Some folk have asked me for more details about the DigiNotar breach after my brief appearance on Al Jazeera this morning. So here are the notes I prepared for the segment. Links at the bottom. Background web security certificates are digital IDs issued by companies entrusted with making sure they are given to the right… Read More »
This from AP in St. Louis: ISP and cable TV operator Charter Communications has deleted the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts. “We really are sincerely sorry for having had this happen and do apologize to all those folks who were affected by the error,” [their spokesperson] said Thursday when the company announced the gaff.… Read More »
If you wonder why people don’t just go after spammers, vigilante-style, here’s why. Three Dutch blogging websites launched an online war against a U.S. spammer, Customerblast.com late last week, and found they’d bitten off more than they could chew. The weblogs, according to The Register, tried to push Customerblast off the web with sustained distributed… Read More »