JetBlue's Clever Virus
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Clever e-mail virus
Clever e-mail virus
03/06/2004 02:08 AMI received this e-mail today, with an attached file called
"Readme.pif". Dear user, the management of Bergersen.net mailing
system wants to let you know that,...
JetBlue's Flight Plan
JetBlue's Flight Plan
06/10/2004 02:30 PMJetBlue may have a significant long-term advantage in its
fuel-efficient strategy.
Clever
Clever
05/27/2004 12:36 PMI have a lot of ideas. Maybe a handful are good ones. Once in a
great while I might have a clever idea, but I'm constantly impressed
by people that can truly be creative. To take a problem thousands of
years old, turn it on its head and solve it with a new clever idea is
something to behold.
These two ideas
are just about the most clever things I've ever seen.
How clever
How clever
06/23/2004 03:49 PMA clever URL hijack
A clever URL hijack
08/04/2004 08:26 PMWading through the comments on Microsoft's IE blog I discovered a
clever URL hijack. The domain http://www.trustworthycomputing.com
resolves straight to a Google search: "microsoft security OR privacy
flaw OR flaws OR hole OR holes". Trustworthy Computing is the wrapper
around...
Too clever by half
Too clever by half
04/09/2004 04:10 PMOn the one hand, I do appreciate that my ISP does security scans,
presumably checking for vulnerable and compromised machines on its
part of the network. Yay them. On the other, I really wish they
wouldn't do this from their nameserver machines. Having all the
machines in your resolv.conf black-holed for security violations makes
life somewhat less fun than one might otherwise like......
Clever Vendor Trick No. 17
Clever Vendor Trick No. 17
04/09/2004 11:43 PMShark Tank: This software company has just sold its very pricey
software to a bank, and as tech pilot fish heads out to install it,
his boss reminds him, "Try to distract them when you load the software
off the two floppy disks." ...
Gorilla no think of clever title
Gorilla no think of clever title
08/09/2004 07:59 AM
Koko goes to the dentist
About a month ago, Koko, a 300-plus-pound ape who became famous
for mastering more than 1,000 signs, began telling her handlers... she
was in pain. They quickly constructed a pain chart, offering Koko a
scale from one to 10. When Koko started pointing to nine or 10 too
often, a dental appointment was made. (There's a rather funny
development at the very bottom of the story)
Google IPO: Too Clever by Half
Google IPO: Too Clever by Half
08/18/2004 06:58 AMTheStreet.com Aug 18 2004 11:37AM GMT
this clever send-up of boingboing
this clever send-up of boingboing
04/02/2005 05:11 AMBoringBoring
hanasiana.com/boringboring
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Accredo's Clever Strategy
Accredo's Clever Strategy
07/07/2004 11:33 AMAccredo's acquisitions have been successful, but is this strategy the
best way to grow?
La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy
La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy
06/24/2004 01:05 PMThings may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will
right the ship.
El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever
El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever
02/13/2004 10:38 AMLetters Part I - devoted to the point of dotGNU
Devilishly clever comment spam
Devilishly clever comment spam
02/10/2004 02:56 AMGo to pystl dot org. Looks like your standard open source Wiki, in
this case for the Python St. Louis user group, doesn't it? If someone
left a comment with that as the url, it would seem pretty innocuous,
even if the comment was a little random and unfocused, wouldn't it?
But check out the links at the top of the page. All for commercial
products that have nothing to do with Python. One almost has to
respect the artistry of the scam and the degree to which they have
studied bloggers, and know our prejudices. It is amazing the lengths
that people will go to get a few links to their site. I guess somebody
must buy their trash. I said almost respect them. It is still comment
spam, so into the trash bin it goes. But the spammers get points for
effort on this one....
How to shield your network from clever
hackers
How to shield your network from clever
hackers
07/23/2004 09:55 PMMicrosoft Jul 24 2004 1:41AM GMT
Those clever devils at Customized
Classics
Those clever devils at Customized
Classics
12/10/2003 04:20 PMWhen I first saw Customized
Classics a few weeks ago I felt like kicking myself. It's hard for
most people to understand what "public domain" really means, and what
value it can give us as a culture, and directly as capitalists and
entrepreneurs.
Project Gutenberg has recently
uploaded their 10,000th public domain book, and Brewster and the gang are working
on the "million book project". To demonstrate the potential of the
public domain, and show people what movies, music, and stories used to
be like when there was an active public domain (that at one time was
only 14 to 28 years old -- imagine making new movies and music from
60s stuff totally free of copyright), I've been kicking around ideas
of how to exploit these free works (again, for demonstration purposes
more than anything else).
