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Killing Phish. See also the continually updated reports on phishing and pharming available from The Anti-Phishing Working Group and the definitions from their site as follows: “Phishing attacks use ‘spoofed’ e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, …
From the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), Welcome to the Jungle: The State Privacy Implications of Spam, Phishing and Spyware (15 pages, PDF).
Despite all the heralding of email’s demise, it is still an essential desktop program in the workplace and for many home users as well. This Washington Post article, via MSNBC News, reviews free and low cost alternatives to Outlook.
Press release: “Today IBM announced the results from its 2004 Global Business Security Index Report and provided an early look at potential security threats in 2005. Based on early indicators, a new and troubling trend this year may be the aggressive spread of viruses and worms to handheld devices, cell phones, wireless networks, and embedded …
FCC press release: “On February 7, with the cooperation of wireless carriers, the Commission published on its Web site a list of mail domain names used to send messages to wireless service. This list is to protect cellular and wireless consumers from unwanted commercial electronic mail messages by alerting marketers to which Internet domain names …
As a follow-up to my posting on February 1, Junk Email Careens Out of Law’s Control, more bad news about the spam explosion in a survey released by the Center for Excellence in Service at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. According to the press release, “Spam’s price tag now reaches …
Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead. Another article joins the chorus complaining about the failure of the CAN-SPAM Act to stem the tide of junk email, and highlights how industry, government and advocacy groups continue to do battle against the threats. From the perspective of the spammers however, it is a lucrative business, …
From ComputerWorld: “Earthlink claims victory in another spam case – The spammers sent out more than 250 million e-mail messages.”
Press release from Georgia Governor: “The goal of the Georgia Slam Spam E-mail Act is to hold accountable those who abuse the Internet and harass our citizens with fraudulent, misleading and unwanted commercial e-mail…The Governor’s legislation provides serious penalties for the use of false or misleading practices, such as forging headers, using misleading subject headlines …
From the press release: “Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the state’s first lawsuit against one of the world’s largest spam operations in an effort to crack down on the massive flow of illegal e-mail into Texas consumers’ in-boxes.” Lawsuit Against PayPerAction Et Al. (16 pages, PDF) Consumer Tips on SPAM Prevention See also related …
Why A Utah Court Was Right to Hold That, Under Utah Law, Pop-up Ads Are Not “Spam” by Anita Ramasastry.
This Wired article focuses on California legislation that went into effect this new year that provides the state’s consumers with a range of privacy protections, including unlisted cell phone numbers, rental cars without electronic surveillance technology activated, and the right to sue email spammers.
