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While examining our spam traffic over the last 4 weeks, I extracted the new content data. We received the usual spam every week, but occasionally had noticeable outbreaks. I was curious and compiled the following numbers (note that the % value is a comparison to August): 1st week of September: Quiet week, nothing really noticeableRead more

You’ve never heard of “white spam”? Of course not, I just made it up. Also called “friend spam”, white spam is legitimate email that comes from annoying sources: a friend or relative (or both) who sends his daily home-made blog, details of adventures with his dog or multiple weekly chain letters. In other words, itRead more

So how does a celebritys death result in more spam? Spammers take advantage of our thirst for information and know that we will be Googling for the latest news and gossip. Using SEO , spammers create pages with references to the actors name, with the idea of reaching higher ranking in search engine results. AlongRead more

Adam Shostack (currently at Microsoft in the role of security program manager and with whom I worked on a security audit of the service delivery platform at Radialpoint) and Andrew Stewart recently published The New School of Information Security. The authors want to change our way of thinking about Information Security a tall order. Basically,Read more

5. The email you sent to your friend contained no subject or body. Why? 4. Your message contained 4 words and 17 graphic icons (e.g., smileys or animated icons). 3. Your message stated: Send this to everyone in your address book and you will [get free money, a wish come true, save the whales 2.Read more