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True crime: The botnet barons 04 January, 2008 07:03:57
Two weeks ago, the feds revealed the names of eight people who had used botnets to engage in nefarious activity. Here are their storiesWhen federal agents announced on November 29 that they'd indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in criminal activity, the press release barely explained the nature and extent of the men's crimes -- or the investigations that led to arrests in an operation the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have termed Bot Roast II. - +
The 2007 security hall of shame 27 December, 2007 07:47:46
Bad breaches, ghastly gaffes and five people we'd like to forgetHow bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every sort of meltdown predicted -- more criminalization of the hacker community, more Web-application attacks, more phishing, more spamming, more zero-day attacks and more virtualization-related threats -- we're happy to tell you that you are likely to look back on 2007 as the peaceful old days. - +
Ex-Microsoft manager faces 20 years for doctoring expenses 11 December, 2007 08:27:35
Bilked Microsoft and other firms of $1 million in separate scams, say fedsA former Microsoft manager who acquired, registered and retired the company's Internet domain names was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing more than US$1 million from Microsoft, Expedia and a California company, federal prosecutors said. - +
Seven Cisco bad luck happenings in '07 31 December, 2007 07:08:39
Ranging from the departure from Cisco of a high-flying exec to a wireless LAN data flooding to some major problems with Cisco VoIP equipment.Even the best of us has bad days, but when Cisco has them for whatever reason, they get reported widely. Here are our picks of the top-7 bad luck happenings in Ciscoland in the past year, ranging from the departure from Cisco of a high-flying exec to a wireless LAN data flooding to some major problems with Cisco VoIP equipment.
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The former Microsoft employee associated with the company's notorious December 1999 Hotmail outage has been charged with fraud.
Carolyn Gudmundson was indicted Thursday on charges that she raked in over US$1 million during a four-year period by falsifying expense reports she filed for domain name registration charges.
Gudmundson, a former program manager at Microsoft's MSN division, is charged with using her position within the company to run a number of different scams between 2000 and 2004. According to US attorneys, she would use her corporate American Express charge for domain name registration fees, but then submit copies of invoices that carried inflated charges.
In another alleged scam, she is charged with convincing a Microsoft contractor, Marksmen Inc., to send checks to her attention at Microsoft, claiming they were being used to repay a Microsoft employee, G.M. Lossman, for transferring domain names into Microsoft's control. Those checks were cashed in Gudmundson's mother's account, according to the US Department of Justice.
Marksmen's president declined to comment for this story.
She is also accused of billing Microsoft for domain name registrations that had already been paid for its Expedia online travel service. Microsoft sold off Expedia in 2001.
Gudmundson was arrested Thursday night and is set to appear in federal court in Seattle on Friday afternoon. She faces up to 20 years in prison and a US$250,000 fine on the fraud charges.
Microsoft was not immediately available to comment on Gudmundson's arrest.
This is not her first time in the spotlight. In December 1999 Gudmundson was listed as the administrative contact responsible for Microsoft's Passport.com domain when the service stopped working, knocking 60 million Hotmail users offline. The cause? Someone forgot to renew the domain name registration.
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ARN Panel Sessions: Day 3The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
Sony launches a new version of its Reader electronic book deviceSony launches a new version of its Reader electronic book device. The PRS-700 adds a touchscreen and reading light to the previous model and will go on sale in the U.S. in November.
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Fortinet Debuts Data Theft Detection and Prevention Security Appliance 08 October, 2008 17:00:00
Carbonite Australia launches local website - www.carbonite.com.au 08 October, 2008 15:54:00
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In 2007, Avanade helped the National Australia Bank use Windows Server 2008 to simplify deployment, maximise the efficiency of their low-bandwidth wide area network and consolidate its IT infrastructure.
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