A security researcher, named Jonathan Rudenberg, recently discovered a critical vulnerability in SMS-based usage of Twitter, Facebook and Venmo. Thankfully, nearly all three have fixed it by now.
![[Tutorial] How To Change Windows 8 Store Apps’ Default Installation Location](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/appx-a5s4d555ww5e98w7.webp)
There are plenty of Windows users who would like to change the default location of Windows App installation to a drive in which they have enough free space. This tutorial will show, how to do that using Windows Registry Editor.
![[Tutorial] How To Bring Back Start Screen Tile Animation In Windows 8](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/windows-8-regedit-sa5d49w87r98we.webp)
Want to bring back the animation that shows up when you first log in to your Windows 8 machine? This tutorial will show you how.
Avid followers of Microsoft’s Xbox have been anxiously waiting for the company to release the next version of the immensely popular game console. Whereas the company hasn’t divulged any details as to when the next Xbox may arrive, certain sources claim that it will hit the shelves during 2013 holiday season.
Microsoft had pinned a lot of hopes on its new operating system, Windows 8. The company had especially expected to finally gain foothold in the tablet market with Windows 8 tablets. However, that doesn’t seem to be happening, sources within Microsoft’s supply chain claim.
DNS poisoning is a fairly well-known and popular technique which is used to change the entries in the routing tables of the domain name system. Apparently by making use of this technique, an Algerian hacker was able to redirect users visiting Romanian websites of Google, Yahoo, PayPal, Microsoft and others to his own page.
Remember the character ‘Scrooge’ from Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”? Apparently, the folks over at Microsoft have decided that it is apt to give Google a similar title, and have thus launched a website named Scroogled.com to reveal the allegedly dishonest practices of the search giant.
![[Tutorial] How To Customize The Names Of Ripped Audio Files In Windows Media Player](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tools-options-as5d4e8e8e89w8e.webp)
When you convert audio CDs to MP3 with Windows Media Player 12, the name of MP3 files will include track title and track number. If this file name does not match your taste, you can easily customize the output file name by adding names such as artist, genre and bit-rate. Follow this tutorial to find out how to apply these changes inside Windows Media Player.