Saturday - March 29, 2008
Phishing is a tactic known to malicious hackers ever since the first one crawled out of a swamp and onto dry land. It's another variation on social engineering. The phisher's goal is to get people to open themselves up to technical vulnerabilities through nontechnical means. However, even though most e-mail users have become more savvy about obvious scams, phishing is evolving. Why do phishing attacks continue to work when e-mail users are constantly warned about identity theft? Because phishers go where the money is, just like bank robbers.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
The newest front in the war on spam is the cell phone, and users are not happy. After their initial anger at getting an unwanted text message, people don't know what to do next. Is there a law against such things? Who enforces it? This lack of knowledge is a problem that should be remedied by the Federal Communications Commission and the wireless companies.
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Monday - March 17, 2008
Robert Soloway, crowned the "spam king" by federal prosecutors for having sent millions of unwanted e-mails around the globe, pleaded guilty Friday to felony mail fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail and failing to file a tax return in 2005, the year he made at least $300,000 through his junk e-mail business.
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Monday - March 3, 2008
A spammer is going to prison, thanks to a ruling by a divided Virginia Supreme Court. The state's high court on Friday upheld the first felony conviction for illegal spamming in the U.S. when it ruled 4-3 that Virginia's antispamming law did not violate the free speech rights of Jeremy Jaynes. "This is a historic victory in the fight against online crime," Virginia's Attorney General Robert McDonnell said.
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Saturday - March 1, 2008
Even in a post CAN-SPAM world, where legal protections and technological advances give consumers more control than ever over their inboxes, e-mail remains a key component of many interactive marketing strategies. Commercial e-mail remains a cost-effective way to reach consumers, especially for businesses that are eager to reach out to their existing or past customers.
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Wednesday - February 20, 2008
A study by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance shows that more than half of all e-mail is authenticated. However, the Alliance wants the industry to push for higher adoption. AOTA has issued a call to action to implement e-mail authentication at the top level corporate domain within the next six months.
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Tuesday - February 5, 2008
Private, personally identifying information is everywhere, from portable computers and digital devices, to the Internet and private networks. This data can be obtained so easily -- either through technology or more mundane means -- and its theft is so often glamorized on film, that it is starting to attract a younger generation to criminal ranks.
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Tuesday - January 15, 2008
Security provider Webroot on Tuesday released its namesake e-mail security Software as a Service solution. Targeted at small to medium-sized businesses, Webroot's new offering delivers better protection, lower total cost of ownership and better value than perimeter security appliances or software, the company said.
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Friday - January 11, 2008
Easing into the role of full-time philanthropist, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered his final keynote address at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, giving the audience an earful of predictions for the next decade. High-definition video will become ubiquitous, devices will become more interconnected, and keyboards will drift off to oblivion.
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Friday - January 4, 2008
A Michigan grand jury has indicted the man widely know as the "Spam King" and 10 others in connection with an alleged stock fraud scheme that used bulk e-mails to pump up the prices of stocks. The biggest name among those indicted is that of 52-year-old Alan Ralsky, who earned the nickname of Spam King by being considered one of the world's most prolific bulk e-mailers.
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Tuesday - December 4, 2007
Who would have thought that it would be so easy to get PC and network users to install viruses, worms, application-downloading Trojan horses and other forms of malware on their PCs? Through a simple form of social engineering -- sending out enticing, unsolicited e-mail spam -- Internet users are doing just that.
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