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Sometimes the good guys had to be on the offensive!  Couple IT professionals and researchers from security firms are fighting bad guys with everything they got and knew of, and they had a run when they did that the last time.  They took a botnet known as Mega-D down by isolating the botnet’s zombies and trapping the botnet’s zombies.  They calculated that Mega-D was the root for 12% spam of all spams.  Counting number for Mega-D zombies is about 250,000 infected computers.  Don’t be so happy though, the good guys know that the victory for the last battle is only the beginning of an endless waves of new spams to come.  More.

How far a corporate willing to go to monitor employees?  In this case Walmart was going as far as installing a video surveillance camera inside a unisex bathroom.  This is more like a peeping tom thing than a loss prevention program that Walmart claims it was doing so.  Perhaps, Walmart is try to see how far it can push the privacy law?  Although not all states are clearly stated that having a surveillance video camera in bathroom is a violation, but common sense shows that nobody wants someone else takes a peek at such a private moment.  Just to be cleared, only one known Walmart store so far is doing this, and it is located in Easton, Pennsylvania.  Some of the employees there who had complained were fired.  The seven employees are now suing Walmart over this matter.  Source.

Technology is moving fast, and so the entertainment industry have to try out new tactics just to keep up with the money trend.  Instead of releasing digital contents at the same time with DVDs, movie industry is going to release the digital contents before DVDs become available in stores near you.  So now you have a choice, not to spend money but you have to content with a crappy grainy pirated version of a movie, or you can pay up and watch an HD version of a movie — just remember that you don’t have to wait for a DVD to be released.  Just to be not so optimistic, not all players in the movie industry are doing this just yet, and so far the players that are willing to go this far are Sony Pictures and Showtime.  Source.