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You know how one minute you are stopped on the interstate in heavy morning traffic and the next minute you hear a loud BOOM followed by a crunching sound and you feel your car being pushed out of your lane into another innocent vehicle?
Well, consider yourself very fortunate because that happened to me yesterday and it was ZERO fun.
My first thought was, OH SHIT…am I OK? and the answer was yes, I think I am. Seatbelt on, air bag undeployed, my left leg was a little hurty but no blood had been shed. The next thought was, "OH SHIT, this just ruined my day."
After that, the thoughts kind of become a bit spinny.
I pulled my car to the shoulder. I called my husband. I wanted to call work, but I didn't know my new boss' extension. The word "shit" kept coming in and out of my thought process.
I got out of my car. My leg was a little more hurty. I pulled up my pant leg and saw a bruise. Bad sign since I am really slooooooow to bruise. I looked back and saw three other vehicles that were more smashed than mine — including the truck at the back of the line that started this chain reaction — and the lady driver behind me whose leg was bleeding. The dude behind her couldn't open his car door.
Surreal. Blurry. Weird. Left leg was inching its way up on the achy scale.
Cops were on the scene super fast. They got the trapped dude out of his car. EMTs tended to the lady's leg. They asked about me and I said I was bruised but otherwise OK that I was aware of.
One of the cops told me to get back in my car — glad to oblige — as I started dialing the main number for my new employer and kept getting the voicemail. Boss' number not in the directory. Co-workers? Not in the directory. SHIT.
As I mentioned, the slang term for fecal material was a recurring theme.
Police asked me for my licence, registration and insurance. Handed over all of it. Another cop told me to call Triple A if I had coverage. I did, so I called. While I was on the phone with AAA, the cop told me to tell the dispatcher that the most disabled car had to get towed first. Wait, what? Um, OK. I told the AAA agent and she paused and said, "Um, OK" in a way that bonded us in our confusion at that order.
I finally found the HR director from my new job in the phone directory got her voicemail and though I was tempted to say, "SHIT, someone wrecked my car this morning and I won't be in and can you tell my boss, please" I think I said something similar but more professional and polite. I think.
People were snapping photos of the wreck as they drove by. What the what? Who does that?
In my spinny, blurry thought process, it didn't occur to me to take photos of the damage to both ends of my car. My beloved Ford C-Max Hybrid (BTW, Ford, your marketing SUCKS since no one has ever heard of this make of car, including Triple A and the tow driver) was seriously damaged. Inside things were outside. Things were dangling. Things were shattered.
A cop told me to get back in my car. I got told that often. Sometimes I just needed air. Sometimes I liked the comfort of my car. Once I remember thinking this may be the last time I sit in this car that I was so thrilled to buy just a year ago.
All the while, the pain in my leg was increasing. A noticeable bulge was now protruding through my pants (and not in the way that would make a pervy dude proud.) I winced and whined a bit. I tried not to cry and for once, I succeeded. HOLD IT TOGETHER GIRL.
Cop in charge gave me back my registration with a report number and his name and badge number on it. He told me when my tow truck arrived I could go. I called my husband again, who was already in the area because he's kind of a hero that way, and asked him to meet me at the closest body shop.
By the time the tow truck came, it was difficult to put weight on my left leg. Pain came in waves, wincing turned to breathtaking, stabby kind of twinges. The driver helped me up into the tow truck. By then, I'm considering self-amputating my leg with my house key.
As the truck pulled away, a piece of my bumper fell off on the interstate. It apparently self-amputated, too.
Husband was waiting for me at the body shop. He handled everything while I sat in his Explorer to search my purse for something sharper than a house key. An emery board would never work.
He took me to an urgent care near our home. I slid off my pants and I had a purplish-blueish-whiteish baseball-size bump on my lower left leg, which from the knee down was roughly 50 percent bigger than the right leg. Insert crass synonym for CRAP here. The skinny-legged pants were not going back on.
Tylenol talked me down from my amputation plan.
An X-ray didn't show any fractures, just a really nasty hematoma. Right is a picture at the doc-in-the-box office, left is this morning.
Besides a prescription for Lortab, I was told to follow the RICE protocol (rest, ice, compression, elevation) for the the next few days. Advice I am happy to follow. I waddled out of the urgent car on crutches, pants stuffed in my purse, wearing a hospital gown with my backside exposed.
Can I get an amen for black granny panties that fit like tankini bottoms?
Did I mention Lortab? God's gift to the sore and achy and hurty people of the world.
Someone on social media suggested I wash my chemical romance down with a some wine. Hey, I love a good glass of wine as much as the next girl, but I'm not a fan of comas or death (looking at your Whitney Houston, Heath Ledger and Amy Winehouse) so I'll just pair water and/or cranberry juice (hold the vodka) with my dose of narcotics, thankyouverymuch.
Yeah, I'm sad about my car. But no one was seriously hurt (that I know of, anyway) and that's what's most important. And I have enjoyed two days of binge-watching HGTV, Food Network and Bravo between making endless phone calls to insurance companies.
Moral of the story:
- Always pay attention in heavy rush hour traffic.
- Always wear your seatbelt.
- Always do what the cop says, even if it's weird.
- Always follow doctor's orders.
- Always remember that cars can be fixed and replaced — people cannot.
- Always take Lortab with food and no booze.
- Always be thankful that long summer dresses can hide hematomas and swollen legs.


