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The first crack for Windows 7 RTM Build 6.1.7600.16385 had a short life time span and Microsoft made certain of this aspect. The Redmond company revealed that it had worked with Lenovo, the original equipment manufacturer that contributed to the activation circumventing of Windows 7 RTM by leaking the OEM SLP Master ... |
31 July 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed the first crack for Windows 7 Ultimate RTM that surfaced in under a week since the official sign-off date of the latest iteration of the Windows client. For the time being, the Redmond company has not supplied product keys to activate the gold development milestone of Windows 7, except for the OEM... |
30 July 2009
04:56 GMT |
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UPDATE: Microsoft has tackled the crack and blacklisted the leaked OEM activation product key. In less than a week since Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, the first crack for the Ultimate edition of the latest iteration of the Windows client is already available in the wild. The Windows 7 Build 6.1.7600.16385 ... |
29 July 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed officially that it was aware of methods to circumvent the normal Windows 7 activation process being available in the wild. The Redmond company did not offer any specific details on the cracks for Windows 7 pre-release versions, or on any eventual measures to render them useless. However, it appear... |
8 May 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Users of Apple's polycarbonate White MacBook have been plagued by an issue, which the Mac maker has failed to acknowledge for several years – hairline cracks spontaneously appearing on the notebook's enclosure. According to a memo sent out to Apple service staffers, the company is now addressing these... |
10 April 2009
03:40 GMT |
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New reports of malfunctioning Apple notebooks are doing the rounds, none of which tell stories any different than what we've heard so far. Yet another notebook battery shot off flames and sparks in an office somewhere, while a user is currently at his eighth replacement MacBook – evidently, the crack-plagu... |
27 February 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Even with Windows 7 on the horizon, Microsoft continues to focus on Windows Vista when it comes down to fighting illegal activation workarounds. After it managed to tackle a couple of the most notorious Vista cracks with the release of Service Pack 1, the software giant is now ready to take on yet another hack design... |
26 February 2009
09:55 GMT |
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There is a pirated Vista killer roaming free on Windows Update. Microsoft is not limiting itself to Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and to the Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism when it comes down to hunting down pirated copies of the operating system. In fact, an update from the Redmond company is desi... |
27 November 2008
03:53 GMT |
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While Windows 7 has yet to reach Beta stage, the first workarounds to illegally activate this operating system are already available in the wild. Microsoft offered Windows 7 Ultimate pre-Beta Build 6801 to participants at its PDC 2008 and WinHEC 2008 events. The third major development milestone of Windows Vista'... |
17 November 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Probably all PC users know what a No-CD crack is - that small file which allows you to play a game you bought without having the CD or DVD inserted in the drive. However, such files are considered illegal and game developers go as far as stating that they promote piracy. And we must admit that it is indeed true: the ... |
18 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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As always with crack and hack news, take this one with the proverbial grain of salt. Several sites from the "underground" of the Internet have begun reporting about the fact that the Digital Rights Management on the PlayStation Store titles that are exclusive to the PlayStation Portable has been cracked by some well ... |
8 April 2008
06:43 GMT |
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The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. Various reports point out that Genuine Advantage Validation and Notificat... |
1 April 2008
15:02 GMT |
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The spam-free Gmail is about to become spam-full and on an accelerated rate from now on. When the email service from Google first came to be, it prided itself with its filters that would redirect spam directly to the folder specially created for it. Slowly but surely, hackers managed to evolve methods of fooling the ... |
26 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft's former marketing chief, Michael Sievert, revealed back in December 2007 that, with the advent of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, two of the most popular Vista cracks would be history, namely the OEM BIOS and Grace Timer activation workarounds. Vista SP1 is designed not only to identify the pirated vers... |
25 February 2008
07:54 GMT |
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There is a veritable Windows Vista crack fiesta that accompanied Microsoft's latest Windows client to the market. As Vista was unleashed onto the world back at the end of 2007, cracks began emerging, designed to circumvent the antipiracy mitigations set in place by Microsoft. And in contrast to Windows XP, which... |
15 February 2008
12:00 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Windows Vista was not sent barefoot into the world as was the case with Windows XP, and instead came packed with antipiracy mitigations from an intimate connection with the Windows genuine Advantage mechanism to the Reduced Functionality Mode kill switch, cracks for the operating system were not... |
