Beware of the new Storm Worm variant

Yahoo!News warns that “[a] huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus.” According to FT.com, “[t]he world’s biggest music companies are expected to ask Apple to introduce a music [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:15:31-05:00April 13th, 2007|Blog, Uncategorized|

As cyber-crime is becoming more sophisticated, the FTC threatens spyware distributors with prison sentences

InfoWorld reports that “[t]he latest research report from McAfee's Avert Labs paints a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators and end-users, predicting continued maturation of cyber-crime and the technological means being used to carry out external attacks.”  CNetNews.com writes that “[a]t a morning Senate Commerce Committee hearing [in Washington DC], [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:15:31-05:00April 11th, 2007|Blog, Uncategorized|

Can we bore impatient spammers out of business?

The Washington Post reports that “[a] Canadian company has developed new technology to capitalize on that impatience [of spammers] to cut the volume of unwanted e-mail messages flooding the Internet.”  More specifically, “MailChannels of Vancouver […] found that by forcing e-mail programs to wait a few seconds before being allowed [...]

By |2007-04-10T18:32:45-04:00April 10th, 2007|Blog, Uncategorized|

A code of conduct for bloggers?

The International Herald Tribune reports that “a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. […]  Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers consider banning anonymous comments left by visitors to their pages and be able to [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:15:31-05:00April 9th, 2007|Blog, Uncategorized|

Groklaw posters tie themselves in knots

I’ve been reading comments here on Groklaw about the great ODF vs. OOXML ‘war’ between IBM and Microsoft.  But what really has me scratching my head is how hatred for all things MS has moved people to blindly support another big company.  I’m stunned by the weird inverse logic that [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:15:31-05:00April 9th, 2007|Blog, Uncategorized|
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