Well this case has taken a while but the FTC won in the end and reached a settlement two years after halting the company from selling it’s “100 per cent undetectable” commercial keylogging application. It’s interesting to see court cases that venture into the grey area of ethics, I think the main problem stemmed from […]
Legal Issues
Federal Authorities Have Seized More Than $143 Million USD Of Fake Network Equipment
[ad] What a surprise, another quiet weekend – nothing much has been going on apart from the big furore about Facebook privacy – which frankly has been discussed to death. Other than that, 2 critical patches are expected in the next Microsoft patch Tuesday – info here and here. One story which I did find […]
Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Bot Network For Hire
[ad] Another botnet herder bites the dust, the latest news in the malware arena is about David Anthony Edwards from Texas who has admitted he and his accomplice had offered tailor made malware and DDoS attacks for rent. 22,000 zombies is a reasonable number of bots for a herder to control on their own, and […]
Google ‘99.9%’ Certain To Shut Down Google.cn
[ad] There’s been a lot of controversy with China recently, a lot of which we have documented here. With the Aurora attacks targeting Google too and the attack code originating from China Google stopped censoring it’s Google.cn search engine and is now almost certainly pulling out of China. The latest report from the financial times […]
Energizer Duo USB Battery Charger Software Has Backdoor Trojan
[ad] There has been a number of interested stories lately especially related to hardware, the latest doing the rounds is this one where a seemingly innocuous USB battery charger has been installing some nasty remote control software onto users systems. The charger at fault is the Energizer Duo USB Battery Charger, you’re only at risk […]