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What does this mean to you? That one in four of you are reading this on a computer that you think you own and control, but that is really an infected zombie (and Typhoid Mary) controlled by a black hat “Bot-Herder”.
Vint Cerf: one quarter of all computers part of a botnet
Cerf told his listeners that [...]
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AACS hack blamed on bad player implementation
A month after the first signs appeared online that AACS—the content protection scheme shared by HD DVD and Blu-ray—had been circumvented, the AACS Licensing Authority has verified the hack. According to a statement from the AACS LA, AACS has not been seriously compromised. Instead, the statement said, the attack [...]
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Google has been making some changes lately.
Google Kills Bush’s Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs.
After just over two years, Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn’t a post-State Of The [...]
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