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Security Focus is reporting: "An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's emergency and roadside assistance features." I am sure the FBI can bug a car using traditional methods but where looking
It is very sad that MP3.COm content is going to be destroyed the works of thousands of bands and largely unknown artist. On December 2nd all informations will be "del *.*" They have sent out notices to all site owners get your stuff of the site because if you do not it is going to bit bucket heaven. This is
Seems an individual lost his cool when he tried to get removed from a spammers mailing list. His mistake was making threats of killing employees and sending anthrax to them in the mail. It is frustrating at times I have leveraged my frustration by adding 3-4 layers of spam defense which has cut the amount of spam I get by
Spam is an ever-increasing annoyance for e-mail users. Most people have some form of spam filtering application that reduces the instances of the frequently offensive unsolicited commercial messages. Many of these filters seek to identify spam based on the address from which the message is sent, but spammers are already wise to this trick, and spoofing is now commonplace. By hiding or misdirecting their transmission source, spammers make it exceedingly difficult for most users to determine from where the spam message actually came.
It's nice to see a company stand up and fight the RIAA. When a organization like the RIAA can send lawyers and lobbyist to Washington DC along with contributing to politicians re-election war-chest on one front and churn out subpoenas against 12 yr old girls and grandfathers on the other the battle against the RIAA needs all the help it
SCO has has there lawyers busy issuing subpoenas to a variety of companies and individuals what information they are looking for has not been released but one does not have to ponder what they are digging for. [ZDNet]
Microsoft it seems is set to put it's money where it's mouth is and offer a $250,000 reward leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible for 2 recent viruses. I am glad they are doing this but shouldn't they be offering a bounty to anyone that finds a bug seems that would be more of a incentive. [The Register]