In June, 2015 there was an alarming bit of news when people over at the Debian project realized that Chromium silently downloaded a closed source NaCl binary extension. It was the hotword extension which implements speech recognition techniques. When someone says “OK Google” within range of the microphone, Chrome interprets what follows as a command. […]
You can download our free Outlook Add-In for Google Drive to sample our Outlook managed file transfer services. Several issues arise when sending large files with Outlook: there is a data overhead for each binary attachments sent via SMTP, Microsoft Exchange limits the size of attachments, and servers often have e-mail quotas. In Integrating Dropbox with Microsoft […]
And now for something completely different. The AutoIt script below will make you run Google’s hurdles doodle faster than Usain Bolt: 4.9 seconds is our automation record. Can you improve it? Surely there is room for more records before the London 2012 Olympics end. We deal with AutoIt on a daily basis since we use […]
Controlling Playback Speed Our Deviare Hooking Engine can be used to speed up or slow down a video during playback using the code available here (github repository). This code is pretty small and clearly shows how Deviare handles the complexities of API hooking. Although this sample code deals only with video it is also possible to […]
You can reverse engineer binary applications but you cannot reverse engineer the cloud. When Google deprecates a web service, Facebook eliminates an API, or Twitter imposes tougher API restrictions, all dependant services fall like dominoes. The weakest link in the chain is the cloud services that you can’t run or port anywhere: we no longer […]
Everyone has a lot of questions about Chrome. Some people say that it is spyware because each and every character you enter is sent to Google. Hundreds of comments like this can be found on the web, like this one that says “Chrome spends nearly as much time phoning home to Google as it does […]
YouTube is very popular. It can also be very useful for companies to promote their products. It provides free hosting of your video and allows you to embed it on your website, this keeps your companies bandwidth costs down. YouTube also provides a social network for its users allowing videos to be commented on and […]
Using our API hooker SpyStudio I wrote a script to intercept http requests done using wininet.dll API coming from a specific module of a process. The script keeps request information (server and url) to display in next calls and let filter requests to a specific server. Its name is httpReport.py and can found in SpyStudio […]
Seems that the Google guys are getting softy. The last two questions of the Google Treasure Hunt 2008 were easily solved. The Question #1 is about paths. We have a robot that can move down or right, in a n x m grid. So how many possible paths exists, from the top left to the top […]