RDKsoftware and web development

Win32/Taterf is a password stealing worm that targets online gaming so the virtual property can be sold for real money. While it's been around since April, it surprised Microsoft when they first started detecting it in June.

The good part is that Microsoft and the AV gang caught a bunch of some malicious little critters. The bad part is the numbers. What's confusing and ugly to me is that people are willing to trade virtual assets for real ones.

There were three Drupal security announcements today (6-18-2008). All of them were either "highly critical" or "critical". All three were third-party modules and the core was not affected by any of them.

Five hours after Firefox 3 was released, DVlabs alerted the public to a vulnerability that an anonymous researcher reported to them.

There seems to be a lot of fear from the Mozilla fans and prophesizing from the rest. This has definitely got the zealots attention.

Despite all the smoke, there are only four things can be sure of as of this date and time:

The GPCODE.AK (also known as GPGCODE variation AK) is an improvement on a virus that the AV industry has been fighting for years. Now instead of a flawed 660 bit key, they are using a much more secure 1,024 bit RSA key and no flaws have been found yet.

Well, an improvement on an old virus and an old viral technique was going around early in June.

The GPCODE.AK virus is tries to hold computers for ransom by encrypting their whole disks and leaving a note saying they must pay $100 for files to be decrypted. Then if they don't tally-up the price goes to $200.

The itch that needs a scratch came from a computer club I belong to. It has a web site that is woefully out-of-date, difficult to navigate, and difficult to update. I decided to write a new site and this is an explanation what I did.

A new trend has lifted its ugly face these last few months with an attack against the EFA (Epilepsy Foundation of America) from a month ago (March 28th) and against blind surfers earlier this year.

We've all heard about laptops being stolen in the last few years, but this story is different. A woman's laptop was stolen in NY and she got it back in a very clever way.

Mozilla has released version 2.0.0.14 for TB and FF.
The attack against the epilepsy foundation causes seizures.
Vista service pack 1 and XP service pack 3 are both out again.
A laptop was stolen but cleverly recovered by its owner.