November 2010

CNN – Mashable: Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launched his much-buzzed-about social network, Jumo. Hughes, who left Facebook in 2007 to become the Obama campaign’s director of online organizing, soft-launched Jumo last March. At that time the site existed merely as a homepage featuring a rather intriguing survey box that asked the site visitor an array of questions from, “If you had a daughter tomorrow, which would you name her?” to “Would you say the world is getting better or worse?” ...

In continue from Days are still going on, but how?–Part3 After living 24 hours with that Holter during walking, sleeping, eating and weeing!!🤣 I come back to the hospital to get rid of it and get the result, the guy connected that device to computer and printed result, wow, 10 Pages result! I went to show result to Doctor and ask him to confirm my document, GRRRR, he is not here today, I’ve to come back tomorrow… ...

In continue from: Part 2 of ‘Life is going on But how?’ Next day and time to connect that Holter Monitor (Not for Heart rhythm, for Blood Pressure, a few different from what you might know). They got a lot of money (enough said!) and my ID Card until I return this device to them, now going back to home! Notice my left arm, it’s blowing air to that thing to take my Blood Pressure every 15 minutes, yeah I felt it ****ed my hand during this 24 hours! ...

In continue from: Part 1 of ‘Life is going on But how?’ Next day, I went to hospital again, I went for ‘Heart’, This damned doctor is not here again, so I went upper floor again asking for doctor for the ‘Thyroid’, Oh, That Doctor is in the room next to the doctor I met yesterday, again same secretary! Me: Hi again! He: Hi dear Kamran! Me: I’m not Kamran!! He: I Know! Me: So? He: What do you need? Me: I’m here for another problem, this time Thyroid He: Doctor will come 6:00PM Me: Oh, It’s just.. let me see… 1:00PM He: Well… Me: Ok, write my name in the list, at least to be first one meet him. He: Ok! try to come back sooner than 6:00 Me: I will be here! He: I Love You!! Me: (In my mind: sh*t!)⏳ I went out of Hospital, call my friend and told him I’m walking around the hospital until afternoon, he said he will come here, ummm it’s good, at least It will not be boring with him, he came and we went to the computer store near there to see what’s new in the market, it was about 4:00PM we back to Hospital, I saw secretary of doctor I needed for ‘heart’, I asked him about Doctor, he said hurry up, come on! Doctor came here for a few minutes, I ran to lower floor, Damn!, secretary sent me to pay, WTF!, This one is more than what I paid for Liver!! No problem..!! ...

About 6 months ago, I decide to go pass my military service, It’s a compulsory military service for every boy over 18 years old in my country. Well, a few months ago before that, I decide to try my chance to use my ‘illness’ prevent spending 18 months of my life in there, so I visited my doctor and he used some test, picture bla bla to prepare my Medical Documents, Thanks Doctor! ...

Mashable: Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks is reporting that it’s under a “mass distributed denial of service attack” just as its much-hyped leak of secret embassy cables has been leaked early on Twitter. According to a tweet from the website’s official Twitter account, WikiLeaks is experiencing a DDoS attack. The reported attackers are not yet known. Several reports state that the website has been experiencing intermittent downtime. We are currently attempting to verify that WikiLeaks is indeed under attack. ...

SophosLab: Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile. As we’ve described a couple of times before, plenty of Facebook users would *love* to know who has been checking them out online.. but unfortunately scammers are aware of this, and use the lure of such functionality as a way to trick you into making bad decisions. ...

Over the last few days, some news organizations have been saying that Stuxnet source code is available on the black market, and that clearly therefor there is an impending Internet Armageddon. This is patently silly, on a number of levels, but silly none-the-less. First thing is that I flat-out don’t believe Stuxnet source is available for sale on the black market or anywhere. Remember how often I say that if something sounds too good to be true, it’s not true? Well, the opposite applies too. If something sounds too bad to be true, it’s not true either. We really don’t know who built Stuxnet, or who the intended target was, be we may rest assured that whoever put that much work into it, isn’t selling it, at any price. It’s actually more probable that some no-honor-among-thieves bad guy is scamming fellow bad guys. “Sure, this is Stuxnet source code. Prove otherwise.” ...

