Linked List: April 16, 2008

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

‘Rockin’ Our Sales’ 

This embarrassingly bad internal Microsoft video extolling the virtues of Vista in the enterprise has been linked all over the place today. If you haven’t bitten the bullet and watched it yet, you should. It epitomizes Microsoft’s culture and institutional bad taste.

Flickr Code 

“Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community.”

Safari 3.1.1 

Security-fix update for Safari, including a fix for Charlie Miller’s contest-winning exploit from CanSecWest.

Update: It also fixes the WebKit-related Apple Mail attribution-line glitch I complained about after Safari 3.1.0 shipped.

Good Mood 

John August on the subjunctive mood.

‘Whaling’ 

John Markoff reports for The New York Times on “whaling”, phishing scams aimed not at the masses but rather at the rich and powerful:

Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country have been receiving e-mail messages this week that appear to be official subpoenas from the United States District Court in San Diego. Each message includes the executive’s name, company and phone number, and commands the recipient to appear before a grand jury in a civil case.

A link embedded in the message purports to offer a copy of the entire subpoena. But a recipient who tries to view the document unwittingly downloads and installs software that secretly records keystrokes and sends the data to a remote computer over the Internet. This lets the criminals capture passwords and other personal or corporate information.