This particular attack does not have to use jello but it is possibly most well known for the use of it with Jello in the television show the Office.  Basically in this attack you take all the items on a persons desk and wrap them in something like aluminum foil or suspend them in Jello.  This obviously works best if the person is out of the office for a day.  Further please don’t suspend electronic equipment in Jello, or if you do don’t blame me when it no longer works. 

If you do this to one of your co-workers send in a snapshot of it.

So I realize that sometimes a blog format is not exactly what is needed for a site of this nature.  Because of that I am starting to move some of the content, once it has been added, to pages like the Downloads page you see in the upper right corner of the screen.  That way you can get to some of the more useful content without having to search through months of blog entries.  i am going to work on doing the same with some of the tutorials I have written. 

Hopefully that will shape up in the next few days. Also remember that if you have any ideas or requests send them to the tip line at tips@officewarfare.net.  That way I can keep providing you all interesting content.

Something for the not to tech savvy today.  A fun and annoying thing to do to those around you is just unplug some cables.  The mouse and keyboard are always good.  The monitor can be an obvious one but that makes it no less fun. 

One that is really hard to track down only works if your associate has a powered USB hub of some kind, often a monitor.  You can unplug the USB cable that feeds it but not the power.  Any USB powered device will detect a USB connection but the computer wont.  This can be difficult to track down since the device sees USB power which looks like a connection.

Welcome back for another installment of Saturday Hobbies.  I write this as I drive down the road in the back of a car on a rainy Saturday.  So the last couple of Saturday Hobbies have been a bit … productive.  This weekend we are playing online game, nothing productive about that!  There are quite a few options in the online gaming world but we are going to take a look at three of them, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, and Ultima Online.  Read more

Welcome back folks, So I told you about monitoring processes but sometimes using a script isn’t so easy.  So I bring ProcessMonitor a tool for monitoring the new processes as they launch on your computer.  It monitors the processes and adds them to a list in a text box.  Most recent at the top.

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It is amaizing how often new processes are launched on your computer, all of them doing their own thing and a lot of times you have no idea they are doing it.  This can be a dangerious thing if your friends have been learning about office warfare and are startring to install things on your computer.  However it does us little good to just watch the task manager since there are a lot of processes that start when your computer starts up and it can be hard to sort it all out. 

However monitoring new processes can be quite useful since that will show you what new things are cropping up all the time.  Fortunately for all of us there is a great scripting language that comes pre built into windows machines called Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) that when coupled with the Visual Basic Scripting language (vbs) will allow us to monitor new processes. 

Lets look at the code after the break. Read more

A coke tab can be an insidious weapon, and fortunately in your average office environment they can be found in abundance.  I had planned on writing my own tutorial on how to flick soda tabs but a quick search of the internet found me a tutorial and a video.  This can be a slightly difficult trick to learn but it is fun once you get it down.

You may not be as paranoid as I am … but you probably should be.  One thing that bothers me is that on a domain system is that my files are accessible to anyone with admin privileges on the domain.  They can read my emails, my documents, see my pictures, pretty much access anything they want. 

Fortunately for the paranoid there is a solution.  You can encrypt your files.  The easiest way to go about this is to surf on over to truecrypt.org and download their software package.  True Crypt is free of course, all you do is download it and follow their tutorial and you will have yourself an encrypted drive volume in no time flat.  Then anything you stick into that drive is encrypted and only decrypted on the fly when you ask for it.  The best part about True Crypt is that you are the only person who knows the password and it uses such great encryption algorithms that, with a sufficiently long password, it would take years to break.

Happy Saturday!  So a fun activity for your free time is to join in working on some sort of open source project.  There are a large number of projects out there that can use a hand.  The place to start is to swing on over to sourceforge.net and search for a project you might be interested in using.  Source Forge is full of projects in all sorts of stages of development and all types of uses. 

Most of the projects will let you get a current version of the source from the CVS and you can make changes.  If you make any useful changes you can generally pass them back on to the group.  Some projects are organised enough that they have specific lists of things that need to be done so you can (and should) follow those lists. 

Happy Coding.