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Telstra looking into e-mail failure |
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Telstra Corp Ltd said today it was investigating a computer software fault which impacted 68,000 of its customers' e-mail accounts early this week. Telstra said the glitch for all account names starting with I,L or M had been repaired and customers should contact the company if they felt compensation was due. However, Telstra's Big Pond mail service is not covered by a customer guarantee service and claims are likely to be limited. "We believe the impact was quite small in a relative sense," Telstra spokesman Stuart Gray said ... »
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March 1, 2001 |
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Big Pond e-mail faults found |
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TELSTRA Corp Ltd said today it was investigating a computer software fault which impacted 68,000 of its customers' e-mail accounts early this week. Telstra said the glitch for all account names starting with I, L or M had been repaired and customers should contact the company if they felt compensation was due ... »
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February 28, 2001 |
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Privacy Caucus To Examine Web Bugs, E-Mail Wiretapping |
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The bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Privacy Caucus will hear from Internet security and privacy experts on Thursday regarding some of the sneakiest forms of online surveillance technologies in use today. The panel for Thursday's hearing will examine threats to consumer privacy online via e-mail wiretapping and "Web bugs" – tiny hidden images that Internet ad companies and malicious programmers can embed in Web pages to track consumers as they surf the Web and read e-mail ... »
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February 28, 2001 |
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Family warns of e-mail dangers: |
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They were a computer savvy family in Brentwood, and they had taken all possible precautions to protect themselves against Internet predators - or so they thought. Then came the knock on the door, and a Nashville FBI special agent flashed his badge and related that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a suspect in custody who had been regularly contacting their 13-year-old daughter by e-mail ... »
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February 28, 2001 |
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Virus e-mailed to @Home subscribers |
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Toronto — Someone posing as a technical support representative of the already troubled @Home high-speed Internet service — and possibly based in Ottawa — has been trying to infect subscribers' computers with a virus. Officials at Rogers Cablesystems, which is controlled by Rogers Communications Inc. of Toronto and is California-based Excite@Home Corp.'s second-biggest Canadian affiliate, said the company became aware early last week of the potentially damaging e-mails that a "malicious individual" has been sending to its 315,000 high-speed subscribers and it began e-mailing a "Virus Alert" to them Monday ... »
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February 28, 2001 |
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New E-Mail Worm Spreads Trouble, Adult Humor |
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A new ILOVEYOU-style worm called "MyBabyPic" has begun landing in e-mail inboxes around the world, but users shouldn't be fooled by its seemingly harmless nature, virus experts warned. The worm, which first appeared early Tuesday, arrives carrying an attached file, MYBABYPIC.EXE, that's written in Visual Basic. The e-mail carrying the infected attachment bears a subject line that says "My baby pic!!!," and says "Its my animated baby picture!!" in the body of the message. ... »
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February 27, 2001 |
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Get organized with Quick To-Do PRO |
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Get your life organized with the Pro edition of Quick To-Do, developed by Capstan Australia Pty Ltd. This easy-to-use PIM lets you track the everyday tasks you need to accomplish. Each to-do task can be priority-coded with user-defined colors to emphasize its importance. If you are a registered user of any of our products (AEE, AMV or ADR), you can receive a 25% discount on any product, developed by Capstan Australia Pty Ltd. ... »
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February 27, 2001 |
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DMA's Net.Marketing Show Starts Slow but Picks Up |
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The Direct Marketing Association's net.marketing spring conference started slowly yesterday with the big question still unanswered for many marketers: How many attendees are there? DMA officials said numbers would not be released until tomorrow, but attendance at the day's pre-conference workshops was light. ... »
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February 27, 2001 |
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Greenfield Offers DMA Members Service that Analyzes Web Sites |
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The Direct Marketing Association yesterday said that it is joining with Greenfield Online to offer DMA members a Web site evaluation service. The DMA will use Greenfield's SCORE component of the company's WebSuite product line. The tracking software would let DMA's 5,000 members determine the effectiveness of their Web sites by checking performance updates on a co-branded page on the Greenfield Web site, DMA spokeswoman Christina Duffney said. The password-protected accounts will be updated daily, she said ... »
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February 27, 2001 |
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Two New E-Mail Laws Introduced |
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Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) has introduced two bills dealing with e-mail fraud. The Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001 (H.R. 95) amends the Federal criminal code to provide criminal penalties for anyone who intentionally initiates the transmission of any unsolicited commercial electronic mail message with the knowledge that any domain name or other identifying information is inaccurate ... »
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