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This interesting take on the Guiness brand portrays something we’ve yet to fully understand about the beer, but we’ve always wondered about. That of course, is how the brew is made. The opening scene is of a tornado, lashing about the countryside. We follow the twister, and a crew of storm chaserish people who are chasing after it, ala Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton

Before too long, it’s picked up speed and debris, and the vortex has turned a distinct chocolatey-brown, with a slight hint of foamy tan at the top. Then, the largest of the storm-chasing trucks parks, and some kind of vacuum is turned on. As the tornado passes over the truck, the twister is sucked in, and the winds immediately calm.

Finally, a small door opens on the side of the truck, revealing several bottles of Guiness. We cut back to a bar scene where a man says, “…at least that’s what I heard.” Cue lame alert.

Click continued to learn who’s responsible.

More: “Nice Guiness, Wanna F***?“

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It’s been a while since we talked about banner ads being hijacked for malware spreading, sadly this does not mean that such banner tricks aren’t around anymore. Here’s a new twist – booby-trapped Flash banner ads can hijack your clipboard – feeding it a hard-to-delete (you must quit your browser) URL that points to a fake anti-virus program. If you are the type who copy-pastes a lot when you surf around the web, this will be super annoying.

Mac users, don’t look smug – it affects us too. Apple forums has some discussions on it:

This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked with this:

http:// —-evilsite——-

And once it’s in the clipboard, I can’t copy anything else over it until I’ve restarted the machine.

It’s easy to use Flash with ActionScript code to load a malicious URL into a target clipboard says security researched Avid Raff and demonstrates it here (non-evil URL but at that link he will show you the clipboard hijack). See there is a snippet in Flash that you may use called System.setClipboard(), I have no idea what that was originally intended for. Flash documentation reads:

The System.setClipboard() method allows a SWF file to replace the contents of the clipboard with a plain-text string of characters. This poses no security risk. To protect against the risk posed by passwords and other sensitive data being cut or copied to clipboards, there is no corresponding “getClipboard” (read) method.

Right, except of course when people but evil URL’s in your clipboard and trick you into visiting bad sites that way. Should we stop copy-pasting or will Adobe come to their senses and create a dialogue window warning that the clipboard is being used like they do when the Camera.get() or Microphone.get() are called?

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