The most notable feature of this non-public Golden Hacker Defender is it's anti-detection engine. It is able to bypass most of the modern rootkit detectors. The anti-detection engine identifies detectors through a binary signature before the detector has a chance to execute. If the signature matches, the rootkit can disable some of its hooks or it can patch the detector's binary to modify its functionality.

The obvious conclusion? It is time for an anti-detector-detector detector!

F-Secure : News from the Lab

Sebastian Thrun
Adjunct Associate Professor, CALD/CSD/RI (Adjunct)

No longer a member of RI.

Email address: thrun@stanford.edu

1995-2003.

Story goes that he asked for tenure, they said "you go through the standard process", so he took off for Stanford. Where he's already the Director of SAIL.

And now the guy who beat Red Whitaker at his own game.

Robotics Institute: Sebastian Thrun

The Dutch police have arrested three men who are suspected to have set up a botnet of more than 100 000 computers worldwide.

Viruslist.com - Analyst's Diary

When is it time to move on?

A nice summary of the process of deciding whether moving on is the right thing.

Management Craft: When is it time to move on?

Tracking penny stocks, hot stock tips and other stock scams coming from SPAM can be fun!

Spam Stock Tracker - tracking how much money people can lose with penny stocks from spam.

As many as 400 songbirds were killed in one night after they flew into wires holding up a television tower.

TV Tower Wires Kill 400 Birds in One Night - Yahoo! News

After the deal is done, Caribou Coffee will still be controlled by its primary investor -- Arcapita Bank, formerly known as First Islamic Investment Bank. Those who run Arcapita (and its subsidiaries) do so according to Islamic principles collectively known as shari'ah (or shariah or sharia). Shari'ah encompasses a wide range of rules and customs, including some that directly impact the running of a business.

Specifically, shari'ah influences how the company borrows or lends money, how it may engage in derivative transactions, and what sorts of products it may sell.

Will Caribou's Shari'ah Affect Shares? [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] October 3, 2005

After a month of the Menlo Park, Calif. community rallying around Kepler's Books and Magazines, the store that abruptly closed on August 31 will reopen on Saturday. Yesterday Clark Kepler, president and chair of the store's newly formed board of directors, renegotiated the lease with the landlord, which was the final piece in the plan for the store to reopen in its current location.

Yay for a small cool bookstore to not die.

Kepler's Comes Back - 10/4/2005 - Publishers Weekly

Martha and Dan were handing out postcards for this at the Cody's event... and are offering a discount if you print out this post (LJ feed and RSS feeds count too).

Opening this Thursday!

Cassandra's Call Productions presents:
MANUMISSION
by Nebula Award winner, Martha Soukup
directed by Dylan Russell

This smart, sharp comedy tells the story of a man so fed up by the
way the world is run "for his benefit" that he decides he wants
out... literally. When Douglas petitions to divorce himself from the
human race, he finds that not being a human being may be more than he
bargained for.

Good News for Bay Area Readers - Neil Gaiman

AskMeNow, based in Irvine, Calif., is a division of Ocean West Holding Corp. and is currently only available in beta (or prerelease version), but its full-scale service will come out in the beginning of next month. Its concept is very straightforward: You send questions to the service by calling from your cellphone or emailing directly from a portable smartphone, and answers are sent back to your phone or hand-held via Short Messaging Services (SMS) or email within about a minute.

To answer your questions, the company employs real people who sit at computers in the Philippines, furiously researching the Internet (using data from content partnerships) trying to respond to your queries within three minutes. This doesn't always mean the response is correct. It simply means that the retrieved information was online somewhere. But our results proved rather accurate.

WSJ.com - The Mossberg Solution