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AOL really kills Netscape this time

2008-02-21 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
AOL LLC has released the last update for its Netscape browser and told users they should consider migrating to Flock or Firefox
 
 
 
 
 
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AT&T, AOL join other ISPs to block child porn

2008-07-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473438 in Network World on Security
 
AT&T and AOL have joined three other major Internet service providers in eliminating access to child pornography newsgroups, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Friday
 
 
 
 
 
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Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL

2008-07-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b14bd4 in Network World on Security
 
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period
 
 
 
 
 
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AOL phisher gets seven-year sentence

2008-08-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A West Haven, Conn., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period
 
 
 
 
 
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Dissecting a Managed Spamming Service

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2008-07-30 05:32:44 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...aol and others Improved metrics, whether or not the emails have been sent, lost, unknown receipt, or have been RBL-ed With the weight of a billion - even discounts and the possibility of making a personal server Rather surprising, they state that European email users have a higher probability of receiving the spam message compared the U.S...
 
 
 
 
 
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Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet

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2008-07-11 17:46:17 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...aol.com was Homers Email address. Of course, every Simpsons fan with net access immediately added Chunkylover53 to their AIM contact list. As this article points out Homer's e-mail address chunkylover53@aol.com, as seen on EABF03, was registered by writer-producer Matt Selman, who also replied to e-mails from fans testing it. "He logged in...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wait a min, I use Comcast!

2008-07-13 16:09:34 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...AOL, AT&T join child porn battle clipped from tech.blorge.com AT&T and AOL (the largest and third-largest ISPs respectively) committed to blocking access to all newsgroups with child porn, along with offending websites stored on their servers. Verizon, Time Warner and Sprint had already agreed to this action
 
 
 
 
 
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Netscape Closes Shop

2007-12-30 20:17:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...AOL has decided that as of Feb 1st 2008 they will discontinue releasing any further revisions, including security updates for the Netscape browser. Honestly, this doesnt come as a huge surprise to me given how things have been going for the last 4-5 years now for them, but its still a bummer to lose the only other existing survivor from the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Five data leak nightmares

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8471a98 in Network World on Security
 
When Home Depot lost a laptop containing personal information on 10,000 employees, it was just the latest in a string of high-profile data-leak incidents. The Veterans Administration, TJX, Monster.com, Fidelity National Information Services, Pfizer, AOL, Ameritrade the list goes on and on
 
 
 
 
 
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DIY Fake MSN Client Stealing Passwords

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2008-01-17 10:06:24 by HASH0x8b6b58c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...AOL Instant Messenger network, 45 percent on MSN Messenger, 20 percent on Yahoo! Instant Messenger and 15 percent on all other IM networks including Jabber-based IM private networks. Attacks on these private networks have more than doubled in share since 2003, rising from seven percent of all IM attacks to 15 percent in 2007 As always, it's...