Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers

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Anonymous Slashdot user writes, "Script kiddies have been taking advantage of intrusion prevention features of Symantec's Norton Firewall and Norton Internet Security Suites to knock users offline in IRC channels, according to an amusing post at Washingtonpost.com. From the article: 'Turns out that if someone types "startkeylogger" or "stopkeylogger" in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning. These are commands typically issued by the Spybot worm, which spreads over IRC and peer-to-peer file-swapping networks, installing a program that records and transmits everything the victim types (known as a keylogger).' Makes you wonder what other magic keywords produce unexpected results with Symantec's software."

Go forth and read today’s Penny Arcade

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For it is hilarious.

Apparently Gabe found out that SOE got their hands on the developer whos making the new DCComics Online MMORPG. Gabe (as well as I) hate SOE for royally fucking up SW:Galaxies. When he found out that they are making the DC Comics MMO, he got upset.

See the comic here.

Ok so thats not the really funny part....the funny part is that the President of SOE, John Smedly, reads penny arcade and writes them emails sometimes trying to defend SOE whenever they bash him. So Smedly sees this comic yesterday and promptly has 1,200 krispy creame donuts delivered to their offices.

Click here to see the writeup & pictures of the 1,200 donuts being delivered.

Politics: Bush gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar once again

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Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina

"In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage."

Read article here.