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Aluminum ladder chassis
Solid axle suspension
Rear double-axle drive mechanism
Metal coil shocks
Semi-pneumatic tires
Servo controlled, constant-mesh, 3-speed gearbox drive train
Bevel gear differential
Electric RS-540 Motor
Plastic wheels, radial tires
Styrene-plastic body (molded in White)
Chromed grill, bumper, fuel tanks, exhaust stacks and steps
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One unassembled Tamiya Knight Hauler Tractor Truck kit
One decal set
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Electronic Speed Control: Tamiya TEU302BK (TAMM3178) recommended, do
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Battery charger
Paint for body
Tools and cement
Length: 24.80in (630mm)
Width 7.32in (186mm)
Weight: 6.83lbs (3100g)
Low (1st) gear ratio: 1:32.49
Middle (2nd) gear ratio: 1:17.66
Top (3rd) gear ratio: 1:10.66
The Tamiya Multi Function Control Unit (TAMC6511) not included,
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trims such as the Futaba 4YF, FUTJ4061 - FUTJ4090.
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Now that we've officially turned the corner on Halloween, it's time to start thinking about holiday shopping. No, don't make that face, I'm being serious.
And if you're shopping for that special comic book aficionado in your life and not sure what to get them, why not consider a wallet? More precise, a Comic Wallet. Albert Doan, of Calgary, Canada, turns old (and some new) comic books and turns them into laminated, reinforced wallet, which he then sells on his site for about $20-$30 a pop. He's even got a series of Blackest Night wallets available, if you just can't get enough DC zombies. He also handles special requests, so if you've been anxiously craving to certain sequences from say, Faust, folded up and stuffed in your back pocket, now's your chance. Myself, I'm holding out for a Little Lulu set.
I have to say, that's really cool!
I was just given a Ben Grimm one (by a very special someone who ordered it for me)! It's nicely done and very unique!
Please tell me that they have one with Mary Jane Watson saying: ""Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot."
I bought one of the Uncle Scrooge wallets from Albert during his Twitter sale. I love it! It was a perfect match for me, as I'm a comic and Disney fan.
Highly recommend.
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Scouting report: Petteri Nokelainen
Newly acquired center Petteri Nokelainen has only played in 33 games this season because of injuries and healthy scratches.
And he probably won't make an impact with the Ducks right away, given that he's been out since Feb.10 with an eye injury. The only verdict on 23-year-old Finnish player is that he has the potential to be a third-line forward in the NHL.
"It's pretty clear we liked Nokelainen," Boston coach Claude Julien told the Boston Globe after Nokelainen was traded to the Ducks for Steve Montador.
"He had a lot of upside to him. He's still a young player. We forget that he came into the league at a real young age. We have a tendency to look at him more as a veteran. But he's still a young player that I think will only get better. We like him here. At the same time, to get something, we had to give up something."
Here is the scouting report on Nokelainen from The Hockey News:
ASSETS: Is a sound two-way center with playmaking skills. Kills penalties effectively and owns a very projectable frame. Has some offensive upside.
FLAWS: May be somewhat limited in the goal-scoring department at the NHL level. Needs to continue to hone his all-around skills, because he's somewhat raw.
CAREER POTENTIAL: Third line forward.
And, for what it's worth, here was USA Today's scouting report on Nokelainen during the 2004 NHL draft, when Nokelainen was chosen 16th overall:
"Skated deftly with intensity and good balance ... An all-around player with good size, and good vision of the ice ... Plays smart and strong. Can complete passes even in pressure situations ... Has fine instincts around the net and couples that with a dangerous wrist shot ... Can play well in all zones and in all scenarios - including power play and short-handed ... Great leadership skills despite being one of the youngest players in the Finnish senior league."
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- He has 155 previous convictions, mostly for stealing cars, and has a knowledge of car marques and specifications which few can match.
- Much of this has been concerned with the production of automobiles, and alongside a veritable library of antiquarian books about specific marques there are a handful of excellent scholarly histories of individual manufacturers.
Early 20th century: from French, back-formation from marquer 'to brand', of Scandinavian origin.
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Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound Theme of Pride
Prometheus Bound is full of characters telling Prometheus that he's way too proud. In the eyes of (for example) Oceanus, the Chorus of daughters of Oceanus, and Hermes, Prometheus is just making trouble for himself, and he should really swallow his pride and admit that Zeus is more powerful than he is. Okay, they have a point: Prometheus is very full of pride. But is that necessarily a bad thing? If Prometheus's pride is what makes him stand up to Zeus and prevent that god from wiping out the human race, can we really complain?
Questions About Pride
- What does pride mean in Prometheus Bound? Who has pride, and who doesn't? Who is the most prideful character in the play? The least?
- Does the play portray pride as a positive or negative force?
- If pride is a bad thing in the play, is it bad for moral reasons or because it is likely to bring bad consequences to the person who feels it?
- If pride is a positive force, what good does it do?
Chew on This
The play portrays pride as bad, because Prometheus's pride got him into this mess in the first place.
The play portrays pride as good, because it gives Prometheus the strength to endure his sufferings, all for the sake of humans.


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Mount Pocono residents will have to wait at least another week before they know how their trash will be picked up in 2013.
The borough put off a vote on its garbage collection contract for 2013 until a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday.
