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HP's Email Bugging Secrets Revealed
News Users of the service register their email addresses with ReadNotify, then simply append ".readnotify.com" to any email address they send mail to if they want the message to be tracked. Users can see the IP addresses of those who opened bugged...
[September 29, 2006, 9:35]
Tower Records Exposes Customer Data
News No credit card numbers appear to have been revealed, the company said. The glitch allowed anyone to peruse Tower Records' Website to view its database of customer orders dating from 1996 through this week, including home and email addresses, phone...
[December 6, 2002, 9:49]
Dept Of Homeland Security Caused 'mini-DDoS'
News Some of the respondents revealed their email addresses, and also left their email signatures with names, job titles and classified contact details in their response emails. However, the email administration mistake had more serious security...
[October 5, 2007, 16:24]
Spammer Given Nine Years
News The trial revealed some astonishing details about the business of spamming. The circuit judge in Loudon County, Virginia upheld the nine year sentence recommended by the court when Jaynes was initially convicted last November under a recent...
[April 11, 2005, 18:00]
Bill Gates 'can't Stop Spam'
News A survey of IT security professionals conducted at the Infosecurity show in London this week revealed that more than 80 percent of people do not think that Bill Gates' pledge to eliminate spam within two years is realistic.
[April 30, 2004, 12:35]
Facebook Admits To Increased Attacks By Spammers
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Kelly detailed a case, recently pursued by his team, where an unknown subject was identified by the...
[April 22, 2008, 17:10]
Welsh Assembly Blocks School Emails
News Minutes from an Assembly cabinet meeting in June have revealed that the proposal was shelved following concerns that children could be individually identified through their personal email addresses. Members of the Cabinet feared that school pupils...
[September 3, 2001, 16:29]
Spamhaus Under Attack From UK Spammers
News Spamhaus founder Steve Linford revealed told the Openwave messaging anti-abuse conference in London this week that this legislation has had a counterproductive effect. Pioneering anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project has begun receiving...
[June 10, 2004, 14:15]
Cybercriminals Up Ante With Phishing And Darkmail
News BlackSpider's monthly statistical analysis also revealed the new viruses released in July included six variants of the Win32.small Trojan downloader. Those not bounced back by the mail server are taken to be 'live' addresses which can then be...
[August 2, 2005, 12:20]
Salesforce Tight-lipped After Phishing Attack
News Unfortunately, a very small number of our customers who were contacted had end users that revealed their passwords to the phisher," wrote Harris. The information in the contact list included individuals' names, company names, email addresses...
[November 7, 2007, 14:17]
ID Theft Gang Smashed
News The identity of the banks targeted is not being revealed by police but the Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers (CSCB) said the arrests are a reminder for customers to adequately protect their confidential account details.
[March 4, 2005, 11:20]
ISP Launches Monitored Chatroom For Kids
News A recent poll conducted by the ISP revealed that 60 percent of parents were worried about protecting their children from the publicised dangers of Internet chatrooms. Yellow card activity will include asking for email addresses, suggesting other...
[June 25, 2001, 11:05]
Internet Villain Nominees Revealed
News In October it was revealed that the RIAA was planning to use what it called a "licensing virus" to target users' PCs directly to stop them from using peer-to-peer online services. Continued delays associated the section with the Regulation of...
[December 23, 2002, 8:31]
Reporters' Phone Records Hacked In HP Hunt
News At a board meeting in May, Dunn presented the results of the investigation and revealed that Keyworth was the source of the leaks, which he acknowledged, according to the filing. AT&T confirmed to Perkins that someone had used two different Yahoo...
[September 8, 2006, 8:45]
MSBlast Spreads Fast But Impact Is Limited
News Microsoft revealed the flaw on 16 July and issued a patch the same day. The discrepancy exists because of the way these different organisations count IP addresses. So far, 1.4 million unique IP addresses "are acting as if they are infected" by the...
[August 13, 2003, 9:04]
E-male Looks For Love
News The survey revealed that both men and women have become more confident about using work email to forward links to pornographic Web sites. Whilst companies should not deny staff a reasonable amount of time to conduct personal affairs, companies can...
[August 17, 2001, 17:00]
Massive ID Theft Nabs 55,000 Student Records
News In February, a data processing centre in Nebraska revealed that eight million credit card numbers had been stolen from its servers, and, in January, the University of Kansas acknowledged that online attackers had snagged the records of 1,400...
[March 7, 2003, 13:03]
Government: Our Spam Laws Won't Be Enough
News After we block them, they're on the phone threatening to slit our throats," Linford revealed. According to Linford, Spamhaus has a highly detailed knowledge of these 200 spammers, including knowing which IP addresses they control.
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Does Yahoo! OpenID 2.0 Support Open Up Security Concerns?
Blog s sign-in seal wherever they go on the web, providing additional security and ensuring that no email or IM addresses are revealed or disclosed as part of any login process, protecting users from phishing or other attacks.
[January 17, 2008, 18:24]
Data Retention: Who's Watching You?
News The scale of the situation was revealed during an inquiry in data retention by the All Party Internet Group (APIG) on Wednesday, when ISPs detailed the requests already flooding in from government agencies who want to look at the small amounts of...
[December 13, 2002, 16:03]
