A group of internet providers have shut down McColo, a California hosting service, which produces around 2/3 of the spam to the US. McColo typically pushed out 40 spam messages per second. I …

 
If you’re a celebrity, you’re not safe from hackers. Like the Paparazzi, they want to get into your life and find out all your little secrets. Miley Cyrus was the latest victim of …

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) — U.S. authorities say they’ve succeeded in shutting down the world’s largest alleged generator of unsolicited “spam” e-mails.
Prosecutors say HerbalKing, an alleged global spam gang based in San Francisco, is responsible …

Sometimes I wonder how it is that Verizon is able to stay in business.  They cripple their phones so you have to pay an arm and a leg for something other companies are offering for …

If the prosecutors have their way, David Kernell, who is charged with hacking into Sarah Palin’s email account earlier last month will face jail time.  The 20 year old was indicted by the federal grand …

After getting into trouble for throttling the bandwidth of power users, Comcast decided to cap how much overall bandwidth you are allowed to use starting on October 1, 2008.  Although they are giving users 250GB …

Good old social engineering.  If you’re good at it, the internet is your playground.  With that said, that is how Gov Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email was hacked.  According to sources, hackers only had to answer …

“Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp,