Archive for September, 2006


Phishing - How Not To Get Hooked

By Lisa Mostyn 

Phishing, we’ve probably heard the term used before but do you really know what it means to be ‘phished?’
Phishing, a play on the word ‘fishing,’ is a term used to describe the types of emails used to lure people into divulging their user names and passwords for internet banking, Ebay, and other sensitive […]

Spam free (with a little help from your friends)

By Ed Burnette
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Florida have created a new type of distributed spam-filtering system that is more efficient and scalable than the alternatives in use today. Results of a large-scale prototype were published in the October edition of IEEE Computer.
The idea is simple:
Spammers send the same or similar messages to […]