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WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000
tero1176 writes "Eweek has a story with information from Kaspersky showing that exploit code used in the WMF malware attack was being peddled on underground sites by rival Russian hacker groups for $4,000 in early December. The first sign of an exploit was traced back to the December 1, 2005, a full month before anti-virus vendors started noticing mysterious WMF files rigged with malicious executable code. It serves as more proof that the market for malware is well and truly alive."
I don't think that anyone cares about this. They're all reading about this story.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
As usual, Mac and Linux users are unaffected and wonder why everyone relies on such unreliable software. And the world turns...
"Sufferin' succotash."
I just came up with the word "guessvertisement".
No, I don't know either.
Sorry.
Billy Howerdel on piracy:
"What are your feelings on piracy, internet or otherwise?
Like anyone else that works hard on their art, I'm against it, as I would be against any kind of stealing."
Maynard Keenan on piracy:
"My music is not yours to give away."
From a 2001 interview linked in the Wikipedia article on Tool:
NYROCK:
There's a lot of talk about the Napster controversy. How do you view the new technology? After all, with Tool you were one of the less commercial bands in the music scene.
MAYNARD:
In a way, it does destroy the music scene, not just the record companies, even more the artists, the people who write the songs and who don't get paid. I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs.
"Sufferin' succotash."
... hello William Gibson.
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.