Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
News Many spammers are including illicit code in their unsolicited mail to help them detect active email addresses, a security firm warned on Tuesday. This information is then relayed back to the spammer, telling them that certain email addresses are in...
[April 14, 2004, 17:40]
Adobe addresses Flash Player 'clickjacking' flaw
News Flash Player 10 addresses Flash Player-specific aspects of the overall clickjacking issue," wrote Adobe product security programme manager David Lenoe in a blog post on Wednesday. Adobe has addressed a security flaw in its Flash Player products...
[October 16, 2008, 12:53]
Trojan horse maps drive, lifts addresses
News The end result is a lengthy list of addresses tailor-made for bulk e-mail -- spamming. One text file his version produced included e-mail addresses pulled from every e-mail saved on a user's machine. To eight e-mail addresses, according to a ISP...
[January 14, 1999, 15:38]
'Wacky' email addresses deter HR managers
News Job applicants who use 'wacky' email addresses are far less likely to get the job according to research that polled UK human resources managers. He said: "Applicants with wacky email addresses may stand out from the crowd but probably to their...
[April 15, 2003, 11:26]
Email acrobatics: juggling multiple addresses review
Reviews Owning a wide variety of email addresses is a handy trick to have up your sleeve. The downside, however, is that you'll have to do some up-front work to set up the domains and the email addresses. How do you get such a great variety of addresses?
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
11,000 IP addresses found on accused hacker's PC
News More than 11,000 IP addresses of vulnerable servers were found on the computer of a UK teenager that has been accused of launching a DDoS attack responsible for knocking out IT systems at the Port of Houston in Texas, Southwark Crown Court was...
[October 8, 2003, 16:20]
Phone numbers replace dot-com addresses
News Forget digging around for unusual dot-com addresses that are either difficult to remember or all-too-often inaccurately entered. Top that with URLs that are prohibitively long to type in and dot com addresses that are often difficult to find, then...
[November 30, 2000, 15:24]
ICANN turns on IPv6 addresses
News The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On Monday, ICANN, the organisation that maintains the internet's...
[February 5, 2008, 13:26]
Labels & Addresses
Downloads Labels & Addresses (former Mail Factory) is a home and office tool for printing all sorts of labels and envelopes. Merge printing capability makes the program a great tool for Holiday seasons, by helping users to design and print multiple greeting...
[September 8, 2009, 16:03]
IPv6 isn't just about more addresses
Talkback It's good to find out, in the actual article, that Bob Frankston at least appreciates the difference between IP addresses and "Web addresses" (whatever they are). Perhaps he should educate the headline writers.
[August 12, 2003, 10:09]
Oversized Subnet and Shared NAT: A Practical Approach to Keep Private and Public IP Addresses Together
White Papers In practice, many IPv4 Internet edge networks are forced to be expanded by incorporating private addresses and NAT devices. Furthermore, a solution is proposed to encourage the mixed usage of private and public IP addresses in a single edge network...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Fool spammers with multiple email addresses
Talkback The author is talking about "Disposable Email Addresses". DEA services have been provided for a long time - do a google search on sneakemail, spamgourmet, and spamex.
[January 11, 2004, 1:01]
Survey: Nearly all phishing from forged addresses
News Almost 95 percent of email fraud and "phishing" reported in May emanated from forged addresses, according to new research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which argued that emerging email-authentication standards could take the sting out of...
[June 29, 2004, 12:00]
Tiny URLs shorten Web addresses
News A crop of Web sites have sprung up with the mission of making long, easily breakable Web addresses shorter -- and at least one of them is trying to make money at the idea. Sites like TinyURL.com, Shorlify and Make A Shorter Link aim to solve a...
[December 23, 2003, 13:55]
MS Word Extract E-Mail Addresses from Multiple Fil
Downloads If you want to know how to extract e-mail addresses from multiple ms word documents/files, then this software is for you! With this software, you can Easily select a number of ms word documents to get the e-mail addresses from.
[July 3, 2008, 12:33]
Hotmail releases .co.uk addresses
News MSN Hotmail is creating millions of new email addresses for UK users with the launch of hotmail.co.uk. Until now UK users and those around the world have vied for the ever-diminishing number of addresses @hotmail.com - with the most popular...
[November 19, 2004, 16:20]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback Mozilla mail 'sanitises' the HTML of items it thinks are spam using its Bayesian filters, but I don't think it goes as far as the AOL protection where all unknown addresses are sanitised. AOL 9.0 deactivates images and HTML in emails from people...
[April 15, 2004, 10:18]
Firefox 3.0.7 addresses security flaws
News Mozilla on Wednesday released an update to the Firefox web browser that its developers said fixes eight security issues found in Firefox 3.0.6, six of which were rated critical. The most serious of the vulnerabilities fixed in version 3.0.7 could...
[March 5, 2009, 7:20]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback it is as simple as having an image embedded in the email. The image source is requested back to a server that tracks these request, which contain some unique identifier. This is as old as html email itslef.
[April 14, 2004, 20:16]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback You would need a product which deactivates the html coding in any spam message received. Spamnix, for Eudora, has that capability.
[April 14, 2004, 18:17]



