A 26-year-old computer hacker has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers, causing losses of more than $US36 million ($33.8 million).
Rogelio Hackett, of Lithonia, Georgia, entered the plea in a court in Alexandria, Virginia, the Justice Department said in a statement — via The Sydney Morning Herald
Some of the more prolific spammers rely on bots that crawl millions of Web sites and scrape
addresses from pages. Others turn to sellers on underground cybercrime forums. Additionally, there are a handful of open-air markets where lists of emails are sold by the millions. If you buy in bulk, you can expect to pay about a penny per 1,000 addresses.
One long-running, open-air bazaar for email addresses is LeadsAndMails.com, which also goes by the name BuyEmails.org. This enterprise is based in New Delhi, India, and advertises its email lists as 100% opt-in and 100 percent legal to use
. I can’t vouch for the company’s claims, but one thing seems clear: Many of its clients are from Nigeria, and many are fraudsters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Problems on the Vodafone network yesterday left users Australia-wide unable to send or receive text messages on their mobile phones — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name.
Now it appears that GoDaddy, the domain registrar for the domain Righthaven.com, has taken down their domain for an invalid whois — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won’t suffer from downtime.
By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location,
Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
Customers who build applications in just one availability zone are more likely to suffer outages. But what happens when multiple availability zones go dark at the same time? We found out today when an outage forced websites such as Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite offline — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There’s been a lot of discussion of the discovery that there’s a database file called consolidated.db
on your iPhone, full of latitude and longitude coordinates. Most of it has been completely hysterical, and not based on an actual look at the data involved.
I downloaded Peter Warden’s iPhoneTracker program, as well as the source code for it, and played around with it a good bit yesterday. I’m not done—I haven’t done a raw dump of the locations in the file yet—but I’ve been able to determine several things, the most important of which is that the iPhone is not tracking your every move
, by any stretch of the imagination — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While microblogging site Twitter is quick when it comes to breaking news, the opposite is true for its ability to implement new features.
The company is testing a new feature that would hide excessive messages from users who send lots of messages in a short amount of time — an ability that has been standard in Facebook for ages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Buying a new mobile phone is always exciting, but in this mobile-saturated nation getting a new device invariably means working out what to do with the old one. As part of our ongoing Earth Month coverage, here’s Planhacker’s comprehensive guide to options for disposing of your old phone — via Lifehacker Australia
Global spam dropped by one-third immediately after the Rustock Botnet was dismantled in mid March, according to the March edition of the Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report.
The output fell dramatically and almost instantaneously
, the reports said, suggesting that the botnet was no longer sending any spam and that it had either been taken down or had entered a self-imposed exile, as it did in December 2010 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Records obtained by The Associated Press show that over the past 13 years, a little-known Philadelphia company called PrimeTel Communications has quietly gained control over nearly a quarter of all the 1-800 numbers in the US and Canada, often by grabbing them the moment they are relinquished by previous users. As of March, it administered more 800 numbers that any other company, including Verizon and AT&T.
And many, if not most, of those 1.7 million numbers appear to be used for one thing: redirecting callers to a phone-sex service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The three big telcos have raised concerns about the fees that telcos pay the Telecommunications Ombudsman for complaints made against them, stating that the organisation’s reliance on the fees for funding is not appropriate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a US$1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two companies, they said Tuesday.
The deal stands to solidify Seagate’s position as the world’s second-largest maker of hard disk drives and comes less than a month after Hitachi GST said it would buy market leader Western Digital. If both deals go through, the hard disk drive market will have just three players by the end of the year, the other being Toshiba — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Victoria’s economy will receive a $200 million boost with the development of a green data centre in Melbourne’s west.
The Polaris Victoria data centre will be built on a 1.2ha greenfield site in the booming suburb of Derrimut, about18km from the central business district — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Obituaries Australia is a digital repository of obituaries published in newspapers, journals, magazines and bulletins. Here you will find the life stories of Australians from the earliest times to the present.
This site is hosted by the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, which also produces the award-winning Australian Dictionary of Biography. While the ADB focuses on the lives of notable Australians, Obituaries Australia offers a more egalitarian sample of the Australian experience by reproducing, in a convenient online format, published obituaries relevant to the history of Australia.
Results from cases heard at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court are being put on Twitter by West Midlands Police.
Ch Supt Stephen Armstrong said there had been a decline in court reporting in recent years and the initiative was designed to make the public more aware of the cases police deal with — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Because when you’re exposed, you look like an even more gargantuan idiot and pathetic narcissist. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has been discovered to have tried to pad his reputation with a fake ID … he’s used the pseudonym PlannedChaos
to go around the web praising Scott Adams as a certified genius
.
You know, it’s a good rule of thumb that if you have to announce that you’re a genius, you aren’t a genius — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More companies that advertise on the Internet in Europe will give consumers the option to turn off advertisements that collect data on their audiences ahead of European Union regulations soon to come into effect.
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe released guidelines on Thursday called the OBA (Online Behavioral Advertising) Framework. It details how advertisers can inform consumers of behavioral tracking technologies and give them the option of turning the tracking off — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking pre-registrations, the actual timeline for the launch has not yet been published. The Sunrise launch is a three phased approach. After much back and forth and protests against the sTLD the ICANN board had approved the application for the new TLD at their meeting on March 18th of this year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This week at Microsoft’s MIX11 Web developer conference, the company surprised many by making a pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 available—less than a month after IE9 came out in its final form. But another surprise was uncovered by Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer: the next IE won’t run on any OS before Windows 7, including Vista — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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