Category «E-Mail»

FTC Issues Staff Report on Malicious Spam and Phishing

Press release: “In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission staff describes findings from its July 2007 workshop, “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions” and proposes follow-up action steps that stakeholders can adopt to mitigate the harmful effects of malicious spam and phishing. In addition to proposing action steps for stakeholders, the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, ID Theft

Proofpoint Reports Spam Email Trends for November 2007

Press release: “Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today reported spam trends for data collected during the month of November 2007, finding that, on average, spam continues to represent nearly 90% of the total email volume received by large enterprises. Attachment-based spam made a comeback with the …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Microsoft

Annual McAfee Virtual Criminology Report

McAfee Virtual Criminology Report – Cybercrime: The Next Wave – The annual McAfee global cyber trends study into organized crime and the Internet in collaboration with leading international security experts, November 2007. “For this report we consulted with more than a dozen security specialists at top institutions such as NATO, the FBI, SOCA, the Center …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Mail, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Senate Finance Committee Releases Report on Investigation of Avandia

Prepared Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) Regarding the Finance Committee Investigation of Avandia, November 15, 2007: “We place a great deal of trust in pharmaceutical companies to make safe and effective products.The health of millions of Americans, from young children to retirees, depends on the careful work of these drug manufacturers. Today, Senator Grassley …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents

Judge Issues Restraining Order to Preserve White House E-Mail

Press release: “Today, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the White House from destroying back-up copies of millions of deleted emails while the lawsuit is pending. CREW brought this lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President and the …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Legal Research

Archive Seeks to Discover Full Extent of Missing E-Mails at White House

Follow up to previous postings on litigation and hearings on missing White House email and violations of the Presidential Records Act: “The National Security Archive filed a motion on Friday, October 26, seeking expedited discovery against the Executive Office of the President to find out what e-mails are missing from the White House e-mail system …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Legal Research

Judge Recommends White House Cease Destruction of Backup Emails

Follow up to October 17, 2007 posting, Court Indicates Order on Missing White House Email Forthcoming, from CREW: “Today, in CREW v. EOP, Magistrate Judge John Facciola issued a report and recommendation in which he concluded that a temporary restraining order should be issued by District Court Judge Henry Kennedy preventing the White House from …

Subjects: Courts, E-Mail, Government Documents

Court Indicates Order on Missing White House Email Forthcoming

Follow up to previous posting, Group Issues Report on Missing White House Emails and Violations of the Presidential Records Act, from AP today news that “U.S. Magistrate John M. Facciola indicated Wednesday [that he] may order the Bush administration to preserve copies of all White House e-mails, a move that a government lawyer argued strongly …

Subjects: E-Mail, Government Documents

PhishTank Annual Report: U.S. telecoms hosting phishes; OpenDNS offering a solution

Press release: “With a full twelve months under our belt, today OpenDNS published the first-ever PhishTank annual report. The report looks at the more than 300,000 phishes you’ve submitted and helped verify over the course of one year. While some of the report’s findings come as no surprise (e.g., PayPal and eBay round out the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Mail, Privacy

Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Missing White House E-mails

Follow up to previous postings on missing White House e-mails and violations of the Presidential Records Act, this press release: “The National Security Archive today sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House e-mail messages that were apparently deleted from White House computers between March 2003 and …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Committee Requests Information on Reports of Lost White House E-mails

“Today Chairman Waxman wrote [Letter to Fred Fielding] to request information from the White House Office of Administration about reports that millions of e-mails that may have been lost from the White House e-mail system.” Related postings on White House e-mail investigation

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research