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Bank Of India Site Co-Opted By Malware | WebProNews

Just as it happened with the Dolphin Stadium website before the most recent Super Bowl, the Bank of India website has suffered an attack that dumps malware onto a visitor’s system. A code injection attack appears to be the vector used.

Eckelberry said in a phone interview with WebProNews that Sunbelt Software has found more than 20 pieces of malware being delivered through an IFRAME on the bank’s site.

I’m ashamed that I only discovered these guys after their music was so prominently displayed in the Nintendo Wii commercials.
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Superstars in their native Japan, young Tsugaru-shamisen virtuosos Ryoichiro and Kenichi Yoshida-The Yoshida Brothers-have effected nothing short of a cultural revolution with a muscular reinvention of the ancient three-stringed instrument, giving it the fiery passion of a rock ‘n roll guitar. Online world music portal World Music Central notes, “Clad in formal, ceremonial attire of kimonos and hakama pants, but sporting the dyed light brown hair that is trendy among Japan’s savvy youth, the Brothers play the age-old Tsugaru-shamisen-an instrument akin to a rustic three-stringed banjo-with the fervor of Jimi Hendrix.”

http://www.domo.com/yoshidabrothers/

Threat Level - Wired Blogs

Computer science professor Steven Bellovin — one of the most knowledgeable outsiders on the government’s eavesdropping mandates known as CALEA, pored over recently released documents that outline the FBI’s extensive, eavesdropping architecture.

He concludes that they don’t bode well for anyone:

I don’t think the FBI really understands computer security. More precisely, while parts of the organization seem to, the overall design of the DCS-3000 system shows that when it comes to building and operating secure systems, they just don’t get it.

The most obvious example is the account management scheme described in the DCS-3000 documents: there are no unprivileged userids. In fact, there are no individual userids; rather, there are two privileged accounts. Each has diferent powers; however, as the documents themselves note, each can change the other’s permissions to restore the missing abilities. Where is the per-user accountability? Why should ordinary users run in privileged mode at all? The answers are simple and dismaying.

The Knight Shift: Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!

Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!
“Chutzpah” is a Yiddish word meaning “unbelievable gall or audacity”. An example of it would be the story of the kid who murders both of his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan.

That’s chutzpah. So is this: multimedia giant Viacom is claiming that I have violated their copyright by posting on YouTube a segment from it’s VH1 show Web Junk 2.0… which VH1 produced – without permission – from a video that I had originally created.

running the:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

command greatly improves the gui appearance of ubuntu.

I thought I was the last person to see this, but I guess not.

Supposedly these guys have already been hired by Adobe.

freshmeat.net: Project details for wxRemind

wxRemind is a wxPython-based front/back-end for Remind, a powerful calendar and alarm application, and for yeaGTD, a text based application for ‘getting things done’. The display features a calendar and daily event list suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance, together with a flexible display of your GTD todo list. Dates and associated events can be quickly selected either with the mouse or cursor keys, and dates in the calendar are color coded to reflect the total duration of scheduled events. wxRemind integrates with an external editor of your choice to make editing of reminder and GTD files more efficient, provides hotkeys to quickly access the most commonly used options, and allows popup, sound, and/or spoken alarms.

Official Google Blog: Lights, camera, Gmail

Last month, we invited you to join the Gmail collaborative video, pull out your video cameras and help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. Two Rubik’s cubes, a few jaunts in a bottle, beautiful sand animation, and one dog’s trip to the Southernmost point of the continental US later, we’d received more than 1,100 fantastic clips from Gmail fans from more than 65 countries. It was impossible to fit all of the great submissions into one cut, but after hours of fun watching jugglers, firemen, camel-riders, and original animation, we edited highlights together into this video and used the Google Maps API to put together a map showing where many of the clips came from (you can also see these at http://mail.google.com/mvideo):

Robert Love: Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS
Vista’s funky networking performance amid multimedia playback elicited a reply from Microsoft’s own Mark Russinovich:

Besides activity by other threads, media playback can also be affected by network activity. When a network packet arrives at [the] system, it triggers a CPU interrupt, which causes the device driver for the device at which the packet arrived to execute an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR). Other device interrupts are blocked while ISRs run, so ISRs typically do some device book-keeping and then perform the more lengthy transfer of data to or from their device in a Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) that runs with device interrupts enabled. While DPCs execute with interrupts enabled, they take precedence over all thread execution, regardless of priority, on the processor on which they run, and can therefore impede media playback threads.

Network DPC receive processing is among the most expensive, because it includes handing packets to the TCP/IP driver, which can result in lengthy computation. The TCP/IP driver verifies each packet, determines the packet’s protocol, updates the connection state, finds the receiving application, and copies the received data into the application’s buffers.

Mark goes on to show that copying a file from one machine to another consumes a staggering 41% of the available processor. In Joey’s words, that is horrid and just an awful situation.