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Do you want to avoid unwanted telemarketing calls and SMS, arriving on your Mobile or Landline phones from Telecom companies which aim to provide additional services, promotions, offers, plans, tariffs, etc? National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC Registry) is a measure from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, whose main objective is to control Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) and let you get rid of it. To Register in NDNC Registry – Call 1909 (toll free) or SMS START DND to 1909 (toll free). In case you want to de-register yourself from the NDNC registry SMS STOP DND to 1909 (toll free). Alternatively, users can visit the ‘Do not Call/Disturb’ registration webpage of their desired telecom subscribers to apply for same. ...

Security researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting:

Once again, we’d like to wish our readers Merry Christmas with a reference to the 1986 CHRISTMA EXEC worm Here’s a link to January 1987 Risks Digest, discussing the worm. And here’s a link to the original source code for this worm. Normally we wouldn’t link to malware code, but hey, it’s 23 years old.