A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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Dell has announced they will be shipping Ubuntu 7.0.4 Feisty Fawn on their new Linux based PC’s
This could be a really good thing for the Linux, as well as the Open Source Communities. I’m very cautious, yet also somewhat excited about this news. I’m still not convinced that Linux is ready for the desktop arena. I’ve been skeptical about […]
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Apple Macbook hacked at a security event. I had read about this contest, they were giving away a couple of MacBooks if you could hack one. They called it amusingly “PWN to Own.” PWN being a hacker word that means to own or to take control of something (anything really). Â
It took the security about 9 hours to write […]
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This article is very scary. For this to happen to a large company like TJX is bad. But what is really interesting is that this wasn’t an e-tailer. This was a large chain store that had their brick and mortor security breeched apparently over the Internet. It seems today no data is safe.Â
It did take them […]
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I have wondered what it is like to not have the Internet. I have been ‘online’ in one way or another since I was 7 years old. This is no small feat considering I was 7 in 1984. My mother even uses a computer hooked up to the Internet. My father on the other hand […]
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I’m a bit late with this. Registerfly.com, that I talked about in a previous post, has been given the boot by ICANN for non-compliance. It looks like they haven’t pulled the logos off the site yet. Not surprising, they probably can’t login to them to do it. They have until the 31st before ICANN pulls […]
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We’re starting to see some serious grumblings from Registerfly.com users, as well the news media. There is something major going on over there, and they may well go down in flames. It’s not certain at all what is happening. It appears their CEO might have been stealing money and using it for liposuction? But the bottom line […]
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Here is an interesting article about a recent attack on the Internet’s root servers in February. If anyone wants to take down the Internet, and there are people who DO want to take down the Internet, this is how they are probably going to do it.Â
One of the ways the Internet works is by allowing you to […]
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Finally some good news. Verizon won a case against a new breed of spammers. This is the type of thing I would like to see happen more with big companies like Verizon. They were able to win this because of the way the spam was sent. It is a violation of the Federal Telephone Consumer […]
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