Phishing Campaign Targets Tax Rebate Checks

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday issued a warning about a phishing campaign designed to steal personal information from consumers using the promise of a tax rebate check as bait.IC3 is jointly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau ...

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Human Area Networking (HAN)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human body at a maximum speed of 10 Mbps. RedTacton uses the minute ...

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Have you seen this asshole?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

INTERPOL is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man pictured sexually abusing children in a series of images found on the Internet and retrieved from the computer of a convicted paedophile. The man, whose name, nationality and location are unknown is featured in approximately 100 images in a series ...

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House of Hackers

Monday, May 5th, 2008

House of Hackers is an exclusive, hacker community network. The House of Hackers community is established to support the hacker culture, mindset, way of life, ideologies, political views, vision, etc. Members of the community are able to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate ...

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Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Acquisition

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google. "We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...

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