China shutdown high volume spam servers
In a move that is winning praises China has cracked down on high volume Spam Server sites. Not as easy to do in the United States but I guess in a communist state they can do whatever they please. [ZDNet]
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Crime
Identity Theft the truth will scare you!
When I read the article from PC Magazine on the FTC's released data on Identity Theft blew me away. "The Federal Trade Commission made public some startling statistics on identity theft this week. According to their own survey data, 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, and a whopping 9.9 million people joined
Should you put your Wifi Access Port on a timer
This information is a few days old but should give you something to think about. Seems some thieves have been targeting houses that have WiFi and stealing laptops. Source has remained anonymous but makes you wonder. [Joho the Blog] [SmartId WiFi Detector]
SCO hit with Denial of Service Attack
Nothing like becoming public enemy number 1. If SCO continues with the attack on Linux they might as well put a for sale sign up. I would hate to ever piss that community off. [InfoWorld]
Online gripe forum tackles mobile spam
If you've being ticked off by poor service or peeved by annoying mobile spam messages, help is at hand. Grumbletext provides a forum to publicise UK mobile phone scams. It's a Vmyths for the mobile generation, with more interactivity built in. [The Register]
SCO admits wanting to KILL OPEN SOURCE!
SCO's lawyers admissions that it want's to invalidate Open Source and the Linux GPL has raised my eyebrows and has the attention of the entire computing world. I personally think that the desperation they are showing shows that the dynamics of software licensing is about to change. Obviously corporations do not want to have to spend millions of dollars to
Microsoft claims victory over Blaster worm
Microsoft said it had thwarted a hacker's attempt to attack the software maker's most important website with a computer worm that itself contained a critical flaw. The so-called Blaster worm, which still infects an estimated 300,000 computers worldwide, was programmed to bombard the Windows Update site from the stroke of midnight in each country Saturday morning. The attacks began midmorning