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by Ivy on March 29, 2007
I know we talked about disposable email addresses already, and all the benefits which come out of so handy services (no more giving your genuine email when signing up for saucy sites, for example :),...
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by Ivy on March 27, 2007
Funny thing, PayPal is lobbying by the e-mail providers to ban unsigned emails. This could stop phishing, which is one of PayPals biggest soar spots. Network world writes: "So far, no agreements...
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Security Focus warns that the number of botnets has almost tripled in the last couple of weeks: "The weekly tally of bot-infected PCs tracked by the group rose to nearly 1.2 million this week, up...
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by Ivy on March 21, 2007
We already know how many spammers there are, and now Discover shows us where there are hiding. Discover Magazine posted a nice map of spam hotspots, which was made by pinpointing origin of over 1...
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by Ivy on March 20, 2007
When NY Times starts writing about spam, you know it's becoming dangerous. John Markoff put together an interesting article about search engine spamming, which any normal webmaster hates and rouge...
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by Ivy on March 19, 2007
Although we already knew that there is a vast number of splogs (or spam blogs) in the Blogger universe, security experts warn that the situation might be getting out of control. Apart from advertising...
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by Ivy on March 13, 2007
Even if you already got robbed of your passwords, bank details or personal information, it does not mean it can't or wont' happen again. Today's cyber crooks tend to leave malware behind...
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by Ivy on March 12, 2007
If our CAN-SPAM act can't do it, the Security and Exchange Commission can. According to Inside BA (via Security news portal), the SEC already suspended 35 companies which resorted to the stock...
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by Ivy on March 07, 2007
Do you even remember those spam emails urging you to visit the 'adult' website with 'special' content? It seems spammers no longer push porn, they are busy advertising drugs, stocks...
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by Ivy on March 06, 2007
We all love forums, because you can share your opinion, get expert advice, exchange news with members, form communities and stay within boundaries, since there are always moderators to delete any...
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by Ivy on March 05, 2007
South Koreans have done their best to contain spam coming out and around their country. By applying innovative techniques nation-wide, Koreans managed to drop down the ladder in the Spamhaus infamous...
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by Ivy on March 03, 2007
Yet another proof that people rarely (or never) update their operating systems, software and anti-virus program is the fact that over three years after the fix against this particular threat was made...
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by Ivy on March 01, 2007
I received a spam e-mail today, and it was snowing. No, really, the image was an animated .gif, which looked just like that cheesy Outlook template everyone insists on using round Christmas. This...
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