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Comcast has announced a new program that will alert customers when suspicious activity is detected coming from their computers.  The alerts will pop up on the homepage and be triggered by such things a sudden and sharp spike in traffic coming from a customer’s IP, known bot behavior and customer… Continue Reading »

Summer is in full swing as are the companies making moves that make Katherine Heigl movies look good.  This week: the world went nuts without twitter, the spammers are back, Google goes offline, and the future of television. Continue Reading »

Today let’s take a look at botnets.  This is the tool of choice for spammers everywhere.  A botnet is a collection of computers, known as zombies, that have been infected by malware.  The malware enables the criminal in charge of the group, also known as the bot master, to control… Continue Reading »

A U.S. judge has shut down an ISP after FTC complaints that it offered a haven to spammers, child pornographers, hackers, and more.  ISP Pricewert, also known as 3FN and APS Telecom has been disconnected from the net. The FTC claimed the ISP deliberately advertised to malware distributors, botnet servers,… Continue Reading »

Infamous ISP Intercage (also known as Atrivo) has been knocked off line. Their upstream provider, Pacific Internet Exchange terminated their service. Intercage’s president, Emil Kacperski, blames Spamhaus. Spamhaus, an anti-spam organization that puts together a widely used blacklist, has been very critical of Intercage for years. It placed Pacific Internet… Continue Reading »

  MySpace has won its lawsuit against infamous spammer Sanford Wallace, dubbed the “Spam King”. MySpace was awarded a legal judgment after Wallace ignored numerous requests to turn over documents and ultimately failed to show up in court. The suit was filed last year, accusing Wallace of running a phishing… Continue Reading »

An anonymous programmer going by the name “John Wane” has claimed to have cracked Yahoo’s CAPTCHA software. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) software is used by most major websites, including Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, and others, to prevent automated systems from creating thousands of… Continue Reading »

TorPark is a new browser that has been developed by an activist group for human rights and privacy called Hactivismo. The new browser is based on securing user privacy. It works off of the network of Tor servers referred to commonly as “Onion Servers.” The Tor servers mask your identity… Continue Reading »