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Spam Traffic Plunges Worldwide
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsBad news for all those dying to hear about acai berries and cheap Viagra: The volume of e-mail spam sent worldwide has dropped sharply. It isn't clear what accounts for the drop in junk traffic. Still, there's no denying the trend: A mere 50 billion spam messages are being sent each day, compared with 200 billion a day in the summer, BBC News reported, citing computer security company Symantec. The drop-off has been especially noticeable in the past couple of weeks. AFP / Getty Images The amount of junk e-mail being sent has fallen dramatically since December, but ...
Snooping on Wife's E-Mail Could Put Man in Prison
By David Lohr - AOL NewsA Michigan husband who suspected his wife was cheating and accessed her e-mail could be sent to prison for felony computer misuse charges. Leon Walker, a 33-year-old computer technician from Rochester Hills, faces up to five years behind bars when he goes to trial Feb. 7. Walker was charged in the case in February 2009, after his then wife, Clara Walker, discovered he had used her password to access her Gmail account. Leon Walker was Clara Walker's third husband. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press / MCT Leon Walker, 33, stands next to the swing set he built for his ...
Man Quits Job, Makes Living Suing E-Mail Spammers
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO -- Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts. Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations. "I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning ...
WikiLeaks Founder Says Next Target Is Major US Bank
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says big business is next. Early next year, WikiLeaks will publish tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank, exposing the institution's rampant corruption and unethical practices and executives' brazen self-interest, Assange said in an exclusive interview with Forbes magazine. "It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms," Assange said in an interview conducted before this past weekend's leak of diplomatic memos. "It's ...
China Telecom Denies Hijacking Web Traffic
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(Nov. 18) -- A state-owned Chinese telecom company is denying accusations in a U.S. government report that it "hijacked" 15 percent of the world's Web traffic earlier this year and rerouted highly sensitive information through China. "China Telecom has never done such an act," company spokesman Wang Yongzhen told China's state-run Xinhua News today. But according to a U.S. report and Web security firms, the Chinese company rerouted 15 percent of global Web traffic -- including e-mail exchanges from the U.S. Senate and military -- through China for 18 minutes on April 8. The report, ...
You've Got Jail! Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacker Sentenced to One Year in Custody
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Guessing another person's password may not be as hard as it sounds, but the punishment for doing so is anything but easy. Former University of Tennessee economics major David Kernell was sentenced to one year in federal custody and three years' probation after being found guilty of hacking into Sarah Palin's private e-mail account in 2008. Kernell told the court that he had guessed Palin's password to her gov.palin@yahoo.com e-mail account using publicly available information, WBIR News reported, and characterized the entire episode as a prank. Palin, who testified in the ...
'Iranian Cyber Army' Hacker Group Enters Mercenary Business
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- The Iranian Cyber Army, a group of hackers with suspected links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, is reportedly getting into the mercenary business. The group, which hacked into Twitter and Chinese search engine Baidu in December and TechCrunch's European website last month, appears to be selling its services on the cyber black market by renting access to its botnet. What's a botnet you say? A botnet is a network of computers that are being controlled by one source, called the administrator, often for malicious purposes and often because the administrator has installed malware on ...
E-mails Shed Light Vilsack's Decision to Oust Sherrod
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 8) -- Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod pleaded with officials to hear her out after she was ousted from the USDA during a racial firestorm in July, internal e-mails show. Sherrod's pleas reached Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's e-mail soon after he ordered her dismissed from the department because of supposed racist remarks she made earlier in the year. He initially stuck by his decision despite her warnings that he didn't have the full story. Agriculture Department officials asked Sherrod to leave her job as Georgia's director of rural development ...
Opinion: Pushing the Envelope
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- I am quite possibly the only fossil on the planet who laments the demise of the U.S. Postal Service. Its appeal to raise the price of a stamp a mere two cents was turned down last week, causing the already ailing agency to take a turn for the worse. Over the next decade, the USPS is expected to lose an eye-popping $238 billion. For most of my 30-something friends, this news is greeted with a yawn, if noticed at all. Who cares? We have Facebook, e-mail, Twitter. Well, it leaves me in a state of postal traumatic stress. As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to personal ...
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