Source: ZDNet
I spent last week at the Federal Trade Commission's three-day spam summit, where hundreds of people, fed up with the skyrocketing amount of unsolicited bulk e-mail, gathered to figure out how to stop it.
Source: Info Sys Sec
Today I found my email account at Yahoo.com deactivated. It is an account that I have been using since when Yahoo first opened its doors and offered free email to the masses.
I attempted to logon as has been my habit over the past couple of years to find my access had been terminated for a violation of their Terms Of Service.
Are you sick of trying to filter spam? The problem of unsolicited e-mail has been increasing for years, but help has arrived. This article discusses and compares several broad approaches to the automatic elimination of unwanted e-mail while introducing and testing some popular tools that follow these approaches.
Source: Paul Graham
Source: Silicon Valley
Several unscrupulous ''spammers'' have been shut down after bombarding Internet users with e-mail offers for allegedly bogus international drivers' licenses, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.
The move should put the brakes on a common scam that has evolved into one of the most prevalent forms of unwanted junk e-mail over the past several years.
Source: Information Week
Spam is increasing at such an alarming rate that people may stop relying on E-mail to communicate, according to E-mail security firm Postini, which says spam volume jumped some 150% in 2002.
In another danger signal, the percentage of messages sent to Postini's clients identified as spam climbed from just 20% in January 2002 to more than 60% in December.
Source: OS Opinion
Caught the Klez lately? It seems this persistent virus has moved up the ranks to become the numero uno plague for 2002. In fact, it seems nary a day goes by when some ingrate doesn't try to inflict viral carnage on my computer through a nasty e-mail message -- the latest declaring that it was "From Mom."
