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Nov. 26, 2008
Global email spam levels still low
Only ten days since web hosting provider McColo (the alleged host to some of the biggest criminals and e-mail spammers on the Internet) went offline, analytics firms across the globe have found that the international volume of e-mail spam has dropped by as much as 75 percent and is still staying low as of now. After closely investigating McColo since early July, the Washington Post's Security Fix blog found that the San Jose host was likely hosting "some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today," including child pornography, anti-virus scams and malicious software, which has stolen banking and credit card information from more than half a million people.

Nov. 19, 2008
Intel launches its new Core i7 CPU
Designed on a completely new architecture, Intel's generation of Core i7 CPUs are greatly different from their predecessors and have a lot of advantages over them. As part of Intel's global launch in India, there was a lavishly arranged function in Mumbai yesterday. Prakash Bagri, Director of Marketing for Intel South Asia said "we have delivered the fastest desktop processor to the most demanding users, the ones who are using their PCs for video, gaming and music. Intel's new Core i7 processor has refined the computer of tomorrow".

Nov. 16, 2008
Authorities shut down Web hosting company McColo
On a global basis, email spam now is down about 75 percent since Nov. 11, when a Washington Post investigation led Internet service-providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric to shut down for good San Jose, California Web hosting provider McColo. The Post says McColo also hosted child pornography. However, it's still unclear if the hosting firm will be held responsible for the crimes of its clients. Mark Rasch, a former cyber crime prosecutor for the Justice Department and managing director of FTI Security Consulting in Washington, D.C.,. said Web hosting providers are generally not liable for illegal activity carried out on their networks, except in cases involving copyright violations and... child pornography.

Nov. 5, 2008
Verizon customers offline for more than 18 hours
A major power failure at Verizon in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, left thousands of people unable to access their websites on Nov. 1st, after the hosting provider's generator failed to kick in, according to numerous reports over the weekend. IOL (Independent Online), a local publication in South Africa, said its news site was "hard-hit by the crash" and even popular SMS chat applications like M-Xit were unavailable for most of the day, leaving "thousands of people unable to communicate with others."