NASA Maps Mars With Child Labor Web Games
theregister.co.uk — NASA is outsourcing laborious Martian cartography to Earth children with a website that entices users to make a game out of sorting through the space agency's hundreds of thousands images of the Red Planet. Basically turning kids into Mechanical Turk's the website features two games that use crowdsourcing techniques to catalog real data. (Submitted by FirstDigg) More...
Botnet Responsible for 1/3 of Worlds Spam Shut Down
theregister.co.uk — After carefully analyzing the massive botnet known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the security company FireEye last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command and control channels used to send new spamming instructions to the legions of zombie machines that make up the network. Almost immediately after this, the spam stopped. (Submitted by FirstDigg) More...
Man banished from PayPal for showing how to Hack PayPal
theregister.co.uk — PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit certificate for the online payment processor.The suspension effectively freezes more than $500 in the account until... (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
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