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Email Sucks at I got Spam?!
I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM email over-and-over. No matter how many times I marked the email as SPAM, Gmail continued to drop the email in my Inbox. I reviewed the email's original [...] Read More
Need to encode your e-mail? at I got Spam?!
Well, I'm sure a lot of you don't know squat about html or encoding, but would still like to be able to have e-mail contact with your readers. So, instead of surfing the web and googling(TM) it, you can simply use the Automatic Encoder Form and get your perfectly clean and usable HTML coded e-mail address ready to insert wherever. Like for example your Typad, Blogger or Wordpress template. The Automatic developers [...] Read More
Porn spam is no longer in at I got Spam?!
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 and real-estate. As SC Magazine's Fiona Raisbeck and Frank Washkuch Jr. report, only 3% of all spam is adult content: "The report revealed that only three percent of all spam collected last month could be classified as adult material. This included pornography, [...] Read More
Modern E-mail Scam On The Rise at The Search Engine Weblog
A different kind of scam is now swarming in e-mail boxes. These e-mails are focusing neither on recipient's good intentions nor greed but fear. The latest scam e-mail, threatens to kill recipients if they do not give thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. About 115 complaints have been filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) since the scam emerged, [...] Read More
Email Addresses You Can Throw Out at The Social Networking Weblog
Do you only need an email address for a little while? Try a disposable email address. Ivy from the I Got Spam blog talks about how you can use these disposable email addresses to keep from getting more spam. Some sites don't like these disposable email addresses because you can use the email address to sign up for the site and then ditch the email address. Now the site has [...] Read More
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on October 2, 2009
Botnet hacker pleads guilty at I got Spam?!
CNN: Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, California, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to four felony charges for crimes, including infecting machines at two U.S. military sites, that earned him more than $61,000, said federal prosecutor James Aquilina. [cut] Ancheta and SoBe signed up as affiliates in programs maintained by online advertising companies that pay people each time they get a computer user to install software that displays ads [...] Read More
Hacker Admits to Creating Botnets at I got Spam?!
A Los Angeles hacker who worked as a information security consultant by day has admitted to writing and distributing malware to over a quarter of a million computers, creating a botnet that stole Paypal login information and allowed him to empty unsuspecting user's bank accounts. Prosecutors say John Schiefer, 26, was known as "The Botmaster" in the underground world of hackers he belonged to. He pled guilty to 4 counts of [...] Read More
BotNet Hitting Networks Hard at I got Spam?!
This past week saw a new botnet attack, increasing spam traffic by 600 percent. The botnet responsible is believed to have over 5 million nodes and interesting enough, only works from 9-5. It appears to originate in Poland. It's attack is so over the top experts are considering it akin to Denial of Service Attack. "The current spamming tactic is to gently deliver spam in a manner that closely resembles legitimate [...] Read More
Psychology of the internal hacker at The CIO Weblog
New developments are emerging this morning in the case of the IT engineer who allegedly shanghaied San Francisco's high speed fiber network by installing his own backdoor passwords in the system and was arrested last week. In a low-key, one-on-one visit to the imprisoned engineer's cell, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was able to talk the engineer into providing the actual password he used to lock down the system-the previous [...] Read More
Georgia Tech: Mobile Phones Highly Vulnerable to Hackers at The Wireless Weblog
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto Georgia Tech researchers have warned in a new report that mobile phones are extremely vulnerable to hackers. "Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology believe mobile phones could be turned into 'botnets' and be used to bring down important websites or organisations, and with the nascent nature of mobile internet, handsets could be easier to infect," writes TechRadar's Gareth Beavis. "Mobile phone botnets could be used in a [...] Read More
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morbuto
I would suggest that you stay away from spam and always opt for legitimate techniques to promote your business. Some even thought that e-marketing would kill traditional forms of promotions such as flyers but that doesn't seem to be the case. If high quality flyers are created with eye catching graphic design then it still remains one of the most cost effective means of promoting your business. With discount printing available online, it brings down your marketing costs even further.
My advice at the end of the day is that speed thrills but it kills too, so stay away from using spam as a means of promoting your business.
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Spam is unsolicited mail reaching your inbox but you can only control it and not kill it completely. Spam has become a headache because every other email which we receive is spam. In order to control it you need an anti-spam software which can detect and delete it. It can filter your inbound mails. Email filtering is carried out based on various criteria.
Techniques are used where content of the email is analyzed so that legitimate emails don't end up in the junk folder. A number of spam filters reject messages in case they arrive from undisclosed recipients. This is necessary for the security of your computer and ensures that you only get legitimate emails and any kind of virus or malware doesn't end up in your computer.
In case you would like to remain updated about latest worms, trojans, viruses and anti spam software then you can opt for subscription of IT related newspapers and magazines on sites such as subscription.com.
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Where is your most annoying spam coming from? How do you contact them about it (or turn them into someone)?
With the influence of the Web growing, transparency has become a major concern on the Internet. The ability to find out just exactly who is behind a particular website has become important. And being able to find important facts about a web domain (like revenue, traffic patterns, and speed, and contact info) can be important to you, either for business reason or just to assess the credibility of the website. Where do you go to get information like that?
I recently came across the philoneist, a wiki that investigates and tells you what and who is behind a domain name. And with out much effort I found valuable information on a couple of websites I use pretty much every day.
An entry at the philoneist will often give you a screen capture image of the site being examined. That way you know that the entry is really about the site you're interested in.
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I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM email over-and-over. No matter how many times I marked the email as SPAM, Gmail continued to drop the email in my Inbox. I reviewed the email's original [...] Read More
Well, I'm sure a lot of you don't know squat about html or encoding, but would still like to be able to have e-mail contact with your readers. So, instead of surfing the web and googling(TM) it, you can simply use the Automatic Encoder Form and get your perfectly clean and usable HTML coded e-mail address ready to insert wherever. Like for example your Typad, Blogger or Wordpress template. The Automatic developers [...] Read More
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 and real-estate. As SC Magazine's Fiona Raisbeck and Frank Washkuch Jr. report, only 3% of all spam is adult content: "The report revealed that only three percent of all spam collected last month could be classified as adult material. This included pornography, [...] Read More
A different kind of scam is now swarming in e-mail boxes. These e-mails are focusing neither on recipient's good intentions nor greed but fear. The latest scam e-mail, threatens to kill recipients if they do not give thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. About 115 complaints have been filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) since the scam emerged, [...] Read More
Do you only need an email address for a little while? Try a disposable email address. Ivy from the I Got Spam blog talks about how you can use these disposable email addresses to keep from getting more spam. Some sites don't like these disposable email addresses because you can use the email address to sign up for the site and then ditch the email address. Now the site has [...] Read More
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