Archive for April, 2008

Local Businesses Not Immune To E-mail Scams

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Take a survey and make $80? Not so fast. That’s what a circulated e-mail purportedly from First National Bank of Fort Smith promised last month if customers filled out a simple survey. Answering those questions would get them $80 sent to their account. All that was needed was the customer’s…

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When Bots Don_t Care _ Or Don_t Know Enough to

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Misguided apathy among consumers could be contributing to botnet proliferation … By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading Each day, millions of machines around the world innocently send billions of spam emails and launch distributed denial-of-service attacks…

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BitDefender Detects EDUnet Trojan Spread

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - BitDefender®, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that BitDefender antivirus analysts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity. The … Trojan Uses .edu and .mil…

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Optimize Email Deliverability with Best Practice Strategies

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

As an email marketer you may face email deliverability issues every day. Whether you’re sending a personal email or bulk customer communication, electronic messages are frequently intercepted, filtered, erroneously labeled as spam, bounced or returned to the sender as undeliverable. For routine…

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‘Friendly’ spam invades Facebook

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Wherever you go on the Web, it seems the riffraff are not far behind. … Consider Facebook, the social network started four years ago for Harvard students that has blossomed into a popular hangout for 70 million users. Over the past month, some Facebook members have…

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ISC shutters services of more than 4300 chinese open e-mail relays

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Internet Society of China proposes two measures, one is spam e-mail reporting and the other a white list e-mail servers, in an attempt to stop spammers with the close-down of over 4,300 e-mail relays. Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences…

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Clicked: Every little birdie, every chickadee

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Hey, I’m trying smaller, more frequent updates so just pop in and see … Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:52 PM by Will Femia Filed Under: Games Not Using Tweetscan to Manage Your Brand? And even if they aren’t going to be, Twitter users are the kind of people (like…

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Web attacks on the rise

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

One new infected webpage found every five seconds, according to antivirus software maker Sophos. … By Stephen Swoyer, Special to GCN Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, with no signs of abating, according to a recent study by…

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Every little birdie, every chickadee

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Not Using Tweetscan to Manage Your Brand? You’re Not Doing Your Job OMG! You’re doing it wrong! It is really amazing to see how much the hype about twitter echoes the blog hype of 2002. Back then this headline would have read, “Not Using Technorati to Manage Your Brand? You’re Not Doing Your…

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Web attacks spike; e-mail attacks down

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of 2008, with one new infected webpage found every five seconds, according to antivirus software maker Sophos. … By Stephen Swoyer, Special to GCN Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of…

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