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| Google to Add Gamepad Support to Chrome Posted: 26 Nov 2011 06:25 AM PST
Speaking at the Develop Liverpool conference, Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan shed light on a number of upcoming Chrome features. Besides adding plug-and-play support for gamepads, Google will also update its web browser with native support for microphones and cameras. Interestingly, Kinlan seems to think that such functionality will lend itself quite well to browser-based AR games and player tracking. Also coming to Chrome is support for WebRTC, an open source framework aimed at enabling real-time communications within the browser without the use of any plugins. All these features will become part of Chrome sometime during the first quarter of next year. These updates are also going to be significant from the standpoint of Google's Chromebooks, which have hitherto failed to make any impression on consumers. |
| Security Researcher Demos Windows 8 Bootkit Posted: 26 Nov 2011 06:08 AM PST Windows 8 Bootkit Demo from Peter Kleissner on Vimeo. Few men can lay claim to being ahead of their time like Peter Kleissner. While most of us were busy playing around with the Windows 8 Developer Preview, this Austrian security researcher was vetting it for possible vulnerabilities. Whatever he was up to seems to have worked. Kleissner has successfully identified a vulnerability in this early version of the upcoming operating system and even posted a video of his proof-of-concept "Stoned Lite" bootkit successfully exploiting this flaw. Hit the jump for the video. Here is a video of his 14KB bootkit called Stoned Lite successfully bypassing Windows 8 User Account Control. "This shows how to use Stoned Lite to get SYSTEM rights on Windows 8 through the cmd privilege escalation (done by a driver loaded by the bootkit). The infector is just 14 KB of size and bypasses the UAC," reads the video's description on Vimeo. With the release of Windows 8 still a fair way away, Microsoft has plenty of time to fix this bug discovered by Kleissner, who is a bootkit junkie of sorts having previously developed a bootkit called Stoned as a proof-of-concept for a vulnerability in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003. |
Thanks to the impressively wide repertoire of modern web browsers, these days it's possible to accomplish so many different things within them. Soon you will be able to enjoy web-based games a lot more than you already do. This is due to the fact Google is getting ready to include plug-and-play support for gamepads in Chrome.| You are subscribed to email updates from Maximum PC - All Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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