Home PCs Exploited For Spam

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Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam 08/03/2004 07:21 AM
BBC Aug 3 2004 11:45AM GMT

Home PCs hijacked to spread spam

Home PCs hijacked to spread spam 08/03/2004 04:11 AM
BBC Aug 3 2004 8:03AM GMT

A new spam loophole: poorly guarded home
computers

A new spam loophole: poorly guarded home
computers 02/16/2004 02:36 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Feb 16 2004 6:38PM GMT

eSafe: Could this be exploited?

eSafe: Could this be exploited? 07/23/2004 04:11 PM
Hugo van der Kooij (Jul 23 2004)

Re: eSafe: Could this be exploited?

Re: eSafe: Could this be exploited? 07/24/2004 12:49 PM
3APA3A (Jul 24 2004)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Apache Flaws Being Exploited

Apache Flaws Being Exploited 11/14/2002 10:25 AM
Several security holes in the Apache source are being actively exploited on the Internet, urging IT managers to urgently upgrade to version 1.3.27 or 2.0.43 or higher.

Sex Pistols honored (exploited?)

Sex Pistols honored (exploited?) 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
In September, The Hospital gallery in London will display items belonging to Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, including a blood-stained "Never Mind the Bollocks" poster collected from the Chelsea Hotel room where the couple lived (and she died).

"The collection of artefacts, including original T-shirts, posters and handwritten lyrics, has been assembled over 15 years by art dealer Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson, deputy editor of Art Monthly. They told The Independent on Sunday that the hotel items were sold at auction by Sid Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley."

Link

In other Sex Pistols news, plaque were ceremonially unveiled in north Norfolk to honor two venues where the Sex Pistols had played important early and late gigs. Link

IE Security Vulnerability Exploited

IE Security Vulnerability Exploited 12/29/2003 11:46 PM
The security vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was published a few weeks ago has been exploited. Not only that, it's been done almost exactly as I commented (envisioned?) here on Sam Ruby's blog, only using spam instead of a weblog entry. This is the spam email I received: Viewing the html-source revealed that the "click here" link does not actually... (306 words)

DCF: Terri Schiavo Not Abused, Exploited
(AP)

DCF: Terri Schiavo Not Abused, Exploited
(AP) 04/16/2005 02:43 AM
AP - State investigators found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either side of her family, according to documents released by Florida's Department of Children and Families.

Poor Passwords Exploited by MySQL Bot

Poor Passwords Exploited by MySQL Bot 02/01/2005 09:06 PM
Weak passwords chosen by people who should know better -- system administrators -- are the target of a new worm called MySQL bot.

Microsoft JPEG Flaw Exploited

Microsoft JPEG Flaw Exploited 09/20/2004 03:01 PM
theWHIR Sep 20 2004 7:16PM GMT

Unpatched IE vuln exploited by adware

Unpatched IE vuln exploited by adware 06/10/2004 09:37 AM
More windows security woes

Classic Mac OS Servers Exploited By
Spammers

Classic Mac OS Servers Exploited By
Spammers 11/04/2003 12:54 AM
By Chuck Goolsbee (TidBITS via MyAppleMenu)

10% Of U.S. Kids Sexually Exploited - At
School!

10% Of U.S. Kids Sexually Exploited - At
School! 07/18/2004 07:02 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 18 2004 10:11AM GMT

Microsoft Browser Vulnerability
Exploited

Microsoft Browser Vulnerability
Exploited 06/28/2004 09:20 PM
Linux Insider Jun 29 2004 1:06AM GMT

Pakistanis Exploited Nuclear Network
(washingtonpost.com)

Pakistanis Exploited Nuclear Network
(washingtonpost.com) 01/29/2004 03:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 27 -- Pakistani investigators have concluded that two senior nuclear scientists used a network of middlemen operating a black market to supply nuclear weapons technology to Iran and Libya, according to three senior Pakistani intelligence officials.

Con Artist Exploited Eagerness for
Google, Prosecutors Say

Con Artist Exploited Eagerness for
Google, Prosecutors Say 05/10/2004 01:26 AM
New York Times May 10 2004 5:59AM GMT

New Fight to Protect Exploited Children
Online

New Fight to Protect Exploited Children
Online 04/22/2004 06:43 PM
Internet.com Apr 22 2004 10:19PM GMT

NHS intellectual property will be
exploited harder under new director

NHS intellectual property will be
exploited harder under new director 06/22/2004 02:46 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 22 2004 7:03AM GMT

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband
Router Easily Exploited

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband
Router Easily Exploited 06/03/2004 01:35 PM

Heads up, ye owners of the popular Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router. Even if you disable remote administration, the router will still allow users sharing your WiFi network to access administration web pages. That's not the end of the world unless you haven't changed your admin password, which if you're like most of us, coddled by fire-and-forget technology, you probably haven't. If you aren't taking any more steps to secure your router, at least do yourself a favor and change the default password to something else, preferably not the name of a pet, child, or the lady down the hall you've been sleeping with that you think, hey, nobody knows about but really, seriously, we all totally know.
Read [InternetNews via /.]

