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I'm still getting mail from dead people. An AOL account belonging to a friend of mine who passed away almost three years ago has been hijacked and sends me at least one spammy email a day. I tried to block her emails using my spam blocker, but some still get through. She had three or four AOL email addresses, and
Digital security firm Sophos today released their Security Threat Report for 2011, which reviews all the ways that the bad guys are out to get you. It's a glossy 52 page report and is worth a quick read to understand the threats that are out there, especially in areas that you might not be familiar with. The report covers the
The USA is the worst country in the world for relaying spam, according to Sophos' latest report on spam. The US was responsible for 13.1%, followed by Brazil and India at 7.3% and 6.8% respectively, with the UK, Russia and Italy tied in 7th place. In a further twist, China has completely disappeared from the top 12 and now relays
So the numbers are getting better. According to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), 80% of Internet users are aware of the botnets and spam in email. They know that there is no national lottery or company that spells their product V1@gra. Still, 20 percent of users are still taking SPAM seriously. That is seriously a bad number and it shows,
Whenever I want to feel fearful and depressed I usually visit one of the news websites. Earthquakes, murder, war, theft, snoops, kidnappers, recession, depression, corruption, and all other sorts of horrible news. When I read the news sites I'm reminded of how unsafe the world is. Soon I tire of the bad news and move on to investigate the net
According to a recent study by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, subtitled "Of course, I never reply to spam - except sometimes," we are clicking on spam more often than may be assumed. According to the survey, half of the respondents clicked and/or replied to spam messages for the following reasons: Clicked on it by mistake: 17 percent Not sure
I guess its my own fault for being called Matthew, but my email address (almost all of them) start with a letter that means I get more spam than those with other starting letters. Those letters are "A", "M", "S", "R" and "P". Email addresses that start with these letters on average have 40% of their incoming messages being spam.