Brandon Dimmel

One of the most infamous spammers in history has turned himself in to the authorities. Sanford Wallace, known to many as the ' Spam King ' for his infiltration of thousands of Facebook accounts, has now been charged and could face a decade in prison ... if found guilty. The 43-year-old Spam King is best known for breaking into 500,000 Facebook user accounts and then spamming them all with a total of about 27 million bogus messages. Wallace carried out the attacks in 2008 and 2009, and made considerable cash off the scheme by driving Internet traffic to various marketing companies who in turn paid ... (view more)

RSSOwl 2.1.1 RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility. RSSOwl can be used on all major platforms like Windows, Linux (32 Bit and ... 64 Bit) and Apple Mac OS X. http://www.rssowl.org Foto-Mosaik-Edda 6.5 With Foto-Mosaik-Edda you can create mosaic-pictures, which are composed of many small pictures (tiles), from your own photos. The single pictures will be analyzed and copied into one or more databases. You can use your holiday photos, pictures of the last family celebration or ... (view more)

PhraseExpress 8.0.137 PhraseExpress organizes your frequently used text snippets in customizable categories for quick access. PhraseExpress saves hours of typing and is the ideal solution for personnel in office, technical support, customer care, ... help desk, call center and medical or legal transcription settings. The Client-/Server version allows you to share text templates within a network. http://www.phraseexpress.com TVersity 1.9.7 TVersity allows you to play your entire media collection on a TV and mobile device. You can also access your personal Internet content from sites like YouTube, ... (view more)

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday will be relatively moderate, though it does address 22 flaws. According to Microsoft, 13 of the patches addressed in August Patch Tuesday will address 22 flaws in a number of different programs, including Windows, ... Internet Explorer (IE), Visio and Visual Studio. Compared to last month's Patch Tuesday , the one set for release next Tuesday (August 9th) is only slightly larger: there are more patches offered, but the number of vulnerabilities remains the same. The number of fixes released this month is somewhat unusual as historically, Microsoft doles out fixes ... (view more)

A new Trojan virus affecting Android smartphones reportedly records and stores personal conversations. It's a step up from previous Trojans of this variety, which to this point have only recorded text-based information. The smartphone virus' ... existence was recently discovered by researchers at CA Technologies, who report that the Trojan is significantly more threatening than previous malicious software of this kind affecting mobile devices. In the past, Trojans like this were able to note how long a call lasted, who was involved in a conversation, and was able to record text messages. (Source ... (view more)

A new report suggests that the costs associated with cyber crime continue to rise. According to a study funded by hardware firm Hewlett-Packard, on average cyber attacks are costing companies 56 per cent more money to resolve than the year previous. ... The study, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute, is called the "Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime." It finds that the median annualized cost of attacks rose to $5.9 million a year, up from $3.8 million last year. (Source: latimes.com ) Big Companies Face 70+ Attacks Each Week According to the report, 50 organizations participating in the ... (view more)

StudioLine Photo Basic 3.70.37 StudioLine Photo Basic 3 is a photo editing suite. Features include annotations, image resizing, create high resolution prints, and present your images as an on-screen slide show. Email registration / activation ... required. http://www.studioline.net WhoIsThisDomain 1.66 WhoisThisDomain is a domain registration lookup utility that allows you to easily get information about a registered domain. It automatically connects to the right WHOIS server, according to the top-level domain name, and retrieves the WHOIS record of the domain. It supports both generic domains ... (view more)

Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 4 The Firefox browser is created by Mozilla, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web. Experience cutting edge features with more stability and provide feedback to ... help refine and polish what will be in the final release of Firefox 6.0. http://www.mozilla.com Air Playit 1.0 Air Playit is a video streaming software designed to stream videos audios to Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Google Android OS mobile devices. Air Playit is capable of streaming 320 different video and audio formats to your mobile ... (view more)

Chinese hackers are being blamed in the wake of a recent attack on two popular South Korean websites, breaches that together resulted in the loss of personal information associated with 35 million personal accounts. South Korea's SK Telecom, which ... owns and operates both of the websites involved in the attack -- a social networking platform called 'Cyworld' and a web portal named 'Nate' -- was recently forced to apologize for the breach. The number of personal accounts exposed in the attack is quite staggering, given that South Korea's population is only about 50 million. That equates to 70 ... (view more)

For the first time in years, Microsoft's Windows XP operating system has sunk below a majority share of the operating system market. The report comes just as a new study finds that Microsoft Internet Explorer users are slightly less savvy than users ... of other web browsers. According to Microsoft, Windows XP is now used by 49.84 per cent of all Internet users world-wide. Although the operating system (OS) is still the most widely-used system in the world, that percentage of the total market represents its lowest point in several years. Luckily for Microsoft, the damage hasn't been done by ... (view more)