Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company's goals and ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school's computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades.
The teachers at ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence.
Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said enforcement options, such as seeking consumer redress or making the operators ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
When you want to surf the net, you click on the blue 'e' on you desktop. That's all there is to it. Why should you have to choose a browser? And is there a choice at all? Isn't the word 'browser' synonymous with 'InternetExplorer'?
With the recent spate of browser-related security ...
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