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Dell Shuts Down Part Of Its Online Customer Service Posted by Pile (8233 views) [E-Mail link]
Want to complain on Dell's website about its customer service? Too late - the Customer Support Forums, operational until last Friday, have been shut down, apparently to try to quell bad publicity there about Dell products and especially after-care service.
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Researchers Say Spam Is Good For You Posted by Pile (10012 views) [E-Mail link]	[Dubious Research] [Spam]
According to a report published at LiveScience, A steady diet of spam -- the electronic variety -- can be good for you. Researchers split a group of more than 2,100 Canadians into two groups. One group got emails that promoted healthy lifestyles, the other got none. Those who were 'spammed' apparently saw their body mass go down.. Unfortunately, these boneheads sent out daily affirmations, not a barrage of teen sex, mortgage and stock scams, and cheap medications. It's quite a stretch for these people to call their research on "spam" as most of us define it.
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Koreans Launch Cyber-Attack Against Ill-Mannered Woman Posted by Pile (7128 views) [E-Mail link]	[Activists]
Ok, you're on a train in Korea carrying your little doggie and he makes a mess on the floor. What do you do? a) Clean it up b) Ignore fellow passengers requests that you clean up your dog's mess, tell them to F-off, have someone take pictures of you from their cameraphone and post it all over the Internet, creating a country-wide witch hunt, exposing your identity and ruining your life. If you answered A, you'd be smart. If you answered B, you'd be this girl.
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Hotmail Users' Security/Privacy at Risk Posted by Pile (9003 views) [E-Mail link]
Microsoft took part of its MSN Web site offline over the weekend, after it learned of a flaw that could let an attacker gain access to Hotmail accounts, the company said.
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Hackers Shut Down Phishing Sites Posted by Pile (8322 views) [E-Mail link]	[Activists]
In the wake of the government and law enforcement's seemingly profound inability to enforce fraud laws and go after spammers and scammers online, computer people are taking matters into their own hands and taking action against online scam operations.
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Microsoft DNS Exploit Hits IE Users All Over Posted by Pile (9907 views) [E-Mail link]
While most of the Internet is using Unix-based DNS servers to handle hostname resolution, some companies and ISPs using Windows servers have been hit with a nasty attack that redirects .com addresses to special web sites that look for users running Internet Explorer and loads their systems with spyware and other malicious programs. Reason # 34,987,343 why you should be using Firefox and stay away from ISPs who are foolish enough to be running Microsoft servers for stuff like DNS.
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PA Republican Wants To Stop Free Weather Reports Posted by Pile (8017 views) [E-Mail link]
Pennsylvania representative Rick Santorum, under the control of corporate interests who run commercial weather services, is introducing legislation to shut down the free weather information available online from the National Weather Service. This is taxpayer-funded, valuable information available to the people that is encroaching on profits of select corporate interests and they're buying politicians to shut it down. Shame Shame.
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Comcast Sued For Selling Out Their Customers Posted by Pile (11563 views) [E-Mail link]
A Washington mother of two is suing Comcast for releasing her personal information to the RIAA, who then unleashed a collection agency to extort $4500 from her for downloading copyrighted music, or face legal action. The issue here is that Comcast burped out customer information without appropriate legal due process. Let this be a lesson to cable Internet customers... companies like Comcast don't respect your rights. At least DSL from telephone companies are more respectful of customers' privacy.
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Your Macromedia/Flash Browser Plug-In Has Been Spying on You! Posted by Pile (7788 views) [E-Mail link]
Who knew? Though we probably should have suspected, that Macromedia's Flash Plug-in, which most browsers are using to view cute animation and annoying ads, also has the ability to store personal identification information and even listen in on your computer's microphone or internet-enabled camera!
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How To Destroy A Web Page For Fun Posted by Pile (14164 views) [E-Mail link]	[The "Buzz"]
A new site promises an interesting and creative way for people to take their frustrations out on web sites. Still no cure for cancer, but it's refreshing to know that more technical people are spending so much time and energy on important pursuits like these.
