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