Symantec is currently observing an increase in malicious applications that use USB flash drive devices as a propagation method. Just as a clarification for any of our readers that are not familiar with the term “USB flash drive,” a USB flash drive is typically a removable portable storage device that uses a USB (universal serial bus) port to interface to a computer. USB ports are part of most modern computers and they are designed to allow many peripherals to be easily connected (plug-and-play) to a computer through a standardized interface. These USB flash drive storage devices are very useful and are becoming fairly ubiquitous in the workplace.

The USB flash drive storage medium is designed to be portable, making it easy to connect to many computers in its lifetime. This, unfortunately, exposes the flash drive to the risk of infection. There are many malicious applications that propagate simply by making a copy of themselves on all drives that are attached to a computer. The portability of the USB device and its small form factor can also make it easy for attackers to plug it into computers that they have limited physical access to, potentially granting them remote access at a later time.

At the moment, there are two popular methods that malicious applications use to infect USB flash drives:

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In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G’s for use on different carriers, I donned my investigative hat and tested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work.

While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can’t wait. In this article, I’ll run you through a typical hardware unlock process, highlighting some of the quirks and a couple of awful potential drawbacks.

As some of this is arguably questionable, The Apple Blog must warn you that you’re doing this at your own risk. Seriously. In fact, one iPhone 3G was totally borked in the process of testing this — almost relegated to a desolate Apple graveyard; nevertheless, in the interest of finding out if we really could unlock the iPhone 3G, we persevered.

Again, The Apple Blog does not endorse your attempts at any of what follows, it could ruin your iPhone. Furthermore, this is not an official solution and as such, it is totally unsupported by Apple. That being said, let the fun begin.

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This howto describes step by step a method to install a SQUID 3 server as an Anonymous Proxy. An anonymous proxy is a tool that attempts to make activity on the Internet untraceable. It accesses the Internet on the user’s behalf, protecting personal information by hiding the source computer’s identifying information. Simply say to hide your IP.

The following How To sets up CentOS 5 as OS but it can be implemented on CentOS 4, Fedora Core 5-9 with same steps and SQUID version 3. By default SQUID only uses the default  IP to communicate on the Internet but we will make use of all IPs available on the server to act as an anonymous proxy, i.e., if a user connects to IP1 of server then IP1 will act as a proxy and forward the same IP, if a user connects to IP2 then IP2 will act as a proxy and foward the same IP and so on and also we will implement ncsa user based authentication to protect the server from unauthorized usage.

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AFORE Solutions unveiled its EtherPACK lossless data compression and EtherSECURE encryption technologies as part of its Accelerated Secure Ethernet suite of solutions. AFORE is partnering with networking equipment vendors to embed its advanced technology solutions into mobile base stations, microwave backhaul systems, broadband access devices and networking gateways.

"While Ethernet has become the technology of choice for service provider networks, the access and metro backhaul networks are still capacity constrained," said Jonathan Reeves AFORE’s Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. "EtherPACK enables service providers to dramatically increase the capacity of their backhaul networks while EtherSECURE ensures sensitive customer data is fully protected."

EtherPACK employs dedicated hardware engines to provide high throughput and very low latency measured in microseconds. EtherPACK enables any network protocol and application to be compressed while meeting network latency budgets and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Compression ratios up to, and exceeding, 10:1 have been achieved in live network deployments.

EtherSECURE provides hardware-based, low latency AES-256 encryption which can secure all traffic types at wirespeed on multiple gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The encryption process provides a high degree of flexibility supporting IP, Metro Ethernet & legacy wide area networks.

AFORE’s EtherPACK and EtherSECURE technologies improve the performance and security of Ethernet wide area networks while providing the low latency and protocol transparency required by sensitive traffic such as packetized voice and pseudowire applications. These capabilities are ideally suited to optimizing and securing 3G, WiMAX, LTE and DSLAM/GPON backhaul networks.

About AFORE Solutions:

AFORE is a leading provider of innovative technology to the networking industry. Our unique blend of custom development, InterPort(TM) technology, and system solutions enables network equipment providers and Enterprises to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced networking applications.

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In the first part of this series, you learned enough JavaScript and CSS to make an animated character move around your browser. In this article, I will explore some computer game techniques that will allow us to animate multiple sprites, as well as have them interact with each other.

If you’d like to experiment with this code at home, feel free to download the code archive for this article.

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