2006.08.22 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Aug.22, 2006, under Security
Married couple charged with $1 million stock spam scam
SophosLabs has warned users to be wary of emails offering unsolicited financial advice as a married couple are charged by federal regulators with making $1 million through a stock market pump-and-dump scam.
Brit Convicted for Accessing Wireless Network
A recent court case, which saw a West London man fined £500 and sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge for hijacking a wireless broadband connection, has repercussions for almost every user of wi-fi networks.
TrackMeNot: a "new" Firefox browser privacy extension
TrackMeNot is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's trail), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation.
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