Ok, I’ve read this a few times, but I still cannot believe it. Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security disclosed that traveler’s laptop computers “or other electronic devices” can be confiscated, without any suspicion of a crime! Better yet, they can make and share copies of your data, have the data translated, unencrypted, [...]

I guess since the Nigerian scams are too common people are working on new angles to rob people via email.  This is a great one too, the email purports to be from a contract killer with the recipient being the intended target, but the killer will renege on the killing if the person will cough [...]

I’ll admit it, I’m often entertained by spam, and with the slew of job opportunity emails I’ve been seeing lately it’s easy to get them confused, except for this one.  It really stands out, and while it’s not the right opportunity for me, I hope it is for someone (I’d like to know exactly how [...]

You get tons of spam daily, in my case 99% gets caught by various spam filters and I never see it, but I’m so glad I saw this one.  With the topic, “bimingham baggage alibi” it has to be the best spam topic I’ve ever read.  Should be a band name or the name of [...]

A former spammer comes forth to tell his story, an amazing look at how easy something like this is to get away with.  “Ed,” a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in US$10,000 to $15,000 a week, [...]

These are just amazing statistics that the volume of spam increased 147% in 2006 and that 94% of all email in December was spam! The primary reasons are armies of zombie computers “botnets” (that are hijacked due to users inability to protect their systems from malware) all ready to send out a distributed attack [...]

This is an amazing statistic, particularly after knowing how much email was just spam as of last month, the level of spam is down 30% from last week. “After rising steadily for many years spam levels have mysteriously dropped 30% in the first week of January. According to SoftScan the most plausible explanation is [...]

“The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy. Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in [...]

In July, two states will open up an ‘opt-out’ list to prohibit sending commercial email to children’s email addresses which are registered. ”New state laws in Michigan and Utah will prohibit sending commercial email to children’s email addresses which are registered with the states’ new ‘Do not email’ lists. Officials in both states have [...]

Earlier in the week I talked about the biggest security worry home users should have is that their systems can be hijacked, taken over, and used as a zombie to blindly send out spam emails. I had no idea how many a standard home DSL setup could handle, but learned from this article that [...]

I just got another PayPal phishing email, as always they include a link to ‘login’ to ‘PayPal’ to verify something or another in an effort to learn your username and password. Of course MailScanner tagged the bogus URL within the HTML, and SpamAssasin (this time Razor2) found that it was spam from content *and* a [...]

This past week I got another phishing email, and while they’re annoying, I was especially annoyed that this one got through my spam and virus filters. Generally the server stops them, with ClamAV catching and blocking them before they squirm to my Inbox, but this one made it through. It was another ‘Activate [...]