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Don’t Press F1 in Windows XP

March 3rd, 2010

Windows XP

Apparently there is a newly discovered vulnerability in windows XP. If a website asks you to press F1 do not do this. Hackers have discovered a way to execute code on the user’s machine by feeding users malicious code disguised as a Windows help file. It affects both Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.

iSEC Security Advisory

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jQuery 1.4.2 Released

March 3rd, 2010
jQuery 1.4.2

jQuery 1.4.2

I’m a little late on the jQuery 1.4 bandwagon since it was released January 14th. However as of this post the latest version is 1.4.2 which was released on February 19th. Time to upgrade.

From the developers:
“In this release we’ve added two new methods: .delegate() and .undelegate(). These methods serve as complements to the existing .live() and .die() methods in jQuery. They simplify the process of watching for specific events from a certain root within the document.”

The API Documentation has been re-written, and the library has some new features, while improving speed and stability. You can take a look at the full jQuery 1.4 Release Notes Here.

jQuery 1.4 Performance

jQuery 1.4 Performance

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