From R&D : Posted by Tim Cranton Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Today the FBI announced federal indictments returned against three culprits charged with disseminating a major malware scheme believed to have caused $100 million...

Over at MailChimp , Ben Chestnut writes about their frustrations from sending mail from the cloud.  The idea is that the cloud is great for computing but not for sending out mail.  Here are some excerpts: Amazon EC2 is great for massive computing...

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Last week, the New York Times (via Yahoo) posted an article on five ways to keep safe online. They have blurbs and excerpts on each one, but here they are with my summaries. Use a secure browser. The article suggests that because Internet...

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In case you missed it, last Thursday, May 6, we saw a remarkable day on the stock markets.  The day started off with some selling which went down neat and orderly.  Suddenly, around 2:40 pm eastern time, the market started selling off rapidly...

Cory Doctorow over at Locus Online tells the story of how he got phished the other day.  Doctorow is no computer neophyte, he knows what he is doing when it comes to security.  Here’s his background plus the key part of the story: I’m media...

Following up from my previous post on the requirements for the CAN SPAM Act, John Levine has written an article about why there are so few spam lawsuits when the law has been in effect for almost seven years.  Levine’s point (in this article) essentially...

One of my personal friends works in the non-profit space. He has a blog post put up about the rules that are required in order to pass the CAN SPAM Act. In doing some research, he found that people would say “Oh, yes, we know the rules about emailing...

All Spammed Up published a post this week highlighting the top seven malware threats for that (May 3).  Here they are: MyWebSearch (delivers rogue pop-ups, tracks surfing) Vundo (Rogue A/V, information stealer) Dr. Guard (Rogue A/V) OnLineGames ...

Last week, Graham Cluley of SophosLabs posted an article indicating that China had slid off the list of the top 10 spam relaying countries in the world.  Here is the list, according to Sophos: The top twelve spam relaying countries for January to...

Some of you may not know this, but I really enjoy making presentations for audiences.  When I got a chance to present at a conference earlier this past year, I was really excited about it.  Some people fear public speaking, but I love it. One...