"Believe me, the last thing I want to do is have another meeting on the garbage pick-up," said Solicitor Jim Fareri. "But I think we owe it to the bidders to take a look at this."
There are two bidders for the borough's municipal garbage pick-up contract, J.P. Mascaro and Sons of Allentown, the current contract holder, and Kreitzer Sanitation of Orwigsburg. Mascaro recently brought up issues with Kreitzer's proposed bid, and Fareri said Kreitzer only very recently answered the concerns.
Fareri didn't say what the issues are, but said there were seven concerns from Mascaro that Kreitzer addressed.
"This is something we have to take a look at now," Fareri said.
Even with the bids and the special meeting, the borough may decide to decline both bids and have its residents arrange their own trash pick-up, a method some council said they favor, but others have said they don't want.
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PERRYVILLE - Norman Scott Gaines, 56, died Oct. 19, 2005, in Bexar County at San Antonio, Texas.
Born Sept. 23, 1949, at Poplar Bluff, son of Helen Carney Gaines of Dexter and the late Woodrow Gaines, he was a veteran of the United States Navy, a member of the Masonic Lodge in St. Mary, a 32nd Degree Shriner in St. Louis and a member of the American Legion Post 0133 in Perryville. He was of the Baptist belief.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by: two daughters, Kelli Gaines and Ashleigh Briscoe, both of Dexter; two grandchildren; and a special friend, Dolly Lowes of Perryville.
Visitation is from 5 until 8 p.m. today with Masonic rites conducted at 7 p.m. at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, where services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday. Dr. John Carney will officiate.
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The following are upcoming events being held at this tearoom.
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Join us Tuesday's for 'Elevensies' the British coffee and Tea hour! Join us daily for Lunch where we will offer a Petite Tea Service for 15.00 per person. Seating will be first come- first served. Also offering soup and sandwiches- salad- scones and tea! Something for everyone on our Ala Carte menu in the patisserie! *note- please call ahead for dietary restrictions so we may be prepared for your visit*
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Come join us for Tea prior to your matinee at the Martin Woldson Fox Theater 'The Nutcracker Ballet' is a cherished family tradition signaling the start of the holiday season. For more than 175 years, E.T.A. Hoffman's story of Clara and her Nutcracker prince has delighted children of all ages. This beloved escape to the Land of Sweets, featuring State Street Ballet, 75 local dancers and, of course, LIVE music composed by Tchaikovsky and performed by the Spokane Symphony, takes place December 4-7 in the fabulous Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. Silver Spoon Tea House will host a Nutcracker Tea from 11-1 Five exciting performances are set amidst the old-world grandeur of the theater's Art Deco style, complete with a towering tree for the holidays


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Effective Chemistry Communication in Informal Environments (2016)
Chemistry plays a critical role in daily life, impacting areas such as medicine and health, consumer products, energy production, the ecosystem, and many other areas. Communicating about chemistry in informal environments has the potential to raise public interest and understanding of chemistry around the world. However, the chemistry community lacks a cohesive, evidence-based guide for designing effective communication activities. This repor... More >>
Industrialization of Biology: A Roadmap to Accelerate the Advanced Manufacturing of Chemicals (2015)
A growing number of chemicals used in the manufacture of consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and other products are being produced using biological systems -- the so called "industrialization of biology." Taking advantage of advancing knowledge of synthetic biology, bio-based chemicals can be cheaper and more environmentally sustainable than those produced through traditional chemical synthesis. For some complex chemicals, like pharmaceuticals o... More >>
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The notorious LulzSec hacking outfit has leaked over 26,000 email addresses and plain text passwords stolen from the database of an adult website Pron.com. After dumping the data online, the group encouraged people to try the login credentials on Facebook and tell the victims' family members how they signed up for the adult site.
The reason? Just for fun. "Watch the hilarity. Tell us about it on twitter!" the hackers wrote in their announcement. Fortunately, word of the potential abuse quickly reached Facebook's security team which forced password resets for all accounts corresponding to those email addresses.
This impressed LulzSec members, but also gave them new ideas for future attacks. "Props to Facebook security for locking all emails located on our list so fast. That's the kind of security that earns a tip of our hat," the hackers wrote.
"Hmm… so Facebook automatically locks every email on our list… exploitable. >:] Until next time, Facebook. Bwahahaha," they later tweeted.
LulzSec pointed out that there were a number of .gov and .mil email addresses registered on the compromised site, as well as some 55 accounts belonging to admins of other adult portals.
Partial screenshot from the 26,000 emails and passwords txt file released online on LulzSec website:
The group didn't stop with this leak. It also published the personal information (dox) of executive officers and other employees from vulnerability research company Endgame Systems and anti-DDoS solutions provider Prolexic Technologies.
The dox didn't only include information about these individuals themselves, but also their spouses, children and other family members, and their respective social media accounts.
Endgame Systems is a company set up by former ISS and CIA executives with the purpose of selling offensive security solutions and zero-day vulnerability information. The HBGary Federal email leak from earlier this year revealed that the company and its management make significant efforts to keep a low profile.
Meanwhile, Prolexic Technologies has made a selling point from the DDoS attacks orchestrated by Anonymous. In 2010 the company helped firms considered by the hacktivist group as WikiLeaks enemies to protect themselves.
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A Facebook cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was used to launch a self-propagating spam worm on the social network, according to security researchers from Symantec. The XSS vulnerability was located in the Facebook mobile API and was caused by insufficient JavaScript validation.
