YouTube – THE HUNGER Music Video : classic “so bad it’s brilliant” YT
(tags: the-honger funny excruciating youtube tat egypt vampires bad-acting music-videos awful sports-bra)Sophos say Rustock botnet is back on the air : “Starting yesterday, the amount of spam coming to our traps has gone up 3 times (a 200% increase).” Other sources saying similar
(tags: sophos rustock botnets spam spam-weather)Google decide that GMail account thefts are due to phishing : ‘Attackers sent customized e-mails encouraging web domain owners to visit [phish sites …] Once attackers gained the user credentials, they were free to modify the affected accounts as they desired. In this case, the attacker set up mail filters specifically designed to forward messages from web domain providers.’
(tags: google gmail accounts phishing security)Values of n bought out by Twitter : Small software company (run by ex-ORA Rael Dornfest) is bought out; immediately gives 2 weeks notice of shutdown of their webapp products. Cue massive trainwreck as users freak out. Release the code as open source! It can’t be worse than it is now…
(tags: twitter m&a acquisitions rael-dornfest stikkit iwantsandy web-apps web2.0 trainwreck cluetrain)