Scammers running wild on Facebook
Facebook has millions of users world wide and this makes the website attractive to scammers. Several “Monthly charge” frauds are circulating for a few months now pushing gullible users into panic. People are usually invited to join a group to express a protest against upcoming monthly fee. The rumor about charging $4.99 or £3.99 or £14.99 a month is totally made up. However, confusion is not what the scammers seek: members of the group are directed to external websites that are capable of installing malware. Some of the sources can even download 25 different infections automatically upon visit.
The incidents made Facebook delete “WE’RE AGAINST THE $4.99 A MONTH CHARGE FOR FACEBOOK FROM JUNE 30TH 2010” group but a new one appeared shortly after that. The new group is called “I WILL NOT PAY £3.99 A MONTH TO USE FACE BOOK FROM JULY 9TH 2010” and it’s the same fraud as the previous. These two groups are not the only ones trying to confuse people; the monthly charge or the formulation of the name might be different but the purpose is the same: installing malware onto computers.
Facebook representatives have repeatedly declared that the network is not going to charge a basic fee for the main services.
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Do it Yourself Data Recovery-Avoid Internet Remedies
When it comes to do-it-yourself data recovery advice, the Internet is full of home remedies. Many of these "tricks" were written years ago and only apply to "ancient" storage technology. Using these methods can damage the drive or its data, making it unrecoverable.
Here's a prime example of "myths" found on the web. A recovery method, once successful in the past, was the swapping of printed circuit boards (commonly referred to as PCBs). In some cases when a hard drive stopped working, it was possible to "borrow" a printed circuit board from an identical model drive and attach it to a bad drive to get it working temporarily and copy off the data.
With current hard drive technology, this technique could be disastrous. Older hard drives stored self-test data; bad sector tables (know as p-list and g-list) and other information on the disk platter. On newer drives, the PCB and HDA are paired together and are inseparable. One cannot be replaced without affecting the other component. If the PCB were "swapped", the original defect lists would be lost, the drive would not function properly and the data would be corrupt due to the missing sectors.
In summary, if your customer's data is critical to them or their business and it's not backed up, don't risk losing it forever with do-it-yourself recovery tricks found on the web. Call US we can help.
P2P child pornography ring busted
by James "Dela" Delahunty
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed in Chicago yesterday that undercover investigators had infiltrated an Internet chat room hosting child pornography, and as a result 27 arrests were made in the US, Canada, Australia and England. The chat room, known as "Kiddypics & Kiddyvids", was used to trade "graphic images of child pornography – including live streaming video of adults sexually molesting children and infants." The ring that operated the chatroom used P2P technology to exchange the content.
"The behavior in these chat rooms – and the images these defendants sent around the world through peer to peer file sharing programs and private instant messaging services – are the worst imaginable forms of child pornography," said Gonzales. Charges brought in the US include possession, receipt, distribution and manufacture of child pornography, as well as conspiracy and other offenses.
The use of P2P technology meant that the ring didn't have to rely on any central servers, and also made it much harder for investigators to bring the group down. So far, none of the individuals mentioned in yesterday's indictment in Chicago have been convicted of a crime, "but we plan to prosecute them – and others involved in this vile chat room – to the fullest extent of the law," Gonzales commented.
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The Register
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