Alas, the price cut was just for the weekend if you missed out. I’m finding it more and more difficult to see the existing distribution methods as anything but the past. When you have NetFlix subscriptions being delivered directly to Live, and you increase your playing base by 1600% by cutting the price on the [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Left4Dead Cuts Price In Half, Sees 3000% Increase In Sales
Posted in Video Games, tagged left4dead, steam, tf2 on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
XSS embeded in an image
Posted in Coding, tagged ie, xss on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an article published today that shows how an image viewed in Internet Explorer is vulnerable to cross site scripting.
Interesting stuff, but I’m trying hard to picture a practical use of the vulnerability. Though perhaps I’m not fully understanding the issue. For science I tried to duplicate the error in Photobucket, Flickr, and PHPBB.
Each [...]
Dystopia on Steam
Posted in Video Games, tagged dystopia, steam on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got an announcement this afternoon that the HL2 mod Dystopia is finally on Steam. They’ve been developing it for a few years now, and I played it for a good year at one point in beta, though I never got tired of it, I probably started a new game and just never went back. I’ll [...]
Internet Safety: Malware by Parking Ticket
Posted in Technology, tagged information security, malware, scam on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At ISC SANS today there is an entry about a new piece of malware that is being spread by a rather unique means of infection.
Fake windshield fliers and parking tickets.
If you go to the website listed on the flier/ticket, the site attempts to have you download and install a piece of malware as well as [...]
