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Scammers Target Neopets Users 122

Posted by Soulskill from the guess-wow-finally-dried-up dept.
An anonymous reader writes "If you have children that play on the popular virtual world game Neopets, you might want to warn them of a social engineering scam gleefully targeting 12-year-old kids. Neopets users looking for rare items are sent private messages from the scammers, who direct them to sites hosting keyloggers & trojans. They then use the infected PC as a means to get to data the parents might have stored there, be it credit card details, Paypal accounts or online banking. Seeing the screenshots of some of these people talking about putting these children into botnets is just unbelievable — if ever you wanted proof that people up to no good online will go to any lengths to get their hands on some money (or even just feel good about outsmarting a 12-year-old), here it is."
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The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release 187

Posted by Soulskill from the big-spenders dept.
Bloomberg reports that pirated versions of EA's The Sims 3 were downloaded over 180,000 times between May 18 and May 21. The game will not be officially released until June 2nd, and it does not make use of SecuROM for DRM. Quoting: "That outpaces the 400,000 downloads over three weeks for Electronic Arts' Spore, the most-pirated game of 2008. ... Copies of the game available on file-sharing Web sites aren't the full version, Electronic Arts said. 'The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,' Holly Rockwood, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. 'It's not the full game. Half the world — an entire city — is missing from the pirated copy.'"

Comment Won't ever fly in the foreseeable future at my job (Score 1) 571

by Indy1 (#27376939) Attached to: RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009

I work for the college of engineering at a major university. Others have mentioned software issues, which are absolutely correct for us as well. The issue I'd like to mention is the fact that most consumer boxes are so poorly configured by the vendor, then further fucked by the owner with spyware, crapware, bullshit tunes, etc, etc,etc, that the machine often isn't stable enough to run half the engineering applications.

We don't have the time to fix every moron's HP vomitbox running Vista (We banned Vista on our Domain due to massive software incompatibility and overall piss poor video /I.O. / and network performance vs XP). Programs like Labview, Autocad, and Arcgis are buggy pieces of shit as it is. Put them on an unstable system, and its just not going to fly.

Maybe for the business school they could get away with having no labs, as the only thing they ever use is M$ office. But for us and probably the CS guys, there are going to be dedicated labs for some years to come.

Comment great, only 7 years late (Score 5, Informative) 195

by Indy1 (#26894099) Attached to: Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587

Verizon has been an epic sewer network for years, and has ignored their spam problem for years. If they want to clean up now (or make a lame attempt to clean up, as most telco's do), fine. It just means less work for iptables at my end.

For those who are sick of Verizon's bullshit, here's my list (no promises this is complete, but it should have most of em) of Verizon's ip blocks.

  206.46.0.0/16
  66.12.0.0/14
  207.68.0.0/17
  71.96.0.0/11
  72.64.0.0/11
  72.42.0.0/18
  71.160.0.0/15
  71.162.0.0/16
  96.224.0.0/11
  98.108.0.0/14
  98.112.0.0/13
  68.160.0.0/14
  162.84.0.0/16
  162.83.0.0/16
  151.204.0.0/15
  138.88.0.0/21
  66.171.0.0/16
  66.14.128.0/17
  151.201.0.0/16
  138.89.0.0/16
  141.149.0.0/16
  141.150.0.0/15
  141.152.0.0/14
  141.156.0.0/15
  141.158.0.0/16
  68.160.192.0/18
  68.161.192.0/18
  66.14.0.0/17
  151.196.0.0/14
  151.200.0.0/14
  151.204.0.0/15
  129.44.0.0/16
  138.88.0.0/16
  64.222.0.0/15
  68.236.0.0/14
  70.104.0.0/13
  70.16.0.0/13
  71.96.0.0/11
  209.158.0.0/16
  209.159.0.0/19
  71.160.0.0/11
  173.64.0.0/12
  70.192.0.0/11
  66.174.0.0/16
  75.224.0.0/12
  75.240.0.0/13
  75.192.0.0/10
  97.0.0.0/10
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Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets 368

Posted by kdawson from the is-it-wetter-underwater-than-when-it-rains dept.
HailDorothy writes "SCO's stock price is plummeting in the aftermath of Judge Kimball's ruling that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights, as we discussed earlier. '[W]e will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here,' SCO said in a public statement issued in a futile attempt to calm investors. SCO's stock price has fallen 70 percent during trading today, reaching a 52-week low. It looks like the end is near for SCO, which still owes Novell 95 percent of the SVRX UNIX royalties it collected from Microsoft and Sun through the SCOsource program. As Judge Kimbell noted in his ruling, it's unlikely that Novell will ever be able to collect on those royalties."

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