IMINT & Analysis Gadget Lab - Hardware That Rocks Your World Information about Viruses, Hackers and Spam Microsoft dirty tricks that were never revealed - Technology Evangelist « iChat AV - The best unusable video and voice chat program | Main | Microsoft dirty tricks, part two » Microsoft dirty tricks that were never revealed Microsoft settled today its anti-trust case with the people of Iowa, which may well be the last anti-trust case against the world’s largest software company, at least in this cycle. Now that the case is settled I’d like to write a little bit about something that happened in an earlier case – Burst v. I’ve written before about Burst v. Now, as they say, for the rest of the story….. Months after the Microsoft/Burst settlement I received e-mail from a former Microsoft contractor: “Now that Burst v. “Several months after all of the tapes were gathered, MS legal started asking for restores of any pst files captured, the tapes “mysteriously” went missing. This is Bob, back again. At the time Microsoft lawyers were claiming the tapes would be impossible to find, THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN FOUND. And then THE TAPES DISAPPEARED. TrackBack 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
UNREDACTED Engadget Errata Security 1 Billion Spammers Served | Deep Insights into Spam Our 1 Billionth Spam Message On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT) Project Honey Pot received its billionth email spam message. The message, a picture of which is displayed below, was a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) phishing scam. The spam email was sent by a bot running on a compromised machine in India (122.167.68.1). Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. At this milestone, we wanted to take a second to report some of our findings. Who Are These Spammers? Several organizations publish regular reports on the source countries for spam. Rather than sending spam directly, spammers primarily use "bot" machines in order to effectively launder their identities. On the other hand, they can help provide insight into a country's security policies because they give evidence on the number of bots operating within a country's borders. How Do They Operate? Whom Do They Target? The Future of Spam
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