Archive for March 2005
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Scott Richter Files Bankruptcy on Microsoft, But Don’t Count Him Out Yet
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Many of Aunty Spams’ readers will remember that last year Aunty featured an exclusive interview with Spam King Scott Richter, during which he stated that “I actually do not do what I do for the need of money"…
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Content security experts Clearswift have seen a sharp rise in spam purporting claiming to offer the details of women looking for casual sex.
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Yahoo Messenger is the target of another phishing attack, this time the victim receives messages that appear to come from people on their buddy lists.
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The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser and is advising people to update their software.
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In previous months Viagra has always been high up on the list of spam words used but according to a recent Sophos study Cialis is the most commonly obfuscated in spam emails.
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Users are Ignorant, Badly Behaved and the Leading Cause of Spam
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According to an analyst at Radicati, and related reports by InformationWeek and the BBC, user ignorance and bad behaviour is the leading cause of spam.
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IBM Not Spamming Spammers! FairUCE is About Fair Use, Not Abuse!
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Did you hear? IBM is spamming spammers! It’s all over the Internet, and tongues are a’wagging! Except, it ain’t so. IBM is not spamming spammers
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ISP Fast24 subject to phishing after forum compromise
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ISP Fast24 has advised customers to ignore emails after its support forum was hacked into over the weekend.
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No Need to Click Here - I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster
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