H33t is now moving to new domain called h33t.to

 H33t is now moving to new domain called h33t.to .We can see a message for now saying

"16 October 2013 04:00GMT

Congratz you have found our new .to domain.

The h33t tracker is offline. I need to do some work to get it working.

I am holding h33t offline until the latest DNS update is fully propagated, she will be back within 48 hours.

Thank you for your patience,

LD"

Heads up for Patch Tuesday: 24 hours, 8 bulletins, 3 critical, everything needs a reboot

It's that time of the month again, with Microsoft Patch Tuesday just 24 hours away.

In point form, August 2013 brings you:

Eight bulletins
Three critical due to potential remote code execution
Critical #1: All Internet Explorer versions from 6 to 10
Critical #2: Exchange Server versions 2007, 2010 and 2013
Critical #3: Windows itself, but only XP and Server 2003
Patches for Server Core, but none critical
Reboot required
It's hard to say just how severe (or how widely exploited, if at all) any of the critical vulnerabilities are, since Microsoft plays its cards close to its chest until the patches actually ship.

And even though some of the bulletins are listed with a Restart Requirement of "maybe," you should assume you'll be rebooting every Windows box within your remit.

That's because all your systems will either have Internet Explorer on them, or be Server Core installs.

Both of those require a reboot.

As usual, SophosLabs will be publishing its own vulnerability assessments once Microsoft has officially issued its updates. (Redmond always gets to go first. Understandably, that's the way it is.)

Although Naked Security generally recommends getting a move on with patching, lest you get sucked into a Change Control Resistance Vortex, SophosLabs gives you a Threat Level assessment for each patch.

All other things being equal, if you have to delay one or more of the eight Bulletins, the Threat Level helps you choose by assessing the likelihood that each security hole will be actively exploited.

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Nokia to launch Windows-based tablet, Lumia phablet this year

Nokia is preparing to release a tablet running Windows 8.1 as well as a number of other devices in the coming months. The news comes courtesy of Nokia’s roadmap for the next four months which was recently seeded to fan site NokiaPowerUser via an anonymous tipster.

New particle paves way for 20 times denser hard drives

A groundbreaking new particle has been discovered that could potentially be used in extremely dense hard drives. Known as skyrmions, or microscopic twisted magnetic vortices, the particle could prove extremely useful in the future of storage on magnetic hard drives, where traditional drives fast approach a density barrier.

Scientists have known about skyrmions since the 1960s, but a recent discovery has allowed them to create and destroy them at will. The technique involves using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and a polarized current to force groups of atoms into knot-like twisted configurations. The skyrmions resist unraveling, and so they can be theoretically used to store zeros (untwisted) or ones (twisted), the key to storing data digitally.

Kristen von Bergmann, a physicist at the University of Hamburg, says that skyrmonic hard disks could hold 20 times more data per unit area than current hard disks, as each skyrmion is only a few nanometers in diameter. This means that instead of having a hard drive with 4 TB of space, in the future a skyrmonic drive of the same size could hold 80 TB.

Elon Musk details proposed Hyperloop transit system

Elon Musk on Monday revealed details of a high-speed transportation system dubbed the Hyperloop. The proposed city-to-city transit system would rely on solar power to take passengers – and even vehicles – from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minute at speeds of up to 800 miles per hour.