Archive for the 'Email' Category

Question of email security on these days is even more important since the beginning to use it for sending sensitive information. The cause of this is possibility to fake an email sender’s name.
In case of Sarah Palin, her email was hacked and all information was posted as a screen-shot. Anyone of us can be in […]

If you and your friend have email accounts provided by the same ISP or you got those on the same webmail system, you will receive different amounts of spam messages. And the number of spam even might be uninfluenced by sharing email address online. The newest research once again confirmed the fact that spambots often […]

Have you ever wondered what could happen if you’d replied to every “Buy V1agra” message, clicked on every link offering weight loss pills or video of Cristina Aguilera naked? Thanks to experiment organized by McAfee, we know what happens.
McAfee recruited 50 volunteers in 10 countries for a job every security expert tells you to avoid […]

Everyone who has an email box, mobile phone, account on a social network, a blog, etc. has an opinion about spam as well. That’s because spam evolves and targets new territories everyday, why can’t we fight the spam efficiently?
Old-fashioned spam used for marketing purposes seems to be harmless in comparison with spam that infects computers […]

Spam celebrates anniversary this year: 30 years have gone since the day a clever manager sent 400 email messages to potential customers inviting them to a presentation. Luckily, the name of the manager is being kept in silence; otherwise many would go on a headhunt to punish the one that gave a start to spam […]

Mail bomber is the software that floods user’s e-mail with big number of mails. Mails can contain different information: from the simple newsletter to the offer to enlarge your body parts.
Mail bombers sometimes are used as mass mailing software and in that case are legal programs used for business improvement. Individual users also are able […]

Spam is an e-mail message that is send to many people and floods Internet with copies. People don’t with to receive it, but it is sent without permission. Usually spam methods are used for advertising and commercial purposes. It is cheap way to advertise services and products because it costs very little or doesn’t cost […]

None of us has avoided receiving needless advertisements by e-mail. Sometimes such things are really annoying, especially when you get not one or two such advertisements, but about hundred. There is a special term for such obsessive net-advertisements – “spam�?. Just after several years spam grew into a universal epidemic.
So what is bad about that […]