The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek, exaggerated and meant to evoke a reaction from the reader.  But it’s not all that far off from reality. TechFlash has an article up this past week that highlights a blog post by Kim Cameron.  Cameron...

Facebook recently posted a blog post explaining their antispam strategy for mitigating abuse.  The crux of the post is the following: Facebook has certain algorithms to shut down abusive accounts It’s nothing personal; they are not shutting down...

Brian Krebs has a good post up on the efficacy of anti-virus products and how A/V should not be relied upon as a substitute for common sense (not opening untrusted attachments, not clicking on links in spam, ensuring you have up-to-date software, etc...

Recently, Twitter settled a case with the FTC that it failed to adequately protect its users’ data and privacy.  From PogoWasRight : The FTC’s complaint against Twitter charges that serious lapses in the company’s data security allowed hackers to...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post posing the question of whether or not more government regulation is required in order to secure the Internet.  On the one hand, anonymity is viewed in the west as a forum for freedom of speech.  The anonymity...

Over at Graham Cluley’s blog , news out of England that two suspects have been arrested by the British police: Britain's Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) have announced today that they have arrested two men as part of an eight month investigation into...

My girlfriend works a later shift and often times, she and her co-workers bring in food or order it in.  Potlucks, or Thai food, that sort of thing.  Well, today, they had spam and eggs. You read that right – not ham and eggs but spam and eggs...

I recently came across the following spam message, spoofing an Amazon.com purchase order: This is a nicely formatted message.  Of course, none of the links go to anything in Amazon, they all point to the same link which is a URL located in South...

Microsoft has pressed charges against some individuals, accusing them of using techniques designed to circumvent Hotmail’s antispam filters.  From the Microsoft Security blog: Last week the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...

I have Yahoo set as my home page, and from time to time they have a decent article on cyber-security.  I’d say that I get between 5-10% of my ideas from Yahoo. Recently, someone asked the question what the origins of the term “spam” was.  Here...

From PC World : AT&T issued an apology on Sunday for a hack that exposed thousands of iPad customers' e-mail addresses last week and vowed to work with law enforcement to prosecute those responsible. A hacking group called Goatse Security obtained...

Via TechDirt : Many years back, an "email marketing" company called e360 Insight got upset that the anti-spam advocacy group Spamhaus included e360 on its list of biggest spammers -- a list that many service providers used for spam filtering...

When it comes to the problem of outbound spam, one of the experiences that I have, and this was reaffirmed at TechEd, is that the number one source of compromised accounts are educational institutions.  That is to say, whenever we have an outbound...

If you’ve been following and noticing my lack of posting lately, it’s because of two reasons: I’m doing a lot of tracking little stuff projects at work that is sucking up my time. I was out of town last week at a conference, TechEd in New Orleans. I had...

Or rather, with me not doing stupid things. I’m currently at a conference in New Orleans (TechEd, a Microsoft conference) and I just about had a very serious security gaffe yesterday.  I left Seattle and it was around 60 degrees Fahrenheit (that...

One of the problem that plagues free sites that permit user content uploading – Windows Live Spaces, Google Blogspot, Yahoo Groups, Geocities (back in the day), etc – is that they are prone to being abused by spammers.  The idea behind these services...