Posted October 4, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, IT Security
Software scam artist Kristy Ross has been fined $163 million by U.S. authorities for running an unscrupulous "scareware" operation. The Federal Trade Commission had been following Ross since 2008 in hopes of closing in on her dealings and the judgment includes…
Posted March 22, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
The Motion Picture Association of America has requested that Megaupload's host, Carpathia, retain about 25PB (yep, that's petabytes) of data. According to Wired, this move follows an earlier appeal made by Carpathia where the hosting company had asked the court to…
Posted September 14, 2010, 10:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security
Scammers are trying harder than ever to trick unsuspecting users with fake websites, according to a new study by PandaLabs. The security firm estimates that cybercriminals create around 57,000 new pages every week and use SEO techniques to position them…
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