Crime

Verisign to re-launch Despised SiteFinder

What a topic to have to write about. Verisign will join the ranks of SCO and a few other companies for being 100% idiots. Verisign has decided to re-launch SiteFinder. They will hijack sites that are reporting 404 codes or…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime, Dave's Muse, Information, Operating Systems, Security, Services, Software, Technical

Mydoom Worm Makes a Name for Itself in a Hurry

The Mydoom worm (a.k.a. Shimgapi and Novarg) is making a fast name for itself and has been detected in 142 countries and currently accounts for 8.5% of all Internet e-mail, according to a leading security company.The worm arrives in an e-mail file attachment. The e-mail body varies from blank to highly technical jargon...all of which are designed to fool the recipient into opening the attached (infected) file which has a common extension such as ZIP, SCR, EXE, or PIF.

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Todd Cochrane
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Crime

Identity Theft on the Rise

Complaints are up 45% from the previous year to the FTC over Identity Theft. The problem continues to grow with very little legislative action. All it will take is for some Senator to have his life stolen from him with…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

532 poor saps getting sued by the RIAA

Well the RIAA who continues to strong arm consumers in Mafia like tactics have went after 532 more file swappers. I wonder how many 12 yr olds and grandparents they are going to get this time. [ZDNet]

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Todd Cochrane