by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
James Reno of Amelia, Ohio, the brains behind an elaborate series of rogue anti-malware companies, and his firm ByteHosting, have agreed to pay $117,000 — what’s left of $1.9 million of ill-gotten gains — to settle an action brought by the U.S. Federal...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Late last week someone began attacks on the California company whose code was illegally used in China’s Green Dam-Youth Escort spyware.In May the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that computers sold in the country after July 1 must...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Your Gmail account could be hijacked or viewed by someone else. So it’s nice to know from where it’s being accessed.You can do this with a handy-dandy feature in Gmail, located at the bottom of the Gmail page: Click “Details” and you...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Anti-malware providers got good news today from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Wash.Readers of this blog may remember the lawsuit that Zango filed against Kaspersky back in 2007 for blocking its software. As we reported, Zango’s case against...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
A while back, Stephen Mason, an attorney in the UK, edited a book on electronic evidence called Electronic Evidence: Disclosure, Discovery & Admissibility. He’s updated the book to include an overview of the Julie Amero case, and the section on Julie’s...
