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Taking The Spam Fight To The Gateway The barbarians are at the gate, and only need a brief window of opportunity to invade systems, capture credentials, and report back to their masters to wreak havoc across a swath of userland. Date: 2006-12-15 Spam Jams Email What does your email inbox look like? Is it full of spam or are the filters doing their job? A report from an online security firm IronPort Systems said 62 billion spam messages a day jammed US email systems in October. Date: 2006-12-01 200 Spammers Create 80 Percent Of Spam Email users in North America and Europe who find themselves plagued with the incessant bombardment of spam can blame 200 spammers singled out by junk mail fighter Spamhaus for the unwanted messages. Date: 2006-11-17 Social Media Spamming The buzz amongst online marketers and bloggers about marketing with social media has generated a lot of interesting discussion. One of the memes I've been noticing is the issue of spamming social media. Date: 2006-11-03 Spamhaus To Appeal Default Judgment After some impressive jurisdiction-based grandstanding, United Kingdom-based Spamhaus has decided to get into the Illinois court ring after all. The nonprofit organization has enlisted the aid of Chicago pro-bono attorneys to appeal a default judgment in favor of alleged spammer e360 Insight. Date: 2006-10-20 Spammer Cajoles ICANN To Ban Spamhaus The Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) published by Spamhaus.org could be in jeopardy as a potential court order may compel ICANN to suspend the Spamhaus domain name, all at the behest of a mass mailer. Date: 2006-10-11 Strategies For Preventing Comment Spam Bloggers are painfully aware of website owners who try to improve their websites rank by adding links to blogs. There are several strategies for combating this problem. Date: 2006-10-06 How Spammers Get Your Email Address Are you wondering how spammers get your email address? There are a few tricks they have for getting your address and once you see them you will see how important it is to protect your 'real' address and only give it to family, friends, and work contacts. Date: 2006-09-25 Dell, Symantec Take On 'Out-of-Control Email' Dell and Symantec have teamed up to deliver the "first validated blueprint for simplified email security [and] management." Date: 2006-09-22 We Have To Continue Exposing Phishing Attempts A lot has been written about all known kinds of scams including "Phishing". But criminals keep on throwing their nets and having quite a good take. Date: 2006-09-13 Spammer's Appeal Is Junked The first person in the U.S. to face an actual prison sentence for spamming may, in fact, begin serving that prison sentence in the near future. Jeremy Jaynes, who was first convicted in 2004, lost his petition before the Virginia Court of Appeals. Date: 2006-09-08 U.K. Spammer Sentenced I am surprised that there are so many new scams on eBay these days. It seems that everyday I get at least one or two new invitations to fork over my userid, password or credit card info. Date: 2006-08-25 EBay Scammers Up The Ante I am surprised that there are so many new scams on eBay these days. It seems that everyday I get at least one or two new invitations to fork over my userid, password or credit card info. Date: 2006-08-09 Kerio Mail Server Spam Filtering Kerio Mail Server has several configuration options to protect against spam email. For maximum protection, you should investigate and set all appropriate items. Under the Security Options tab for the SMTP server are several limits and controls you can set. Date: 2006-07-21 Antispam Market Benefits From Spam The 2005 revenues for the antispam software industry hit $4 billion for the year, a 13.6 percent jump from 2004. Date: 2006-06-23 Microsoft Hits Spammer For $1 Million Settlements between one of the world's worst spammers, and plaintiffs Microsoft and the state of Texas, will cost Ryan Pitylak at least a million dollars. Date: 2006-06-09 Perspectives On Blog Spam What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common? Date: 2006-05-26 Spam Botmaster Going To Jail A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced Jeanson James Ancheta of the "Botmaster Underground" to 57 months in prison for his malicious computer hacking... Date: 2006-05-09 Google: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Goodmail In a surprise announcement last week, Google confirmed that Gmail would not be following AOL's lead to implement an email certification system like Goodmail's CertifiedEmail. Date: 2006-04-25 Cube Said To Be Spam Zapper The latest buzz in spam protection is around Spam Cube - an apparent cyberbug zapper. Plugged into your computer, the big square box requires no software or installation. Date: 2006-03-24 If This Means No More Plaxo Emails, Great One of my (few) pet peeves is getting emails from people with the canned Plaxo message. I received another one just this morning: Date: 2006-04-13 The True Cost Of Content Most content will never show a return on investment. The Web is overflowing with low-quality content. Sooner or later, senior management is going to pay serious attention to all this waste. Date: 2006-03-13 What Is Digg Spam? Okay, so I've been accused of spamming Digg, and I'd like to address it. Now, its just one guy for the most part (DiggNazi2), but the thing is, I agree with him. Date: 2006-02-24 AOL Phases Out Enhanced Whitelist America Online is phasing out its Enhanced Whitelist, replacing the bulk-mailing program with Goodmail's CertifiedEmail program. The new system will carry a fraction of cent fee to commercial mailers for every email with images and hyperlinks... Date: 2006-02-03 Self-policing PR: Should We Out PR Spammers? There are scads of approaches we can take to rehabilitate the image of the public relations profession. One of them is self-policing. This can be handled by the associations that represent the profession (should they ever decide to put teeth in their ethics policies) or by individual practitioners. I like the idea of speaking up-I've... Date: 2006-01-13 |
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