In order to exploit it, attackers created a Web page containing a specially crafted iframe element that forced all logged in Facebook users visiting it to post rogue messages on their walls. By crafting the spammed message to lure users into visiting the malicious site, the hackers were able to create a self-propagating worm.
The Symantec experts say the vulnerability was exploited in more limited attacks before being used to launch the worm, but also note that more copy cats followed the initial wave.
Some browsers have anti-XSS filters built-in by default, but they are not very efficient. The only one that can block a significant number of attacks is included in the NoScript Firefox extension.
XSS worms used to be quite frequent in 2009, however, social media websites have since gotten better at preventing such attacks. Nevertheless, some continue to pop up from time to time. Actually, the last one launched on Facebook occurred earlier this month and was used to spread weight loss spam.
In October last year, French security researchers demonstrated two information stealing worms that worked by exploiting cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on Facebook.
According to Symantec's Candid Wueest, Facebook has since addressed the vulnerability. "Facebook has informed us that they have patched this XSS vulnerability. In addition, they are currently working on steps to remediate damage caused by the attacks," he says.
Last year Twitter was hit by a massive and more resilient XSS worm that locked hundreds of thousands of users out of their accounts.
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Online retailer Play.com has named its marketing partner Silverpop as the guilty party behind the disclosure of customer names and email addresses. Play.com is one of the UK's largest online retailers of DVDs, CDs, books and consumer electronics gadgets.
The breach led to distribution of spam to email addresses only registered with the online retailer on Sunday, a development that led to howls of protest from users. These emails offered supposed software updates from Adobe but actually linked to sites serving up malware.
The offer of the latest version of Adobe Reader X out of the blue and via email is unlikely to have taken in many, since the ruse was neither timely, subtle nor salacious.
Play.com, which issued an apology to users via email on Tuesday morning, has since come forward with an official statement from chief exec John Perkins (below) that seeks to downplay the significance of the admitted breach. In particular the online retailer stresses that the snafu only affected email details, and not credit card details or other sensitive information.
On Sunday 20 March some customers reported receiving a spam email to email addresses they only use for Play.com.
We reacted immediately by informing all our customers of this potential security breach in order for them to take the necessary precautionary steps. We believe this issue may be related to some irregular activity that was identified in December 2010 at our email [marketing] service provider Silverpop.
Investigations at the time showed no evidence that any of our customer email addresses had been downloaded. We would like to assure all our customers that the only information communicated to our email [marketing] service provider was email addresses. Play.com has taken all the necessary steps with Silverpop to ensure a security breach of this nature does not happen again.
We would also like to reassure our customers that all other personal information (i.e. credit cards, addresses, passwords, etc.) are kept in the very secure Play.com environment. Play.com has one of the most stringent internal standards of e-commerce security in the industry. This is audited and tested several times a year by leading internet security companies to ensure this high level of security is maintained.
On behalf of Play.com, I would like to once again apologise to our customers for any inconvenience due to a potential increase in spam that may be caused by this issue.
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Security researchers advise users to exercise caution when searching for information about the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that hit Japan, because they might end up on scareware pages.
The Internet is abuzz with updates on the devastating effects of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today 130 kilometers off the coast of Japan and triggered 10-meter-high tsunami waves. There are at least 500 confirmed deaths and over 110,000 people missing so far as a result of the catastrophe and their number keeps growing by the hour.
Unfortunately, cyber criminals are trying to exploit disasters like this for profit by poisoning search results with links leading to fake antivirus programs. Known as black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO), these attacks can be observed after every major event that manages to attract considerable interest from the public. We've seen BHSEO campaigns following the Haiti earthquake last year, the 2009 California wildfires, the recent floods in Australia, Brazil and the Philippines and even the New Zealand Christchurch earthquake last month.
Fake antivirus programs, also known as scareware or roguware, attempt to trick users into purchasing useless licenses by falsely claiming their computers are infected. Scareware distribution has been one of the most profitable cyber criminal businesses during the past several years and the generated income is commonly used to finance other types of illegal activities.
"Blackhat SEO leading to rogue antivirus is still very much a common Web attack. We recommend that our readers get the latest news from trusted media outlets to prevent being victimized by this blackhat SEO," Trend Micro security researchers write.
The vast majority of BHSEO attacks have traditionally occurred on Google, but since the company has significantly improved its detection, attackers are increasingly targeting other search engines as well.
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Domain name scammers are once again targeting domain name owners in an attempt to generate some easy income by an unsophisticated blackmail.
Typically, the scam starts with an email to domain owners warning them about a foreign company that is trying to purchase websites using your domain and trademark names. However being the responsible and caring Domain Name Registration Service they are, they are first contacting you, the owner of the existing domains and, possibly, trademarks, and will give you the amazing opportunity to get these website names first and therefore protect your brand.
Here is one example of such scam email:
from Fnew Law
reply-to firstname.lastname@example.com
subject Concerning " domainname " Brand Name dispute
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China. we have something which needs to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Jan.10th 2011. One company called "TSMI Research & Development Corp" is applying to register " domainname " as Brand name and domain names as below:
After our initial checking, we found the Brand name and domain names being applied are as same as your company! So we need confirmation with your company. If the aforementioned company is your business partner or your subsidiary, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you don't have any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If over the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by "TSMI Research & Development Corp" unconditionally.
