BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire - May 30, 2008) - Angstrom Microsystems Corp. (the “Company”) (OTCBB: AGMS), a green computing solutions company, announces that it has recently become aware of an unsolicited e-mail spam campaign that appears…
Latest Spam Trick Involves Google Docs Andy Patrizio Spammers have proven themselves as creative as they are tenacious. We’ve seen image spam, PDF spam, and MP3 spam, and now the latest trick involves using Google Docs to get by spam…
This is true mostly. However, there is a downside to gmail spam filters w.r.t false-positives, i.e (filter mistakenly flags a good mail as spam) These numbers are particularly high in case of gmail. I’ve had a sufficient number of…
Spam is the bane of blogs, ugly links trying to nest its way into your blog comments section to trick your readers to buy their products, download spyware, or just build links. In WordPress you can set up a blacklist and stop all…
So far, Mac OS X users have been largely unaffected by the global plague of viruses, spyware, and other malware. Conventional wisdom holds that this relatively blissful state won’t last forever; as the Mac’s market share increases, it becomes a potentially more interesting target for the bad…
I have 88 spam messages caught by akismet, but when I try and delete them I am getting the “Cannot load akismet-admin” error. This is with the latest WP 2.5.1 and Akismet 2.1.5. As this appears to be platform independent I guess it probably does not matter that I am on Windows. Can anyone suggest…
SearchScan also identifies spamming sites or sites with questionable e-mail practices. However, some businesses with a Web presence on Yahoo, such as e-commerce site AnyCoupons, say that the security measures have gone too far and,…
Analysis: Crackdown on domain name crooks By SHAUN WATERMAN UPI Homeland and National Security Editor WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) — The non-profit association that oversees Internet addresses is trying to crack down on shady Web pages used by spammers and hackers. Analysis: Crackdown on domain name…
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/software/SixApart_Launches_OS_ed_Blog_AntiSpam_Competitor_to_Akismet’; At Six Apart, our mission is to help people communicate on the web, and we’ve always done this by making the best software and services that we can. But part of our larger goal is to…
Blogging infrastructure company Six Apart is launching a new free open source product this morning into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs. Now they are offering it as a web…