One idea I called "judge a book by its cover." Take these public
domain classics, create exciting, artistic cover designs (perhaps by
famous designers), and sell them via the new crop of print-on-demand services. A few months ago there was
news of Oprah's book club coming back to life and only selecting
classics from the public domain, and how publishers would have to rush
to meet the demands, but how anyone could print them up.
I've been coming up with other ideas but nothing is as good as customized
classics. They just do a search-and-replace on names of your
choosing, and spit out a custom book to you for 25 bucks or so.
Brilliant and simple.
Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal
Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal
09/24/2004 06:29 PMEmploying some crude editing techniques, Matt Drudge today tried to
convey the impression that one of Sen. John Kerry's staunchest
defenders was backing off his praise for Kerry's war service. The
misinformation attempt forced historian Douglas Brinkley to clarify
his statement of full support for Kerry.
IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs
IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs
03/08/2004 11:17 PMthe name's bad, but the idea of wrapping up all these fixes in a
behavior is extremely clever
Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution
Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution
01/06/2004 12:57 AMIt's the late 1980s, and this Cobol programmer pilot fish gets a new
assignment: Write a program that can slice and dice mainframe security
information. But that's not exactly a job for Cobol.
Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP
Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP
07/07/2004 11:04 AMclever solution for filtering your kid's
mail
clever solution for filtering your kid's
mail
02/10/2004 02:56 AMi have to agree, there's a huge market for a category-killer app here
"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines"
"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines"
04/19/2005 08:36 AMWiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book
Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book
07/23/2004 11:21 AMLetters It's a Children's Encyclopedia
Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail
Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail
11/03/2003 02:36 PMLos Angeles Times Nov 3 2003 1:48PM ET
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever
12/24/2003 12:13 PMBoston Globe Dec 24 2003 10:01AM ET
GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time
GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time
12/24/2003 05:59 PMAP via Daily Press Dec 24 2003 5:40PM ET
Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces
Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces
03/19/2005 03:03 AMMark Frauenfelder:
In my latest piece for TheFeature, I wrote about way researchers are
using zooming tricks to make web sites easier to use on mobile phones.
[Patrick] Baudisch's solution to this problem is called
"summary thumbnails," which he developed in collaboration with Heidi
Lam at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It is
a mobile browser that renders pages as thumbnails, but keeps the text
large enough to read. It achieves this by displaying readable text
fragments. For example, a CNN.com headline that reads "Chimpanzee
Attacks Supermodel at Circus" might be shortened to "Chimpanzee
Attacks." All the other headlines and story summaries on the page get
the same treatment. There's no artificial intelligence at work here --
it's simple truncation. But it's surprisingly effective. Baudisch and
Lam conducted a user study and discovered that users found what they
were looking for in web pages 41% faster and at a 71% lower error rate
than they did when they looked for the same content on browsers that
rendered pages as single columns, and that they zoomed 59% less than
when they used ordinary thumbnail rendering browsers.
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Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue
Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue
05/31/2004 02:11 PMAny auto mechanic who has used a creeper knows the frustration of
rolling into a stray nut or bolt; it's like an unforseen panic
stop.Inventor Bob Butler knows all about that problem..... [PRWEB May
24, 2004]
Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody?
Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody?
08/13/2004 06:00 PMNader has fired
back
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58007-2004Aug11.html
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Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas
Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas
12/18/2003 05:46 AMBBC Dec 18 2003 4:53AM ET
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
11/05/2003 10:59 AMWhat do you if you're in an unchartered area with no reasonable law
enforcement, and criminals are running rampant? You convince everyone
to become the "enforcement" arm and find someone rich enough to pay
them to help fight crime. Microsoft can't be bothered to fix a few of
the holes in their programs that make it incredibly easy to pass on
viruses, so instead, they're
setting aside $5 million for anti-virus bounty hunters who can
track down anyone responsible for worms, trojan horses or viruses.
The rewards will be given out in $250,000
wads of cash from
Bill Gates wallet increments. So, now, who's going to round
up an anti-virus posse?
Update Memo: Google's Gmail Goes
Semi-Public via Clever Viral Marketing
Update Memo: Google's Gmail Goes
Semi-Public via Clever Viral Marketing
06/09/2004 07:01 PMMarketing Sherpa Jun 9 2004 11:07PM GMT
Computer Virus Like Human Virus
Computer Virus Like Human Virus
05/25/2004 11:41 PMXposed May 26 2004 3:45AM GMT
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
08/12/2004 02:51 AMSpam Inspector Software Developers Working to Stay Ahead of Bagle to
Keep Users Protected [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr
Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr
07/06/2004 01:45 AM .. flickr beta ..
