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Sony PSP Hardware Completed
An anonymous reader writes "Sony CEO Ken Kutaragi has today announced that Sony has finished work on the Playstation Portable hardware, and the handheld is scheduled to be released later this year. No details have emerged on the pricing of the PSP, but Kutaragi stated that plans for movies on the UMD - the disc format the PSP will use , are now in the final stages."
One provision of the Can-Spam Act passed late in 2003 requires commercial e-mails to contain opt-out links which are supposed to ensure that you do not receive future unwanted junk from the sender. (We all know how well that works.) In a somewhat unsettling development, a new malware exploit is out in the wild that uses the opt-out link as a way into unpatched systems.
According to Alex Shipp of security firm MessageLabs, clicking on the opt-out link in certain e-mails will forward the user to a website presumably set up by the authors of the e-mail bugaboo. Unpatched Internet Explorer users who scroll down to the bottom of the page looking for the unsubscribe link will instead be hit with the drag-and-drop exploit described in this Microsoft Security Bulletin. Shipp went on to say that the page had a counter on the bottom that was approaching 60,000.
Once the machine is infected, it can be used for the usual nefarious purposes, such as serving pop-up windows or as a spam relay. Those behind the exploit can then download additional malware to the infected PCs such as keyloggers.
Given the creativity of malware writers, it is actually somewhat surprising that it has taken this long for an opt-out exploit to surface. The particularly troublesome aspect of this bug is that it takes advantage of "correct" behavior by those who are hoping to cut down on the flow of spam into their inboxes. Obviously, the best solution is to delete any spam that reaches your inbox without opening or reading it. And its only those IE users who have not stayed up-to-date on their patches that will be affected by this particular flaw.
WTF?!?! Wrong discussion buddy, we already had that one hours ago...