A few weeks back, me and my crazy co-worker (the one who insists that all mail must have SMTP AUTH in order to not be considered spam regardless of its content or what proportion of the target end user considers it spam) were in another discussion about...

Over at the IE8 team blog, they’ve hit a milestone – using the Smartscreen filter, they have recently blocked their 1 billionth piece of malware from being downloaded. 1 billion malware blocks is an amazing milestone and an example of two things. First...

Today, myself and my co-worker got into a pretty big discussion about what constitutes spam and what doesn’t. At issue was a message that was flagged as spam when sent to an internal Microsoft alias.  What happened is a researcher sent around a message...

I was browsing CircleID the other day and came across Bruce Schneier’s article on cyberwar. Schneier’s article, and the crux of his point, is that the term cyber war and the threat of cyber warfare has been greatly exaggerated. The real problem...

Zionsbank has an article up on the types of personal privacy information that you should never publish on Facebook (or any other social networking site for that matter).  I thought that I would republish it here and add some of my own comments. Many...

All Spammed Up has an article up the other day about whether or not a filtering service should consider using multiple blocklists as part of their spam filtering solution.  Quoting the article: The biggest benefit to using more than one block list...

Well, what do you know? I don’t know if they have been doing them all along and have only finally decided to expose the result, but I logged into my Yahoo mail the other day and checked out the message headers of a mail in my inbox.  I was surprised...

You know that as a service you are really popular and you’ve truly made it when spammers start abusing your brand and use it to spoof and send out spam.  Below is a screen shot of a spam message that I received in my Yahoo account this past Sunday...

The other day on Facebook, I saw that one of my friends like a very bizarre page: Right off the bat, I kind of figured that this was a scam.  Or a link to malware, or something.  All those xxx’s was my first clue, and the misspelling of Facebook...

Today, July 12, 2010, marks the six year anniversary of the day I started to fight spam professionally.  It’s also close enough to the four year anniversary of this blog.  It’s well over 500 posts later and I am still going strong. Looking back...

Last week, the New York Times reported an interesting story: the hotel industry is a favorite target of hackers. A study released this year by SpiderLabs, a part of the data-security consulting company Trustwave, found that 38 percent of the credit card...

Investor’s Business Daily had a Friday story about how China renewed the Internet search king Google’s license to operate in China for another year: China and Google reached an uneasy truce Friday as the country with the most Web users renewed the Internet...

I read this on Yahoo! News The newly formed U.S. Cyber Command is supposed to centralize and focus the military's ability to wage war over the Internet, but so far it's basically famous for brainteasers. The command's fancy logo contains a super-secret...

Continuing on from my theme of Futurama-related posts, most people who watch the show will no doubt know that the show is very clever for the amount of humorous inside jokes referring to science and mathematics.  For example, one time Bender has...

When I heard that Futurama was being brought back on the air for new episodes, it was a very happy day for me.  Futurama is one of cartoons I have watched that is actually still funny (Simpsons?  Nope.  South Park?  It was for a long...

Okay, a friend sent me this and I found it really funny.  Enjoy!