SEATTLE – Two online companies that promised consumers “free” big-ticket items but required them to pay for trial offers and subscriptions must pay $55,000 in civil penalties under a settlement announced today by the Washington Attorney General’s Office. Under the terms of the settlement, SubscriberBASE...
Put this one down to very very VERY bad judgment on the part of whoever it is who designs advertising campaigns for realestateonline.com.au. I'm sure many of you have heard about the now infamous Melbourne teenager Corey Worthington Delaney who got into so much trouble after hosting a party, without...
Fascinating reading and an excellent insight into the problems faced by web sites hit by malicious content - reality is that the web sites affected by malicious advertising need help gathering the data required to prove an incident has occurred, and often need help tracking down which advertising network...
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sandi
on
01-10-2008
Filed under: General stuff, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Hi all, I'm back from holidays - the whole family had a fantastic time - all in all we passed through Singapore, Egypt, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland over the past couple of weeks. We have hundreds of photographs which I'll try to get online somewhere soon. I'm pleased to announce...
2Clix has sued the owner of the Australia based Whirlpool chat forums for $150,000.00 and requested the permanent removal of two threads criticizing the 2Clix software. 2Clix, a less than reputable software company, has filed suit against the founder of the Whirlpool forums, because of negative comments...
In answer to the question posted by Paul Wright here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/09/10/1184164.aspx#1184814 "Are you the person spamming links to this all over news.admin.net-abuse.email, by the way? Hope not." I did NOT spam my article about the e360 v Spamhaus decision...
Network toys... Seriously - found via Jesper's blog : " BRIO Network is not your classic toy train set. It's an original world of Rail Play featuring the imaginary creatures who live inside your computer. They drive super-cool vehicles around wooden train tracks. They can listen to their...
Bronwyn has put out a call for members to join geekgirlsblog; I suppose I'd better put my name in the hat I haven't met Bronwyn - our respective home towns are many thousands of miles apart, and I don't get to travel much nowadays - but those I know who have met her have nothing but good...
"Whether it's in Second Life, World or Warcraft or EverQuest, one photographer has made it his mission to document the virtual worlds of gamers alongside the real. Robbie Cooper talks to NEWS.com.au about his latest book, "Alter Ego", a collection of images documenting gamers and the...
Received today... "Thanks for repairing my Internet Explorer! I reduced the size of the cache as you recommended and ouila - it works after a week of frustration. I'm no newbie, having been through about 15 computers since 1983, but I never knew that. Again, thanks from this senior citizen!"...