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Bypassing Windows 8.1 Mitigations using Unsafe COM Objects

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In October last year I was awarded the first $100,000 bounty for a Mitigation Bypass in Microsoft Windows. My original plan was to not discuss it in any depth until Microsoft had come up with a sufficient changes to reduce the impact of the bypass. However as other researchers have basically come up with variants of the same technique, some of which are publicly disclosed with proof-of-concept code it seemed silly to not discuss my winning entry. So what follows is some technical detail about the bypass itself. I am not usually known for finding memory corruption vulnerabilities, mainly because I don’t go looking for them. Still I know my way around and so I knew the challenges I would face trying to come …

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Bypassing Windows 8.1 Mitigations using Unsafe COM Objects

How to Add Social Buttons in WordPress RSS Feed

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

After our article that recommended users to stop using Feedburner, many users asked us how they can get the social sharing buttons like they had on their FeedBurner feeds. While most modern feed readers include social sharing capabilities, in this article, we will show you how to add social buttons in WordPress RSS feed. First thing you need to do is download the social buttons you would want to display in your feeds. There are several social media icon sets available for free. Choose one that best suits your needs. After that you need to go to Media – Add New and upload Facebook and Twitter icons to your media library. Once you have uploaded the icons, you need to copy their location URL. Simply go to …

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How to Add Social Buttons in WordPress RSS Feed

“VB Universal Windows App” series

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This past week Lucian Wischik, who is great presenter if you ever get the chance to see him at a conference, released an awesome series on creating Universal Apps with one of my favorite programming languages, the Rodney Dangerfield of languages, Visual Basic.NET. No, lets not start a language comment war, please Here are download links for the “VB Universal Windows App” series: … Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I’d take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here’s how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores: What is a Universal Windows App? A “universal Windows app” is a great end-user experience. It means the user of your app can buy …

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“VB Universal Windows App” series

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Website

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Advertisement A few months ago, I ran an experiment to see how much faster I could make one of my websites in less than two hours of work. After installing a handful of WordPress plugins and fixing a few simple errors, I had improved the website’s loading speed from 1.61 seconds to 583 milliseconds. That’s a 70.39% improvement, without having made any visual changes to the website. According to a 2009 Akamai study1, 47% of visitors expect a page to load in under 2 seconds, and 57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Since this study, no shortage of case studies have confirmed that loading time affects sales. In 2006, Amazon reported that a 100-millisecond increase in page speed translated to a 1% …

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Publish WordPress Posts to LinkedIn Automatically: 5 Plugins

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

June 25th in WordPress Plugins by WordPress Jedi .

LinkedIn is truly an under-appreciated social network. With Google+, Twitter, and Facebook getting all the attention these days, smart marketers can’t afford not to focus on LinkedIn marketing. You need a real content marketing strategy to succeed on that site. Sharing your best articles to LinkedIn is not a bad idea either. These 5 LinkedIn auto-poster plugins can do the job: WP Pipes: allows you to auto post to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can create as many pipes as you like. NextScripts: automatically publishes your posts from your blog to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social profiles. The pro version offers scheduled and delayed posting. Microblog Poster: another plugin that lets you update your …

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Publish WordPress Posts to LinkedIn Automatically: 5 Plugins