Sunday, June 30, 2002

Net Fraud Is Tangled Web for Victims, Police As you read this, hundreds of crooks are trolling the Internet for victims. Their get-rich-quick schemes clog e-mail inboxes and online bulletin boards. Odds are they won't get caught. An FBI-led Internet fraud task force received 49,711 complaints last year. Of those, 93 ended in an arrest. Local police see most Internet fraud as outside their jurisdiction; federal authorities see most of it as too small to pursue. In the wide-open world between, online scammers are making fortunes -- and victims are losing more than $500 million a year. [NewsFactor Cybercrime & Security] 23:10 # G!

Net Fraud Is Tangled Web for Victims, Police As you read this, hundreds of crooks are trolling the Internet for victims. Their get-rich-quick schemes clog e-mail inboxes and online bulletin boards. Odds are they won't get caught. An FBI-led Internet fraud task force received 49,711 complaints last year. Of those, 93 ended in an arrest. Local police see most Internet fraud as outside their jurisdiction; federal authorities see most of it as too small to pursue. In the wide-open world between, online scammers are making fortunes -- and victims are losing more than $500 million a year. [NewsFactor Cybercrime & Security] 23:10 # G!

Windows Media Player security update EULA gives MS permission to keep- you from using "other software" on your computer The latest from MS is buried deep in the EULA if you download the Windows Media Player security update: "You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update." "may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer" is an interesting phrase. If you remove one item from the sentence it becomes "may disable your ability to ....................... use other software on your computer". Wonder what "other software" Bill G. might decide to not let us use at some point in the future? See http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25435.html Bill Tolle [Bill Tolle via risks-digest Volume 22, Issue 14] 15:56 # G!