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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 sites that may not be resolving to a page of their choosing. The SiteFinder site is nothing but a search
So far each company have offered up $250,000 dollars each for leads that will result in the arrest and conviction of the creator of the MyDoom.B Virus. [SCO] [ZDNet]
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.
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 someone opening up credit accounts and buying Adult materials under the assumed name. If you don't currently use a service
It is important to stand shoulder to shoulder and let SCO know that they cannot play the heavy handed extortion techniques that the RIAA uses on individuals with companies. At least big companies have good legal advise and can respond to such tactics. Great letter to SCO from the CIO of Just Sports USA.
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]
I just wonder how many people in the United States have their computers seized every year from Law Enforcement? Well if you want to know how it goes down read this. [squeedlyspooch.com]