U.K. spammer gets two-month curfew
Teen receives sentence for sending 5 million e-mails to a former employer that crashed the company's servers.
IBM to buy ISS for .3 billion
Latest buy in rapid-fire spending spree, to bolster security services, is set to close in fourth quarter.
IE patch carries security bug
Microsoft's most recent security update introduces a serious security flaw on some Windows systems.
Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs
Malicious code that exploits a recent Windows hole is leading to growth in the number of hijacked PCs, CipherTrust says.
AT&T says cooperation with NSA could be legal
Company's lobbyist says "very specific" law authorizes surveillance cooperation, which might let companies off the hook in suits.
Highway regulators: Car 'black boxes' can't be secret
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says carmakers will need to notify buyers about the recorders.
Photos: Watched at the wheel
Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked
Famed security consultant has tables turned on him when a hacker attacks his site, posts a vulgar message.
Homeland Security chief promises privacy safeguards
Law enforcement will take care not to overstep privacy bounds as intelligence gathering is increased, Michael Chertoff says.
Infineon gets order for U.S. passport chips
German chipmaker says it's won a contract to supply "several million" RFID chips for e-passport system.
Sleek snoop center still leans on human factor
High-tech eye candy, yes. But law enforcement intelligence center still relies on human communications.
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Vonage and spyware Pushing Zango - out of MySpace Pushing Zango on MySpace Direct Revenue plotted to hijack your computer Second lawsuit over WGA and Microsoft pulling WGA New malware poses as WGA validation and notification User suing Microsoft over WGA notification, calling it spyware Engaged in marketing adware and anti-adware The perpetual malware distribution site lives on Claria wants you to uninstall their software
Ben Edelman has documented with screenshots, packet logs and diagrams the relationship between Vonage and spyware. Vonage is caught being advertised by pop-ups from Direct Revenue, Targetsaver and others, sometimes not in the appropriate circumstances.
Last week I blogged about Pushing Zango on MySpace and linked to Paperghost’s blog asking if teenagers are being unwittingly used to push Zango on my space. It looks like Paperghost (aka Chris Boyd) managed to create a bit of a stir on the subject and now it looks like Zango is on its way out.
Chris Boyd asked the question yesterday, Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace? It does indeed look like teenagers, and older MySpace users as well, are being used to push Zango and not making a dime for it. But the Zango affiliates and Zango itself must be taking in lots of $$$. How is this happening? There are [...]
Fascinating article here in BusinessWeek Online with never before published details about Direct Revenue's inner workings and the people involved. There are a lot of juicy tidbits, including how the Dark Arts department crafted software "torpedoes" to kill competitors', other adware vendors, software. Then CEO Joshua Abrams is quoted as saying "it's a license to [...]
From CNET's News.com:Microsoft has been named in a second lawsuit over its antipiracy Windows Genuine Advantage program, which plaintiffs allege acts as "spyware" on their systems. This time a lawsuit was filed by several companies as a class action in US District Court in Seattle. Full details here. Microsoft says both lawsuits have no merit [...]
A new piece of very nasty malware has been recently discovered on spyware help forums, first here and again here. The file name is wgavn.exe and it creates a service named "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification",
From the Seattle PI:A computer user is suing Microsoft Corp. over the company's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware.The suit by Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, seeks class-action status for claims that Microsoft didn't adequately disclose details of the tool [...]
Here’s a lesson in Conflict of Interest 101. A new so-called adware removal program hit the net recently — literally hit the net as in being downloaded through exploits and bundled with other nasty-ware like DollarRevenue and Look2Me. This program is called AdwareFinder.
In the course of my work, I see or hear about a lot of sites used for phishing and for distribution of malware. There are teams of people working constantly toward getting these shut down, but some just keep distributing malware even after the ISP/hosting company is notified. Security expert Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks blogged about one [...]
Claria, formerly known as Gator, issued a statement on their website stating that all GAIN software will stop displaying pop up ads on July 1, 2006. That sounds like a good thing, yes? Claria will cease supporting all GAIN supported applications on October 1, 2006.