by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
(Image credit: Gadgetell)There’s been a hoax for quite a while that Dell installs a hardware keylogger (Snopes entry here). Incredibly, Gadgettell just has picked it up, yet again (via Donna). One wonders. Alex Eckelberry
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Taiwanese version of Nautica Apparel, Inc. has been compromised and is being used to install several pieces of malware on to victim computers. A spam wave is on which attempts to lure potential victims to the site by offering a link to view a video of, err,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever dealt with venture capitalists (VCs) , or have spent time as one, you’ll get this humor (and see the “pitch” as well). In fact, you might spill your morning coffee, so put down that cup before going to this site (via Jeff Nolan).Alex Eckelberry(Who was...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
It was last week, on the 14th, that Ben Edelman showed that C-NetMedia (not to be confused with CNET) was using highly deceptive advertising to lure people to its sites.It’s still going on, despite press on the matter. This morning, a search for SpyBot again shows...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting and potentially useful.Some more info here:Using the Erlang bit syntax it’s an easy task to unpack the tags of an SWF file. With this thought in mind erlswf has been specifically designed to analyse SWF Tags and ActionScript ByteCode for security...
