Spam emails, we all get them, every day in fact and they are very annoying but did you realise just how big a problem they really are? Let’s starts with some astonishing facts. Cisco calculated that last year 120 billion spam messages were sent daily worldwide. That was double the previous year. Furthermore, it is [...]
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Internet attackers Storm Valentine’s Day
Following on from an earlier post about spam and the responsibility of the user to avoid encouragement, I thought it worth highlighting a particular attack that shifts its consumer focus. One of last year’s worst viruses is known as Storm. The virus takes many forms and disrupts in many ways, it does not fall into [...]
Spam increases – are we to blame
December saw the worst proportion of spam to legitimate email that we have ever experienced according to a report by SoftScan. All the focus is on the perseverence of relentless spammers and not enough thought is being placed on the ways in which we as email users are encouraging this activity. Too many people are [...]
We send less spam but get just as much
It’s obviously good news that the UK has fallen out of the ‘dirty dozen’ spam sending nations in a new report by Sophos but the main reason we have fallen out of the list seems to be because other nations are now sending more, rather than the fact that we are sending less. The new [...]
Spam and Google blog search
All across the news today are reports about spam levels. Image spam is one of the biggest problems in everyone’s inbox but it’s not just email that delivers spam. Chris Richardson believes that search results spam is a frontier on which Google must improve this year, especially within its blog search. I have also noticed [...]
A serious spate of security concerns?
The technology headlines are dominated this week by security issues. Specifically in the UK, the government has produced guidelines to educate on the issue of cyber-bullying while globally the latest Sophos report reveals that Asian spammers are more now prevalent that US spammers for the first time ever. The anti-virus companies are of course riding [...]
Suing the Internet
Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links: Rank outsider sues Google over zero score Music industry to sue Yahoo China UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site Image-based spam on the rise Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people [...]