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Iconix has announced a new system designed to protect users against phishing. By having approved senders identified with a graphic icon in your inbox, you can be assured that the email is really from, say, PayPal or eBay, and not a phishing attempt, says Iconix.
A new variant of the Bagle virus, Bagle.cd or Bagle.da, depending upon with whom you are speaking, has hit the Internet, hiding itself in attachment files called “price_new.zip”, “price2.zip” or “09_price.zip”. This Trojan-launched virus is particularly nasty, in that it both turns off nearly every security program out there, and it also blocks […]
Mepe.A is a new instant messaging worm with a twist: it is targeting primarily the Latino community. Mepe.A sends an instant message which says “te mandaron un recado conmigo, ya te has de imaginar quien y si no sabes me dijo que no te dijera quien, me dijo que te lo escribio […]
Snoozester is an online wake-up call and date reminder service which has been in beta for a while. Offering wake-up calls, reminder calls, and reminder email, Snoozester has just declared that their beta period has proven that their system works, and scales, and they are now moving on to Beta 2.
Displaced Hurricane Katrina victims may file for a special new ZIP code, and may do so online, announced the United States Postal Service (USPS) today.
For example, many of Hurricane Katrina’s displaced are being housed at the Houston Astrodome, and the USPS has assigned the special zip code of 77230 to that facility meaning, at least […]
Home sex videos, taken on cell phones (c’mon, guys!), were being sold by a Greek cell phone repairman, without his customers’ knowledge. In other words, customers would bring in their cell phones for repair, the repairman would find these home sex videos on the cell phones, and then download them to his own computer, […]
In the continuing saga of Microsoft suing Google for their poaching Dr. Kai-Fu Lee to come work for Google, and Kau-Fu Lee being stopped from starting his job at Google by the Court, today the Court issued an order ruling that Dr. Lee can start his job at Google, with some restrictions, pending the outcome […]
A critical security flaw in Firefox was disclosed yesterday, and patched today. Now that’s what I call quick service.
The flaw in Firefox was a buffer overflow flaw which allowed remote code execution, if exploited, meaning that people could access your system remotely, and run programs and do other nasty things on your computer, all […]
A man has hung himself while in video chat online, in an ultimate and bizarre reversal of the online viewing experience. Usually you hear about people watching something they perhaps shouldn’t be, and they don’t want the watched to know that they are being watched.
A Hurricane Katrina email hoax, believed to the first, but almost certainly not the last, Hurricane Katrina email hoax, was sighted yesterday.
“Hello, For those who don’t know me real name it is Brenda or (loily) for some of you,” is how the email hoax, which John “Highway” Wu, over at Highwayman.org received.