Best Regards
David Ho
Senior Consultant
Domain WHOIS about chinesenic.net shows the following:
Registrant Contact:
Shanghai Fengwang Wangluo youxian gongsi
He Ping Wei email@example.com
+86.2137529318 fax: +86.2137529316
No.258.North Yunhe Road Fengxian
shanghai Shanghai 201400
Created: 2011-01-04
Expires: 2012-01-04
A reputable "department of registration service" with a live.cn free webmail contact and a domain registered few days ago. Replying to such emails might not only make scammers send you bills and payment demands, but also encourage them and target you in the future, possibly in more sophisticated scams and blackmail attempts.
As you can see from an older list at Firetrust, the scammers got plenty of domains, which might indicate the fact this business brings certain income:
It appears that a new worm is spreading by hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to advertise links to a drive-by download website. The attack starts with goo.gl shortened URLs being sent by users whose computers have already been infected by the new threat.
The links get changed as soon as Google suspends them for abuse. One goo.gl URL pointed to a page hosted on a compromised website belonging to a French furniture manufacturing business.
This page takes visitors through several redirects and eventually lands them on a drive-by download site that tries to exploit vulnerabilities in outdated versions of Java and Adobe Reader.
According to various reports, in addition to the compromised .fr website, an .it one has also been observed, which ironically belongs to a firm offering computer repair services. An interesting aspect about these websites is that both of them are entirely designed in Flash. We're not sure at this point if this is just a coincidence or a pattern.
There is still no detailed analysis of the malware installed in case of successful exploitation. However, it's pretty clear that it can hijack the Twitter accounts of people using the infected computers.
The rogue messages are sent through Twitter's mobile site instead of the main Web interface, but this is probably done by attackers for convenience reasons. The behavior of hijacking accounts like this is reminiscent of the Koobface social networking worm, which also targeted Twitter in the past. However, at this point this is only speculation.
According to TechCrunch, Twitter is aware of the attack and is actively resetting the passwords of the compromised accounts.
Users are advised to be suspicious of goo.gl links that are posted with no other message attached; although this behavior might change.
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Symantec warns that a 0-day vulnerability, affecting stable versions of Internet Explorer, is being exploited in a sophisticated attack, which targets key people in various organizations.
The attack begins with fake emails posing as hotel reservation notifications. "About the hotel room, please take the attached list for booking [link]," part of the rogue messages read.
The link directs recipients to a page hosted on a compromised, but legitimate website, which checks their operating system and browser version.
Only users running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 or 7 get redirected to the exploits. Others are sent to a blank page.
Successful exploitation results in a trojan being installed on the computer. The malware registers itself as a service called "NetWare Workstation" and opens a backdoor.
It reports back to the attackers and downloads encrypted files with commands from a compromised server in Poland.
"Looking at the log files from this exploited server we know that the malware author had targeted more than a few organizations," Symantec researchers revealed.
"The files on this server had been accessed by people in lots of organizations in multiple industries across the globe," they added.
Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the vulnerability and has published a security advisory with mitigation instructions.
"Impacted versions include Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, although our ongoing investigation confirms that default installations of Internet Explorer 8 are unlikely to be exploited by this issue.
"This is due to the defense in depth protections offered from Data Execution Prevention (DEP), which is enabled by default in Internet Explorer 8 on all supported Windows platforms," Jerry Bryant, manager of response communications at Microsoft, explained.
Internet Explorer 9 Beta is not vulnerable and the company has since released a Fix It tool to help users apply the workaround until a permanent patch becomes available.
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Scammers are posing as law firms and are sending fake copyright infringement notification emails to Internet users in an attempt to scare them into paying settlement fees.
According to TorrentFreak, which reported this new type of scam, the fake emails bear a subject of "Investigation Against You" and purport to be sent by a legit German law firm called Rechtsanwalt Florian Giese.
The from field is spoofed and the sender email address can vary. Some of the addresses observed so far are: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com.
The messages claim that the law firm is acting on behalf of Videorama GmbH, a German film production and distribution company dating back to 1993.
"The subject of our assignment is that your Internet connection was used on a so-called peer-to-peer network and committed copyright infringement on works held by our clients," the scammers claim in the fake emails.
They go on to list the IP address allegedly used by the recipient when committing the offense and the number of files involved.
The emails also cite German laws and mention a real case when a German court imposed a significant penalty against a man for illegaly downloading music.
"As you may have already noticed from the media, today copyright infringement cases in court usually lead to a large fine and court costs," the scammers write, in an attempt to scare users.
Eventually, people are told that everything can be settled out of court if they agree to send 100 euros via Ukash or Paysafecard.
Unfortunately, such scam emails have a high chance of success, because the sending of copyright infringement pre-settlement letters is common in many countries.
"Rechtsanwalt Florian Giese is not responsible for the fraudulent e-mails with the subject 'investigation against you'. These are spam emails from fraudsters," a spokesperson for the law firm told TorrentFreak.
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Facebook's privacy rules aren't as watertight as the company would have its users believe, after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that some of the social network's most popular apps have siphoned off personal information to ad firms and internet tracking outfits.
According to the report, many Facebook apps have transmitted identifiable details about individual users to around 25 companies, in effect breaking the terms laid down by the Mark Zuckerberg-run website.
