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Buzz Kills

Well, my friends, much like the Indian curry at your last office holiday party, another year has passed. Yep. Another year of joys and sorrows. Achievements and failures. Lifelong dreams and The Last Airbender.

Today is a day to spend in thoughtful introspection, evaluation, and redundancy.

Or you could just drink a lot.

"Woo hooo! So long, 2010, sucka!! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!"

"2011 is gonna be sooo much better!"

See? They put the ribbon on the cake instead of beside it.

So grab your margaritas,

I mean, maracas.

Pop open a bottle of bubbly,

AKA yet another use for the guitar-shaped cake pan.

And ring in the new year with a honey baked ham!

No? This isn't a ham? I was told there would be ham.

Well, take it easy tonight, guys. Have fun, be safe, roast a ham, and we'll see you after the fiesta!

"Fiesta" is Spanish for "mushroom cloud," right?

Thanks to Cabel, Michelle M., Elisabeth B., C.C., Lana, Laux, & Stephanie M., who think that The Last Airbender was a vastly under appreciated gem of the film world.

BWAHAHAHAAA!!!

Just kidding.

Fragrance suffering?

Jennifer Aniston - fragrance suffering?

Is Jennifer Aniston
’s fragrance suffering?

Apparently Jennifer Aniston’s movies aren’t the only thing that is bombing for the actress – her fragrance seems to be struggling as well.

According to E! Online, sales for Aniston’s signature scent, originally called “Lolavie” but released simply as “Jennifer Aniston,” are down since the fragrance’s launch in London this past summer. The cause? Reportedly Aniston hasn’t done much to support sales of the fragrance.


However, Jennifer Aniston reps have shot all this down. Her rep claims that she has done well in promoting it and the fragrance is selling. The U.S. launch of the fragrance will reportedly happen in the next year.

Meanwhile, Rupert Everett Slams Jennifer Aniston.
Rupert Everett has slammed the continued success of Jennifer Aniston. During an interview with BBC Radio, the actor said “If you look and analyze the careers of many, many stars, you’ll find that they’re mostly sustained by the business,” and pointed to the ‘Friends’ star. Everett also said that he thinks when Hollywood businessmen decide someone’s right for the film industry, “they’ll stand with them for quite a long time,” USmagazine.com is reporting.

Everett said: "Ok, something will go wrong. Like Jennifer Aniston will just have one too many total flops. But she's still a member of that club. "And she will still manage to, like a star forming in the universe, a whole lot of things swirling around and suddenly solidifying into another vital tasteless RomCom - a little glitter next to the Crab Nebula."

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mmmmmhhhhmmm Must be bloody jealous. Jennifer Aniston, shes an amazing actress, i love all her films!!

New botnet rolling out

A post today at Shadowserver gives a heads-up on what might be the next version of Storm.

GFI Malware Minute weekly video feature

The GFI Malware Minute video is available for your viewing pleasure on the GFI Sunbelt Software YouTube channel (and below).

Malware Minutes are short videos (1-2 minutes) that provide a weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Labs Blog, the GFI Rogue Blog and anything else we find that might be of interest.

This holiday season the operators who distribute  rogue security products were busy. We found ProtectShield2010, SpywareProtection, Personal Internet Security 2011, HDDLow,
Scanner and DiskRepair. Those are in the FakeSmoke, FakeRean, FakeVimes and FakeSysDef families.

Alex Eckelberry blogged about a spam email that appeared to be phishing for iTunes store passwords, but actually downloaded malicious scripts. Chris Boyd, our man in the UK,, wrapped up the year with a review of the high, or low, spots of malicious gaming schemes in 2010.



Tom Kelchner

A year in security: the 2010 edition

Hey look, it’s a “this is what happened this year” post. Don’t worry, I won’t be making any security predictions (because unless I'm Nostradamus I can’t tell you what’s going to happen next week, never mind in six months time) and there won’t be any flying car jokes either.

With that out of the way, let’s see some of the antics that took place and caught my eye in 2010…

January: Getting the year off to a flying start, the ukfi.gov.uk website was defaced by an Albanian hacking crew who rather enjoyed making your browser fly across the desktop while pumping out bad rap music from your speakers. .gov websites are always a prime target for individuals looking to make a statement about something, even if said statement is just usually “lol haxed”.



It’s quite a stylish defacement, I suppose.

February: The Register explored the weird and wonderful world of XBox hacking, something I’ve spent a fair amount of time poking with a stick (don’t worry, I have three lives and a continue left). We also had scareware scammers taking advantage of killer whale attacks and the trusted name of VirusTotal with various fake websites and dodgy forum posts galore. There was also a fake FBI fingerprint scanner which was designed to infect the curious. As I said at the time, question the legitimacy of any fingerprint scanner that accepts pictures of dancing bananas.

Elsewhere, the UK Conservative Party suffered a number of defacements encouraging people to vote for the Labour Party. World of Warcraft authenticators also came under attack, placing budding Leeroy Jenkins fans everywhere at risk.

