20231912
submission
gr3yh47 writes:
"Following last week's massive Epsilon e-mail breach, it feels as if all of us suddenly have a little too much personal information floating around online. And now, a large group of Texans are about to have it a lot worse: the state revealed Monday that personal information for 3.5 million citizens has been exposed to the public, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and more. "
19868162
submission
gr3yh47 writes:
"Samsung has announced that it plans to release an 8.9-version of the Galaxy Tab that measures 8.6 millimeters thick with a dual core 1GHz processor and a skinned Honeycomb UI called TouchWiz."
19866046
submission
gr3yh47 writes:
"The Rustock botnet, responsible at its height for sending 30 billion spam e-mails a day, went silent last Wednesday. Its command and control servers, responsible for telling the millions of machines recruited into the network which spams to send, were taken offline. With the botnet now headless, the deluge of spam was halted.
Security researchers tracking spam production immediately noticed the drop in spam volume. But what they didn't know was why the botnet went silent. Rustock's spam output had declined before, only to bounce back. Was this latest drop a temporary hiatus as the botnet's operators prepared to unleash a new torrent of spam, or was it something more?"
19863836
submission
gr3yh47 writes:
"Apple is suing Amazon.com for trademark infringement and unfair competition over its use of the term "App Store." The complaint, filed in US District Court for the Northern California District on Friday, asks that Amazon be ordered to stop using "Appstore" to refer to its soon-to-be-launched Google Android Market clone."
