Archive for July 5th, 2005
New email address registries for "Do not contact"

Utah and Michigan are the first two states to have both passed the legislation which is aimed at minors having access to otherwise unwanted, sexually explicit or violent electronic communications.

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Kevin Mitnick: Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent

Could hackers take over a continent?
CIA agent Knuth had been very insistent when he recruited Flir. He needed personal student information, including social security numbers, and, as an agent for a non-domestically focused intelligence agency, didn't have the authority to get such from the US government.

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RSS: Safe At Any Feed?

with Microsoft's move to integrate RSS into the Windows operating system, and build it into Internet Explorer, still the dominant browser, the idea that hackers and scammers will turn to RSS gains some credence.”RSS in the operating system and IE likely means that more people will be saying 'let's start looking for vulnerabilities,'”

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British security firm Sophos warns about a new threat

British security firm Sophos is warning e-mail users worldwide about a new worm called Kedebe (W32/ Kedebe-F) designed to compromise computer security.

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