Escaped 'spam king' allegedly kills self, family
July 28, 2008
Bodies of Eddie Davidson–who was serving prison time for a spam conviction–his wife, and their 3-year-old daughter are found in an SUV in Colorado.
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SF employee accused of setting network sabotage time bomb
July 28, 2008
San Francisco city computer engineer remains held on $5 million bail, accused of hijacking city network and arranging it to self-destruct during the next routine maintenance or outage.
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'Hijacked' SF passwords made public
July 28, 2008
District attorney’s office has apparently taken usernames and passwords ‘hijacked’ by a city network admin and made them public in a new court document.
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Users can automatically encrypt Gmail connection
July 28, 2008
Gmail now lets users automatically encrypt all communications with Google’s e-mail servers–that is, as long as they’re willing to take a performance penalty.
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US government releases security guidebook for IT managers
July 25, 2008
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a publication to help IT managers assess security controls.
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New Trojan in the wild targeting multimedia files
July 25, 2008
Secure Computing is warning of a new Trojan in the wild that is infecting multi-media files on a victim’s hard disk.
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Cloudmark warns on new spammer techniques
July 25, 2008
Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes.
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Video: Cars charging forward for a plug-in future
July 25, 2008
From scooters to off-road trucks to utility vehicles, all sorts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are on display at the Plug-In 2008 car conference in San Jose, Calif. CNET News reporter Kara Tsuboi stops by the world’s first showcase of its kind to see what’s new in the industry.
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BuySAFE launches beta of e-commerce rating tool
July 25, 2008
New free browser tool rates e-commerce sites for consumer safety.
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The Internet–a private eye's best friend
July 25, 2008
Private investigator explains how he can find almost anything out about anyone using the Internet, cell phones, cameras, and video cameras in a world where privacy is just as good as dead.
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