Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug

Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 24, @04:19PM
from the misery-loves-company dept.
LostCluster writes "CNET, Reuters, and the AP are all reporting this morning about a circulating e-mail scam that claims that people will lose their FDIC bank account insurance because they are suspected of violating the Patriot Act unless they confirm their bank account information with a website. The scammers then use the already documented bug in IE that allows a site in Pakistan to get 'www.fdic.gov' to appear in the URL bar. Where's an MS patch when we really need one?"

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5:15:18 PM    

Google eyes social networking with Orkut. Google is edging into the social networking space popularized by Friendster, launching on Thursday a networking site created by one of its engineers. [InfoWorld: Top News]

What if teknoids.net did something like this?

10:01:25 AM    

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats

Posted by michael on Saturday January 24, @05:03AM
from the uh-oh dept.
mmurphy000 writes "News(.com)+ reports that Microsoft has filed for patents in multiple jurisdictions to control the way other applications use Office's new XML-based file formats. Musings from pundits suggest that OpenOffice.org and other applications might be blocked from interoperating with Office. This, of course on the heels of today's article on Bruce Perens' concerns over patents."

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9:58:30 AM