Security Incident with BitTorent

BitTorent Blog - http://bit.ly/nkN30d

This morning at approximately 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), the uTorrent.com and BitTorrent.comWeb servers were compromised. Our standard Windows software download was replaced with a type of fake antivirus "scareware" program.

Just after 6:00 a.m. Pacific time, we took the affected servers offline to neutralize the threat. Our servers are now back online and functioning normally.

We have completed preliminary testing of the malware. Upon installation, a program called 'Security Shield" launches and pops up warnings that a virus has been detected. It then prompts a user for payment to remove the virus. We recommend anyone who downloaded software between 4:20 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. Pacific time run a security scan of their computer.

We take the security of our systems and the safety of our users very seriously. We sincerely apologize to any users who were affected.

Clarification: This only affects users who downloaded software specifically from utorrent.com or bittorrent.combetween the hours above this morning. Users who previously downloaded our software are not affected.

Update #2: After further analysis, we don't believe BitTorrent.com or the BitTorrent Mainline/Chrysalis clients were part of the incident.

ADVE

How to change Joomla 1.6 Template background

Changing the background color for a joomla 1.6 template:

To change the background color, will need to edit the template.css file, that can be found in the css directory. Open it in notepad or dreamwaver and find the following code:

body
{
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

The background color is white (#FFFFFF). Simply change it!

Add your own background image to joomla 1.6 template:

Upload your background image to the template images folder via FTP (templates/templatesname/images/), and change the same css code:

body
{
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0;
    background: #FFFFFF url('../images/background.jpg') no-repeat top center;

}

How to remove the blogger navigational bar

Open the template code (Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and paste the following code on the template:

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

example

...
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
 Name:     Rounders
Designer: IT Assist
URL:      www.itassist-vanuatu.blogspot.com
Date:     13 Sept 2011
----------------------------------------------- */

#navbar-iframe {
   display: none !important;
}

/* Variable definitions
  ====================
   <Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Main Background Color"
              type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
   <Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color" type="color"
             default="#333" value="#333333">
    ...

Make your Twitter sidebar transparent and invisible

You must be logged into Twitter.com for this to work! And it seems to work best from old Twitter—you can switch back to New Twitter afterwards. Try a different browser if you get an error. Test show Twitter hasn't changed this—it's still working! You will likely have to reset your browser cache to see the results (see http://bit.ly/FixBrowser for tips).

It's possible you won't have to follow the steps in as much detail as I've put them down here, but this is what seems to work for everyone:

STEP 1: Click here to access your profile design settings: http://twitter.com/settings/design and then click the button for "Change design colors." Now clear your browser's cache (see http://bit.ly/FixBrowser for tips) and then copy the code between the lines below (don't copy the lines!):

---

document.getElementById("user_profile_sidebar_fill_color").value = '';document.getElementById("title_theme").innerHTML = 'Click The Save Changes Button At Bottom To Finish!!';void(0);

---

STEP 2: Delete the URL (website address) in the address bar at the top of your browser (Where is my address bar? See also: Address bars in different browsers).

STEP 3: Paste the code in where the website address was and type "javascript:" (without the quotes) at the beginning of the line. Now press enter on your keyboard. The URL will probably return .https://twitter.com/settings/design?tab=colors

STEP 4: Find and click the "save changes" button just above the bottom of your screen. It should look like this:

STEP 5: Clear your browser's cache again and check your profile page (see http://bit.ly/FixBrowser for tips)

You may not notice anything different, but you did it! (When you first enter the script and press enter, the example sidebar will not become transparent.) The sidebar on your Twitter page (go there to check) should now be transparent.

Announcing Version 1.9 of the .NET Library for Google Data APIs

From: Google Apps Developer Blog Editor <gadbeditor@gmail.com>

We have released version 1.9 of the .NET Library for Google Data APIs and it is available for download.

This version adds the following new features:

• support for 3-legged OAuth
• two new sample applications: BookThemAll (mashup of Calendar and Provisioning APIs) and UnshareProfiles (showcasing a new feature of the Google Apps Profiles API)
• updates to the Content for Shopping API to implement 20+ new item attributes
• support for new yt:rating system and Access Control settings to the YouTube API

This new version also removes the client library for the deprecated Google Base API and fixes 20 bugs.

For more details, please check the Release Notes and remember to file feature requests or bugs in the project issue tracker.