Security researchers claim they have found a hack to get confidential data from the iPhone.
By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals - but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.
Ajax Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
asTunes - Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
Codebox - Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
Crossroads - Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.
FireStats - Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
Google PageRank - Allows you to display your Google Page rank on your blog.
Hardened-Trackback - Generates a single use trackback to help fight trackback spam.
imgViewJX - Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.
Live Spell Checker - Adds a spell checker to the admin area to check your posts with.
Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map - Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.
Wordpress Mailing List - Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe simply from the front page of your site.
WP e-Commerce - Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
WP-Polls - Adds fully customizable polls for your readers to take.
Tavs Dokkedahl has written a small script that makes IE conform to the W3C DOM3 Event recommendation (at least the part that FF supports).
The Uniform Event Model adds support for the capture, atTarget and bubbling phases and provide most of the EventListener interface including among others the addEventListener, removeEventListener, createEvent, initEvent and dispactEvent methods. All handlers are passed an event object with almost complete information according to standards. See the list of features for detailed information on event flow, methods and properties.
Ever wonder how exactly your users are interacting with your site? Robot Replay is a Rails application what allows you to record user events as they interact with your site and then play them back later.
Just include some JavaScript in your site and events are compiled and set back to the server. Once the user is done with their session, you can play it back right in your own browser.
Bringing JavaScript server side raises some interesting possibilities for automated testing, screen scraping and Web application development. Check it out.
Andreas Kalsch has written a simple library, Protoload, that handles the Ajax loading events that are common place as a way to show users that something is happening on the server, in a particular location.
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.
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…
Jon Lech Johansen, aka “DVD Jon,” claims he has activated an iPhone without service through AT&T. Although the phone function doesn’t work, everything else does. Johansen says the purpose of this little exercise was for people that don’t wish to enter into a 2-year contract with AT&T and would rather just use the iPhone as a pimped out iPod.
