At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a district court judge has permanently shut down a rogue Internet Service Provider (3FN) that recruited, hosted, and actively participated in the distribution of spam, spyware, child pornography, and other malicious and illegal content.
Every year at the holidays we see an upsurge of ‘postcard ware’ based malware. They look like a e-card from a loved one so you are enticed to open them up and while some do display a pretty picture or a play a nice tune in the background they are infecting your pc.
Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.
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Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security |
| Shaun Sturby, MCSE | |
