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- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thrivingWhy shouldn't everyone want to make illegal...... the writing and publication of exploits? For any expressed purpose.How long will the idea of goading the software companies prevent people from realizing that the difference between a malign and supposedly useful exploit is the...
- Tags: Black Market, day vulnerability, Canadian Law, exploit
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- First China, now Canada: Modern thought police
- First China, now Canada: Modern thought policeAwww... this is...an abomination!Get the facts rightIt might be worth researching the facts of the case. The application to the CRTC does not seek an order to block offensive content.There is a website that calls for a specific Canadian lawyer to be murdered and...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Web site development, Web technology, Internet Service Provider, Web site, Blog Site, CRTC, Canadian Law
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- 4.5 mln Americans annually become victims of advance fee scam
- According to FTC, nearly 4.5 million people each year fall for advance fee scam - a scam where poor-credit individuals are offered rock-bottom interest rates on credit cards with annual fee charged in advance by scammers. Phonebusters, a cooperative effort between US and Canadian law enforcement agencies, estimates phone fraud...
- Tags: Canadian law enforcement agency, Canadian Law
- Blog posts 2004-11-16
- Phone fraud is a billion dollar industry
- Phonebusters, a cooperative effort between U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies, estimates phone fraud to be a $1 billion a year business now. The FBI estimates that U.S. citizens send $100 million each year to Canadian con artists.
- Tags: Canadian Law, Canadian law enforcement agency, telephone
- Blog posts 2004-09-27
Additional Resources
- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...
- Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- Gangs know what encryption is. They are using it in force at the street level, let alone at the very top. Rim's BlackBerries are the ultimate in security for them. Everything is secured and impossible to monitor by police. The Vancouver Sun / Canada.com report interviewed the...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Security, Hardware, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents
- Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction
- RE: Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction Still thieves not "innovators".failed to live up to his role as "gatekeeper"...In English, that translates to "We lost, therefore somebody must have cheated." Microsoft as a company clearly believes that it simply can do no wrong. They must have attended the...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, I4i, Word injunction
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Examine the patent that made selling Microsoft Word a crime
- Updated: Microsoft is barred from selling any Microsoft Word products that can open XML files (.xml, .docx and .docm), according to a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of i4i, a small Canadian company that sued the software giant for patent infringement. What's this mean Techmeme? For...
- Tags: Word-processing, Patent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- First-ever arrest of domain-name thief involves Clippers' Madsen
- In the first-ever U.S. arrest of a domain-name thief, New Jersey state police have arrested a man suspected of stealing the domain name P2P.com. In an unusual celebrity twist, Donald Gonclave then sold the domain name to L.A. Clippers forward Mark Madsen on eBay for $110,000,...
- Tags: GoDaddy, Domain Name, Albert Angel, Domain Names, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all
- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us allabsurd eh!So Arrington thinks Sam's litigation was absurd, and has decided not to submit to the the jurisdiction of the UK courts. I heard Mike was a lawyer, so it seems strange tactics to me - and surely he's been...
- Tags: INTERNET, Michael Arrington
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Modern threats to American liberty
- Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-07-04
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House
- Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...
- Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rulesHow convenientI love how something was done about this only after something ended up in the news. Gotta go after those impressionable, stupid voters!Meanwhile, I can still look up a lot of these very same ads in the Yellow Pages,...
- Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, adult section
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch
- The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch"I learn from criticism"There certainly is no shortage of that around here. I visit here often but it's not out of loyalty, more like a junkie getting his fix. I would really like to kick the habit and move on to looking and...
- Tags: Government, Tools & Techniques, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Planetside, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Dana
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- If Blackberry Maker Eavesdrops On Itself, Who Else Gets To?
- It’s good to find that R.I.M. does not actually record employee phone calls, according to a company representative contacted this afternoon by Between The Lines. Because what is so piquant about the original comment carried by Research In Motion chief information officer Robin Bienfait that she records...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Communication, RIM BlackBerry, R.I.M., Handhelds, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Heartland finds malware in bank card payment system
- Heartland Payment Systems, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., has suffered a malware breach that may be linked to a "widespread global cyber fraud operation." In a statement (see Adam O'Donnell's coverage), the company said its system...
- Tags: Bank, Payment, Malware, Fraud Operation, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Operational Accounting, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- iGeneration 2008 in review
- I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer
- Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a...
- Tags: Facebook, Judgement, Spammer, E-mail World, E-mail, Spam, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Canadian pol demands rural Net access as a 'human right'
- Internet access is a human right! So argues Canadian Tory candidate Jack Carr, who has filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission over the lack of Net in rural parts of the province, the Daily Gleaner reports. "It is...
- Tags: Internet Access, Complaint, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
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