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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Australians start a national blacklist
The Australian Government has just released an anti-spam plugin for Outlook/Express that allows users to auto-delete spam and simultaneously report it to a central database. Can you imagine all the jaded lover harassment email, falsely portrayed as a note regarding … Continue reading
News Bulletin: Universities at Risk
The Chicago Tribune reports (via the LA Times): College Door Ajar for Online Criminals. I’m wondering if there is some standard for the number of records of personally identifiable information that must be stolen before the MSM picks up on … Continue reading
Glenn Reynolds should start bookmaking
And he should take one bet – whether or not Instapundit will be removed from the Google index for hostile commentary this.
The Tops, as security goes
FYI: Red Herring released their North American Top 100 private companies list – several in the security realm are included.
Spam scoring and other such fun
Stephen Jau has posted a nice tutorial on how to automate SpamCop submissions. It’s worth a read for you client side users, especially if you are getting a little lazy about reporting samples. There is also a selfish motive here, … Continue reading
Free gas has strings attached
It is never fun watching scammers prey on the innocent, particularly through the use of technology. And with gas prices causing a pinch for those who can least afford it, you could expect someone (and I don’t mean the oil … Continue reading
Blog spambots getting smarter
Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Planned Obsolescence notes that blog spambots seem to be getting smarter. Recent trackback spam to one of Ms. Fitzpatrick’s blogs seemed to have extracted information from the site at hand, twisted it around, and sent it back … Continue reading
Fannie Mae debacle has no oomph
So lets give it some before the situation spirals even further out of control. The Washington Post reports: Study Finds ‘Extensive’ Fraud at Fannie Mae. I’ve hinted that where there’s fraud, there are usually bigger problems, and in the case … Continue reading
Net neutrality gets a word in edgewise
First, Congress debates the issue; now the House approved a bill (no comment on it’s contents). Let’s see how far this goes. Meanwhile, for those who still don’t understand what “net neutrality” is all about, the BBC has a nice … Continue reading
