404 error message spoof
Some questionable sites associated with the Winigard family of rogue security products pulls it from this location, which appears to belong to a graphic designer in Canada. It’s funny and here’s waaaay too much truth there:
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Dirty jokes by mobile phone
The Danwei web site (Chinese media, advertising, and urban life) is carrying a rippingly funny blog piece by Alice Xin Liu about a recent Chinese government program that would have China Mobile monitor mobile telephone text transmissions for conversations of a sexual nature. Offenders’ (messaging) service would be cut off until they wrote a “self-criticism.”…
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UK telecom giant Virgin Media monitoring customers’ file sharing
Virgin Media, the UK telecommunications giant that supplies TV, phone and Internet services, has begun to use deep packet inspection determine if its Internet customers are sharing music or films. The monitoring system will check transmitted data against a database of copyrighted music and video to spot illegal file sharing. Virgin Media said the system…
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Charities fight for piece of $5 million prize on Facebook
(CNN) — This week, 100 charities are battling for votes on Facebook to win $1 million. The competition is a new approach to philanthropic giving and is led by JPMorgan Chase, which throughout the competition will donate a total of $5 million to 100 charities chosen by Facebook users. Traditionally, organizations would go through a…
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What’s “Near Me Now”?!
Have you stood outside the restaurant and thought whether to go inside? Google solves this problem very easily. It has come out with yet another mind bobbling feature with Andriods and the iPhone. This Feature is known as ‘Near Me Now’. When you open google.com in your mobile like Andriods or iPhone, you see a…
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Cybersitter sues China, others, for $2.2 billion in Green Dam fiasco
California software company Cybersitter LLC, has sued the People’s Republic of China and seven computer manufacturers in U.S. Federal court for stealing 3,000 lines of its Internet filter software code and using it in last year’s Green Dam fiasco in China. The suit, “Cybersitter v. the People’s Republic of China,” was filed in U.S. District…
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Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player updater coming
There has been extensive news coverage this week of Adobe’s plans for ramped-up security in its popular Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player applications, especially the Reader and Acrobat updates promised next week. A vulnerability that was publicized in December in Reader and Acrobat allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with a specially crafted PDF…
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“Washable” cell phone coming soon
Seal Shield, a Jacksonville, Fla., company that makes washable computer keyboards and mice, said it will introduce the world’s first washable cell phone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The company’s washable mice, keyboards and TV remotes can be cleaned in a dishwasher. This might be good. I have three 20-something…
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One Y2010 bug surfaces – it could really fill the spam bucket
Mike Cardwell, an IT consultant in Nottingham, UK, reported on his blog finding a Y2010 bug in Spam Assassin. He found an error in a rule that Spam Assassin folks thought they fixed. “I think a lot of systems will be experiencing false positives on their ham because of this at the moment. It is…
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No More Dragons: the 26th Chaos Communication Congress Ends
With a dazzling laser show, the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26c3) in Berlin, the last big security conference of 2009, has ended. If you haven’t been here, you might have missed fewer of the sessions than people on site, thanks to the worldwide availablility of live streams (and recordings). What you did miss was meeting…