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Spammers Play to Recession Fears, Emotions
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| "At a time when concerned consumers may not be surprised to hear from their
| banks, phishing attacks have risen to one in 190.4 e-mails, from one in 396.2
| in January 2009," the report states.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/022409-spammers-play-to-recession-fears.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Recent:
Kernel vulnerability found in Vista
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| A flaw in Vista's networking has been found that can crash the system, but no
| fix is expected until the next service pack
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10106173-83.html
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
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| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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