The privacy breach, which gives advertising and internet tracking firms access to people's names, affects a huge number of Facebook app users. Worse still, the newspaper found that users whose profiles have rigorous privacy settings have also had their details exposed. It said that the 10 most popular Facebook apps, including Farmville and Texas HoldEm Poker, were transmitting users' IDs to external firms.
Game Network Inc's Farmville was found to also be transmitting personal details about a user's Facebook "friends" to advertisers and internet tracking companies.
Facebook, which claims to have around 500 million users of its service, told the WSJ that the social network would bring in new tech to close the breach.
One company, RapLeaf Inc, was found to have linked Facebook ID details taken from apps to its own database of internet users, which it sells on to companies. RapLeaf insisted that the transmission of data hadn't been intentional. "We didn't do it on purpose," the company's biz development veep Joel Jewitt told the newspaper.
The company put out a separate statement at http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/418 to its third-party developers that was part finger-wagging, and partly an assertion that the press had exaggerated the implications of sharing a UID.
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For the past three weeks, internet addresses belonging to Microsoft have been used to route traffic to more than 1,000 fraudulent websites maintained by a notorious group of Russian criminals, publicly accessible internet data indicates.
The 1,025 unique websites — which include seizemed.com, yourrulers.com, and crashcoursecomputing.com — push Viagra, Human Growth Hormone, and other pharmaceuticals though the Canadian Health&Care Mall. They use one of two IP addresses belonging to Microsoft to host their official domain name system servers, search results from Microsoft's own servers show. The authoritative name servers have been hosted on the Microsoft addresses since at least September 22, according to Ronald F. Guilmette, a researcher who first uncovered the hijacking.
By examining results used with an internet lookup tool it was determined that 188.8.131.52 and 126.96.36.199 — which are both registered to Microsoft — are housing dozens of DNS servers that help convert the pharmacy domain names into the numerical IP addresses that host the sites.
The most likely explanation, they say, is that a machine on Microsoft's campus has been programmed to do so, probably after it became infected with malware.
"The important part seems to be some sort of compromise appears to be in play," said Randal Vaughn, a professor of information systems at Baylor University. "It could be an NS compromise, an OS compromise, a rogue customer machine, or something else entirely. In order to get the DNS zones entered in there, they must have pwned the box."
Vaughn also held out the possibility that servers connected to the Microsoft IPs might be part of a honey pot that's deliberately hosting the name servers so that researchers can secretly monitor the gang's operations. Another possibility is that the pharmacy operators have subscribed to some sort of managed service offered by Microsoft.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said she was investigating the findings and expected to provide a statement once the investigation was completed.
California-based Guilmette, who said he has uncovered evidence that other large organizations have been similarly hijacked in the past, said he's convinced the results mean that Microsoft has faced some sort of system compromise.
"I'm a paranoid kind of person," he said. "There's no other immediately apparent, reasonably plausible explanation for the facts that I'm looking at."
Another researcher who goes by the pseudonym Jart Armin said that there may be no Microsoft server compromise at all. Rather, he said, criminals may have figured out a way to cache the zone files on the Microsoft IP addresses and make them appear to be the authoritative results. He didn't fully explain how this could be done, however, and Guilmette and Vaughn discounted the likelihood of this hypothesis.
Canadian Health&Care Mall is believed to be run by affiliates of a group known alternately as Bulker.biz, Eva Pharmacy, and Yambo Financials, according to Spamtrackers.eu, a site that monitors online scams. The operation, which researchers say also engages in child pornography, identity theft, and rampant spamming, specializes in maintaining websites and name servers that run on infected hosts without the owners' knowledge, the website says. Members are known to infect Linux and Unix machines with custom-written binaries that act as proxy web hosts.
The benefits of running the website and DNS servers on infected machines are manifold. Not only does doing so drastically reduce the cost of the illegal operation, but the use of IP addresses from organizations with good reputations may make it easier for the scams to fly under the radar of spam filters and search-engine blacklists, Armin said.
Over the past few weeks, Guilmette said, the IP addresses of several other large organizations have also been observed to be hosting name servers for the same criminal outfit. The University of Houston, the government of India, and City University of New York are just three of the names on the list. They have since corrected the problems, so the DNS servers are no longer hitching a free ride on their systems, the researcher said.
In the past year, Microsoft has adopted a more active role in hunting down the very types of criminals Guilmette believes have hijacked Microsoft's network to help operate the illegal pharmacy. Company researchers were instrumental in founding the Conficker Working Group, which actively infiltrates the massive botnet that was built by the Conficker worm in an attempt to disrupt it or shut it down.
The company recently succeeded in shutting down the Waledac botnet through a combination of technical and legal maneuvers.
The irony that Microsoft IP addresses are playing a crucial role in enabling such scams wasn't lost on Baylor University's Vaughn.
"I almost guarantee that there's somebody up there at Microsoft, probably more than one, that are trying their darnedest to get rid of the Canadian pharmacy group," he said. "It would be nice if they had that IP information available."
