McAfee launches global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on March 29, 2008
That's what some folks are saying about Microsoft's new partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook. Calling it a new commitment to openness and data portability, the...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on March 28, 2008
How is the war on spam looking from your inbox? I still get a dozen or so spams a day, mostly those annoying Nigerian scams and there many variations. How about you? IGotSpam?! wants to know! Take a...
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Two Day Spam conference, on March 27 and 28, 2008, on campus at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Topics Include Game Theory of Botnets, Black Market Botnets, Major ISP Botnet fighting, The...
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Here is a great video from Google's Tech Talk series. It's a discussion about building a safer web. With the emergence of Web 2.0. more and more people are relying on websites and web based...
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BBC is reporting that China is investigating a spam attack where 200 million mobile phone users through china have received unwanted text message from advertisers. China mobile has blocked text...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on March 22, 2008
Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, are accusing Apple of bad business regarding the distribution of its Safari browser to Windows Users. Mozilla claims Apple's tactics are "borderline malware...
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by IamSAM. Text messaging has become indispensible to many people, especially the teenage set. Unfortunately it also means it has become a big target for spammers, and what makes SMS spam even worse...
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Michael Katz Founder of Message Partners agreed to do an e-mail interview with me regarding anti spam solutions. Michael Katz has worked with some of the most prominent customers in finance, banking,...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on March 20, 2008
A number of compliance and operational risk acts and frameworks including SOX, hipaa, GLBA, PCI, ISO, BASIL, BASIL II, FFIEC, SEC, NFPA, BC, DR to name a few prescribe the storage of information,...
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According to a Wall Street Journal article last year "Qualcomm was put at great risk by poor email archival strategy who found damaging emails after their disclosure deadline in their ongoing...
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Do you want create a throw- away email address that will help your control spam? Here is a solution for you, create an email address at Mailinator. It's so easy to create an email address, send a...
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by Sue Walsh on March 15, 2008
We get them on a daily basis, sometimes even more. They promise us we've won a foreign lottery, offer us a high paying job, or promise us a huge reward if we'll just help them get their family...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on March 15, 2008
"Spam King" Robert Soloway pled guilty in a Seattle court to felony mail fraud, fraud in connection with Electronic mail, and failing to file a tax return in 2005. He was set to go on trial...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on March 14, 2008
ITNews is reporting that McAfee has discovered a maze of over 10,000 websites that have been hijacked by cybercriminals with the intent of using them to take over unsuspecting visitor's PCs. The...
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by Sue Walsh on March 13, 2008
The New York Times is reporting that previous studies from various Internet security firms claiming spammers have devised a program capable of cracking Google's CAPTCHA system may be off the mark....
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Greylisting is a method of defending email server against SPAM emails and it is usually implemented at a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Greylisting is very simple to understand, send a temporary failure...
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Here is an interesting and informative video from the University of Washington Although it's a few years old I think it's still provides some good information, and an interesting comparison of...
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by Sue Walsh on March 11, 2008
In a recent report, Google's Postini team is warning enterprises to be on alert for socially generated spam and virus attacks. The report found that while threats to enterprise messaging security...
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There is a great blog post on ZDNet about routers quite possibly being the next target for hackers. A "Router Hacking Challenge" was recently made, with the idea being to share attacks...
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If you are a Business Manger or Administrator planning to buy an anti spam product soon, below is a list of features that a product must have, make sure you check this before you make a decision to...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on March 07, 2008
An adult website has agreed to pay $413,000 to settle charges it allowed its affiliates to send porn spam to unsuspecting recipients. Arizona based Cyberheat was accused by the FTC of exposing...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on March 07, 2008
Microsoft has announced it will release 4 critical patches on March 11th. All will address remote execution flaws found in Office: The first bulletin is rated critical for Microsoft Office Excel 2000...
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post that I would discuss other harvesting techniques used by spammers, one popular among them is Directory Harvesting Attacks or DHA. So what is DHA? Wikipedia:-A...
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