Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Peter Shinbach recently threw in the towel and shut down Bach Door, his online-communications blog.The public relations executive from Birmingham, Michigan, was fed up with so-called comment spam. Returning from a weeklong vacation, he found a slew of comments on his blog that had nothing to do with communications: They ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Trojan horse has been sent to e-mail addresses disguised as a message from Helsinki, Finland, antivirus software vendor F-Secure, the company said in a statement.
F-Secure said that an unknown attacker sent out thousands of infected e-mail messages crafted so that they appear to be from a nonexistent F-Secure employee, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Not really, but Gmail does offer a nice way to have as many temp accounts as you feel like creating. This is great for registering at sites that might end up spamming you.
Let's say I have a Gmail account of
[email protected]. Gmail lets you append a "+" at the end ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
These days, a firewall, anti-virus software and anti-spyware programs are essential, but they might not be enough to protect you. Here are five things you can do for a little added security:
Leave your computer on.
This is a change from an earlier recommendation that you turn it off to save ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.Richard Cox, chief information officer of Spamhaus, told an audience of politicians, security experts and law enforcement officials that ...
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