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RSS header in newsHappy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake
News Insufficient security validation of input file names in the Firefox header lets an attacker order the browser to access files it is not supposed to be able to access. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [25 Jan 2008]
China fines its first spammer £331
News Xinhua, the Chinese government's news agency, said under the regulation commercial emails must be sent with the text 'AD' in the header and must contain options for recipients to subscribe or cancel further messages. [22 Aug 2006]
Worm finds hole in Yahoo! Mail
News mailbox bearing the subject header "New Graphic Site. A new worm that targets Yahoo! email users is on the loose, taking advantage of a JavaScript flaw, a security company has warned. The Yamanner worm targets all versions of Yahoo! [13 Jun 2006]
$2.4m spam ring shut down
News According to the FTC, the spam email contained false or forged header information, included deceptive subject headings, failed to identify email as advertisements or solicitations, failed to notify consumers they had a right to opt out of... [10 Apr 2006]
Greek police seize alleged 'spammer'
News The emails were sent by a large US-based advertising company and did not include the full header information, according to Downes. The Greek police have arrested a Swedish programmer, claiming that he advertised and sold pharmaceutical products on... [07 Nov 2005]
Investigation launched on Dutch buyout scam
News A spokesman from shitzooi said: "That's right - we have a legal 'anonymous' mail service on our site and the media did not check the header of the mail - there you can see that it's fake. A legal inquiry has been launched to discover who sent out a... [15 Jul 2005]
Make our anti-spam tech the standard, say Yahoo! and Cisco
News Each outgoing message is then signed, with the signature stored in the email header. and partners. The companies, along with software makers Sendmail and PGP, submitted their DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) specification to the Internet... [12 Jul 2005]
Security flaw found in IPsec VPNs
News NISCC said: "By making careful modifications to selected portions of the payload of the outer packet, an attacker can effect controlled changes to the header of the inner [encrypted] packet. The UK's National Infrastructure Security Coordination... [12 May 2005]
Will 'bounty' scheme stop spammers?
News A report on the proposed scheme said: "It is sometimes possible to identify similarities in factual patterns found in spam messages, websites and header information. The US Federal Trade Commission is considering offering bounties of as much as... [17 Sep 2004]
'Can Spam' law gets final approval
News The final version of CAN-SPAM differs from its predecessors in that it broadens the definition of what qualifies as spam sent to mobile devices, and it makes it easier for state attorneys general to seek injunctions against spammers engaged in... [09 Dec 2003]
US House of Reps passes anti-spam bill
News Falsifying email header information or using either a mail server or open relay to "deceive or mislead recipients" about the origin of a commercial e-mail message. The measure aims to curb unwanted email advertisements for Viagra-like products and... [24 Nov 2003]
VeriSign slammed for .com spam aid
News All of the header checks that you normally do .suddenly don't work," he said. Network operators, anti-spam campaigners, security experts and engineers have hit out at VeriSign over the changes it made to the top level domain system. [17 Sep 2003]
Hackers get anonymity boost
News The technique essentially creates a covert channel for communications by hiding four characters of data in the header's initial sequence number (ISN) field. The header is the part of data packets that tells network hardware and servers how to... [01 Aug 2003]
Peter Cochrane's top 10 IT myths
News Deleting files removes them from your hard drive - wrong - it just removes the header As part of silicon.com's IT Myths coverage we asked Peter Cochrane to give us his top 10 tall tales. This is what he said: [01 Aug 2003]
Antivirus 'drivers' secure MS Exchange
News The new version of Word will essentially place a flag in the header of any documents containing XML (Extensible Markup Language) code. Microsoft is set to outline the specs of a future version of Windows that will make it easier to detect and... [14 Apr 2003]
