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You think the Internet is a jungle? You haven`t seen anything yet! A while ago, we were working on`standardizing Internet domain names in an attempt to classify email traffic. Example: by forcing adult content to add SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT in emails, the creation of .xxx domains, and many other ideas that never came to light. But when money enters the picture,Read more

Kids, today I will tell you the story of a legitimate message that wanted to be a spam. Once upon a time, a legitimate Dell email was being sent to customers. For years he was treated as a boring legit. But one day he decided he wanted to be someone: he wanted to look likeRead more

It’s not easy being an anti-spam specialist. When reputation scores and other filters fail to block all the junk, we sometimes have to jump in and analyze the messages manually. All the while, millions of end-users are breathing down my neck, waiting for me to release an update ASAP. I don’t mind the big nastyRead more

You’ve been told time and again to be careful about who you give your email address to, and to NOT give any personal information to businesses you don’t know or trust (ref: Spear Phishing with Unsecure Databases).  But what about the BIG guys you do trust? This Monday morning I awoke to dark skies, rainRead more

Yet again, a Hollywood stars Gmail account has been hacked, exposing Vanessa Hudgens private pictures on the Net. This follows similar public airings of Ali Larter, Busy Phillips, Scarlett Johansson, Miley Cyrus, Emma Caulfield, Addison Timlin, Renee Olstead and …you? Do you really think that pictures stored in the cloud are safe and secure, orRead more