12 February 2008
11:55 GMT |
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I know, I know... you're all going to tell me it was all a matter of time before something like this happened. And you'd be right but still, I must say that this piece of news is making me feel very sad. And depressed. Amy Winehouse, y'all, was caught on tape during a massive drug binge that took place... |
22 January 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Windows Vista is a tad under a month away from its first anniversary, taking into consideration the January 30th, 2007 consumer launch of the operating system. In November 2006, Vista was released to manufacturing and, then, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, gave businesses the green light to Vista. B... |
3 January 2008
10:21 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system. The new activation infrastructure and the Windows Genuine Advantage, set in place by the Redmond company, proved insufficient to deal with Windows Vista cracks. But no more. While co... |
4 December 2007
10:23 GMT |
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Hacking a computer does not use tactics you have never heard about. To me, the Internet is just like a war zone and hacking a PC is like sending in a commando to destroy an enemy base. Crack and hack schemes are similar to many army activities and here are a few things on how to hack a personal computer.Just like in ... |
5 September 2007
04:46 GMT |
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You install it and we'll hack it! That's what computer geeks seem to think about all the security measures installed lately. I was not amazed when I read that an anti-pornography filter had been hacked. But I was a bit astonished when I found out that it has been done by a 16-year-old. Of course, this filte... |
29 August 2007
02:46 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, some hackers have posted their new solution for cracking the iPhone. It involved using a Turbo SIM card, one product which has sold out since the solution has been posted. After a month and a half of various attempts at unlocking the iPhone in order to make it fully work with any SIM card support... |
18 August 2007
03:36 GMT |
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It would seem that just about anything that's got the word "Microsoft" in its name is a target for hackers, especially if the respective product (either software or hardware) is considered by the company from Redmond to be unbreakable. And the latest example of this state of facts is related to Microsoft's ... |
16 July 2007
10:40 GMT |
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The Italian authorities managed to arrest no less than 35 persons due to Operation Crack, a special campaign started by the police in order to stop a criminal gang from distributing pirated software. According to IFPI, the shocking element of the investigation was revealed after the authorities arrested all the membe... |
5 July 2007
05:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the 'timer crack' or '2099 crack' since the early days of January 2007, long before Windows Vista had been made available for the general public. Alex Kochis, a senior licensing manager on the Windows Genuine Advantage team promised that Microsoft would add... |
28 June 2007
10:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is not doing a very good job at shielding Windows Vista from piracy. As a matter of fact, just the opposite, the Redmond Company is actually promoting cracks for Windows Vista. The first out of the two screenshots included at the bottom is a clear illustration of how – via Live Search – Microsoft is doing i... |
26 June 2007
05:47 GMT |
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There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work. And the Redmond Company has chosen to keep those statistics to itself. But when it comes to Windows Vista, Microsoft has integra... |
29 May 2007
11:24 GMT |
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Despite of the measures built into the operating system and the "genuine" system created around it, Windows Vista is as much a victim of piracy as Windows XP was. And Windows XP was sent out barefoot into the world, as far as anti-piracy is concerned. Microsoft did not manage to introduce the Windows Genuine Advantag... |
21 May 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Windows Vista was not even on stores shelves and the operating system had been cracked and was lighting up the peer-to-peer network connections. On December 14, 2006, keep in mind that Windows Vista was released to the general public on January 30, 2007, Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage team slew the '... |
16 May 2007
12:12 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed the fact that hackers have developed a valid Windows Vista crack designed to exploit the operating system's OEM BIOS activation. Alex Kochis, a senior licensing manager with the WGA team revealed that the OEM Activation was a measure introduced concomitantly with Windows XP and designed to st... |
10 April 2007
11:22 GMT |
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Video demonstrations of Windows vista cracks are available both on Google Video and on YouTube. In this case, the title can also read Google hosts video demonstrations of Windows Vista cracks, since YouTube has moved under the umbrella of the Mountain View search giant in 2006. But the fact of the matter is that vira... |
4 April 2007
06:45 GMT |
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Hacking the Windows Vista activation process is the latest trend in cracking procedures for the Microsoft operating system. Just today I distinguished yet another crack method that stands up from the amorphous mass of hacks, cracks, workarounds and tricks designed to circumvent, disable, skip, postpone or mirror the ... |
21 December 2006
08:53 GMT |
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