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- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...
- Tags: internet, apparent murder-suicide, escapee, murder-suicide, spam king
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonNow he'll be doing a longer stintWhen they find him. Double-dumbass on him.RE: 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonWhat the f**k kind of prison are the Feds running these days?? He just drove away?? I hope he spams the shit out of the warden...
- Tags: cyberthreats, spam king, federal prison
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m
- Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200mCrazy.200 million for some spam? That sounds like a strict punishment to me.strict punishment200 million for some spam? That sounds like a strict punishment to me.
- Tags: cyberthreats, spam, strict punishment, punishment, phishing buddy, spam king, phishing
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- U.S. indicts 'spam king' in stock fraud scheme
- U.S. indicts 'spam king' in stock fraud schemeHooray!I've gotten more than enough spam from Alan Ralsky during the past decade (it's actually easy to tell once you know what to look for). Obviously, I don't know if he's guilty of the things he's specifically charged with (though it wouldn't...
- Tags: cyberthreats, stock, alan ralsky, spam, spam king, crook, spammer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'
- MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'First question.... why isn't this scum-bucket in jail??My impression is that he was ordered to surrender only the money he gained illegally. I saw nothing in there about punitive fines. That's not really much of a deterrent. We can commit crimes and...
- Tags: spam, myspace, spam king, good name, spamming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- MySpace sues 'Spam King' Richter
- MySpace sues 'Spam King' Richterwhat does justice look like?Thank God that guy is getting some justice. I clear out thousands of phony myspace spams from my customers' mail every day. I once asked some programmers at a big ISP what "justice" would look like for a spammer, and...
- Tags: cyberthreats, richter, myspace, spam, spam king
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
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- Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, too
- This just in from the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas: Dan Kaminsky, a well-known IT security researcher, disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server flaw or DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, and where it can bite. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading reported on Kaminsky's presentation,...
- Tags: security, dns, server, soa, flaw, domain names, service-oriented architecture (soa), networking, internet, web services, enterprise software, software, joe mckendrick
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly
- A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with...
- Tags: malware, social engineering, cnn, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, e-mail, viruses and worms, security, online communications, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.
- You could almost hear the singing of the I.T. Blues coming from the audience at the afternoon keynote speech at Moscone Center. These servers run hot. (ba-dum-ba-dum); Power costs a lot. (ba-dum-ba-dum) The boss wants more space. (ba-dum-ba-dum) Finance says no way. (ba-dum-ba-dum) ...
- Tags: data center, information technology, i.t. environment, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performance
- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performanceI'll give you one thing ...... you're fast!RE: ProofreaderYou missed, "As expected, the difference in score between a system running [b]8GB[/b] of RAM and one running with only [b]8GB[/b] was small when measured with PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1."I offer ZDNet the...
- Tags: memory, vista x64, more ram, ram, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters
- Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filtersRE: Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filtersSpammers are increasingly getting more sophisticated in their attacks. Even spam mails are getting more and more dificult to decipher now adays. It seems the guys are stepping up their attacks verey time we think we have...
- Tags: spam, spammer, google inc., google sites, e-mail, pgp corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters
- Junk emailers are using Google Sites to create web pages that can help spam get around corporate filters, according to MessageLabs Spammers have added Google Sites to the arsenal of online tools used to get around junk-email filters, according to a study published on Tuesday by messaging...
- Tags: google inc., spammer, messagelabs ltd., cyberthreats, security, spam and phishing, matthew broersma zdnet.co.uk, spam, worms, malware, google, securuty, google sites
- News items 2008-08-05
- NEC AccuSync LCD22WMGX (22-inch)
- For a 22-inch display, the NEC AccuSync LCD22WMGX packs in a lot of features for its price (as low as $300 online) including built-in speakers, a headphone jack, HDMI and component connections, VGA and DVI ports, and many software-based enhancements for viewing photos. The sacrifice for these features? The monitor...
- Tags: monitors & displays, power button, nec corp., nec accusync lcd22wmgx, bezel, envision g2219w1, monitor, headphone, display
- Product reviews 2008-08-04
- FCC's Comcast ruling: Not unreasonable
- FCC's Comcast ruling: Not unreasonableSome bandwidth management neededAlthough totally blocking content is wrong, even though some of it is probably illegal content. The IP is not trying to police content but rather provide a equal experience for all of its customers with a limited amount of bandwidth. Maybe, broadband providers...
- Tags: federal government, comcast corp., fcc
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance
- A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations worldwide. Securing inbound email - while challenging enough - is less difficult than maintaining compliance with the complex, overlapping...
- Tags: financial, compliance, e-mail security, privacy, regulation, proofpoint inc., best practice, e-mail, cyberthreats, online communications, security
- White papers 2008-08-04
- Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...
- Tags: apple iphone, developer, app, melodies, medialets, games, personal technology, andrew mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Rise of the 'legit' malware sites
- About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense. This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in 'good' sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware...
- Tags: web, vulnerability, websense inc., malware, spam, attack, cyberthreats, spyware, adware & malware, channel management, security, viruses and worms, marketing, ryan naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- MailPlane (dmg)
- Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Mac Desktop. It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering you the best of both worlds. And since Mailplane doesn't change the way Gmail works, its unique...
- Tags: google gmail, mailplaneapp, mailplane, e-mail providers, cloud computing, internet
- Software downloads 2008-08-01
- CSRF vulnerability allows Twitter 'follow' abuse
- Last week, TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid wrote about an obvious Twitter vulnerability that allowed a user called "johng77536" to game the popular micro-blogging service to add thousands of followers subscribers in a short period of time. The "johng77536" account has since been disabled but a security researcher tracking...
- Tags: vulnerability, twitter, aviv raff, security, ryan naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Inside long term care with Martin Bayne
- Inside long term care with Martin BayneLife ExperienceMy wife and I considered long term care insurance and watching my grandmother's estate be completely drained to pay for facility care due to Alzheimer's. We found a site called Insure Your Future (http://www.disabilityinsuranceadvisor.com/) and called an agent. She took us...
- Tags: financial planning, long-term care, insurance, martin bayne, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
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