Spam/Anti-Spam
Could The Incidence Of Spam Decrease?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008According to “Government Computer News,” the majority of spam email are associated with domains that are registered with 20 domain name registrars - 2.5% of all domain registrars.
Don’t Get Phished
Sunday, March 16th, 2008During the 1990’s, crackers came up with a technique in an attempt to steal usernames and passwords from naive internet users. Phishing, which stands for Password Harvesting fishing, and pronounced like fishing, has now become an effective way for criminals to obtain your banking information, credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, and any other information […]
“Personal Security Is As Important As National Security”
Sunday, March 16th, 2008At least one judge in the United States has his “values” in the right order. On September 29, 2004 U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero showed a great deal of wisdom in striking down a part of the so called “Patriot Act” in the US. In his ruling, the wise judge “declared that personal security is […]
Phishing On The Decrease?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008use a combination of SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Amavis to trap viruses and stop spam. This combination has also done a pretty good job of stopping some phishing type emails from being delivered to users on my email system.
I also use some RBL’s configured with Sendmail to prevent spam from reaching users on my system. A […]
Kill Comment And Trackback Spam
Sunday, March 16th, 2008For a long time, spam was pretty much associated only with email. Now that blogging has become so popular, especially with the ability for readers to leave comments or other bloggers to send what is called a “trackback,” spammers have found new ways to be a major annoyance.
Generally, the goal of these blog “comment” and […]