Flickr
flickr.com
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Virus, virus everywhere, so let me have
a Mac
Virus, virus everywhere, so let me have
a Mac
04/02/2005 04:03 PMFor a week that saw no product releases, news or comment from
Cupertino, the Spymac forums certainly were buzzing with information:
Tiger seems to have reached gold master; Adobe accidentally posted
official details about the yet-to-be-released version of Photoshop;
NYC cops warned the city against iPod thefts.
Oh yeah, and that virus thing.
In case you missed it, allow me to recap. Earlier this week,
Henderson, Tenn.-based DVForge offered $25,0000 to anyone who could
create a virus that would spread between two Power Mac G5 computers
running Mac OS X Panther on or before July 31. The contest was barely
up and running, however, when DVForge rescinded the offer, apparently
out of fear of being sued by Apples increasingly trigger-happy legal
team.
While the inevitability of Mac viruses have always been a source of
discussions, DVForges challenge was squarely aimed at Symantec, who
made a few bold statements of its own in its recent Internet Security
Threat Report. "Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh operating
system has not always been a safe haven from malicious code," Symantec
said. "Out of the public eye for some time, it is now clear that the
Mac OS is increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity
that is more commonly associated with Microsoft and various Unix-based
operating systems," the report said.
It continued: "The various OS X vulnerabilities allow attackers to
carry out information disclosure, authentication bypass, code
execution, privilege escalation, and DoS attacks. Symantec believes
that as the popularity of Apples new platform continues to grow, so
too will the number of attacks directed at it."
Maybe its just me, but the possibility of something happening that
may or may not be harmful to sensitive data doesnt seem like cause
for alarm. Whats more, DVForges claims have likely brought more
attention to Symantecs assertions than the report itself.
But lets forget that. Let's pretend the report was required reading
for anyone who is considering purchasing a Mac.
Does it change anything? Do any of the millions of Windows users think
their computer is virus-free? And similarly, does any Mac user really
believe they are completely impenetrable to attack?
Its a silly notion. And, as it has been said time and time again,
most viruses start and end with the user, Dont open strange e-mail
attachments. Dont launch applications that arent downloaded from
reliable sites. Keep your machine updated with the latest patches.
Blah, blah, blah.
Besides, if Mac OS X is so perfect, why has Apples released so many
Security Updates in recent months?
But still, DVForge may be right. Perhaps none of the viruses in
todays cyberspace are nimble enough to squirrel their way into OS Xs
safeguards. Or, Symantec may be right.
I dont know. Im not a hacker. And Id like to think no one on
DVForges staff is either.
But I do know that I feel a heck of lot safer on a Mac than on a
Windows machine. And thats not going to change with a semi-annual
report.
I also know that Apple has never claimed its OS to be a virus-free
zone. But then again, I never experienced an infection on my IBM
laptop either.
In light of all this hoopla and attention, DVForge posted a new press
release on its Web site yesterday, with the following coda:
put up or shut up. Show the industry your evidence that such an
in-the-wild OS X virus is indeed possible. Or, publicly retract your
company's previously stated position.
And so it goes. If nothing else, you have to appreciate DVForges
overwhelming faith in Mac OS X. With the imminent release of Tiger,
Im sure this will all blow over (probably without an attack on
Panther), and Mac users will continue to go about their computing
without a second thought to what lurks beyond their browsers.
For any number of reasons, we choose to use Macs. And no report or
bounty can take that away.
Michael Simon is a freelance writer and editor, and paginator for The
Times in Pawtucket, R.I. He is the author of Failed Attempt, written
under the moniker of Morlium, which may be purchased for $9.99, either
through the iTunes Music Store or as a full-color paperback. He can
be reached for comment or inquiry by e-mail at morlium@mac.com.
"Mac OS X virus"
"Mac OS X virus"
04/09/2004 04:12 PMNew Virus Out
New Virus Out
05/01/2004 02:41 PMNew Virus, Yow
New Virus, Yow
01/26/2004 07:42 PMThis virus that’s going around trying to get you to click on a .PIF
because it’s partial or has non-ASCII in it or whatever, it’s
hitting my inbox harder than it’s ever been hit before. Maybe
we’re watching a record being set; the mind boggles at the thought
of the billions of these things that are swooshing around mailspace.
The stories say the virus-hounds haven’t figured out what it does
yet. Well, I can tell you one thing it does: mail itself to everyone
in your address book, faking a signature from someone else in your
address book. Er, maybe the world should stop using Outlook. Just a
suggestion.
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