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Day: January 7, 2006

All quiet on the Sober front – ZDNet

All quiet on the Sober front | Tech News on ZDNet For more info lick on above link The Sober attack predicted for Friday has not yet happened, possibly because of publicity earlier this week about a potential onslaught. Computers that were compromised by a variant of the Sober worm in November had the potential to download malicious code from certain Web sites and then launch a new wave of viruses on Jan. 6. F-Secure confirmed on Friday that it has not seen any evidence of an attack.

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Infographic: Hands in the cookie jar – CNET News.com

Infographic: Hands in the cookie jar – CNET News.com For more info click on above link Many U.S. senators have pledged not to use Web tracking technology on their official home pages. But at least 23 do anyway, a CNET News.com investigation has found. The following table includes a list of all the members of Congress, and the legislative committees, that employ tracking cookies. Such usage is banned for executive branch agencies but permitted for the legislative branch.

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Spammer must pay $11bn to ISP – silicon.com

Spammer must pay $11bn to ISP – Malware – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com For more info click on above link A Florida man has been ordered to pay $11.2bn for sending millions of spam messages through the network of a small US internet service provider (ISP). Iowa-based CIS Internet Services won the ruling against James McCalla, who sent more than 280 million unsolicited emails touting debt consolidation and mortgage services, a report from local newspaper the Quad City Times reports.

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