Malware Site Lures Potential Victims Through TV Shows Downloads

This is nothing new, but they are still trying hard. Malware sites are luring potential victims by pretending to offer TV shows streams or downloads. South Park is set to premier its Season 13 tonight, and some sites are offering the episodes online even before it airs. Well, those sites are linking to another sites pretending to be your own Windows XP Desktop and telling you that you have been infected.

I discovered the linking site through a back-track on WordPress dashboard. It is pretty easy to spot if a site is legitimate or not. In the past, many malware “suppliers” had been opening tons of WordPress accounts to posts malicious links disguised as video links.

I guess I’ll be hunting down those malicious WordPress blogs again.

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iTunes 8.1 Release Is Imminent

UPDATED

Apple is planning to release iTunes 8.1 on as early as Wednesday March 11th, 2009.

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In addition to that Apple has released iPhone Remote.app 1.2 that adds bug fixes and compatibility with iTunes 8.1.

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iTunes 8.1 is available for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) and Windows (XP and Vista).

Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta

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Apple releases Safari 4 Public Beta today. It is available for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) and Windows (XP and Vista).

Safari 4 Public Beta includes Nitro engine and slew of new features such as Top Sites, Full History Search, Cover Flow, and Tabs on Top.

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Check out the new Safari Welcome Page (Safari 4 Public Beta or the latest WebKit is required to make this page work.)

Get it from http://www.apple.com/safari/

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WebKit, the Open Source counterpart of Safari is available from WebKit.org.

About iPhone Carrier Update

Apple pushes “iPhone Carrier Update” through iTunes sometimes late Friday Night, Feb 06th 2009.

What is it? TUAW talks about it a little bit.

This is what’s inside the “iPhone Carrier Update” for AT&T network (ATT_US.ipcc 32KB)

From carrier.strings

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The content corresponds with Carrier Services settings in the iPhone.

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Content of carrier.plist

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Some un-viewable PNG are also included.

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