Source/Author: Lizzie Buchen (Wired)
You are how you e-mail: A new technique can tell people apart using only the timestamps in their Sent folders.
In the interactive, real-time world of Twitter, blogs and World of Warcraft, timing is one of the most salient aspects of social behavior. Now, researchers at Northwestern University and Yahoo Research in New [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spam’
Yahoo’s new techniques can find out who’s been spammy or nice
Sunday, May 17th, 2009The Carbon Footprint of Spam
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Source: David Marcus @ McAfee
Today McAfee has released The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report. The study looks at the global energy expended to create, store, view, and filter spam across 11 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The report correlates the electricity spent [...]
SQL Attacks – How best to play it safe
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009We have always explained how important it is to keep your web applications up-to-date. From large forum software, to the simplest of guestlists…if the slightest update has been released for your software, you should upgrade *asap*.
Most of the web applications available today, use some sort of a “back-end” to store all the collected information and [...]
Something’s phishy
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Staying one click ahead of the SMiShers and other internet scammers is a full-time job, writes Lia Timson.
It’s true: the more aware of the risks on the internet that computer users become, the more sophisticated and creative criminals become in their attacks.
Internet security companies are reporting a bumper year for online crime aimed at home [...]
