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April 26, 2002 |
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Agency disciplines employees over inappropriate e-mail |
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Six workers have been fired, two have been disciplined and at least 14 are under investigation for excessive use of computers in the state Department of Labor and Industries for personal e-mail, much of it sexual in nature. Hundreds of sexually explicit messages ranging from banter to planning for a sex party was found, agency officials said. ... »
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April 26, 2002 |
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Yahoo! extends! e-mail! offer! |
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Could Yahoo! be feeling a privacy backlash? The portal duly blocked access to users who had been taking advantage of forwarding and POP3/SMTP e-mail services yesterday, as promised. Yahoo! will now charge $29.99 a year for the privilege. But some late sweeteners have appeared. Yahoo! had trailed the news with a special promotional offer, which expired on April 24, allowing users to buy back POP3 access with $10 off that $29.99 annual fee. We note that this has now been extended to May 8. ... »
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April 26, 2002 |
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MS Word runs malicious e-mail scripts |
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If you've chosen MS Word for your e-mail editor in Outlook 2000 or 2002, you'll need to patch a flaw which enables script execution when a malicious memo is replied to or forwarded. Outlook blocks scripts when an HTML e-mail is viewed; but when Word is the editor, replying or forwarding calls it in an unprotected mode, and it then allows the script to run. Essentially, Word behaves as if a new memo were being created, a situation where security wouldn't be an issue. The actual flaw, then, is a failure to distinguish between a user's own e-mail and his modifications to someone else's. ... »
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April 25, 2002 |
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Advanced Email Locator 1.3 has been RELEASED! |
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Advanced Email Locator 1.3 has been released on April 25, 2002.
New feature was added -- ability to connect through Socks5 proxy server.
Some changes in the program interface were made also.
AEL can detect the country of "Free email" server hosting now.
Advanced Email Locator provides a unique marketing advantage.
With AEL you can find out specific marketing information on your subscription
or mailing lists. This allows for a fast and easy geographical segmentation
analysis for marketers to capitalize on their customer base.
Learn more about AEL and download it.
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April 25, 2002 |
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'Spider death' email a web of lies |
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An email in circulation saying that nine women in Pretoria and Johannesburg died after being bitten by a spider is a hoax. The email claimed a report by a Dr Beverly Clark, in the Journal of the Medical Association (JMA), said the victims had died after being bitten by a "dangerous South American Blush Spider". It said the women's "symptoms" were fever, chills and vomiting, then muscular collapse, paralysis and death. Apparently a toxicologist discovered the women were bitten when they went to the toilets at restaurants in Johannesburg and Pretoria. ... »
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April 24, 2002 |
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ZixIt Launches Analysis Service to Assess and Manage e-Mail Security Risks |
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ZixAuditor(TM) service assists organizations in meeting regulatory compliance and ensuring the use of legally appropriate practices in using e-mail. ZixIt Corp. (Nasdaq:ZIXI), a global leader in secure e-messaging services, today announced it has launched ZixAuditor(TM), a unique assessment service that examines and analyzes an organization's inbound and outbound e-mail communications to identify regulated, high-risk, or proprietary content. ... »
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April 23, 2002 |
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Virus Update: F-Secure Maintains Level 2 Alert on Klez.H |
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Virus Update: F-Secure Maintains Level 2 Alert on Klez.H As Email Worm Continues to Spread Quickly in its Second Week. F-Secure Corporation (HEX:FSC) is maintaining a "Level 2" alert status for the Klez.H virus, which has been spreading around the world for a week. Klez.H is a mass-mailing Windows worm, which can generate massive amounts of e-mail traffic. Found in the wild on April 17 in various countries in Asia, the worm has been spreading globally, with infections reported especially heavily in the USA, UK and Central Europe. ... »
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April 23, 2002 |
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AOL E-mail And AOL Instant Messenger Service For AT&T; Wireless mMODE |
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America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, announced today the availability of AOL Mail and the AOL(R) Instant Messenger(TM) (AIM(R)) service for subscribers of AT&T; Wireless new mMode(SM). By providing easy access to AOL Mail and instant messaging from mMode capable wireless phones, wireless consumers can communicate and stay informed whenever they are in mMode. ... »
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April 19, 2002 |
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Annoying Worm Writer Wants Job |
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The latest virus to hit e-mail inboxes is little more than a slight variant of a year-old virus. But it's beginning to resemble never-ending installments of a lousy horror movie series with only minor plot variations. But antiviral firms are reporting that the latest variant of Klez is spreading rapidly, just as its most recent predecessor did just last month.
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April 18, 2002 |
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Napster Co-Developer Offers Anti-Spam Tool |
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Jordan Ritter, one of the developers of online music sharing service Napster, and software developer Vipul Ved Prakash plan to introduce anti-spam technology next month that reportedly goes further than other such technologies by making judgments about e-mail and learning patterns of spam. The developers claim tests of the technology, called Folsom, on e-mail networks containing 40 percent to 60 percent spam reduced unwanted messages to almost zero. They also said it blocks fewer legitimate e-mails than other technological solutions. ... »
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