ALTHOUGH RESTAURANT EVE is not a participant in this year’s Restaurant Week , it offers an inexpensive lunch option year-round. Less than 15 bucks buys two choices off the ‘ Lickety Split ‘ menu, which may … via Express
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Australian Federal Police agent Nigel Phair is one of Australia’s most experienced online crime fighters. via The Age
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“This is almost certainly being automated by bots”

PDF spammers have started varying attachments to fool spam filters, security vendor MessageLabs has warned. via PC World
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Losses from computer viruses and other computer threats are more than $13 billion a year. via Tampabays10.com
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I’vewritten too much of lateabout PersonalBrain, so I’m not going to do so anymore — at least here. Instead I’ve started a Google Groupfor those of us interested in exploringhow to use thetool, but not necessarily so excited about it…
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“We let the computer science people generate this text, but this is a design problem. It seems we ought to bring what we know about legibility to make things more pleasing to identify yet still stop computers”

An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren’t involved, but kittens are. via The Washington Post
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“Why do you need a botnet that big?”

The swifly spiking onslaught of the Storm Worm may signal an upcoming change in how its creators intend to wield their weapon. via PC World
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When independent blogger Mary Jo Foley, who knows more about Microsoft than Microsoft does, interviewed the company’s new Corporate VP of its Searching and Advertising Grouprecently, shewas toldthat Microsoft had recently launched an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works, the application…
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“By breaking the communication cycle, the botnets are rendered harmless without affecting other services.”

A security tool that identifies botnets and blocks attacks from these zombie networks is being made available by Trend Micro online in the software-as-a-service model. via PC World
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“By breaking the communication cycle, the botnets are rendered harmless without affecting other services.”

A security tool that identifies botnets and blocks attacks from these zombie networks is being made available by Trend Micro online in the software-as-a-service model. via PC World
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MillerSmiles is cited in the popular “Windows Vista for Dummies”
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At a conference I have been attendingI was asked to explain to PR folk there what journalists want. Apparently, by the time my session came around, the PR folk had been put off by several previous journalists who had presumably…
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“It was very easy to misspell something and wind up going somewhere completely different”

Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Jul. 24–A well-known author and computer expert on the Internet, e-mail and cybersecurity testified Monday in the retrial of a former Yuma teacher accused of molesting some of his … via Customer Interaction Solutions
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Vendor Commtouch reports detection of stock spam packaged in Microsoft Excel attachments.
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“It was very easy to misspell something and wind up going somewhere completely different”

Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Jul. 24–A well-known author and computer expert on the Internet, e-mail and cybersecurity testified Monday in the retrial of a former Yuma teacher accused of molesting some of his … via Customer Interaction Solutions
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“Yes, I know I’m going to hell”

“Ed,” a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. via PC World
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“We’re going to start pegging them with some criminal liability”

U.S. Internet users should expect a growing number of prosecutions for sending spam and related activities, such as creating botnets, officials with two U.S. law enforcement organizations said Thursday. via Infoworld
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