More on Alastair Rumpell’s response to my privacy concerns about his new email monitoring service, didtheyreadit. (Here’s the first one.) I wondered how the email addresses harvested by Rampell would be used (These would include all emails sent from and to recipients via the service since as far as I can understand it didtheyreadit, unlike… Read More »
Further to my posting about Didtheyreadit, a service which allows the sender to know whether/when/where the recipient opened their email (and even how long they read it), here’s a response from the company’s owner and founder, Alastair Rampell, addressing my concerns about the serious privacy issues it raises. Alastair acknowledges “you are right in that… Read More »
Turns out I was wrong about the socially engineered spam I wrote about a few days back. Prompted by some readers’ comments, I asked Sophos about it. This is what Carole Theriault has to say about it: This is mass-mailing worm. It is call Wallon-A. Essentially, it goes to a dodgy website and downloads a… Read More »
(Please see a subsequent post on this: Apologies for getting it wrong and thanks to everyone for writing in) Spam always surprises. This morning I got an HTML email from seemingly credible email address with just one line in it: http://drs.yahoo.com/jeremywagstaff.com/NEWS Hmmm, I thought, my name! I was almost going to click it, but then… Read More »
German police on Friday arrested two men: an 18-year old man in Rotenburg in connection with the Sasser worm, and a 21-year old who confessed to creating a bot called Agobot or Phatbot. A lot of folk believe the gang responsible for the Sasser worm may also be responsible for the Netsky worms, which have… Read More »