Wallet Lost or Stolen? AmEx Will Take Care of All of Your Cards, and More!
Aunty just found out this week that American Express offers this great service called the Credit Card Registry. If you subscribe to the American Express credit card registry, and your wallet or purse (or wherever you keep your credit cards and i.d.) is lost or stolen, all you have to…
China Joins International Anti-Spam “London Plan” – Good Net Citizens or Good Business?
As the battle heats up over whether to allow China to acquire major United States business holdings, China has turned its attention to another global business issue: spam. China has long been known as a major source of spam – indeed it is often cited as the second-largest conduit of…
Virus Writer Targets Government Systems
Top Internet security companies agree and are warning that at least one virus writer is specifically targeting government computer systems, both in the UK and the United States, and elsewhere. Said Dave Cowings, a Senior Business Intelligence Manager for security company Symantec, “This appears to be a very specific virus…
Teleseminar to Answer Questions About New Child Protection Email Address Registry Laws
The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) is offering a teleseminar to help email senders, and email marketers and email service providers in particular, understand what they need to do in order to comply with the new child protection email address registry laws which went effect on Friday,…
Cloudmark Research Exposes Underground Phishing Networks
Cloudmark has released a report they commissioned on phishing and identity theft..the results are pretty interesting: SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudmark Inc., the proven leader in secure messaging from the desktop to the gateway, has completed groundbreaking research that describes for the first time howloosely-affiliated — but surprisingly…
How Your Laptop Can Help You if You’re Stuck in an Airport
Here’s reason #399 to bring your laptop with you wherever you go. And just in time for long-weekend, holiday, and summer vacation travel. In these days of incredibly long waits at the airport, most people already expect to spend a couple of hours cooling their heels once they get there,…
New Security Flaw in Internet Explorer, and How to Fix It
Microsoft has confirmed this week that there is a newly discovered security flaw in Windows Internet Explorer (IE). Says the Microsoft website: “Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer. We have not been made aware of any attacks attempting to use the reported vulnerability…
Microsoft Releases New Free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 for Windows
Microsoft has announced the release of their updated Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), version 2.0. For those of you not familiar with this nifty piece of free software, it essentially scans your computer for security risks, including poor or sloppy configuration, security holes which have not been patched, and the…
It’s Our Internet, And You Can’t Have It, Says U.S.
Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet, but we can still bloody well control it, the U.S. seems to be saying. In a gesture which is being seen by some as the U.S. thumbing its nose at the global Internet community, the U.S. has drawn a line in the sand and said, in essence, “possession of the Internet is 9/10s of the law”. Or something.
U.S. Phisher Implicated in Global Phish Netting
In case you had any doubts about the global nature – the complex world-wide intricacies – of phishing networks, doubt no more. Case in point: Douglas Harvard and Lee Elwood were both sentenced in England this week to several years in jail for their part in a global phishing scam….
Wireless, Wireless, Wherefore Art Thou, Wireless? Shakespeare in the Unwired Round
But, soft! What light through yonder Windows breaks? Windows Mobile that is, as historic Stratford-on-Avon goes not only digital, but unwired to boot. With wireless hotspots, provided by British Telecom, throughout, Stratford-on-Avon has essentially created a fully connected wireless touris..er..town. Visitors can rent networked PDAs for about $14.00 US per…
Google Sued for Not Protecting Adsensers from Click Fraud
You may recall that earlier this year we lectured you about click fraud, and even mentioned that Google was suing an outfit over their alleged click fraud. In fact, last month we showed you a news release from a company which tracks click fraud, LostClicks.com Well now another click fraud…
Trojan Postcard Targets Windows Users
A spam postcard posing as a friendly postcard which is really a Trojan postcard. (Shades of Sir Winston!) Security firm Sophos is warning of a “spam postcard”, which appears to come from someone you know (as does so much spam these days), but which is really a Trojan laden with…
How to Go from Spamming to Prison in 6 Short Months
For all of you naysayers who insist that the Federal anti-spam law should be called the “YOU-CAN-SPAM” act instead of the CAN-SPAM act, and who say that it will never be a useful tool, Florida spammer Peter Moshou just might beg to differ. In what has to be one of…
