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CNN: Another Target in Information Warfare? Friday April 25, 2008 at 4:53 am CST Posted by Di Tian Trackback I was not at all surprised when I first saw the Trojan named anticnn.exe, because I’ve followed...
April 11th, 2008 Reports of Windows’ demise are greatly exaggerated Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:43 am I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner’s “Windows will collapse under its own weight” presentation...
Gartner explains why Windows is broken By Esther Schindler , CIO , 04/10/2008 In a session at the Gartner Emerging Trends conference today, analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver identified many reasons...
Comcast-BitTorrent: The Net's finally growing up The way the two companies settled their dispute suggests that the Internet may really become a good way to distribute media. By David Kirkpatrick ,...
Update: Microsoft admits it knew about, didn't patch, bugs Gregg Keizer document.write(''); document.write(''); if ((!document.images && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mozilla...
Microsoft signs contact-sharing deals with five social-networking sites Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:15 am Categories: Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Research , Windows Mobile , Google , Facebook Tags...
Friday, February 8th Comcast changes terms to allow traffic throttling Comcast has changed the wording of its terms of service to allow controversial behavior on its part, reports say. The company was...
Viagra shop busted in Sweden Posted by Mikko @ 15:33 GMT | Seven men are prosecuted in Sweden for running an illegal online pharmacy. These men are accused for running several web shops selling prescription...
And yet another cable break in the mid east Published: 2008-02-04, Last Updated: 2008-02-04 02:18:18 UTC by Swa Frantzen (Version: 2) On NANOG are reports of yet another submarine cable in the middle east...
More cable outages in the middle east Published: 2008-02-01, Last Updated: 2008-02-01 19:35:37 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 1) According to news reports, a third undersea cable to the middle east...
DOH!! I didn't see this one coming! Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo Software giant makes cash and stock offer of $31 a share, a 62% premium from Yahoo's closing price on Thursday. By Chris...
Windows 7 fake spotted on BitTorrent Nothing to see here, please move along By John Leyden → More by this author Published Tuesday 29th January 2008 13:50 GMT Pranksters have taken advantage of interest...
Decreased/non-existant connectivity to the Middle-East Published: 2008-01-30, Last Updated: 2008-01-30 19:56:11 UTC by Toby Kohlenberg (Version: 1) There are a number of sties reporting that the undersea...
ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 30, @08:09AM from the not-before-time dept. jehnx writes "Following Google's crackdown on 'domain tasters'...
McAfee Bakes Encryption Into Data Protection By Brian Prince 2008-01-21 Encryption capabilities to target leaks at the network, endpoint and mobile device-levels. McAfee has baked encryption technology...
Confidential details fall off the back of lorries Brace of breaches By John Leyden → More by this author Published Monday 14th January 2008 11:51 GMT A box containing the banking details of 200 rich investors...
E-commerce Sites Invaded January 14th, 2008 by Carolyn Guevarra TrendLabs received reports of a massive attack against legitimate e-commerce Web sites, particularly in the U.K., with one or two references...
I got this e-mail from Ken Smith, the Zango CTO, concerning the recent news flurry about the "Secret Crush" app on Facebook. In the interest of equal time for all parties, I have included it...
Nintendo Wii Hacked January 3rd, 2008 by Bernadette Irinco Considered to be one of the most successful game consoles of all time, Nintendo Wii seems to be invulnerable, until now. According to The Register...
FCC to probe Comcast data discrimination Agency prompted by complaints from consumer groups, legal scholars By Peter Svensson The Associated Press updated 4:00 p.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008 function UpdateTimeStamp...
Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly Spam voting By Nick Farrell : Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:21 AM A NEW feature on Comcast which blocks email identified as spam has been causing merry hell. In...
Arrested mules Posted by Patrik @ 04:20 GMT | Over the last few days we've done a few posts on money mules and today it was announced that the Dutch police have arrested 14 suspected money mules for...
Orkut spam worm spotted! Wednesday December 19, 2007 at 1:25 pm CST Posted by Vinay Mahadik Trackback I analyzed some suspicious scrap “2008 vem ai… que ele comece mto bem para vc” from a bunch of friends...
Holiday Roast Posted by Toni @ 16:08 GMT | Comments Yesterday the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation published a press release related to Operation 'Bot Roast II' . The operation revealed...
Bot Roast II completed On November 29 the FBI announced the results of its second Bot Roast ( see the FBI release ). This is the FBI operation responsible for hunting out and attempting to bring to justice...
Her Majesty’s CDs Stolen November 22nd, 2007 by JM Hipolito United Kingdom–More than a month after Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) admitted to losing a laptop containing data on 400 of its customers...
Comcast Hit with FCC Complaint Over P2P Blocking 11.01.07 by Chloe Albanesius Internet advocacy groups are none too pleased with Comcast. The SavetheInternet.com coalition and several academics on Thursday...
More BS from Comcast Comcast to employees: talking about blocking P2P can get you fired By Eric Bangeman | Published: October 28, 2007 - 09:46PM CT In the wake of the discovery that Comcast is blocking...
PDF mailto exploit documents in the wild Published: 2007-10-23, Last Updated: 2007-10-24 00:18:25 UTC by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 2) The vulnerability initially reported here http://isc.sans.org/diary...
Well this certainly explains a few things... October 22, 2007, 9:41 pm Comcast: We’re Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic By Brad Stone Tags: BitTorrent , Comcast , piracy Last week, the folks at...
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