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Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Vision World Publications VWP VWP The New Vision English The new Vision English English Language Programme For primary Classes The New Vision English Vision World Publications Early Learning Programme of VWP For Pre-Primary Classes Junior Vision English ( 3 books) For: Nursery KG 1 KG 2 W e l c o m e Educational Resource Publishers of School Textbooks VWP has published highly competitive, informative and attractive booksBooks 1-5: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Books 1-5 The New Vision English Teachers' Resource BooksEvery book is divided into comprehensive UNITS The units are split into sections:: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Every book is divided into comprehensive UNITS The units are split into sections: Read and understand (comprehension) Vocabulary time : Words / phrases: their meaning and usage Comprehending the passage : Questions on the text Multiple choice (pick the right answer) True/false Fill the blanks (and so on…)UNIT (contd.): 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi UNIT (contd.) Grammar Time Building Skills ( Extensive language practice ) : word drill , making new words, word search groups of words, word ladder pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, metaphors, learning language, (expressions) dictionary time ___ (alphabetical order) writing time __ narration, letter, dialogue enrichment exercises of various kindsSlide 5: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Where do snowflakes come from? Where do snowflakes come from? Class 1 Unit 8Time Period : 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Time Period Total duration of the text reading , listening , discussing , comprehending , vocabulary work and revising (oral and written) for Unit 8 : Period 1 (40 min) Periods 2 (80 min) Period 1 (40 min) Period 1 (40 min)Book 1 Unit 8: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Book 1 Unit 8 Where do snowflakes come from ?Slide 8: 2/15/2011 R.Faruqi Objectives When you start a lesson you should be very clear about the objectives. 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He's gonna be on Lanigan & Malone tomorrow morning at 7:10, and in town performing over the weekend… talented impressionist Frank Caliendo. Looks like he's NOT gonna be on Fox Sports NFL Sunday this year making fun of Terry Bradshaw. Here's his take on why. [Click here for the story]
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I'm on A/C now with T to follow. I was given Aloxi .25 push in IV , then Ememd 150/decadron 12mg IV.... at 1130 AM .. and have been insanely nauseous and cant even drink water since 5 when I got home .... they gave me zofran for breakthu but warned combining Emend and Zofran ... QT prolong or something .... said to wait til tomorrow for it .... I really feel awful ... AWFUL
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Six hours after receiving Aloxi injection, experienced horrible headache that near migraine level. I have had a couple of migraines in my life but not a chronic problem. Had to use ice pack alternatively with heat to get relief and my pain pills did nothing (percoset) for relief. 48 hours after dosing, was given Fioriset to help control pain. Didn't have nausea from the chemo but did from t ... Show Full Comment
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70-year-old female receiving Cisplatin and Gemzar for high grade, aggressive bladder cancer. Cisplatin is known for strongly producing nausea/vomiting within 2 hours of infusion. Given dexamethasone pills, Emend pill, and IV palonosetron (Aloxi) IV before chemo drug infusions. No nausea or vomiting on chemo day. I do need to use Emend, dexamethasone, Zofran, Compazine, and Xanax to control nau ... Show Full Comment
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Prior to R-CHOP chemotherapy treatment for Stage 1, B-Cell, Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, I receive I.V. premeds that include Aloxi, Emend, Benadryl, Decatron, and Tylenol. After four of six planned sessions, each being three weeks apart, I have had no significant nausea reactions, neither during, immediately following, nor in the weeks following chemotherapy. I credit this to the complete combination of ... Show Full Comment
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A working Mobile VoIP solution for the iPhone – Acrobits Groundwire and Flowroute
A few weeks ago, as I was reaching the end of my two year ATT contract, I started wondering whether I should buy a new smartphone and sign for two more years of big carrier abuse, or explore alternatives. I considered MVNOs, tested IP messaging solutions such as Viber or Skype, and finally decided to go one step further and build my own mobile voice over IP (VoIP) solution.
A mobile VoiP solution requires three components: a mobile carrier providing the 3G data service, a Voice over IP service provider playing the role of a gateway between the public telephony network and the world of IP communications, and an application ("a client") on the iPhone. At first glance, a VoIP app looks like the iPhone "Phone" app, but is using the SIP protocol to manage the connection to the VoIP provider (that's why we will call the application a "SIP client", and why VoIP service providers are often called "SIP Poviders").
After testing various VoIP service providers and iPhone SIP clients, I've finally identified the combination that works best for me. It does not mean it would work for everybody, though, or that I would trust it if my life (or a job, or anything important) depended on it. I still have my reservations about the practicality and the reliability of the solution. But it brings the flexibility of VoIP to mobile phones at a very low cost, in particular when calling or traveling abroad.
The cost of a mobile VoIP solution
A consequence of the increased use of Text Messages and IP messaging applications, conventional voice traffic is reported to have decreased, and mobile carriers now have excess capacity on their conventional (GSM or CDMA) voice networks. That's why they're now proposing unlimited voice plans. On the other hand, data bandwidth is still a "hot" commodity, and they're trying to sell it at a premium. So, does it make sense to switch to VoIP?
As discussed earlier, there are 3 components in a mobile VoIP solution:
– the Data Plan (such as ATT's for the iPad): 3GB/Month: $30.00. VoIP does not need much bandwidth: with a G729 Codec, approx. 70 MB per hour. And the data plan will only be used when a WiFi connection is not available.
– a Voice over IP service from a provider such as Flowroute.com: $0.012 /min or $6.95 /month (unlimited) to receive calls, approx $0.01 /min for outbound calls in the US. Minutes to foreign countries are more expensive, but still 10 to 50 times cheaper than with a conventional voice plan. Add $1.39 /month for a DID number.
