Anti Spam Software & Internet Filters Blog - Securence

Living on Spam From the Groaning Board of E-mail

A lively commentary from a frustrated professor at Virginia Tech in coping with spam. While Professor Riley cites many benefits of email replacing traditional mail and how one can go about responding OR NOT RESPONDING. "Lately, our appreciation of e-mail's benefits is being sorely tried," he says. "Turn on the computer in the morning, and what greets us? Spam, spam and more spam - a long, time-wasting queue of messages consisting of the dishonest, the distasteful, the unwanted and the unthinkable."

Full article at Roanoke Times

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Lawmakers Sharpen Hook for Prosecuting "Phishers"

Yesterday legislation was passed by Washington lawmakers that increase penalties against "phishing," spam that attempts to get consumers' financial data by posing as a bank or other company.

The e-mails often contain links to Web sites that appear to belong to genuine banks, persuading some recipients to provide their account, credit-card or other personal information.

A recent survey of Internet users by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that phishing spam is on the rise, while pornographic spam is declining.

The legislation would create special penalties for people caught phishing.

Full article at Seattle Times

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Computer Security Issues Will Get Worse

Bill Husted of the Cox News Service wrote a very compelling article on how computer security issues are only going to get worse in the coming year. He says, "Sure, you're worn out from dealing with phisher scams, spam e-mail, viruses, spyware and home network problems. But in the next year or so, it's likely that these will become the good old days of computing."

He says there are dozens of new threats on the horizon. And the bad news is, these new threats haven't been discovered yet.

Full article at The Register-Guard

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