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Lost in the Mail: “Adhering to the array of SEC and NASD regulations around e-mail retention is going to be a full-time job for firms that hope to avoid the fines, lawsuits and bad press that come with non-compliance. It is estimated that over 16 billion business e-mail messages are sent a day, and financial …
Giving E-mail back to the users: Using digital signatures to solve the spam problem: “This paper argues that current legislative and private attempts to stop spam are either ineffective, or involve unacceptable tradeoffs. The key to solving the spam problem is recognizing the importance of e-mail authentication and the granting of permissions. Properly used, digital …
According to this Washington Post article, the nation’s largest ISPs are responding to the recent escalation of email viruses (Blaster and SoBig.F) innundating customer accounts by planning to implement scanning applications to screen all attached documents. With as many as half of all incoming emails infected with viruses, AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, and Covad have already …
Day Three of the W32/SoBig.F virus, which is hitting home users hardest. Counterpane Internet Security has identified 1,500 malicious file attachments associated with the virus, and counting. For more information, see the following links: McAfee Security Virus Profile Symantec Security Response, W32.Sobig.F@mm The virus is apparently set to self destruct after two weeks, making that …
Today I was spammed several hundred times, causing me to enable the overdrive level of my spam blocker. This is a first for me, but I know that unfortunately I was not alone, and sure hope tomorrow will be a quieter day in the e-mail realm. For my previous postings on spam, click here.
Spam and political campaigns are developing a synergy, to which the growing number us who have been on the receiving end, through no effort on our part, can attest. So I was quite interested when I learned about a new website, Political Spam. This independently operated site, from Richard Paul Welty, was launched in early …
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth last week held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for destroying electronic documents in violation of a court order issued as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. [Link] Landmark Legal Foundation v. EPA, Civil Action No. 00-2338, Opinions issued July 24, 2003 by Judge Royce C. …
The Inbox Defense Task Force is “a non-profit legal research organization dedicated to tracking down the true identities of spammers.” The organization lists the following goals on its website: Find the Spammers; Create Courtroom-Quality Documentation; Enable Prosecution and Private Legal Action. A lengthy review of this organization’s work, by Keith H. Hammonds, a Fast Company …
GSA Launches USA Services: “New Initiative Rapidly Connects Citizens with the Federal Government Service Answers Citizens’ Web, E-mail and Telephone Questions in 2 Days or Less.” “USA Services is built on the foundation of three successful information channels, each of which has been providing comprehensive access to federal information and services within its particular medium: …
Diverging Estimates of the Costs of Spam: “Spam is costing the U.S. economy billions in network resources, diminished productivity and forgone Internet sales. But how many billions?” See also Spam Battle Plans– “Companies are relying on multilevel spam-fighting strategies that include e-mail filtering tools, blacklist services and employee education.”
Judge Orders UBS to Pay to Retrieve E-Mail – “A federal judge ordered UBS to pay the majority of the costs involved in restoring e-mail evidence sought by a former employee who is accusing the bank of sex discrimination.”
From the Sacramento Bee: “By some estimates, 200 to 300 spammers, sometimes loosely organized into gangs, are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam — unsolicited “junk” e-mail. They play a high-tech cat-and-mouse game and increasingly use overseas servers to inundate AOL, Microsoft Network, EarthLink and other Internet service providers.”
