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Submission + - Congress hacked - again, botnets on the rise

Submitted by cluge
cluge writes: Once again the computers used by the US congress have been compromised. This has happened before, and the attacks are thought to come from either China or Russia. Some industries aren't much better, 60% of the computers at multiservice businesses that serve the immigrant community in the United States are actively infected with malware according to one study. The shadowserver foundation says the number of machines that are part of botnets has quadrupled in 2008. Is 2009 going to be the year of the compromised PC?
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Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898

Posted by kdawson from the ticket-me-elmo dept.
High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim's license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera. The victim gets a $40 ticket in the mail days later, without any humans ever having been involved in the ticketing process. A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.

Comment Most important app didn't require software (Score 1) 238

by cluge (#25732271) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks?

midpssh & google maps are the most useful apps that are free. There are good pay for apps for folks that are in specific businesses - like the hot sauce trouble ticket system.

Personally - one of the best apps already comes with the phone - a back lit screen. One late evening I was in need of some heavy equipment and being on a construction site began going through several front end loaders, tractors, dozers looking for one that had the keys left in it. If it wasn't for the BRIGHT screen on my berry, I would have never found the keys for that Lull, and got our portable tower moved 58 feet south. Sometimes the phone's native ability is the application you're looking for. It's ability to serve as a flashlight has been extremely helpful & I think it's open source!

Sometimes I even call people on it.

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