Monday, February 09, 2009

Monday News of Note

  • Second Mac Trojan Attacks Pirated PhotoShop CS4 - source PC Magazine:

    Security firm Intego said this week that it has discovered a second version of the Trojan hiding within a pirated version of iLife '09. The new variant is being distributed via BitTorrent within Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Mac.

    According to Intego, the new Trojan is named OSX.Trojan.iServices.B. The PhotoShop installer being distributed is clean, Intego said; however, the accompanying serial-number generator contains the Trojan. Read it all...

  • Want to try something hard? Try voice drawing - zeFrank Blog is working on a voice based drawing system that uses sounds to generate drawings. Check it out here.

  • Strange story -  Amtrak police arrest man for taking photos of trains for Amtrak photography contest. The Colbert Report ran this segment about the photographer Duane Kerzic who while taking photos for Amtrak’s annual 'Picture our Trains' photography contest, was arrested by Amtrak police for taking photos of their trains. Check it out.

  • The Unfinished Swan - Source Kottke.org 

  •   The Unfinished Swan is a maze game set in an entirely white world and you use a gun that shoots black paint balls to navigate your way around. Check out the demo video:

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