Thomas Wegele, Virus Researcher from Avira wrote: In this month’s ITW malware set from the Wildlist organization two new variants of W32/Ramnit appeared. W32/Ramnit is a Worm spreading via infected executable files and infected HTML Files. It is a quite widespread malware – which is why we decided to dig deeper into it. Upon execution the malware creates a new file in the directory where it was started. This file is named “mgr.exe”. It then gets executed and creates a copy of itself in “C:%ProgramDir%\Microsoft\WaterMark.exe” which also gets executed after creation and in turn infects the EXE, DLL and HTML files found on the system and tries to connect to a server. ...

The Swedish Appeals Court upheld the conviction and jail sentences of three co-founders behind the infamous The Pirate Bay service. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom all received one-year jail sentences and $4.2 million in fines from a Swedish lower court earlier in the year. After the court ruling, Neij has been given a 10-month sentence, Sunde received an eight-month sentence, and Lundstrom was given a four-month sentence. A different defendant will be sentenced at a later date because he was unavailable due to illness. ...

Google Chrome has always supported multiple profiles, but you had to use a command-line flag (–user-data-dir=”c:\path\to\the\profile”) to associate a profile with a folder where the browser will save its state. At some point, Google added an option that allowed you to open a new window and use a separate profile, but it was quickly removed. According to a design document from Chromium’s site, this feature be available again. “The multiple profiles feature will allow the user to associate a profile with a specific set of browser windows, rather than with an entire running instance of Chrome. Allowing different windows to run as different Chrome identities means that a user can have different open windows associated with different Google accounts, and correspondingly different sets of preferences, apps, bookmarks, and so on — all those elements which are bound to a specific user’s identity.” ...

For those who missed this update on Nov 18: In the spirit of releasing early and releasing often – Mozilla bring you version 0.2 of Rainbow – an experimental Firefox add-on from Mozilla Labs that exposes audio and video recording capabilities to web pages. What’s new in this release? It now support both audio and video recording on Windows, and audio recording on Linux. They added preliminary support for writing multiplexed media frames to a websocket. JS callers are now able to specify custom video resolutions, encoding quality, audio sampling rates and channels. Numerous bug fixes, such as behaving correctly on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and generating correctly encoded OGG files (the audio tracks of which were previously unplayable by Firefox). For a full list of changes, check out their commit logs – or even better – contribute on Github! Also, don’t forget to read the README for additional information. ...

Mozilla announced Miramar Alpha 1, an early version of their next Thunderbird. Miramar Alpha 1, available here for download, is for testers, extension developers, and other friends who are curious to follow the development of the next release of Thunderbird. Miramar Alpha 1 is built on top of the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 2.0 and includes a new Addon Manager and over 190 platform fixes to improve performance and stability. We expect to release further interim releases as we work towards a major new release of Thunderbird. ...

That’s possibly the most unlikely headline I’ve ever had to write in my computer security career, but never mind.. My guess is that regular readers of the Naked Security site might not be ardent fans of Justin Bieber – but chances are that some of you have young daughters or nieces who can’t get enough of the pint-sized pop hamster. If that’s the case then they might be intrigued by a message that is spreading virally across the Facebook social network claiming to be footage of… and how can I put this delicately? I don’t think I can.. Justin Bieber with an erection. ...

Miley Cyrus is eighteen years old since yesterday. I don’t know if her father, legendary “Achy Breaky Heart” singer Billy Ray Cyrus, will be joining in her birthday celebrations, but I imagine he’ll be quietly wiping away a tear as his daughter finally becomes officially an adult (at least as far as the age of consent in her home state of Tennessee is concerned). The pop singer and Hannah Montana star has had her fair share of encounters with the world of cybercrime during her short life. ...