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Tributes.com Sounding Death Knell for Newspaper Obituaries?

Beginning of the End for Newspaper Obituaries?It's been a terrible decade or so for print newspapers around the world. As more and more people go online to get their news, fewer need a (non-free) printed version cluttering up their mailboxes. Then came sites like Craigslist, killing any profits earned from the printed classifieds section, and Monster.com, doing the same for the help wanted section. That doesn't leave much left to cherry pick, but Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor thinks he's found one last aspect to destroy: the obituaries section.

His new site is Tributes.com, an online obituary service that, he hopes, will some day become your go-to site for those who are no longer going anywhere. Users can post up obituaries for others and search for obituaries based on home town and date of death; they can even set up a recurring notice for any deaths nearby.

It's all a little morbid (duh), and while looking for jobs and used refrigerators online feels like second nature at this point, it's hard to imagine too many people surfing over to check the daily obits. [Source: Newsvine]

Monster.com Hacked, User Info Compromised

Monster.com A Smorgasbord for Hackers and Phishers
Monster.com has recently come under attack from hackers, spammers and phishers (people who send phony e-mails to lure users into providing login info to banking and other personal accounts). The casualties of war: your personal information. After stealing the usernames and passwords of legitimate recruiters on Monster, the hackers were able to craft personalized phishing e-mails to job seekers based upon information gleaned from their resumes. The more specific and believable the e-mails are, the more likely they are to succeed. Success in this case is either getting the target to open an e-mail loaded with spyware or a virus, or better yet, hand over personal information like credit card details.

A server in the Ukraine used by the scammers was discovered to contain the personal details of 1.6 million people. Because of duplicate entries, security firms believe the server may actually only hold the personal information of "several hundred thousand" to 1.2 million people, as if that's any more comforting.

Symantec, makers of Norton AntiVirus, alerted Monster.com to the vulnerabilities, but also warned users to be careful of what they post online. A quick look around a social networking site like Facebook reveals plenty of people willing to post their full names, e-mail addresses, AIM screen names, birthdays, and in some particularly careless cases, home mailing addresses. Security experts suggest that personal information hosted on sites like Monster and Facebook be kept to a minimum, only revealing more after a contact proves legitimate.

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