At least he has chicken.

March: Continuing the whole “gamers in peril” theme, phony Playstation emulators popped up on a couple of websites that infected your computer with Trojans.


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Some infected users reported Fake AV popping up after install, which doesn’t surprise me too much. I also rang the bell and yelled “Unclean! Unclean!” in an SC Magazine interview dealing with celebrity deaths and Internet shenanigans.

We also had Toolbars doing their best impression of the Elvis 68 comeback special and reminding us they can still give us a run for their money with built in phish pages.


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Mock toolbars at your peril, or something. Phishers also compromised the website of The Big Issue, directing users to fake Paypal pages. There’s low, and then there’s “more low”.

April: Oh look, iPad spam on Twitter. We’d see sporadic outbreaks of “pimping stuff” on Twitter throughout the year, and the iPad was always going to be an attractive target for both scammers and victims alike. We also had Zango installers lurking on Download.com, a website belonging to a Matrix actor hacked (he was one of the shouty guys, in case you were wondering) and a big defacement on The Telegraph website which was caused by comments made on the popular TV show Top Gear. There was also a phishing education test which was, er, blocked for phishing. As good a way as any to wrap up April, methinks.

May: Everything went a little crazy in May when I uncovered a simple (yet effective) DIY Botnet creation kit for Twitter.



Told you it was simple. As with any Twitter based Botnet, the commands have to come from a public account which means it’s relatively easy to detect accounts sending commands to Bots. As a sidenote, I did find it rather humorous when a random pr firm working for a security company I’d never heard of sent me a press release proclaiming that “A DIY Twitter Botnet creation kit has been discovered”.

Thanks for the heads up! I guess…

We also saw that Facebook users will happily cut and paste Javascript code into their browsers (no really) if asked to do so by dodgy looking websites. The old “cut and paste” method remains a constant thorn in the side of Facebook, and I doubt it’ll be going away anytime soon. Scribd put in an appearance due to over 4,500 logins being posted to a document on the site.


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June: Doctor Who became a target not once but twice in the month of June, due to a combination of the series ending and the new Doctor Who game being launched. TV shows in general are great low hanging fruit for scammers, who throw together websites promising online episodes before dumping you on surveys, more surveys and…er…surveys.


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The game thing was interesting – people in the UK pay a licence fee to get some BBC related action, but with the game being a Worldwide release anyone outside of the UK had to pay a small fee to obtain the game. Of course, people weren’t too happy about this and before long cracked versions started popping up online. Some of them contained nasty surprises.

There was even a version of the game uploaded to a site that required users in the UK to pay £10 plus network rates to download what would have been free for those users anyway.

Whoops.

Videogamers became targets yet again, as Fake AV peddlers poisoned search results related to treasure maps in Red Dead Redemption.





Taking a peek into Facebook land, we had fake “your account has been deactivated” emails doing the rounds which took users to phish pages and denied them access to games about cows. Bit of an odd month, really.

July: Special Zynga gifts ahoy! Also: here comes a phish. Elsewhere, we had some Justin Bieber chaos with Youtube being affected by an XSS flaw leading to overlays, scrolling text, porn redirects and – of course – a bunch of stupid surveys.

Everyone hates surveys, right? They were particularly popular when Toy Story 3 launched, with scammers setting up – what else? – fake “watch the movie” websites that pop surveys asking for personal info galore.


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Selecting a kids movie then plastering it with popups asking for info that someone aged 18+ would normally be required to fill in seems all kinds of wrong, but there you go.

September: I love an oddball story, and this one was right up at the top of the oddball pile. A Greasemonkey script claiming to let users “bypass surveys” sounded fine and dandy, until you tried to download it. In order to grab it, you had to fill in a survey which is a vaguely spectacular way to go about things.



There were also websites claiming to offer a “Skype upgrade”, which of course would cost the user money to obtain. As someone in the comments notes, there are a lot of similar sites offering “updates” for Adobe products too. Steer clear of the lot of them. Games testers were promised all sorts of money, and shady websites popped up asking for lots of personal information for fake “tax rebates”. We also came across a haul of around 2,500+ logins dumped on a public facing website which appeared to be for Facebook.


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Back in videogame land, the launch of Halo Reach brought a collection of horrible scams along for the ride. Flaming helmet codes, fake programs and surveys were the order of the day.

October: things seemed to be a little quiet in October, although there was a fake Twitter login page promising “new features” and pictures of semi-naked ladies all over the place. It was actually a kit designed to convince end-users to run fake Java updates and install some malware on their PCs.


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Yeah, don’t go installing those things. We also had a truly awesome example of domain name confusion.

Oh, I also gave a bunch of talks (some planned, some along the lines of “Oi, get in here and join in”) at the truly excellent HacKid conference in Boston. Designed to teach kids about the joys of computers, technology and security stuff it was a rip-roaring success and I hope to see more of these next year.

Look! A flying drone thing!



