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Some antispam humour
While I am out, I am posting some random stuff from around the web.  From AppleGeeks : Read More...
A positive (?) story about social engineering
I’m currently on vacation in South America* so I thought I’d pre-write a few stories about how spam/malware relates to real life. We all know that a big trend in recent years with malware is social engineering.  Social engineering is an attempt to Read More...
Traveling for the next little while
I am going to be traveling in Peru for the next little while, but fear not!  I shall still be blogging! I have written a few posts in advance to entertain you all that shall become publically visible over the next few days.  Enjoy. Read More...
Live Free or Die Hard
Spoiler alert. This past weekend, I got a chance to watch the 4th installment in the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard .  I hadn’t seen the whole thing end-to-end before, only parts of it.  It was nice to finally get a chance to see the Read More...
Things we can learn from Animaniacs
Does anyone remember that cartoon from the 1990’s, Animaniacs? It was a pretty good cartoon for its short run.  One of the segments that they aired was called “Good Idea, Bad Idea”.  It was a short clip segment.  It would go something like Read More...
I don’t know what it is…
I don’t know what it is, but whenever I hear the name of the waledac botnet, I always think of Wario from the Super Mario Bros. series.  Something about both starting with the letters Wa, both being three syllables, both being bad guys, both using Read More...
I wonder if I’ll ever see this in a spam campaign?
I’m back from Europe and my body clock is a little messed up.  I got home yesterday a little late (traffic was a pain which is normal for a Tuesday) and I stopped at the grocery store on the way back.  The last 3 hours of the day were tough Read More...
Play the phishing game!
I came across the following game linked off the Anti-phishing Working Group’s web page .  It’s an educational game that teaches users how to tell the difference between a legitimate web site and a malicious website.  While some of the advice Read More...
Terry Zink's Rule of Free Stuff
Terry Zink's Rule of Free Stuff, as applied to the Internet: If you give something away for free, people will abuse it. Read More...
Microsoft's new search engine: Bing
Microsoft has just released a new search engine entitled Bing (but it's not Google).  The philosophy behind it is something that Bill Gates has talked about for a long time.  Today, Search returns a lot of results (regardless of whether it's Read More...
If spammers continue to solve CAPTCHAs, we could all die
Email was created by Man. Spammers Evolved. And Rebelled. They clog and pollute the Internet. Some have convinced themselves they are legitimate. There are many spammers. And they have a plan. I've been working my way over the past few months through Read More...
Interesting anti-spam cartoon on Youtube
Here's a cartoon I stumbled across on Youtube that talks about connection filtering and its difference from content filtering.  Enjoy. Read More...
An entertaining video
Sometimes, over the course of mail processing, I stumble across an entertaining video.  Usually, these are on Youtube. I think that the following one is one of the better videos I have come across.  Enjoy! Read More...
Invented a new game this week
This past week, I invented a new game at the office, and I also play it at home.  Don't laugh when you read this, it's great for increasing your concentration and manual dexterity.  It's called "How many cards can you toss into a basket." Read More...
Some humor
Hap tip to AllSpammedUp for posting this this other day.  I saw it and thought it was hilarious. Read More...
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