Topic: Online-Fahndung - on October 24, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM CEST
Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan
Austria has become one of the first countries to officially sanction the use of Trojan Horse malware as a tactic for monitoring the PCs of suspected terrorists and criminals.
The measures were reportedly discussed in an Austrian cabinet meeting last week and turned over to a group of legal and technical experts to thrash out the details of the scheme. Pending approval, Austrian law enforcement officers could begin using the tactic as early as next year.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on October 24, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Top 15 Indie Films
Some of the best films that come out are indie films. These are films produced by independent film makers and they are often (though not always) low budget films. Based upon user voting at the Internet Movie Database (and a touch of my own discretion), this is a list of the top 15 Indie films of all time. I personally vouch that each and every one of these films is outstanding.
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Topic: NATURE - on October 24, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Amazing Picture as 10,000 Penguins Come To Shore to Breed
t is one of the most extraordinary sights in nature: more than 10,000 King Penguins standing shoulder to shoulder at St Andrew's bay on the island of South Georgia, preparing to breed.
The 3ft tall creatures — part of a colony of more than 100,000 on the Atlantic island close to Antarctica — create a living landscape of breathtaking scale and colour.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 24, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Drunken Indian elephants take on electricity pole
A herd of 40 Indian elephants which quaffed rice wine, "went berserk" as a result and rampaged round a village looking for food, suffered six fatalities after toppling an electricity pole, the West Australian reports.
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Topic: SPAM - on October 24, 2007 at 12:21:00 PM CEST
The Next Evolution - GFI Uncovers MP3 Spam
Spammers are back with a new trick, this time round sending messages with MP3 attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams.
One sample identified this morning by GFI, was a heavily distorted 30-second MP3 file. A synthetic female voice was used to promote a particular stock. This voice is distorted to avoid filtering approaches based on the file signature.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 24, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that US-made censorware is being used to oppress the people in many countries, including Burma.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Nasty PDF exploit runs wild
A day after Adobe patched a serious security hole in its Reader and Acrobat programs, miscreants are flooding email inboxes with malware-tainted PDF files that try to remotely hijack vulnerable computers.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Who's More Ethical: TorrentSpy Or The MPAA?
Wired has an interview with Robert Anderson, the guy who hacked into TorrentSpy's servers and handed over a bunch of internal TorrentSpy info to the MPAA. From the interview, it's quite clear that the MPAA knew that it was getting access to content that had not been legally obtained, but it still pushed Anderson for more such info (including asking him if he could obtain similar info about The Pirate Bay).
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
GigaNews, Usenet Server Dump Anonymous Reference
It seems that the music industry's campaign against Usenet.com has put the spook in a few Usenet providers. Last week, nearly a dozen major record labels, including Artista, Sony-BMG, Atlantic and Elektra, filed a complaint in Federal Court against Usenet.com seeking financial damages as a result of copyright infringement. Although lawsuits against Usenet providers are nothing new, the frequency in which they occur typically prompts a flurry of attention.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
OiNK Investigation Seeks Identities and Activities of Users
OiNK, one of the world’s most popular trackers has been shutdown. Now, in the hours immediately following the closure, the site is responding but displaying an ominous message indicating an investigation into the site’s users has begun.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Oink-Memorial-Weblog
While the void on OiNK.CD became an ever-present reminder of unspeakable loss, it also opened a space of deep courage, compassion and triumph of human spirit.
The Oink Memorial & Museum will pay tribute to those who were affected in the attack of October 23 and reflect the awe-inspiring compassion shown in the aftermath.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Oink Hostingprovider loses 30,000 euro's
The website's 30,000 euro servers, which were based not in Amsterdam but Roosendaal, The Netherlands, were confiscated this morning by dutch police.
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