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May 23, 2004
Audacity: Open Source Audio Editor
This is one of the best damn audio editors I have yet used. It supports VST Plugins via Audacity VST Enabler and edits audio files seamlessly in non-destructive fashion. It's free, runs on Windows, MAC OSX and Linux.
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May 21, 2004
JSR-170 Content Repository for Java Technology API Public Review
The public review has become available for JSR-170. This draft is available for Public Review as per Section 3.2 of the Java Community ProcessSM Program. Close of Public Review: 19 July 2004.
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May 18, 2004
Kibuv Worm, Bobax Trojan Hit the Net
This looks pretty nasty. TCP port 420 what are these guys smoking?
Security experts are tracking two new threats that have emerged in the past few days, including a worm that uses seven mechanisms to spread itself.
The worm is known as Kibuv, and researchers first noticed its presence Friday. Kibuv affects all versions of Windows from 98 through Windows Server 2003 and attempts to spread through a variety of methods, including exploiting five Windows vulnerabilities and connecting to the FTP server installed by the Sasser worms.
Once it's installed on a PC, Kibuv starts its own FTP server that can be used to distribute copies of the worm. It also connects to a remote IRC chat server and listens for commands, according to an analysis done by Symantec Corp. Kibuv also listens on TCP port 420 for commands.
The worm has not spread too widely as of yet, but with its variety of infection methods, experts say the potential exists for it to infect a large number of machines.
The second piece of malware that has surfaced is a Trojan that is capable of spreading semi-automatically. Known as Bobax, the Trojan can only infect machines running Windows XP and seems to exist solely for the purpose of sending out large amounts of spam, according to an analysis by LURHQ Corp., a managed security services provider.
The Trojan is dropped onto target systems via a file named Svc.exe, which then extracts a DLL and places it in the process space of Explorer.exe. Once executed, Bobax copies itself to the Windows system folder and creates two registry keys.
The Trojan then tries to connect to four Web sites, and if it gets a connection, it looks for one of four specific commands from the remote Web server.
The server, apparently controlled by the Trojan's creator, can instruct the program to download and run another program, scan and infect other machines, stop scanning or send spam from a preloaded e-mail template and address list.
The interesting thing about this command sequence is that it enables the Trojan's creator to send spam from remote machines without having to connect to the PCs to send each separate piece of e-mail.
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May 15, 2004
Port 137 netbios-ns
NetBIOS name service (UDP)
firewalls: Firewall administrators will frequently see large numbers of incoming packets to port 137. This is due to the behavior of Windows servers that use NetBIOS (as well as DNS) to resolve IP addresses to names using the "gethostbyaddr()" function. As users behind the firewalls surf Windows-based web sites, those servers will frequently respond with NetBIOS lookups.
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May 07, 2004
Pizza Party: a software package for ordering pizza
Ok, this is too cool, a PERL script to order a pizza.
Pizza Party is a free text based software package for ordering pizza, or for throwing pizza parties.
Pizza Party has many features to make ordering pizza easy:
* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and "pepperoni"!
* Unattended / background operation.
* Pizza Party is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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