beware… Bom Sabado! New orkut trojan virus

September 25, 2010 (Buzz6) – Many people on Orkut receiving scraps form their friends with words “Bom Sabado!”. The word “Bom Sabado” means “Good Saturday” in Portuguese. This is a Worm which has attacked the social networking service today. Orkut is very popular in Brazil & India, Orkuteers scrapbooks are getting flooded with words “Bom Sabado“.

The Bom Sabado worm flooding scrapbooks and also it seems to be adding affected Orkuteers to new Orkut groups. Orkut Officials and Security Professionals advised users not to Log in Orkut until they clean the Worm. Orkut has updated it’s features 3 months and it’s not the first time Orkut got affected by this kind of Worms.

If you’ve logged into Orkut, Just clear you cache/cookies and change your Orkut password asap from www.google.com/accounts.

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In the second major XSS (cross-site scripting) attack on a major social networking service this week, Google owned Orkut was flooded with “Bom Sabado” scraps.

The word “Bom Sabado” means “Good Saturday” in Portuguese, which is the also the official language of Brazil, one of the last remaining Orkut bastions in the world.

The worm seems to be posting scraps with the text “Bom Sabado” and also adding affected users to new Orkut groups. Such XSS attacks have targeted Orkut in the past too.

Experts have advised users to avoid logging on to Orkut till Orkut engineers fix the hole and also not to click on any suspicious links. Orkut had just last month announced new updates to the website.

Earlier this week, the popular microblogging website Twitter was also at the receiving end of an XSS exploit. The attack, which emerged and was shut down within hours Tuesday morning, involved a XSS flaw that allowed users to run JavaScript programs on other computers.

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Nokia Launches Dual SIM Mobile Phone C1 and C2 In India

Nokia India today unveiled its long awaited 2-in-1 dual SIM (GSM+GSM) mobile phone, Nokia C1 (C1-00) and Nokia C2 (C2-00).

The two new devices, in the Nokia Cseries family, are available at very attractive and affordable price points and will address the consumer need for a Nokia phone boasting multiple sim functionality.

Nokia C1 and Nokia C2 will enable users to take advantage of a rounded feature set including multiple phone book options, long battery life, large screen and local language interface.

Unveiling the new devices, Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia said, “As per our deep consumer insights, entry level consumers need dual SIMs for various reasons including economizing time and costs, improving efficiency and for increased convenience.To address these consumer requirements, Nokia has launched these two devices that offer multiple SIM capabilities with a balanced feature set and ‘relevant innovations’ at affordable price points.”

Nokia C1 will be available at an MRP of Rs1999 and will be the first Nokia mobile phone to feature a 2-in-1 SIM solution. Nokia C1 owners will greatly benefit from the ‘call divert’ feature in the new phone, which will ensure that they never miss a call from either of the two SIMs. Moreover, by simply holding down a key, people will be able to switch between the two SIM cards in the phone.

Nokia C1 owners will also benefit from a standby battery time of up to six weeks, the longest ever for a Nokia mobile phone, especially useful in those parts of the country where access to electricity is sometimes limited. The standard flashlight – often someone’s only means of bright light – is paired with a vivid color screen and FM radio with standard headphone jack, meaning the Nokia C1 is as much about entertainment as it is about convenience.

Nokia C2 comes with Nokia’s innovative services including Ovi Life Tools and Ovi Mail. Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools provides consumers a wide range of information covering healthcare, agriculture, education and entertainment, whereas Ovi Mail offers email accounts for the developing world.

The Nokia C2 also makes listening to music simple with the FM radio and music player and a massive amount of music storage with the phone supporting micro-SD cards of up to 32GB.

(REF:WWW-telecomtalk)

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Ingredients:

Pachari(soaked overnight) – 1 cup Ripe

banana – 2 nos

Jaggery – 6 nos

Grated coconut – 1 full coconut

Dry ginger powder – A pinch

Salt

Plantain leaf – A few

Method:

Grind the soaked pachari without adding much water. Add salt. Soak the jaggery in some water for half an hour. Heat it to make a solution. Cut the bananas into pieces and put them into the jaggery solution. Add the grated coconut and ginger powder into the mix and stir well. Pour a little rice batter on a plaintain leaf piece. Rotate it in order to spread the batter. Take a spoonful of the coconut-banana-jaggery mixture and fold the plantain leaf. Cook it in a steamer for about 10 mins.

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Fish With “Hands” Found to Be New Species

New, Pink, and Rare

Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family. Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart (map), on the Australian island of Tasmania. Though no one has spotted a living pink handfish since 1999, it’s taken till now for scientists to formally identify it as a unique species. The new-species determinations were made based on a number of factors, including number of vertebrae and fin rays, coloration, the presence of scales and spines, and proportional body measurements, according to review author Daniel Gledhill of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO. All of the world’s 14 known species of handfish are found only in shallow, coastal waters off southeastern Australia, the review notes. Even among the previously known species, the fish are poorly studied, the review authors add, and little is known about their biology or behavior.

—Carolyn Barry in Sydney

Published May 24, 2010

Photograph courtesy Karen Gowlett-Holmes

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/photogalleries/100524-new-species-handfish-walk-science-pictures/?source=link_fb05262010#new-handfish-species-pink_20881_600x450.jpg

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banana summer treat

chilled milk – one glass

banana – a medium one

sugar -  as required

procedure

1. cut banana into small pieces
2. in a blender put banana pieces, chilled milk and sugar
3. blend well
4. pour into a tall glass and garnish with banana pieces

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What’s the iPad

What’s the iPad – A revolution has just begun

Here is a new Promo Video for the Apple iPad and is titled What’s the iPad. It talks about the iPad being thin , beautiful and that it goes anywhere . A girl is seen carrying it on a scooter , may be her iPad has some invisible protection ?  It highlights the fact that it lasts all day and there is no right way or wrong way to use the device.  You will also hear the words powerful , magical like you heard during the iPad launch event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihOmQY-JxY&feature=player_embedded

The Ad claims that the iPad is already a revolution and it has just begun. Well if it manages to sell 1 million units in 28 days .. its nothing short of a revolution but it seriously needs more apps !

You can also check out this funny compilation of the adjectives used during the iPad launch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZS8HqOGTbA&feature=player_embedded#at=46

ref:

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/16920/whats-the-ipad-a-revolution-has-just-begun.html