Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Constable Simon Lofting, a British detective from Essex, is now being bombarded with emails and phone calls from concerned women from different parts of the world. The reason for his sudden popularity with the ladies: a forwarded email on a date rape drug called Burundanga.
Receiving the email
Detective Lofting received an email on Burundanga, a powerful [...]

Having a hard time coming up with a six- or an eight-letter long user ID for your email address? Well, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. If you really want to have a short and easy-to-remember email address, you can always sign up for an In.com email account.
Shortest email address
In.com, a free webmail [...]

Never underestimate the technical expertise of terrorists
An Indian television network recently received an email from a terrorist group called Deccan Mujahideen stating that the group is responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Curiously enough, nobody has ever heard about a Deccan Mujahideen terrorist group prior to the exposure of the email. Up to this minute, [...]

The news on the alleged hacking of Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account have proven that everybody can be a victim of unauthorized accessing of email accounts. Even former KYW-TV news anchor Alycia Lane’s email account was illegally accessed by her co-anchor Larry Mendte — a controversial case that led to Mendte’s three-year probation. Despite the [...]

On May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk made Internet history by doing something that has never been done over the Internet: send a spam email.
Thuerk worked as a sales and marketing representative for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a company that specializes in the manufacturing of minicomputers. DEC computers are actually considered by some computer experts as [...]