Archive for July 5th, 2007:
BotVoice.A – Your system files have been deleted. Sorry.
Panda Labs has detected a new trojan named BotVoice.A Trojan. Users who get infected will hear the phrase, “You have been infected. I repeat, you have been infected and your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye.”
The virus deletes systems files, modifies the registry to block attempts to undo the damage and takes control of Windows text reader. It is spread through peer-to-peer networks, external storage devices and malicious Web sites.
You can read more about the virus from their Web site and you can hear a sample of the voice here.
Steve Wozniak interview
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was interviewed by RU Sirius this week about being a prankster and ethical hacking.
From excerpts of the interview posted on 10 Zen Monkeys:
I have these professionally printed stickers that I’ve had made. They’re done with this sort of foil-type stuff in the exact OSHA style and the OSHA colors. And it says, “Danger: Do Not Flush Over Cities.” And I put ‘em in the bathrooms on airplanes…They’re red with a black-shadowed airplane picture. The bathroom has a little seat fold-down. I fold that up and there’s a sign in the middle of it saying, “Don’t throw trash here.” And I put my two little stickers behind it, so the stewardesses won’t notice it right away. If they notice it right away they might realize that somebody put that there. But after a while, if they slowly get used to it, they’ll stay on for years…
Hahaha. Go Steve.
RSS to JSON Convertor
Very cool little script for converting an RSS (or Atom) feed into a valid JSON object. Check it out here