December 2011 archive

Abobe Zero day Exploit discovered

Today Adobe Systems has issued an advisory on a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come been discovered and is actively being exploited. Adobe is reporting that the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a crash and permit an attacker to hijack a system. So far, there are reports …

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Customizing & Enhancing Speaker Sounds in Windows 7

Windows 7 sounds options settings screenshot 3

Quite often users find that their sound volume is not to your satisfaction or not as loud as you would like it to be especially when using a laptop, even though both, the volume mixer and the application’s volume is set to maximum level. Windows 7 includes some additional settings to enhance the sound quality …

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Restrict Access to your documents using Information Rights Management Service

Screenshot of step one for the Microsoft Information Rights Management Service

Microsoft has included a new feature in Office 2010 called Information Rights Management (IRM). IRM is a service meant to restricted access to your Microsoft Word Docs, Microsoft Excel Workbooks and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. This allows you can specify access permissions on your documents, spreadsheets and presentations to allow certain individuals to use it.

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