Plucky Brits shrug off Mytob network blitz
IT staff at three major London hospitals have spent a second day struggling to restore IT systems following a major computer virus outbreak.…
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Malware targets grumble-flick fans
Security researchers have uncovered a rare example of a Trojan that affects Mac PCs.…
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A massive swath of some 65,536 unique Internet addresses that appear to have been swiped from early Internet pioneers by a convicted spammer has been reclaimed by Internet regulators, Security Fix has learned. In April, Security Fix reported that a huge block of Internet addresses once assigned to San Francisco Bay Packet Radio — an organization that was involved way back in the 1970s in testing the predecessor to the global commercial Internet that we all use today — was being used to send e-mail for a company called MediaBreakaway. That company’s chief executive is Scott Richter — a self-avowed “spam king” who has been sued by a number of the Internet’s biggest players — including Microsoft and Myspace — for sending spam. When I was first presented with this information, I put the relevant questions to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) — one of five regional Internet
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