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White Paper Email filters have improved and now catch a much larger percentage of junk mail than ever before. Image spam, which conveys the message in an embedded picture (such as a .jpg), is the most recent variant... [12 Nov 2009]
The Cost of Phishing: Understanding the True Cost Dynamics Behind Phishing Attacks
White Paper The schemes vary, but they typically involve using some combination of spoofed junk email (spam), malicious software (malware), and fake Web pages to harvest personal information from unwitting consumers. [30 Jun 2009]
The Advantages of Using Traffic-Shaping Techniques to Control Spam
White Paper The result of spam is not simply more junk in users' mailboxes which results in lost productivity. Spam is the scourge of anyone who uses email. While spam today represents four out of every five... [30 Jun 2009]
Minority Report: Two good reasons Apple doesn't make a netbook
Comment Firstly, as Jobs claimed late last year, Apple doesn't know how to make a $500 Mac that 'isn't a piece of junk', as it's not in the company's DNA. Jobs may have a point in that the Touch is great for web browsing and... [04 Mar 2009]
Minority Report: How Apple will survive the downturn
Comment Jobs said: "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk and our DNA will not let us ship that. As for those $500 "piece of junk" Macs: the product managers of the Mac Mini must... [27 Nov 2008]
Five reasons I don't miss my 3G iPhone
Comment Many of the free apps at least are junk - probably to be expected (you get what you pay for, after all). About a month ago I got an email from Apple informing me a loan iPhone 3G was about to be mine for... [10 Sep 2008]
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News Therefore, we choose to tag the spam and deliver it to the inbox and make it a choice for the customer to turn on their anti-spam settings, via their webmail, to deliver the tagged email to the junk folder. [12 Aug 2008]
Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News Russia is also known as a hotbed for junk email, known as spam. Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report set to be released... [21 Feb 2008]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs, said: "The MP3 spam tactic is a natural progression for cyber criminals following runs of image, PDF and Excel junk mail earlier this year. Email... [30 Oct 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give internet users the best chance so far of staunching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk email. Also, it does not do anything to... [23 May 2007]
4 Essential Considerations for Intelligent Email Archiving
White Paper Business, Personal, Junk, etc). Coping with the massive growth in email and other information has pushed the budgetary limits for IT. IT managers are struggling to effectively store, manage and discovery... [23 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Am I falling out of love?
Comment In short: it's basically junk. I have just such a box that I no longer need, so I fire off a quick email. In the third instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas finds herself falling out of love... [23 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Example one: Imagine the Round-Up's surprise when, perusing its junk mail folder in Outlook, it discovered an email that wasn't actually a piece of spam had ended up in there. But when an... [09 Mar 2007]
Porn spam going down, says Symantec
News The top spam categories are healthcare or other general product ads, which combined account for 48 per cent of all junk email, Symantec said. Of all junk messages, eight per cent is... [07 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment Sure enough, bit-by-bit, my email efficiency has been eroded year-on-year by the growing spam menace. From the first time I used email up to the present it has been one of my primary business tools. It... [19 Feb 2007]
