It appears that the Insignia digital photo frame we discussed last month is not the first frame of the season to suffer from a malware-infected virus that was built-in during its manufacturing process. So you might finally have a reason to think twice about buying that last-minute frame for your aunt or uncle. (Did you ever have a reason to buy one in the first place?)
According to our Threat Level blog, the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute's Internet Storm Center has been building a survey of infected gadgets that include a digital frame made by ADS (Advanced Design Systems) and was sold at Sam’s Club, before it was removed. The list also includes a Flip video cam virus and an external One Touch Backup Hard Drive from Maxtor resulting in a blue screen of death. All involve malware that passed through the companies' inspection and probably could have been prevented.
There's also a note on the survey for some infected MP3-playing sunglasses, which the anonymous user did not specify but sounds a lot like the Oakley thumps we reviewed awhile back.