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Utah Governor Forces ISPs To Filter Internet Content Posted by Pile (8414 views) [E-Mail link]
Utah's governor has defied criticism from technology firms and free speech activists to sign into law a bill designed to protect children from Internet pornography, which forces ISPs to block access to web sites deemed "harmful to minors". Utah huh? I thought the Mormons were supposed to be the model family structure? Are they now admitting that they need state-sanctioned help in controlling what media their children have access to? Then again, this state also has the highest prozac consumption in the country, so methinks this bubble has finally burst.
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Online Banks' Poor Web Design Compromises Customers' Security Posted by Pile (7791 views) [E-Mail link]
The "net-smart" consumer knows better than to fall for phishing scams where dubious people try to con you into submitting personal information into a mysterious web form, but now thanks vulnerabilities and poor design in many online banks' web sites themselves, crooks can use the bank's web site, such as Charter One to display the illegal activity within a frame from their own web site! To add insult to injury, Netcraft reports that most banks are among the slowest entities to fix these types of problems.
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DailyKOS offline/down/sabotaged Posted by Pile (10177 views) [E-Mail link]	[Activists]
The infamous left-oriented web site DailyKOS, for whatever reason, is currently offline. It's actually still online but due to site design, poor choice in domain registrar, they are being kept offline.
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Amazon seeks to patent search history, and never delete it. Posted by Pile (8490 views) [E-Mail link]
The USPTO has published Amazon.com's patent application for Persistently storing and serving event data, a fancy way of saying Amazon wants to own the process of remembering everything a user searches on. What's even more interesting is that as part of the patent application, Amazon's version of allowing a user to "delete his search history" merely renders the information "undisplayable" but still makes the information available for other (potentially dubious?) uses. Furthermore, Amazon requested the USPTO to not make the application public.
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Gangsta Cultcha Hits Da Search Engines Y'erd Meh! Posted by Pile (15452 views) [E-Mail link]	[The "Buzz"]
You say you want to do some research for your term paper, but you want it with an urban, gangsta rap edge that so beautifully epitomizes your Infro-mational needz? Well, worry no mo, mah nizzle... Gazoogle iz in da howze!
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Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Launching WebTV 911 Worm Posted by Pile (5562 views) [E-Mail link]
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that, roughly a year after his arrest, David Jeansonne pleaded guilty Tuesday to two criminal counts in a scheme that sent email to users of Microsoft's WebTV Internet service containing an attachment that, when opened, reprogrammed their computers to dial 9-1-1 without their knowledge. It still unclear what motivated this 43-year-old to launch such a bizarre worm, then again, we are talking Louisiana.
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AOL unsubscribes its users from Usenet Posted by Pile (6070 views) [E-Mail link]
The world's largest ISP is cutting off direct access to one of the oldest, coolest -- and strangest -- parts of the Internet.
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Finally a state Attorney General sues some spammers Posted by Pile (8808 views) [E-Mail link]	[Spam]
In what appears to be a long, long, long overdue move on the part of state attorney generals to get off their asses and start taking action against spammers, the state of Texas and specifically AG Greg Abbott has stepped up and is suing two men believed to be among the largest spammers in the United States. Unfortunately this is only a civil case... but hopefully there will be criminal prosecution to follow.
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Another Microsoft vulnerability: cursors and icon files Posted by Pile (9035 views) [E-Mail link]
CERT writes, "Microsoft Windows contains multiple vulnerabilities in the way that it handles cursor and icon files. A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition." In other words, yet more vulnerabilities in core Widnows routines which make IE and other systems vulnerable to exploitation by visiting web sites which load these files. Be especially wary now of the favicon.ico files which most web sites load which give you those cute little icons next to the web address in your browser.. they can cause your computer to be compromised.
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Google blog reveals lonely life of techies Posted by Pile (8590 views) [E-Mail link]	[Lonely People]
"At Google we take user email seriously. If you ask us for help with a Google-related problem, we'll do our best to solve it. If you send us product feedback, we'll consider and perhaps implement your suggestion. And if you impugn the artistic integrity of the guy who draws the Google doodles, you can expect a very direct and very public smackdown."
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