Two years ago, a new and sophisticated spam started to spread in the Internet. This spam is called the “Piggyback spam.” This spam takes the form of a regular spam email. Similar to other forms of spam, this contains advertisement of products, but it also contains something else more dangerous. When you open the spam [...]
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Valentine Spam Attack
As Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, there is a group that takes advantage of this upcoming celebration to spread spam. According to reports, messages containing subject lines such as”I love being in love with you” and “I belong to you” started to invade various mailboxes last January 22. The spam email lured victims through its [...]
Combat Forum Spam
There’s money to be earned in running a forum. However, keep in mind that your discussion site can give Internet users an unpleasant impression if it is filled with links to various external sites that are not related to the topics in your forum. They can even be turned off by your focum if there [...]
Beware of Spyware
Spyware is a computer software that gathers information from the user through the user’s Internet connection. Most of the time, the user is not aware that his or her private information is being accessed. Through a spyware, data such as your Internet habits and the list of sites you visited can be seen by other [...]
Government Centralized Database: Protection or Violation?
In August 2008, a TV channel in India received an email from this so-called Indian Mujahideen group. According to the Intelligence Bureau, the case involving this Indian Mujahideen was just a ploy orchestrated by the the outfits banned in India to mislead the investigators. Thorough investigations were conducted to identify the originator of the email. [...]