Archive for April, 2006

Spam King Alan Ralsky rumored to be in jail

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

The spamming underworld is freaking out on the rumor that Ralsky is going to cough up some sort of plea bargain that involves ratting just about everyone out.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Bush administration to intervene in ATT surveillance case

Friday, April 28th, 2006

The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state secrets privilege and intervene to seek dismissal of the case.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Spam zombies from outer space

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person’s email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty in child predator case

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Sgt. Joseph J. Wunderler, 29, of Ft. Belvoir, Va., engaged in numerous sexually oriented chat sessions on the Internet with a person he believed to be a fourteen year-old girl.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Top U.S. universities failing in online privacy

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

A national survey of online privacy practices in higher education, conducted by Bentley College and Watchfire, found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, yet nearly all these schools engage in practices that potentially pose a privacy risk.

Original post by SecuMania Staff