This is What "Computer Virus" look like...

Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam. Dragulescu has peeled back the code behind the world’s worst tech bugs and rendered stunning images from it. The Romanian-born MIT researcher and artist was commissioned to do fashion the artwork by MessageLabs, a computer security company that sought to put a face — or at least a shape — on computer viruses.

















Dragulescu found interesting, recurring patterns. “These types of threats are very smart. Very intelligent in design. Digital organisms, really, that adapt themselves and replicate. We wanted to capture some of that complexity and uniqueness.” The process of creating the art was like none other. MessageLabs carefully sent Dragulescu the once-harmful files after modifying them so his computers would not contract the viruses. Dragulescu looked for the frequency of certain occurrences in a virus, such as particular network sockets that it was designed to compromise. He fed the resulting data into a program he created with an algorithm to grow the viruses and Trojans visually. Dragulescu’s next project will be creating abstract portraits of people based on the contents of their blogs and the types of online communities they inhabit.

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Vodafone yet to introduce Apple iPhone in India

Vodafone India, the arm of UK based world’s largest wireless telecom company Vodafone, is likely to carry much awaited, versatile and Macintosh operating system based Apple’s iPhone in the coming September as per rumours spread in the country.

According to rumours, Vodafone India is going to officially introduce Apple’s iPhone, a combination of ipod, wireless Internet and mobile phone in India, while Vodafone has officially denied any such plan.

But, from the various internal official sources, Vodafone has signed a deal with Apple to carry iPhone in India ‘officially’, which is known as one the biggest market of mobile phones in the globe.

As per TRAI report, the number of mobile phone users will reach to 500 millions by 2010 and still have a critical market to exploit it for many companies. Apple has targeted to sell 10-millions mobile by the end of this year. It’s selling in European countries are slowly decreasing while China, the biggest market of mobiles have already denied to carry it. Initially, it would be in 8GB of capacity with price range of Rs 27,000 to 28,000 while its enhanced version of 16 GB model will be launched by mid 2009 after viewing the first version’s response. However, iPhone is already available in Indian grey market in the lesser prices of Rs 20,000 to 22,000.

But, its locking code does not allow to exploit its all functionality. It runs only one network and Macintosh Operating System. AT&T has been developed software for it.

Apple has already opened its first store in Mumbai while going to open its second and third showroom in Bangalore and Chennai very soon.

However, viewing its exception quality, the experts believe that it will gain immense popularity in the ever growing Indian market. Apple’s iPhone is an amalgamation of camera phone, iPod and wireless Internet system that provides visual voicemail and text messaging, local Wi-Fi connectivity, e-mailing and web browsing.

Winlockpwn: Unlock Windows without password

A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in 2006, but Microsoft has yet to develop a fix. Interviewed in ITRadio’s Risky Business podcast, Boileau said the tool, released to the public today, could “unlock locked Windows machines or login without a password … merely by plugging in your Firewire cable and running a command”. Boileau, a consultant with Immunity Inc., said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because “Microsoft was a little cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn’t want to cause any real trouble”.

But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website. To use the tool, hackers must connect a Linux-based computer to a Firewire port on the target machine. The machine is then tricked into allowing the attacking computer to have read and write access to its memory. With full access to the memory, the tool can then modify Windows’ password protection code, which is stored there, and render it ineffective. Paul Ducklin, head of technology for security firm Sophos, said the security hole found by Boileau was not a vulnerability or bug in the traditional sense, because the ability to use the Firewire port to access a computer’s memory was actually a feature of Firewire.

Adobe launches free online Photoshop

Adobe has released its Photoshop Express web-based imaging application as a public beta. Photoshop Express uses much of Adobe’s image editing technology and has been repurposed as a web-based application. Users can store up to 2GB of images online for free, make edits to their photos and share them online. Photoshop Express also allows users to download and upload photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook. The application provides ’standard edits’, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing.

Photoshop Express also offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an image, mutes the background colour of the photo and allows the user to swap the object’s colour so that it “jumps off the page”. Sketch effects make photos look like drawings, and a Distort feature allows users to distort facial features or objects for a comical or artistic effect. Adobe said that even users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the added effect. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit user feedback on product features and functionality which will “continue to evolve over time”.

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