Reuters: Online daters sue matchmaking Web sites for fraud > NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) – It’s not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court. It seems that just as your account [...]
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Swedens EUCD Proposal
Sweden has announced its proposal for implementing the EUCD into its own legislation. Sweden has obviously decided to take things a bit further than EUCD would require. In addition to banning distribution of copy protection circumvention tools, Sweden’s proposal makes it also illegal to download copyrighted material from P2P networks, and also adds a levy [...]
YAWW (Yet another Windows Worm)
Several antivirus companies remained on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques. New BugBear worm still spreading Will this ever stop? And it’s always windows users that are affected… I wonder why? Anyways, remember to not open email attachements with Outlook (Express) even if [...]
New PayPal Scam
The email scam claims that PayPal is trying to fight fraud, and therefore requires you to submit your personal data at a website the scammer controls for verification. The website you’re sent to uses graphics copied from the PayPal site and looks professional. The Register So, if you get an email from verification@paypal.com ignore it.
Verisign gets DNS lookup patent
Verisign has been granted a patent protecting the lookup of domain names. The patent protects the act of performing several look-ups at once, or "performing a multitude of searches simultaneously, transparent to the user. "Specifically, the improved query server searches for an existing domain name records in various domains and then displays the results in [...]
Another reason to use Mozilla
Some clever git has found a bug that crashes all versions of Internet Explorer since version 4.0. <html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html> It doesn’t crash if you include a <body> tag, so it’s not widely exploitable in forums and such.
Spammers getting desperate?
Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies. The Register It seems that the blocking of open mail relays and known spam-hosts [...]
Computer Virus tries to Exploit SARS
The virus spreads via email as usual, but it tries to get people to open the attachment containing the virus by claiming to contain recent important information about SARS. So, if you get SARS information from a friend, try to stay clear. At least run a very recent virus killer. Or even better, don’t use [...]
AOL strikes out against Spammers
America Online has filed five federal lawsuits against spammers they accuse of sending around 1 billion junk emails to their subscribers. A few of the lawsuits are against “John Doe”, meaning they don’t know who they are just yet, but with the lawsuits filed, they get additional authority to get ISPs and others help with [...]
SpamBayes
Bayesian Classification of spam is really improving. My email reader, Gnus, has a pretty good interface to bogofilter, Mozilla 1.3 and above use it, and there are loads of implementations for Outlook from Microsoft. One interface to this ultimate spam killing technique, which I recently dicovered, is from SpamBayes and is called pop3proxy.py. The ingeneous [...]