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PATH: BS | Technology Symantec Asks Users To Disable Their Products For Protection Posted by Pile (18117 views) [E-Mail link] Symantec, one of the world's largest purveyors of "security software" asked its users to disable pcAnywhere, unless it is needed for business-critical use, because malicious users with access to the source code could identify vulnerabilities and launch new exploits. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article World Health Organization: Cell Phones Likely Cause Cancer Posted by Pile (14177 views) [E-Mail link] [Technology] Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Latest Windows Update Adds Vulnerability To Firefox Posted by Pile (15587 views) [E-Mail link] In an incredible act of hubris, the latest Windows Update patch secretly installs a plug in to Firefox what implements the exact kinds of vulnerabilities that prompted users to abandon Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser! READ MORE Will Wright's Spore Gets Rule 34'd Posted by Pile (17723 views) [E-Mail link] [Vanity] We're making up a new word: SPORN We've been reporting on the evolution of Sims creator Will Wright's mega-epic game, SPORE for some time now. While still not released, this week they did make the character creator available, and in record time, the Internet community Rule 34'd SPORE. If you don't know what that means, read further... READ MORE | 4 comments since 2008-08-18 11:01:35 | Comment on this Article Los Angeles Sues Time-Warner Cable Company Posted by Pile (13373 views) [E-Mail link] For every person who had to wait forever for Time Warner Cable, Inc. to pick up the phone, for every customer who had to slog through an automated voice menu, then stew waiting to talk to a person, for every family that went days without TV or internet, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo struck a blow Friday. On behalf of the city of Los Angeles, Delgadillo sued the top cable provider for southern California, saying its service was so bad it constituted fraud and deceptive advertising. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Charter To Sell Your Web Surfing History To Other Companies Posted by Pile (13092 views) [E-Mail link] Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web. The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter customers that are meant to be related to their interests. (Visit a knitting site yesterday and see yarn ads today.) READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-05-18 09:58:40 | Comment on this Article MySpace Gets $234M Judgement Against Spam Gang Posted by Pile (12818 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] A spammer that supposedly "went clean" several years ago and left the spamming industry is again caught for sending junk mail. The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Your ISP May Be Messing With Your Internet Activity Posted by Pile (13597 views) [E-Mail link] About one percent of the Web pages being delivered on the Internet are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington. In a paper, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 computers and discovered that a small number of ISPs were injecting ads into Web pages on their networks. They also found that some Web browsing and ad-blocking software was actually making Web surfing more dangerous by introducing security vulnerabilities into pages. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article White House Fights To Avoid Backing Up Their Computers Posted by Pile (11305 views) [E-Mail link] The White House has three days to explain why it shouldn't be required to copy its computer hard drives to ensure no further e-mails are lost, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Spammer Gets Nine Years In Prison Posted by Pile (14023 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003. Jeremy Jaynes is the man who will make history. A Raleigh, North Carolina, resident who made Spamhaus' top 10 list of spammers, Jaynes was arrested in 2003 even before the CAN SPAM act was passed by Congress. Jaynes was convicted in 2005, but his lawyers appealed the conviction. This past Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld that conviction, but the vote was a narrow 4-3. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-03-07 00:59:26 | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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