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Cleaning up a bad email reputation
Talkback I have experienced the phenomenon of certain users receiving my emails in their Junk folders, and for absolutely no reason that I can think of. Is there any suspicion that email reputations are being deliberately tarnished by associates of those...
[September 5, 2006, 14:44]
Australia considers sending spammers to jail
Talkback Can they please also jail everyone responsible for PAPER junk mail through my front door, including, letters, brochures, leaflets, flyers and free newspapers. They never asked me if I wanted to see nudity in the street and I don't give my...
[August 28, 2003, 14:42]
Phishing attacks hotting up
News SpamThru downloads a template spam email and a list of hundreds of genuine emails, along with random phrases to help disguise the junk mail. Email security vendor MessageLabs has also seen an increase in phishing attacks over the year, and...
[November 29, 2006, 17:02]
Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'
News Organised criminals based in Russia are fuelling the rise in the amount of spam sent over the Internet, according to a leading opponent of junk mail. Unless things change drastically, we predict that 80 percent of email will be spam by December...
[June 8, 2004, 18:20]
UK law failing to nail spammers
News The e-commerce minister at the time, Stephen Timms, had claimed that they would play an important part in fighting the growth of unsolicited junk mail. Some experts were also unhappy that business email addresses were not protected by the...
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
Viruses: Back with a vengeance in 2004
News MiMail.l wasn't the first worm to be associated with junk email. When the MiMail.l email virus appeared last month, it got little attention from the media. Well, it may not have been the most destructive worm ever, but it turns out that MiMail...
[January 5, 2004, 10:10]
US leads the dirty dozen spammers
News The United States is in a league of its own when it comes to sending junk mail to email users. Researchers at security company Sophos found after scanning its global network of honeypots -- computers designed to attract spam emails and viruses...
[December 24, 2004, 10:45]
China fines its first spammer
News It is the first time the Chinese Government has penalised a company for sending junk email since an anti-spam regulation came into force in March. The Chinese Government has fined a company 5,000 yuan renminbi (£331) for sending out spam.
[August 23, 2006, 8:50]
Redesi worm reformats C: drives
News Redesi has so far been seen in two variants; either as a Microsoft patch or as what will appear to most people more like junk email. Due to the recent spate of email spread computer viruses Microsoft Corp has released a security patch.
[October 18, 2001, 17:27]
UK rising in the spam charts
News This makes the UK the tenth greatest generator of junk email. The proportion of spam coming from the UK has increased, anti-malware company Sophos said on Tuesday. From April to September 2005 the UK was responsible for 1.55 percent of global spam...
[October 14, 2005, 14:00]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News The scheme is winning high marks in the battle against unwanted junk email. An increasingly popular technique for preventing email abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Top UK sites 'do not comply' with anti-cookie law
News The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 -- Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, and came into force on 11 December -- makes it an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text...
[December 15, 2003, 12:35]
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Blog Comment I usually ignore them altogether until they hit my special email Junk folder I've set aside for MS s---- er, stuff. When I found it there weren't any comments tagged to it. I can't believe I was that early on a MS release so I thought I had...
[August 17, 2008, 18:07]
Two million Thunderbirds are go
News That's two million people who will be able to push the spam aside with Thunderbird's innovative junk-mail filters and get back to using email again rather than being abused by it. The open source email application Thunderbird 1.0 has been...
[January 11, 2005, 16:25]
Welcome to yet another year of viruses review
Reviews MiMail.l wasn't the first worm involved with junk email. When the MiMail.l email virus appeared last month, it got little attention from the media. But in 2004, we expect to see more of these pests -- especially more spam-related ones like MiMail.l...
[January 12, 2004, 8:15]
Braid virus winds its way through email
News Since it was first placed on the Internet in April, the virus has topped the charts of malicious email attachments found by antivirus firms and email service providers, which filter junk email for companies and also zap messages that have viruses...
[November 5, 2002, 8:16]
Spam-fighter invades the inbox
News When Web surfers install its Matador product, the download automatically alters their signature line in Microsoft Outlook to read: "This mailbox protected from junk email by Matador from MailFrontier Inc.
[September 20, 2002, 12:57]
ISP forced to take action on viruses
News Although such policies have been in place for years, they're now being invoked more than ever, due to the spread of viruses that allow spammers to spew out millions of junk email messages under victims' noses.
[March 18, 2004, 13:55]
Industry group demands fix for 'weak' cybercrime laws
News IT law in this country is now seen as weak," claimed Carolyn Kimber, CMA chair, pointing to a sharp rise in ID theft and the growth of unsolicited junk email. The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers are so great that...
[July 5, 2004, 17:15]
Australian freemail service slammed by spam
News Australian free email provider freemail.com.au is currently being bombarded by servers around the globe after a spammer's decision to include the company in junk messages promoting everything from hair-loss treatments to Viagra.
[May 11, 2000, 16:47]
