Australian Daniel McNamara, who runs the hugely informative anti-phishing website Code Fish Spam Watch says he was today the victim of an attack on his website and his character, by a phishing email. The email, spammed all around, pretends to be from him and says, Dear Online Banking User, You should be heard about such called… Read More »
Spam, scam, smear or did someone really buy earthenware and a bomb? You may have recently received a copy of what looks to be weird spam: You’ve just purchased set of Maibach brand earthenware on web site cvv2.ru Easy to use, Maibach kitchenware is also famous for its modern look. Our utensils, designed for easy… Read More »
Not everyone thinks the big boys are on the right track by pursuing spammers in the courts. Postini, ‘the industry’s leading provider of email security and management for the enterprise’, says spam “cannot be solved by lawsuits and legislation alone”. America Online, Microsoft, Earthlink and Yahoo announced on Wednesday that they had filed numerous civil… Read More »
Russia’s image as Spam (And Other Bad Stuff) Central is beginning to hurt. CNET reports thats customers of high-speed Internet service provider Comcast were unable to email anyone in Russia for four days last week after the company’s spam filter blocked any emails to an address with the Russian suffix ‘ru’. Although CNET called the block… Read More »
This week’s Loose Wire column is about the future of email: E-MAIL IS GOOD. Very good: Of all the things that started out with the Internet it’s about the only survivor (ever heard of Gopher? Archie? Telnet?). E-mail works because it’s simple. You send e-mail, you receive it: Two standards, or protocols. People communicating with… Read More »