There is a story circulating the internet today that some security geeks have sucessfully shutdown one of the major spam bots onn the internet. Amounting to about 12% of the junk that fills our inboxes these geeks found a way to disable the backbone of the Mega-D botnet. Chalk one up for the white hats! It goes to show you that if people of this caliber are working toward a good goal then we can eliminate or at least stall thes epeople who perpetrate all the bad things that go on on the net.

Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet

Adobe announced more exploits on Monday for its Reader 9.2. My suggestion to people is for quite awhile now has been to find a substitute program to open PDF files. One of the best that I have found thus far has been Foxit Reader. Its small and quite robust and the best part is its FREE.. It does an excellent job of quickly opening large files and I don't see any reason why the average computer user out there can't take advantage of this free alternative reader.

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Very interesting column from Roger Thompson Security Chief at AVG. Seems like there may be telltale signs that corporations like your bank are getting their hands on your information. There is a story on his blog that seems to indicate that either there is harvesting of data on their customers, or that Facebook is selling the data. Which is it, I'm not sure but it is a very interesting development and we all may want to take a good hard close look at this story. I'm posting the link to the story, and make sure you read the follow up post as well. Nice piece Roger thanks!

Now THIS is scary

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