Played a couple of games during my “blogging absence”
- Battlefield 2
- F.E.A.R.
- Far Cry
- Gun
Here are my thoughts on each of them…
Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?
Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?
An anonymous read writes “SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It’s installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant’s “Get Right with the Man”. (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces several security holes into the system that could be exploited by others, such as hiding any executable file that starts with ‘$sys$’. Russinovich also identifies several programming bugs in the method it uses to hook system calls, and chronicles the painful steps he had to take to ‘exorcise the daemon’ from his system.” This house is clear.
via Slashdot
Friendly reminder for PhpBB users
Thanks to some BP Onliners‘ messages, I was able to make sure I backed up our site’s database just in case.
Apparently, our sister site Hangad‘s discussion board has been hacked. From the look of it, either of two things happened. It’s a HTML/CSS hack, or the an administrative (or super moderator) account was compromised. I would have to go with the former based on the source code I saw.
Webstuff
Here’s some webstuff for you. I would have to say Digg is a pretty good source for interesting news. Not necessarily new, or useful, but interesting nonetheless. After all, that’s the whole point of their social bookmarking approach – to see what people in general find interesting.
Anyways, just don’t be surprised that a lot of the things I post would be coming from the said site.
Half-life
Awww… looks like the site died. Now where will I get my morning laughs?
It’s actually a shame, since it really had the potential to be a “good” critic site. People will always have their opinions on the anonymity issue (or the sheer significance of a “rant” site, which is pretty much exactly what it was) – so I won’t even touch that with a 20-foot pole.