June 12 2003 -
Man arrested in huge eBay fraud - Buyers criticize auction
site’s seller verification service, By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, Police
in South Salt Lake, Utah, are working with eBay to determine just how
many people were victimized by what authorities say was one of the
biggest frauds in the auction site’s history. Police arrested
31-year-old Russell Dana Smith last weekend after hundreds of auction
winners complained that they sent $1,000 or more to a company named
Liquidation Universe for laptop computers they never received. Police
say the firm appears to have raked in $1 million from about 1,000
victims in just a few weeks...
June 12 2003 -
FTC: Blame Foreigners for Spam By Joanna Glasner - Wired
News, Listening to the Federal Trade Commission, one easily can get
the impression that deceptive e-mail is downright un-American, since so
much of it comes from places like Nigeria, Canada and Russia. That's why
the top consumer watchdog agency is asking Congress for expanded power
to pursue foreign spammers, among other requests...
June 25 2003 -
Microsoft's next target--Google? - By Jim Hu and Mike
Ricciuti, CNET News.com, Microsoft's path to expand the Windows
empire is leading directly to search king Google. The software company
this month quietly launched a new search program called MSNBot, which
scours the Web to build an index of HTML links and documents. The
homegrown system--which performs robot functions previously left to
Inktomi and other partners--may pose a significant threat to Google if
Microsoft fulfills its promise to make the program a cornerstone of its
overall PC and services strategies...
June 18 2003 -
Senator OK with zapping pirates' PCs - By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET
News.com, June 18, 2003, 5:21 PM PT, Sen. Orrin Hatch on Wednesday
backpedaled slightly from his suggestion a day earlier that copyright
holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music
pirates. In a brief press release, Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, said that he suggested the idea at Tuesday's
hearing:
"I think that industry is not doing
enough to help us find effective ways to stop people from using
computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials," he
said...
