactly the same as clicking on the middle button on your windows.

Alt+Esc is like Alt+Tab but switches windows in the order they were opened and does not have the fancy window preview overlay.

Win+Pause/Break will open your system properties window. This can be helpful if you need to see the name of a computer or simple system statistics.

Ctrl+Esc can be used to open the start menu but will not work as a Windows key replacement for other shortcuts.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc will open the task manager without needing to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del first.

Alt+Space will open the window system menu which can be used to maximize (x), minimize (n), close (c), or move (m) the window which can be especially helpful if your window is somehow off-screen. This shortcut can also be helpful with windows that don’t close with the Alt+F4 shortcut such as the command window.

Windows Explorer Shortcuts

Here are handy shortcuts built into Windows Explorer which may have similar features in other programs too.

Alt+Up will navigate up one folder level since the up arrow on the menu bar was removed in Windows Vista. Alternatively, you can also make Backspace go up one folder level with a handy AutoHotKey script.

Shift+F10 opens the contextual or “right click” menu for a file/folder. This can be very handy for speed especially if you know which option you want to select. Look for an underlined letter in each option to know which letter you can press for faster access.

Shift+Del deletes a file without sending it to the recycle bin because who wants to empty their recycle bin anyway?

Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new folder in your current directory.

Alt+Enter opens the file properties so you can view file size, sharing settings, and creation date.

F2 renames a file or folder.

F3 will open explorer and select the search bar. If you already have an explorer window open it will highlight the search bar. In some programs it will also open the search dialog to search within that program.

F6 cycles objects in the current window. In explorer this will cycle between the location bar, options bar, left pane, and right pane. It also works with varying success in other programs.

F10 toggles the file menu in explorer.