Last month, Google had shared a major announcement that it and various other companies had been hit by apparently successful hacker attacks, and the means of access of the wrong-doers was a much critical unpatched or "zero-day" hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser.
Google has shared that it had managed to discover some definite attacks in mid-December, and these originated in China. The hackers, according to the company, had tried to break into Gmail accounts and steal information about various human rights activists.
The flaw in the Internet Explorer was apparently exploited to install a Trojan horse which ended up allowing complete remote control over a compromised computer. Although the security issue affects IE versions 6, 7 and 8, the only known attacks were made against IE6.
As has been shared by Microsoft, security measures prevented hackers from using the said zero-day flaw. The company claims that Protected Mode for IE 7 and 8, and Data Execution Protection for IE 8 had been put into place.
tipped us off about his 112 LED coffee table. This 12-ups the LED matrix from Friday and 31-ups the Shiftbrite table. Driving this grid is an ATmega328 in i2c slave mode. It listens for display data from a second ATmega328 and uses that to set the array of TLC5940 driven LEDs appropriately. Separating the processing microcontroller from the display microcontroller allows for fast and smooth display changes that can be seen after the break. table exhibits exquisite cable management, clean code, and an amazing amount of flexibility. Maybe [Caleb Kraft] will finally pony up the dough and make this project for his own home.
waited until he saw some other LED tables to send us a link to his hack. This is obviously an awesome project, one that we want to see just as much as our readers do. So please, don’t wait for someone else to stumble upon your project, send us a tip once you’re done sharing the details.
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