Update: Looks like it's not quite as bad as it could be, as the exploit only works if the built-in firewall has been disabled (it defaults to on). Still, wouldn't this be a great time to verify your settings?
Read [LinksysInfo]

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

UnixWare 7.1.3 Open UNIX 8.0.0 : Xsco
contains a buffer overflow that could be
exploited to gain root privileges.

UnixWare 7.1.3 Open UNIX 8.0.0 : Xsco
contains a buffer overflow that could be
exploited to gain root privileges. 07/31/2004 05:36 AM
please_reply_to_security_at_sco.com (Jul 30 2004)

Global Campaign Against Child
Pornography Is Launched By International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

Global Campaign Against Child
Pornography Is Launched By International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children 04/22/2004 04:18 PM
In an effort to address the ever-increasing use of the Internet to victimize young people and the insidious threat of sex crimes against children, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (the International Centre) (http://www.icmec.org/) today announced the launch of its Global Campaign Against Child Pornography. Bolstered by a combined $1 million donation by philanthropist and International Centre board member Sheila C. Johnson and Microsoft Corp. (http://www.microsoft.com/), this effort intensifies the ongoing, collaborative work of international law enforcement, organizations and individuals. The announcement was made at a press conference attended by key international law enforcement representatives, including Secretary General Ronald K. Noble of Interpol (http://www.interpol.int/).

German Teen Confesses He Created
'Sasser' Worm That Exploited Flaw in
Microsoft System Worldwide

German Teen Confesses He Created
'Sasser' Worm That Exploited Flaw in
Microsoft System Worldwide 05/09/2004 11:22 AM
Xposed May 9 2004 3:14PM GMT

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

OpenServer 5.0.6 OpenServer 5.0.7 : Xsco
contains a buffer overflow that could be
exploited to gain root privileges.

OpenServer 5.0.6 OpenServer 5.0.7 : Xsco
contains a buffer overflow that could be
exploited to gain root privileges. 07/31/2004 08:55 AM
please_reply_to_security_at_sco.com (Jul 30 2004)

PITCH LOCK:
AN INNOVATION WAITING TO BE
EXPLOITED?

