In a major blow to Google Chrome’s claim of being one of the safest browsers, a developer has come up with an extension that he says can steal login details of the user. Andreas Grech has developed an extension for Google Chrome which he says can steal login details of the user. After installing the [...]

Update: Bruce Perens, the creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has told us that David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby On Rails, forgot to renew the domain. So, it was not a hack just a domain expiration afterall. While we were looking at the Ruby On Rails [...]

Twitter has finally joined the list of Developer Conference organisers by hosting their first ever conference, Chirp, on 14th -15th April 2010 in San Francisco

With Twitter use exploding at an unimaginable rate, it has created a lot of problems not only with Twitter’s service but also with the users using the service. There has been numerous cases of phishing attacks on Twitter and user accounts getting hacked as a result of this. As tweets are limited to only 140 [...]

The Pwn2Own hacking competition, which is organized annually by TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative, is back again for its fourth year. This year, the total prize money has been increased to $100K. The competition will be at the CanSecWest security conference held in Vancouver, BC on March 24th 2010. If you successfully exploit a target you get [...]

We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings. The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:

This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

Many websites including Lorelle and Techcrunch are reporting a new kind of attack on WordPress that affects almost all WordPress installations running WordPress software below version 2.6. All those running WordPress version 2.8 are not  affected.  Users having blogs on wordpress.com have not been affected, although. In this article we will tell four ways which [...]

CHM is a Microsoft Corp baby. This file format according to me is one of the best things to have happened to computing world. CHM file format facilitates archiving of millions of html files into onesingle file, including the images and all. Now, Linux boxes and mac boxes don`t have built-in support for handling CHM [...]

LifestreamBackup is service that takes a backup of all your online identity and online data for a very nominal fee, so that your online identity, your Lifestream, always stays intact. This online data may include all content from the blogs you author, or may be those huge web albums you maintain at flickr and not [...]

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Open the xorg.conf file in your favourite text editor. This file, xorg.conf lies in the /etc/X11 folder in most standard Linux installations. Then add the following lines at the end of the xorg.conf file:

Have you ever thought of having your applications such as VLC, Winamp, Microsoft Office, Google Talk, extra drivers installed automatically with your default Windows installation? Or, may be you are the Systems Manager for your organisation and you are required to install, say WIndows XP, on your organisations`s systems. Or, may be your organisation wants [...]

Presenting the Digitizor Tech Show, which will feature a series of video casts pertaining to small hacks on the computer and the networks, which might make your life a bit easier. Nonetheless, if you are new to the topic being covered, don`t worry, just watch through the entire videocast. You might grasp some new stuff. [...]