L.A. Times published interesting story about fighting against online scams in Romania. Recording to L.A. Times Romania is top source of auction site scams. Ebay stated that company is trying to do something about the problem with help of local law enforcement over recent years. Ebay already has sent teams and equipment to help the authorities combat this form of cyber crime, which is run with all the organization of an industrial-scale business.

Microsoft has warned Windows Home Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with Vista Photo Gallery, Office OneNote and Outlook, as well as files generated by finance software Quicken, QuickBooks or Microsoft Money 2007. Microsoft said that the problem is a glitch within Windows Home Server’s shared folders. The company development team is working full-time through the holidays to diagnose and address this issue, but there is one reasonable question we’d like to ask: what the point is in having a home server if you can’t back up files on it?