PITCH LOCK:
AN INNOVATION WAITING TO BE
EXPLOITED? 09/09/2004 05:41 AM

Unless you're a DJ, or have one of those high-end digital music players, mixers, or mixing software tools (and actually read the instruction book) you probably don't know what Pitch Lock is. Basically, it's a function that allows you to change the tempo (speed) of a recording without changing its pitch. DJ's use this function to 'sync' two songs so that one blends into the next. This is called 'beatmixing' and here, from the DJ Cafe site, is an example of how it's used, with cross-fading (lowering the volume of the ending song while increasing the volume of the starting one) to make a series of songs with different beat-per-minute tempos into one 'endless' song: If the song the crowd is hearing is 130 BPM, and the next song you want to play is 132 -- you slow the second song down to 130 bpm using pitch control, and cue it up to the beat. When you are ready to bring the second song into play, throw the record so the beats stay aligned and listen to it on your headphones. Make sure they are in sync!! Once you are sure things are in order, use your cross fader to let the new song blend into the old one, and eventually go completely across so only the new song is playing. This will give the illusion that the song never ended. I didn't think much about this, although one of the software tools that works with my MP3 jukebox has a Pitch Lock feature, and it was kind of fun slowing down and speeding up my favourite songs and second-guessing whether the artists should have picked a different tempo. But then this afternoon I was listening to one of my favourite songs from the new Sarah McLachlan album on the radio and it sounded funny -- a lot faster than the version I was used to. I figured it was a remix so I listened through and the DJ announced it but didn't say anything special about it. So I cued up the original and listened, and I knew it wasn't a remix or my imagination. And then it occurred to me: The station is using Pitch Lock to speed up the songs by a just-less-than-noticeable amount so they can play more songs per hour and have more time for commercials. So that got me thinking: What else could this be used for? Consider this fact: Average speech is about 140-160 WPM, and when we try to speak much faster than that our speech becomes slurred. When we're thinking about what we're saying, we talk even slower -- 80-120 WPM. But we are able to comprehend properly-articulated speech of 210 and even 240 WPM without difficulty (average reading speed, by contrast, is 275 WPM, and speed readers top 800 WPM, though they don't read every word). So that means that we could use Pitch Lock to accelerate speech by 50%, to a speed much faster than we could crisply deliver it, but with no loss in comprehension. And thanks to Pitch Lock, it would come out in the same deep, calm, enticing voice as the original, but deliver 50% more words, information or argument per minute. Still think this is a silly innovation? Here are some commercial and time-saving applications that occurred to me right off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more: Voice-mail message replay: Double the playback speed to whisk past the ums and ers and retrieve your messages in half the time. Audio tape/audio book learning: Get through the tapes in 2/3 the time; learn 50% faster. Ditto for audiotaped or even videotaped conferences. Advertising: Tell your customers, or your potential voters, 50% more in the minute you're paying for. And maybe, by using up their idle brain time, reduce attention deficit syndrome and get people to pay closer attention to what you're saying to boot. Or maybe not. Language learning: Slow down the playback speed while you're learning a language, and gradually increase it as you learn to parse the words faster and as your vocabularly grows. This could also be used for simultaneous translation in conferences, as long as they allowed short breaks after each speech for the translator to catch up. Padding a good show: If the show you're watching or the music or talk you're listening to is wonderful, and you never want it to end, or if you're a producer and the program's a bit short, just use Pitch Lock to stretch it out a bit. After all, if Bernstein can get away with stretching Samuel Barber's famous and extraordinary 6:50 Adagio for Strings into a piece that lasts over 10 minutes without adding any notes, maybe he's on to something. Studying and transcribing music: Having trouble following the chord changes or finger patterns in a favourite song? Slow it down with Pitch Lock and take your time. Likewise if you're visually disadvantaged, slow down speeches to the pace at which you can comfortably take notes. These and other applications could be exploited either at the time of recording, or at the time of playback. I'm sure the military and forensic sciences are already using this. It might also be used to listen to heart-beats, or study the songs of whales or birds, in slow motion yet at an audible pitch level. Or to determine an optimal speaking rate for computerized voice synthesizers (likely a lot faster than today's unsophisticated versions). What else could Pitch Lock be used for? And what if we combined it with other new technologies: For example, could we teach speech-recognizing computers to 'speed talk' much the way we 'speed read', to 'read aloud' or play back the common words that make up 80% of normal speech and are not essential to understanding at, say, 500 WPM, and the rest at 200 WPM, so we could become 400 WPM 'speed listeners' and 'speed learners'? And in this increasingly oral/aural culture, might we then give up reading and writing entirely?

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala.

Stay at Home Mom makes 6-Figure Income
Working Online at Home- Second Time
Around After Huge Comeback

Stay at Home Mom makes 6-Figure Income
Working Online at Home- Second Time
Around After Huge Comeback 09/26/2004 03:48 AM
Stay at home mother, Sandi Krakowski, always knew that one day she would create a career and find a way to not interfere with her love for her family. As a homeschooling mother of 3 for 15 years, Sandi has found great success by working out of the comfort of her home, 6-Figures worth! [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]

"When the kids bring them home and open
them up, it's the brightest light source
in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents
love it."

"When the kids bring them home and open
them up, it's the brightest light source
in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents
love it." 04/05/2005 04:08 AM
Somewhat amazing story about $100 laptops for children in developing nations .. 100 dollar laptop .. laptops

cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/04/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap/inde x.html
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Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home

Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home 05/04/2004 09:06 PM
Hidden Wires May 5 2004 0:12AM GMT

Refinance, Home Improvement and Home
Equity Loans

Refinance, Home Improvement and Home
Equity Loans 06/02/2004 06:37 PM
Ad - http://www.locallender.info Jun 2 2004 11:37PM GMT

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Warnings abound about a change in tactics on the part of zombie PC network operators. As a result, spam levels could rise to nearly 95% of all e-mails sent.

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam 05/20/2004 07:05 PM
Ronnie Scelson is one of the shortlist of spammers who just seems to love publicity. While many spammers like to hide away, Scelson's always willing to talk. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, claiming that he is now compl ying with CAN-SPAM, but threatened to ignore the law if not enough of his spam messages were getting through filters. He actually has the audacity to complain that now that CAN-SPAM is in effect, ISPs should be required to let his mail through. Maybe the filters are a little to thick around his head and the message isn't getting through to him: the reason his spam is filtered is because people don't want it.

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET
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