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  • Samsung Wave shipping with infected microSD card (confirmed, limited to first run)

    Samsung Wave shipping with infected microSD card (confirmed, limited to first run)

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Did you get a Samsung Wave today, or perhaps early last week? You might not want to connect it to your computer, just in case. We're hearing anecdotal reports that the 1GB microSD card shipped with certain German units includes a nasty surprise: it automatically installs the trojan Win32/Heur using the file "slmvsrv.exe." While we're not sure exactly what the virus does or if it's widespread, there's no point in finding out the hard way, right? Install a good antivirus program and then format that sucker, or better yet, simply drop in a larger microSDHC card. Don't forget this thing plays DivX HD, people -- you're going to need more than a single gigabyte of storage.

    Update: Samsung HQ got in touch with MobileBurn to confirm the existence of the virus in shipping S8500 Wave handsets, but said that the outbreak was confined to the German market's initial production run and all other shipments are A-OK. Still, there's no harm in disabling autorun before connecting one to your PC, eh?

    Samsung Wave shipping with infected microSD card (confirmed, limited to first run) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Where were you when the ILOVEYOU virus was all the rage?

    Where were you when the ILOVEYOU virus was all the rage?

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    It was 10 years ago that FC Bayern Munich beat Valencia CF for the UEFA Champions League. (Incidentally, FC Bayern Munich may win again this year when it plays FC Internationale on May 22, but my money's on Inter; the bookies agree) Also 10 years ago: the Lovebug virus wreaked havoc on the Internet. Where were you during this trying time?

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  • Computer virus mucks up Russia-China border crossing

    Computer virus mucks up Russia-China border crossing

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    This isn't the best time to be a traveler. Europe is still fighting plumes of volcanic ash—FC Barcelona had to take a bus from Barcelona to Milan for tomorrow's game against Inter!—and now there's word that a computer virus has wrecked a Russia-China border crossing. Some 2,000 Russians visiting the Chinese city of Heihe found themselves stranded when the computer virus totally wrecked everything.

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  • Japanese P2P virus catches you downloading porn, demands money to clear your name

    Japanese P2P virus catches you downloading porn, demands money to clear your name

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a pretty hilarious computer virus causing a bit of havoc in Japan right now. It affects users of the P2P program Winny (sorta like a Japanese version of Freenet, so says mighty Wikipedia), users who were looking for a strain of pornography known as hentai. I wouldn't recommend googling that word while at work, or while in the presence of other human beings unless you're prepared for a laugh followed by, "Um, what?"

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  • Energizer battery charger contains a trojan

    Energizer battery charger contains a trojan

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Wha? Apparently the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a bit of malware, Arucer.dll, which allows remote system access on port 7777. CERT warns:
    An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs. The backdoor operates with the privileges of the logged-on user.

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  • First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

    First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

    Posted on November 8, 2009 | No Comments

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    We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of "alpine," and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. Sophos says it hasn't confirmed any infections outside of Oz, and to be clear, this worm can't get to stock iPhones or jailbreak owners who haven't installed SSH -- but if you're running a hacked phone we'd say you should change that root password just to be safe right away. Get to it, kids.

    [Via PMP Today; thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Microsoft’s new security policy: lawsuits

    Microsoft’s new security policy: lawsuits

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    The word for the day is "malvertising". It's a linguistic mashup that means "malicious advertising". Not deceptive, or antagonistic, but actually harmful. You know, the kind of online advertising that delivers a virus payload that jacks up your sister-in-law's computer and then she calls you and you have to try to troubleshoot it over the phone and she doesn't listen and just keeps clicking that damned mouse -- you can totally hear her clicking clicking clicking -- while you're trying to be methodical and solve the damned problem. You know, that kind of advertising. Well Microsoft has had enough, and they're finally going to do something about it! They're filing lawsuits against malvertisers! Thank the maker!

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