You have got to see this. It is absolutely hilarious, yet has me horrified at the same time. Old news, but just stumbled upon this video on youtube. Watch and be scared. No more details, just click the link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZ-TqvVdGM
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DoS (Denial of Service) Attacks against DSLReports.com
DSLReports.com has recently come under a few DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Some have speculated that it relates to their coverage of the Pluto Data credit card theft coverage. The coverage made it into an article at MSNBC.com that mentioned BroadBandReports.com (same website as DSLReports.com). Regardless of why it happened, it has happened. The...
Spyware by any other name is still, … uh, Spyware
First there was Gator, now there is iDownload. The two programs are spyware, yet the companies do not like us calling their products by that name. My personal definition of spyware is any software program that installs itself on your computer without your permission through stealth techniques. I’m not sure what they consider the...
Major ISP in Ecuador Blocks P2P
According to this post (in Spanish) at the ALTO1040 Blog, one of the major providers of Internet access in Ecuador has blocked P2P access. According to the post, customers of Satnet when asking customer service why their P2P was blocked were given various answers such as “The fiber optic connection has failed”, “Our bandwidth...