Archive for April, 2008

MicroWorld announces new partner Spearhead Networks in Ghana

Friday, April 25th, 2008

MicroWorld Technologies Inc. has announced its new partner Spearhead Networks in Ghana as part of its expansion drive. MicroWorld’s Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Content Security products eScan and MailScan are powered by several unique technologies. eScan is powered by the MWL technology, with a…

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Unhappy Birthday, As Spam Turns 30

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Unfortunately, we mean the email based pest when discussing spam, which began when a marketer blasted nearly 400 people on Arpanet with the first junk email. read more … It all started with a marketing guy Our preferred choice of observing this anniversary of spam would…

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Update: Spammers ramp up siege on Google’s Blogger via bots

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Update: Spammers ramp up siege on Google’s Blogger via bots … Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google’s Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations,…

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Crackdown on cyber crimes Law & order

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The police have launched a crackdown on crimes using Internet and mobile phones, writes Biju Govind. The setting up of a cyber police station in Kozhikode has to a large extent curbed Internet-related crimes such as phishing, e-mail spam, piracy, data theft using Internet…

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Google’s pointers on countering Web spam

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Google’s Matt Cutts offered the Web 2.0 Expo audience some tips to cut down on Web spam, plus a plug for a Google service that can help. … Posted by Stephen Shankland | Post a comment SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that spam now pollutes Web sites as well as e-mail…

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Kaspersky Lab: Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0 Receives Anti-Spam Certification From Icsa Labs

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Kaspersky Lab: Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0 Receives Anti-Spam Certification From Icsa Labs … Kaspersky Lab, a leading provider of security solutions that protect against viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, crimeware, rootkits, phishing, hacker attacks and spam, announces that…

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A new infected website every five seconds

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

That’s the findings this week from online security specialists Sophos, who say their filters are detecting an alarming rise in the number of infected web pages in the first quarter of 2008, another indication that cyber criminals have set up… … That’s the findings…

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A new infected website every five seconds

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

That’s the findings this week from online security specialists Sophos, who say their filters are detecting an alarming rise in the number of infected web pages in the first quarter of 2008, another indication that cyber criminals have set up… … That’s the findings…

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Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Chris Sherman is taking over moderator duties with speakers Lise Broer (Wikipedia), Jonathan Hochman (Hochman Consultants), Matt McGee (Marchex) and Jeff Muendel (Netconcepts). [This will be the last session we’re covering for SMX Social Media. After which I’ll be getting back in my little Aveo…

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Penalizing Spam Links, Etc, Etc

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Sorry, I’ve been in the middle of a lot of things. Maybe only time for a links dump: Mike Schinkel suggests a way to fight spam comments: assign a special attribute to them that makes it easier for google to penalize their google juice. The problem is that unless Akismet had some direct…

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