What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?

It has been over a week since the takedown of an ISP responsible for directing a large portion of Internet’s spam. While many groups immediately hailed a massive drop in spam, the true story was more nuanced.

Everyone, save the spammers, hates spam, and this story has generated quite a bit of interest throughout [...]

Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives

Under sustained attack from what is described as a rapidly spreading network worm, the U.S. army has banned the use of USB sticks, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices, according to internal e-mail messages seen by Wired’s Noah Shachtman. According to the article, service members have been ordered to [...]