Robert Lemos

Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows Vista–software that security researchers say will make finding exploitable vulnerabilities a lot harder.
SecurityFocus

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A weird series of events yields Canada’s skill test — a four-part math problem to make lotteries and promotions legal. But don’t look for a real challenge.
Wired News

(And, no, the headline is not mine.)

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Massive e-mail campaigns aiming to pump up penny stock prices may soon make up half of all spam on the Internet.
SecurityFocus

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission puts a suspected Russian brokerage-account thief’s money on ice, after he allegedly used illicit access to people’s portfolios to drive up stock prices.
SecurityFocus

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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn’t look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five?
Wired News

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Tracfone, the company that offers a pay-as-you-go service for cell-phone users, loves the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which allowed it to block users from hacking their Tracfone phones to work with another provider. Blocked them, that is, until the provision of the law that allows the U.S. Copyright Office to create exemptions resulted in [...]

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It’s amazing that five years after it sued Roxio, Gracenote is still dealing with the act of taking private a database built using user submissions. The latest news: After an interview giving his side of the story, Gracenote founder Steve Scherf apparently is editing Wikipedia to take out objectionable (and he argues, inaccurate) content.

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Security issues at MySpace and other sites have raised fears over protecting users against Trojan horse programs masquerading as user-created content.
SecurityFocus

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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
Wired News

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Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today’s PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth.
PC Magazine

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