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Monthly Archives: April 2005
Brokerage is dead
I know a lot of stock brokers. The good ones are excellent sales people, but their skill sets usually end there. They generally have rudimentary knowledge of fundamental and/or technical analysis, money management principles, and even basic economics. I don’t … Continue reading
Phishing hits the big time
Oxford Analytica has a brief on identify theft published over at Forbes.com. The reason I say “hit the big time” is because OA is quoting some monsterous incident numbers in Hooked On Phishing. Accordingly, they say that the FTC reported … Continue reading
Spamroll visits Bankruptcy Court – Richter Files (cont’d)
I had the chance to stop by the US Bankruptcy Court yesterday, to observe the latest in the OptInRealBig and Scott Richter bankruptcy cases. It was less than a packed courtroom, with roughly 15 people there including Judge Tallman and … Continue reading
Schoolboys and future felons
Hacking websites used to be child’s play. Real hackers (you know, the folks who could spin a Defense Department database from a Pentium I laptop, bouncing packets off the moon via a HeathKit box, coding in C, while blindfolded) called … Continue reading
Need a phishing buddy? Call Yahoo!
Larry Seltzer assembled this op-ed over at eWeek, which cuts to the core of some Yahoo! abuse management troubles. It seems that Yahoo! is not exactly quick to the punch when shady (or downright illegal) sites are brought up on … Continue reading
Has Google put the clamp on search engine spam?
Over at Spamroll, no artifice of electronic trickery is safe from scrutiny. With that in mind, one must follow the goings on with search engine spam (see Is Google Becoming A Central Theme in Spam Wars? and Blogger gaming search … Continue reading
Spitzer sues spyware company
We’ve seen it before, and we’ll see it again – Elliot Spitzer suing evil-doers. Yes, Elliot is at it again, this time suing spyware vendor Intermix for infecting millions of computers with redirect code, silly toolbars that do nothing, and … Continue reading
Two more anti-spyware outfits
Two new anti-spyware companies have recently hit the pavement. SurfControl, of policy management and filtering software note, announced its new SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield, which will be sold to businesses. In a separate announcement, Tenebril, makers of the SpyCatcher desktop … Continue reading
ZoneAlarm mishap, and a quick fix
ZoneAlarm Security Suite’s latest update caused a few problems with some users. According to this report, the change caused the anti-spam filter to turn on by default. Some temporarily missed mail was the only issue, and the above article points … Continue reading
Paying attention to Linux needs
I have always been a little cautious with my Linux install, not because I don’t trust it, but because I don’t trust those on the outside who might decide to tool with it for less than honorable reasons. So it … Continue reading
