Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-06-03 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Jun 3, 2012 12:05 PM, "Tedd Sperling" wrote: > > On May 31, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Ross McKay wrote: > > >> He said that this was unusual because typically such viruses are > >> written in languages like Ruby-on-Rails and such. > > > > Um, really? I very much doubt that. AFAIK, most true viruses are

Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-06-03 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 31, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Ross McKay wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:21:07 -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > >> [...] >> I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that >> the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua >> (http://www.lua.org/). > > That's surpris

Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that the Flame > Virus was written in a scripted language named lua (http://www.lua.org/). Is the interview online someplace? (Youtube?) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www

RE: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread HallMarc Websites
> -Original Message- > From: paras...@gmail.com [mailto:paras...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Daniel Brown > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:52 PM > To: Tedd Sperling > Cc: php-general General > Subject: Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:

Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > > So, my question to the group -- has PHP produced any viruses? If not, could > it? If so, can anyone elaborate on the details? To my own memory, viruses by definition, no. However, with that said, there's tons of PHP malware, includin

RE: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread HallMarc Websites
> -Original Message- > From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:t...@sperling.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:21 PM > To: php-general General > Subject: [PHP] cyberweaponry > > Hi gang: > > This is a little early for Friday's "Open Comment" day, but m

Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread Joseph Moniz
There was the Never Ever No Sanity worm ( http://news.cnet.com/Net-worm-using-Google-to-spread/2100-7349_3-5499725.html ). One variant of it was written in php the other in perl. - Joseph Moniz On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > Hi gang: > > This is a little early for Fri

[PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: This is a little early for Friday's "Open Comment" day, but my memory is increasingly more short term and by tomorrow I might forget -- so, here goes. I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua (http://