A Hush-Hush Security Confab
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| ...focused on uncovering new trends and tactics to combat phishing,
| botnets and other types of online scams.
|
| Attendees included representatives from Cisco, Microsoft, Symantec,
| Time Warner's AOL, Trend Micro, the FBI, the Department of Homeland
| Security and the Internal Revenue Service.
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http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/01/26/security-phishing-microsoft-tech-security-cx_ll_0126microsoft.html
http://tinyurl.com/ys87gk
Microsoft is getting desperate. Last week they had to face the British House
of Lords. We are all sufferers (SPAM, DDOS attacks, increased ISP costs,
identity theft, server downtimes), regardless of what O/S we use.
More secretive meeting are taking place behind everybody's backs, e.g. with
the RIAA. NSA (back doors) and Hollywood ("premium content") and the police
(for encryption master keys) are only the tip of the iceberg.
Music industry meeting could change the Zune
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| Bryan Lee, corporate vice present for Microsoft's entertainment
| business, told me today that the meeting was set up as part of the
| deal struck between Microsoft and music business honchos, who are
| always wary of piracy... The meeting was supposed to take place "some
| time after the holidays," he said. It also talks about the future
| of the zune.
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http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/01/music_industry_meeting_could_change_the_zune.html
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference
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| Botnets are networks of hijacked computers, popularly called
| zombies. Cybcercrooks use these networks to relay spam, bring
| down Web sites, distribute spyware and perform other nefarious
| acts. Microsoft has fingered zombies as a top threat to
| Windows PCs.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6151860.html
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List of candidate Microsoft astroturfers (directly or indirectly paid by
Microsoft to post in this newsgroup):
Larry Qualig (former Microsoft employee)
Scott Nudds (AKA Vistaking)
Erik Funkenbusch (formerly an anti-OS/2 astroturfer)
flatfish+++
Damian O'Leary (AKA Hadron Quark)
Nedd Ludd
Tim Smith
OK
DFS
Lintard
Terry
Ana Thema
Take everything posted by the individuals above with grain of salt. Microsoft
has already been caught paying forum members to spread lies about rivals,
e.g. http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
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