Here’s the actual full contents of the email (some ip / email addresses removed to protect the innocent)

Delivered-To: xxx
Received: by 10.229.236.206 with SMTP id kl14cs141790qcb;
 Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:00:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.150.202.9 with SMTP id z9mr580063ybf.86.1278604858545;
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Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: xxx is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of borers13@reportinternational.com) smtp.mail=borers13@reportinternational.com
Received: from 93-86-52-90.dynamic.isp.telekom.rs (unknown [109.92.111.218])
 by xxx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE6842D000B
 for <xxx>; Thu,  8 Jul 2010 11:00:51 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from 109.92.111.218 by mail1.optimisaplc.com; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:00:46 +0100
Message-ID: <000d01cb1eb6$b9f0fa90$6400a8c0@borers13>
From: postmaster@reportinternational.com
To: <xxx>
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:00:46 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
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Note: Forwarded message is attached.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

 borers13@reportinternational.com

Final-Recipient: rfc822;borers13@reportinternational.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1

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The first thing that threw up a red flag was that the HTML attachment was base64 encoded. Generally if something is a text attachment, it’s not encoded, which makes it easy to examine in your mail reader without executing it. So the first thing I did was decode the base64, a quick google turned up this base64 decoder tool. The result was this:

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That’s not very readable, so another quick trip to the google turned up this javascript formatter, producing this output:

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    aT = null
};
var wB = new Date();
var bA = wB['\u0067\u0065\u0074\u0053\u0065' + unescape('%63%6f%6e%64%73')]();
var uS = new Array();
this.lX = 3794;
this.aPN = 64402;
setTimeout('e(vUM)', 985);
var wQH;
if (wQH != '' && wQH != 'fH') {
    wQH = ''
};
var mU = new Array();
var tY = false;

Well at least it’s broken up into separate lines, but it still is pretty meaningless at a quick glance. My next step was to go through all the encoded lines and see if they turned up anything suspicious. It’s easy to do in a browser, take this line of code:

var bA = wB['\u0067\u0065\u0074\u0053\u0065' + unescape('%63%6f%6e%64%73')]();

Go up to your browser’s address bar, and enter:

javascript:alert(XYZ)

Where ‘XYZ’ is what you’re interested in. In this case I typed:

javascript:alert('\u0067\u0065\u0074\u0053\u0065' + unescape('%63%6f%6e%64%73'));

The result was ‘getSeconds’. Looking at the line above, wB is Date(), so this whole line of code is effectively calling (new Date()).getSeconds(); nothing dangerous there. I then did that for all the lines containing unicode escaped characters and url escaped characters. The only suspicious one I could find was

    var t = window;
        // ... later ...
    t['\u0065\u0076' + unescape('%61%6C')](dX);

This translates to ‘window.eval(dX)’, which is basically saying ‘Take whatever is in the variable dX, and execute it as JavaScript code’. Since nothing else was dangerous (just calls to things like String.length, String.getCharCodeAt, String.substr, etc), I determined that as long as I removed that line of code, it would be safe to run. So I created a new HTML file as follows:

<html>
<body>
<textarea id="mytxt"/>
<script>

 // ... entire script pasted here ... 

 // t['\u0065\u0076' + unescape('%61%6C')](dX);  this line replaced with:
 var mytxt = document.getElementById('mytxt');
 mytxt.value = dX;

 // ... rest of script ...

</script>

What this does, is instead of executing the code, it dumps it out to a textarea. I then simply saved this as ‘hax.html’, opened it in my browser, and saw:

And there you have it…the entire result of this long and complicated obfuscated JavaScript was simply to redirect me to some spammer’s site. And I didn’t even have to figure out how the obfuscation worked, all I needed to do was find a single weak point, where it has been decoded but not yet executed, and then change the command to run the code into a command to display the code.

Oh, and did I mention, it’s with 6 mil minimum trace/spacing?

Excellent games I’ve played and can recommend: Super Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, Mario Kart Wii, Rock Band 2, and Dokapon Kingdom

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I’ll write a review when I do decide on one. Also I know someone designing his own Logic Analyzer, if/when he finishes, I’ll give a link to that too.

I ended up making a comparison chart of FPGA development kits, like I said this was over a year ago, so it may be a bit out of date, but the low-end of FPGA’s doesn’t move all that fast. Most of the information is still valid, but you might be best to do some research yourself before you take the plunge. I only considered boards that featured FPGAs from Xilinx and Altera, since I found other vendors are not competitive in the low-cost arena (low-cost was the most important feature to me at the time, I didn’t want to spend $5000 just to play around. And yes, there are $5000 development boards).

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If you’re curious, I ended up getting the DE2 (with the educational discount). It costs a bit more, but it has significantly more features, such that I’ll probably never run out of stuff to play with.

The ones highlighted in green are the ones I feel provide the best value, and just coincidentally fall at the $50, $100, and $150 price points.

Check it out here: SRWare’s Iron. As mentioned in the news, make sure to download adblock.ini and place it into the program directory after downloading.

Enjoy the power of Chrome, with the convenience of adblock!

In the past, all the HDR processing tools required that your images were taken on a tripod and perfectly aligned, or if they weren’t aligned, it could do some simple corrections, but anything too complex would mess it up.

I’ve tried several applications, including Photomatix Pro, PTGui Pro, and Autopano Pro. I know what you’re thinking, two of those three applications are mainly for automatically stitching panoramas…but it turns out automatically aligning images for panoramas is also very useful for creating HDR images.

My very quick comparison of these HDR / panoramic image apps: Photomatix Pro appears to give the most control over the HDR generation process, and with tweaking, gives the nicest output…HOWEVER it’s not very good at handling images which are not perfectly aligned. Autopano Pro is the best at correctly aligning the images, and for creating panoramas in general, but it sucks at HDR tone mapping, having two sliders with obscure labels, that don’t really make it look very nice.
Finally, there’s PTGui Pro — it’s not the best at aligning, and it’s not the best at the HDR generation, but it’s pretty good at both, so in most cases it gives the best overall results.

Below, you can see an example of a shot I took, that would be impossible without some sort of HDR effect:

Original images:

These three images were combined using PTGui Pro, with the ‘Exposure Fusion’ HDR processing option, and I tweaked the sliders around until it looked nice. Here is the resulting image:

(click to enlarge)

The movie below requires Flash 9 or above to be installed. Some rules to try out: 90, 30, 73, 110, 150. Valid numbers are 0-255, but not all produce interesting results.

Direct link to flash movie (got some people complaining the SWFObject script doesn't work under Vista)

See Wikipedia for more info, and Wolfram.com has a list of all 256 possible results
Here's the code: