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I am absolutely disgusted, people that buy WiFi equipment should be required to prove that they know how to secure these type of network connections. But it could be much worse imagine you are a upstanding member of the community and the police come to your door and arrest you for downloading kiddie porn. Well the haul you to jail
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.
If you have not already purchased a third party firewall then at the very least you should go to the Microsoft web site and follow there security instructions to help eliminate any chance your system is compromised. [Microsoft]
How would you like to wake up one morning load your web browser and the domain you have worked so hard to build branding and user following has been hijacked! Seems this is still going on when will it end. [TechWorld]
For those of you that have certain versions of Exchange server running you need to disable the Guest account. [ZDNet]
Companies leave there WiFi exposed and then they get pissed when a couple of people hack their network but it appears the two that where hacking Lowes were not just after some broadband access. [TechDirt] [Detroit Free Press]
The U.S. Copyright Office ruled this week that a manufacturer of low-cost, third-party printer ink cartridges can continue to make and sell cartridges for Lexmark printers. This ruling will have broad impact on the printer consumable market as alternative brands of ink cartridges may now move from the black market to retail store shelves.