– a SIP client (a one time cost) : Acrobits Groundwire application: $9.99 on the Apple App Store; G729A CODEC available as an in-app purchase ($9.99)
If you consider that you will need a data plan in any case, the real cost of the VoIP solution is the cost of the minutes. 900 minutes of voice (to or from the US) will cost approximately $10. Plus the DID number. Total: $12 per month.
The nitty-gritty details
For the software engineers working on SIP clients, smartphones present a few extra difficulties: in order to preserve the battery, the SIP application has to be placed in a dormant state when no phone conversation is going on, leaving the responsibility of staying in touch with the VoIP service provider to a keep-alive mechanism managed by the operating system.
Because of the way Apple has implemented multitasking in iOS, only TCP keep-alives can be managed transparently by the operating system, and only TCP flows can wake up an application in a dormant state. Unfortunately, most VoIP providers only work with UDP.
It leaves the software engineers with 3 options:
1 – use UDP, prevent the application from hibernating, and manage the keep-alive in the app itself – which impacts battery life and is not endorsed by Apple,
2 – implement a proxy server somewhere in the cloud, which receives the call in UDP, connects to Apple's notification system to wake up the phone, and finally converts the UDP flow into a TCP flow that can be forwarded to the iPhone. The whole process is convoluted, and raises all sorts of concerns regarding reliability and security.
3 – or ask the end user to find a VoIP provider using TCP.
I tested the 3 options, and came to the conclusion that configuring the SIP client to receive TCP calls directly from the VoIP Service provider yielded the best results.
Acrobits and Flowroute over TCP
When receiving a call, the iPhone is waken up almost instantaneously, and the Acrobits Groundwire app is promoted to the foreground in a few seconds. The reactivity of the direct TCP connection – while not as good as what you would experience with a conventional voice call – is much higher than what proxy based solutions deliver, and does not require a total reeducation of the end users – at both ends of the line. And the impact on the battery life remains limited, at least with WiFi connections.
Flowroute, the service provider I selected, supports VoIP over TCP. It also has the advantage of supporting G729 (the efficient voice compression mechanism used in the GSM standard). Groundwire, the SIP client from Acrobits, proved very configurable, reliable, and easy to use at the same time.
In my opinion, the G729 Codec is a must: VoIP does not need a lot of bandwidth, but it needs it consistently. We're using public networks (WiFi hot spots, the Internet) which do not "protect" the VoIP traffic. The smaller the bandwidth required (G729 only requires 10 kbps), the better the chances for the call to go through with an acceptable quality.
I did not notice that enabling VoiP had any visible impact on my data usage, but the autonomy of the phone suffered. Even with the optimized TCP solution. The impact on battery life remains very acceptable as long as the phone can connect to the Internet over WiFi, but if you are on the move with only 3G data available, the autonomy shrinks dramatically (down to a few hours).
Before I settled on Flowroute and Acrobits, I used Bria, from Counterpath, with Callcentric, a provider delivering the calls on UDP. Because iOS does not permit a UDP flow to wake up a dormant application, Bria had to stay awake in the background, which impacted the battery life significantly. It worked until I upgraded my phone to iOS 6. iOS 6 seems to manage UDP flows differently, breaking Bria's ability to reliably receive calls over UDP. On their support forum, Counterpath blame a bug in iOS 6, and promise a work around on their next release.
Even if the SIP client application is well designed, it can not totally hide that the iPhone was not designed for VoIP. Its firmware and its OS expect voice conversations to use the GSM network: accepting a VoIP call requires at least one more step (unlock the home screen) than accepting a GSM call, and if you receive a conventional phone call over GSM while already engaged in a VoIP conversation, GSM will take precedence and will terminate the VoIP conversation.
A conclusionMobile VoiP? If you stay in your home country and never travel abroad or place call to family or friends overseas, I'm not sure it makes economical sense. VoIP minutes are cheap, but the cost of conventional voice minutes is going down rapidly (with an MVNO, you can get unlimited voice and text for $40.00 /month). If you travel to foreign countries, or place long calls overseas, VoIP is much more interesting. The minutes stay at the same price no matter where you are. But you have to live with the hassle of buying local 3G SIM cards and fiddling with APN settings.
I have my reservations regarding the reliability of the whole solution. Ultimately VoIP is dependent on the availability of 3G data networks (which are less prevalent than GSM or CDMA networks), and can be complex to set up (configuring a new 3G data carrier requires a change of the APN parameters in the "settings" application of the iPhone).
On a smartphone, a SIP client is just a third party app like any other third party app, which creates all sorts of issues (did you relaunch the app after you restarted the phone, has the application frozen in the background?).
Until a manufacturer decides to bring Mobile VoIp to the mainstream and designs an IP-only smartphone specifically for VoIP applications, it will remain a complex solution that can be broken by an operating system upgrade.
October 12, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Did you try Bria with TCP? (with the Run in BG OFF?)
October 20, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Thank you Xavier!
January 16, 2013 at 11:47 pm
The correct way to implement mobile VoIP is to use push service for incoming call notification to wait up the VoIP app.
March 3, 2013 at 7:07 am
Very interesting article. Could you elaborate even more of the performance difference between VOIP TCP en VOIP UDP? (battery, speed) As Wai Wu also mentioned push is the standard for incoming notifications.
Additionally I'm also wondering what the bandwith usage is for the G729 Codec and how that for instance difference compared to for example Skype and Talkatone / Google Voice.
January 20, 2013 at 9:02 pm


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