November: The Bayrob Trojan rose from the grave to try and infect people with fake Kodak galleries. Bayrob is a clever EBay scam, which directs infected users to fake auctions in an attempt to take their money and run. Nasty stuff.


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We also had fake Trojan removal kits that – oh no! – installed Trojans, Facebook death videos and the excellent IRISSCON, which I was lucky enough to take part in.



No, I didn’t buy an Alan Wake coat. It just looks like one.

December: things tend to go a little quiet in December, because all the scammers are too busy having parties in castles and building gold plated yachts to spend time ripping us all off but a couple of interesting bits and pieces popped up regardless.

First off, some SEO poisoning courtesy of the findings at Mono Lake. There were also some of those Adobe scam sites, iTunes emails serving up exploits and a fake Amazon receipt generator designed to fool unwary sellers into sending out items to scammers.




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The gag here was in trying to convince a seller to take their “refunds” outside of the safety net that is the Amazon payment system, or just simply get them to send the scammer lots of free stuff. While I’d like to think people wouldn’t fall for this, there are plenty of horror stories in search engines related to sellers going outside the system and being burnt horribly.

Buyer beware! Uh, I mean seller.

Anyway, that just about wraps up this gigantic slab of War and Peace. Assuming anyone out there is still conscious I’d like to thank you for listening to me ramble on (and on) and for reading all of the blog posts / research put together by everybody on a daily basis.

Have a great (and safe) 2011, and I shall see you on the other side…

Christopher Boyd

Cake After People

What would happen if every baker on earth...[dramatic voice]...disappeared?

This isn't the story of how they might vanish. It's what happens to the cakes they leave behind. This is just part of the journey that will take us to the future of once active bakeries, as well as haunting sites already devoid of taste. Welcome to earth, population: zero.

1 year

after bakers


An abandoned ring and silk flowers bear mute witness to the echoing loneliness...of desolation.

10 years

after bakers

In the depths of bakery windows everywhere, dust gathers. Icing crumbles. With no workers here to clean, once-sweet treats become deadly harbingers of disease.

Sun-bleached displays now resemble so much worn, waxy marble, making it impossible to distinguish what once was a timeless tasty treat.


Uh. Lot of alliteration in this half of the script, huh?

Sound guy: Alliter what now?

Never mind.

100 years

after bakers

Geothermal flash floods bring with them river rock and debris. Amazingly, the petrified pastries persevere.

Seriously? "Petrified pastries persevere?" Who wrote this?

sound guy: I think it was the new guy; he had to finish up when Jerry took leave. Look, just go with it; we're on a roll.

[sigh] Fine.

In dank, darkened displays, filthy, festering folds of fondant mask the moldering malformed mess, made more malignantly misshapen in much...

[throwing script down] Oh come on!!

sound guy: What?

I'm ad-libbing from here. Deal with it.

sound guy: Ok, but you're telling Jerry.

Fine. Let's wrap this up.

10,000 years

after bakers

Yeeeeee-haw!

Come and get it!!


sound guy: Seriously?

Seriously.

Hey Carly T., Tom H., & Clair W., did you know that all these displays are for bakeries still open for business? Seriously.

On the Street....Broome St., New York

On the Street....Broome St., New York

Tommy Hilfiger Bags

Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and founder of the brand Tommy Hilfiger.
Hilfiger was born and raised in Elmira, New York. The second of nine children, he grew up in an Irish-American family; he claims direct descent from Scottish poet Robert Burns. His parents originally intended for him to be an engineer. He attended Elmira Free Academy for high school. Rather than furthering his education, he started to work in retail at the age of 18. Hilfiger would go to New York City to buy jeans and bell-bottom pants, which he customized and resold at a local downtown Elmira store, Brown's.
He later opened his own store, named The People's Place, around the block in downtown Elmira. Although the store was a hot spot for teens with frequent contests and live DJ appearances, there were often more people hanging out than shopping. Over the years, a number of stores closed in downtown Elmira as shopping traffic shifted to the new Arnot Mall in Horseheads, New York. It wasn't long before The People's Place became another casualty. After seven years, The People's Place went bankrupt, when Hilfiger was 25. The site of the original store has since been demolished to make room for First Arena, home of the Elmira Jackals Hockey team.

Tommy Hilfiger Corporation is an American company which is incorporated in Hong Kong.
A Tommy Hilfiger shop In 1989, a Hong Kong businessman Silas Chou acquired Tommy Hilfiger Corporation via Sportswear Holdings Limited, along with his partner Lawrence Stroll. Chou served as Chairman and then Co-Chairman from 1989 to 2002. In 1992, The Corporation listed in New York Stock Exchange. Later Chou sold the company, and in 2006 de-listed and privatization to Apax Partners. Phillips-Van Heusen bought the company in 2010.
Currently the company licensed the brand to it OEM company though its subsidiary Tommy Hilfiger Licensing LLC, which based in New Jersey. The Licensing owned the rights of the logo. Currently The Corporation also own Tommy Hilfiger USA and Tommy Hilfiger Europe B.V.

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