Sexy Jihad

Just came across this hilariously bad anti piracy ad on Google Video:
Back in 1992, piracy was rampant. What could possibly stop it? An ad that you would swear was from the 80s? A horrible rap song?
If the current atmosphere of easy piracy thanks to p2p networks and bit torrent sites is any answer, I think […]

Bruce Scheier reports of yet another case that morons can break any well thought out security:
AN INGENIOUS fraudster is believed to be sunning himself on a beach after persuading leading banks to pay him more than €5 million (£3.5 million) in the belief that he was a secret service agent engaged in the fight against […]

Wired has an interesting analysis of California’s new anti violent video game law:
I squeeze the trigger on my shotgun and pump a fusillade of lead into my enemy’s chest. He topples to the ground lifeless, and I look down to see that I’m drenched in blood. But what I’m really wondering is: Have I just […]

In another bout of wisdom, Bruce Schneier has written a piece on wired on how banks should be held responsible for phishing. While this may at first sound ludicrous, after reading his arguments it makes a hell of a lot of sense:
The actual problem to be solved is that of fraudulent transactions. Financial institutions make […]

News.com has an article on how “the advent of Firefox and other alternatives to Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their investigations“:
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training […]

Wired has a piece on how people are using poker bots to make easy money:
It’s late one Wednesday afternoon, and CptPokr is logged on to PartyPoker.com and ready to play. Onscreen, the captain exudes a certain brash charisma - broad shoulders, immaculate brown hair, restless animatronic eyes. He looks like he should be playing synth […]

iWon has an article on what it’s actually like to be a Nigerian 419 scammer:
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Day in, day out, a strapping, amiable 24-year-old who calls himself Kele B. heads to an Internet cafe, hunkers down at a computer and casts his net upon the cyber-waters.
Blithely oblivious to signs on the walls and […]

It seems that EU antitrust officials have raided Intels offices all over Europe today. The most they would say is that it’s because of an “ongoing antitrust investigation”:

As part of the dawn raid, European Commission officials and national competition authorities in Milan, Italy; Munich, Germany; Madrid, Spain; and Swindon, England, descended on several Intel offices, […]

It seems some lowlives (Healthcare Advocates of Philadelphia) are suing The Internet Archive for archiving their old site. The apparant reason being that the cached pages in the archive were used against them in a trademark action suit:
The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of […]

The BBC reports the the ex Worldcom boss is going to have to do 25 years, and is obviously being made an exmple of:
Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers wept openly as he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for his part in the scandal which brought down the firm.
Mr Ebbers was found guilty of […]