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Submission + - Top spammer caught (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

jihadist

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @11:56PM

jihadist writes: "Apparently, a 27-year-old man sends a lot of our spam, and they caught him. Hopefully they'll send him to a prison that requires constant bending over and has a "no pants" rule. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_hi_te/sp am_arrest"

Submission + - Man Described As a Top Spammer Arrested

Submitted by Junior Samples on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @11:36PM

Junior Samples writes: SEATTLE (AP) — A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.

Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails.

"He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day."

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/provider article.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070530&ID=6975132

Submission + - Inventor accidentally discovers new energy source! (wpbf.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @11:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: A retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, 63, while looking for a cure for cancer by attempting to use radio waves to kill the cancer cells (an unconventional yet interesting approach indeed) got more than he bargained for when he discovered that he may have potentially discovered a solution the world's energy concerns! Kanzius' has invented a machine which emits radio waves with an interesting effect. When exposing a test tube filled with salt water from a canal in his back yard to the radio waves, the salt water heats up instantly. Kanzius said the flame created from his machine reaches a temperature of around 3,000 degrees Farenheit. Link to the original video report from WPBF is provided.

P2P Networks Supplement Botnets 74

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:58PM from the share-you-bot dept.

stuckinarut writes "Peer to peer file sharing network popularity is at an all time high, with hundreds of thousands of computers connected to a single P2P network at a given time. These networks are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say. In fact, some reports indicate that peer-to-peer may actually exceed web traffic. Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks can be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash. This can work even if the target is not part of the P2P network itself. Now, security experts are warning that P2P networks are increasingly being used to do just this. "Until January of this year we had never seen a peer-to-peer network subverted and used for an attack," says Darren Rennick of internet security company Prolexic in an advisory released recently. "We now see them constantly being subverted.""

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