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Today, we learned truly tragic news about the founder of Webroot, the company behind Spy Sweeper anti-spyware software. According to reports, the body of Steven Thomas, who had been missing in Hawaii since June 30, has now been found.
From all of us at Lavasoft, our hearts go out to Thomas' friends and family at this time and we send our sincere condolences.
Last week, we saw two legitimate sites hit by SQL injection attacks: Sony PlayStation and the Association of Tennis Professionals. SQL injection attacks are an emerging tactic that is becoming increasingly popular among hackers.
A U.S. district judge has ordered Google, the Search Engine, to release information about users that use their YouTube service. The major entertainment corporation Viacom won the legal battle against Google, resulting in access for Viacom to information about YouTube users and their "tubing" behavior, i.e. which videos they watch on the YouTube site. The verdict will also give Viacom access to the login-names and IP-addresses of the YouTube users, even though Viacom says that they will not use the information to frame individuals.
The FRA, Swedish National Defense Radio Establishment, that recently was approved to start their extended surveillance activity targeting wire-based Internet traffic and traffic in the mobile networks, may intercept personal e-mails between local Danish vicars and Danish people in their search for a cure of the souls. How is this possible, you ask? The e-mail of the Danish church is handled via servers placed in Sweden, and FRA is allowed to intercept communications as they pass the Swedish border, according to the newly adopted FRA law.
Softonic is giving Ad-Aware users the chance to let your voices be heard!
It's time for the download sites annual "Softonic Software of the Year" awards where you can vote for your favorite programs in different categories and platforms. We're proud to announce that Ad-Aware was chosen as a finalist in this years competition for "Best Anti-Spyware."
We've received word from the Turkish website TAMindir.com that Ad-Aware 2008 has picked up their "Editör?ün Önerisi" (Editor?s Choice) award.
Along with granting a five-star rating, TAMindir.com editors had this to say about our software:
This one came in last night on my home personal e-mail. Please keep your eyes peeled for phishing e-mail scams, and do not, I repeat do not, click on the links.
From: service[at]wachovia.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Your wachovia account is locked.
New research out this week from Gartner tells us that the amount of PCs being used around the world has now passed the 1 billion mark, and that number is set to double in the next 6 years.
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