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'Spam attack' halts Virgin e-mail

Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or with little access to, their e-mail accounts after a suspected spam attack.

[TECHNOLOGY] Spicebird: Open source e-mail done right

Web-based e-mail services may get most of the attention these days, but traditional desktop-based e-mail remains indispensable for most. That¡¦s in part because of history ¡X people are still accustomed to downloading their e-mail into a traditional application ¡X and in part because many have grown dependent upon the additional features that have come to be seen as essential to e-mail programs but are lacking in Web-based e-mail: contact management, calendaring, and more.

When is spam not really "spam?"

Everyone knows spam when they see it, but what is spam? The most widely accepted definition comes from Spamhaus, an international nonprofit organization that tracks spam. They define spam as "unsolicited bulk email."

Spam Flood Unabated After Bust

AcidAUS writes "Last week's bust of the largest spam operation in the world has had no measurable impact on global spam volumes. The spam gang, known by authorities and security experts as HerbalKing, was responsible for one-third of all spam, the non-profit antispam research group Spamhaus said." The article speculates that the operators of HerbalKing simply passed on to associates the keys to the automated, 35,000-strong botnet, and the spam flow didn't miss a beat.

The big-bad world of e-mail phishing

If you thought spam was a problem, things are only set to get worse with phishing. Most e-mail users are used to spam - the irritating unsolicited e-mail trying to sell you something. It is easy to spot. But phishing, a form of fraudulent spam that attempts to get account information from individuals or install malicious programmes on their machines, is becoming smarter.

E-Tailers Push E-mail Discounts to Lure Shoppers

With the economy in the shape its in, online retailers are using e-mail to notify shoppers of discounts and deals. While I am all for discounts, I’m not sure how much people like getting spammed for discounts. How many of these end up in spam filters anyhow because they look like spam / phishing mail? Do you guys go for e-mail notifications when it comes to sales?

Google Tacks On 10 More Years To E-Mail Archiving Program

Aimed at businesses that need to retain and store e-mail, Google has added 10 more years to its e-mail archiving service, Google Message Discover. "Regulations and guidelines like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure put pressure on IT organizations to ensure that e-mail is properly retained and can be reliably located and preserved in the event of legal discovery," Google said in a company blog. "Coupled with the growing importance of e-mail as a store of intellectual property, e-mail archiving has become both legally necessary and critical to the operation of your business."

Researchers Become Spammers To See How Successful Spam Is

There have been plenty of stories over the years about the people who buy from spam, with various studies showing surprisingly high percentage of people admitting to buying from spam. Of course, that's just seeing how many people have ever bought from spam, rather than how many people respond to a single spam campaign. I've seen estimates before (usually in the range of a quarter of a percent), but very little actual data, until now. The latest research on the topic comes from some computer scientists at the University of California (both Berkeley and San Diego), who actually took over a zombie network to send out bogus spam and watched the fake orders roll in.

Virus sweeps through Southern Illinois University e-mail

When Corey Tincher discovered his Southern Illinois University e-mail inbox filled with messages that appeared to be sent from himself, he said he knew they were spam.

Beware of a spam e-mail claming to come from the FBI Deputy Director.

10/16/08—A spam e-mail claiming to be from FBI Deputy Director John S. Pistole is currently being circulated. This attempt to defraud is the typical e-mail scam using the name and reputation of an FBI official to create an air of authenticity.

Military Looking Abroad for Source of Cyber Attack on Pentagon

The attack, possibly tracing to Russia, was strategically timed to hit between the presidential election and Inauguration Day, according to a Navy official.

Google Extends E-Mail Archiving Service to 10 Years

Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service to hold messages for up to a decade. Google Message Discovery is a hosted service that helps organizations manage email retention and security. For a flat fee of $45 per user per year, users can add hosted archiving with the ability to retain messages for up to 10 years, along with spam and virus filtering, all powered by Postini. Google will still offer Message Discovery at $25 for archiving e-mail for a year or less. Both packages include full email security service, with spam and virus filtering, along with policy management tools and a discovery search interface to locate relevant email in the event of litigation.

US military searches abroad for source of cyber attack on Pentagon

Washington, Nov.22 : The cyber attack on the Department of Defense that has led to a ban on the use of external hardware devices could have come from a number of foreign countries, possibly Russia or China, the Pentagon has claimed.

Local.com(R) Launches Local Mobile(TM) Directory Service on Virgin Mobile USA Network

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 12, 2008--Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM), a leading local directory service and network, and Virgin Mobile USA, a leading national carrier of wireless services with no annual contracts, today announced the launch of Local Mobile(tm) on the Virgin Mobile USA network. Virgin Mobile USA’s more than five million customers can now leverage the power of Local Mobile directly from all 3G Virgin Mobile USA handsets.

Mailman lauded for withholding junk mail

Residents along mailman Steve Padgett's route in Apex, N.C., say he's their hero for refusing to deliver at least seven years' worth of junk mail.

Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack

tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released in part to fix some security issues), doesn't bother validating the SSL certificate on the other side before sending along the username and password, making it vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. This is certainly a step up from transmitting the information in the clear, since the attacker must switch from being passive to active, but with all of the DNS security problems, it would be fairly trivial for a malicious attacker to grab a large number of Yahoo! accounts (be it for phishing or spaming). Hopefully this issue will get fixed shortly, but for now Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop users may wish to use the webmail interface.

Husband blames iPhone for smutty pictures that upset his wife

"Please help! I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an i-phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer!"

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FBI says Pistole e-mail is spam threat

WASHINGTON , Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The FBI released a warning Thursday in Washington that a spam e-mail is circulating that claims to be from FBI Deputy Director John Pistole.

The Privacy Council Launches: 'Together We Can End SPAM, Junk Mail and Unsolicited Phone Calls'

The formation of a Global Privacy Council designed to set firm standards around online privacy has been announced today. In addition to bringing together industry leaders to protect personal privacy on the Internet, The Privacy Council provides a low-cost service for individuals who wish to be removed from the major junk mail, telemarketer and SPAM email lists. The Privacy Council's website also publishes regularly updated articles about the latest personal privacy and security issues.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.

Show us the money: The banks are hoarding our cash and the government must force them to lend it....

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Nominum: Nominum Helps ISPs Deliver Safe and Secure Internet without Privacy Concerns; New Products and Architecture Provide Complete Coverage from Web-Based Malware, Phishing, Illegal and Inappropriate Content, E-Mail Spam, and DNS Attacks

TMCNet: Nominum: Nominum Helps ISPs Deliver Safe and Secure Internet without Privacy Concerns; New Products and Architecture Provide Complete Coverage from Web-Based Malware, Phishing, Illegal and Inappropriate Content, E-Mail Spam, and DNS Attacks

Hasselblad Announces Major Amendments to Its Customer Care Program

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Authorities Shut Down Spam Ring

"The security firm Marshal Software, which assisted the F.T.C. with the investigation, estimated in court documents that the group’s Mega-D botnet - named after one of its pill products — was made up of 35,000 computers and could send 10 billion e-mail messages a day. In January, the botnet was the leading source of spam on the Internet, the firm estimated.

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