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This is How Cyber Criminals Party (Mimes and Blow-Up Dolls)

Say you're part of KLIK Team, an Eastern European software/cyber criminal organization that has flooded countless computers with malware (such as fake spyware protection) and made a lot of money doing it. What do you do to celebrate another successful year of screwing the world?

A corporate night out at Dave & Busters with all you can eat pizza was specifically not the answer. Try flying 95 employees out to a ski resort and entertaining them with snowboarding, blow-up dolls, briefcases of money and, of all things, mimes. That's what KLIK Team did last February. A few won cars, a few won MacBooks, but when you see the shot of the erection mummy, you'll realize that everyone lost their dignity. Hit the jump for a fairly SFW video and a lightly NSFW gallery.

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9:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Mark Wilson
16,049 views, 30 comments

skype

Skype's Encryption May be Used as an Excuse for Trojan Viruses by German Police

Skype's encryption codes are proving a problem for German police, who say that their officers are unable to monitor suspect conversations. One of the country's top cops admitted yesterday that the combination of VoIP technology and Germany's strict anti-surveillance laws — a reaction to the Stasi's exploits during the Cold War — is making it harder to keep tabs on criminal and terrorist activity in the country.
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5:32 AM on Fri Nov 23 2007
By AddyDugdale
1,817 views, 4 comments

computers

Dell Eliminates Almost All Crapware From Dimension and Inspiron Notebooks

Dell's expanding their no crapware option from their high-end XPS systems to their entire Dimension desktop and Inspiron notebook line; meaning you're going to get the option at purchase time to opt-out of pre-installed trialware and shareware that slows down your computer considerably even when it's brand new. The one caveat is that these computers aren't entirely trialware free—it still has antivirus, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Google Tools left behind. More »

2:15 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By Jason Chen
5,904 views, 27 comments

Latest by NotMe: It's great that Dell is doing this, but I think Apple's bloatware commercial is really responsible for this change for the better. more »

pcs

Huge Decline in Bot-Infected PCs on Christmas Day

Bot-net tracker group Shadowserver noticed a gigantic drop in infected systems on Christmas day. the total number dropped from more than 500,000 to less than 400,000, or more than 20%. Another independent group confirmed a 10% drop on their numbers. What's the deal? More »

3:20 PM on Fri Dec 29 2006
By Jason Chen
305 views, 11 comments

pcs

E-mail Spyware: Gawker Wants To Know

Our gossipy cousins at Gawker are all a-twitter about this dude from the giant publishing house Conde Nast who sent them a tip and then got fired for it. Now they want to figure out how the corporate overseers were able to monitor his outgoing mail. I have a basic understanding of this stuff, but even so—in a company with thousands of employees it can't be trivial to track every Gmail message, or can it? I'm hoping one of you readers has the skinny on the science behind this stuff. More »

1:53 PM on Wed Oct 26 2005
By Noah R
327 views, 18 comments

Latest by skippy: Pete: thanks for the heads-up. I always manually key in the full https URL, so I didn't realize that GMail was unencrypted by default. Pity Google doesn't require encrypted sessions. more »