Tag Archives: Fighting spam

Germany’s Ministry of the Interior is backing a new email system designed to reduce spam, and to offer email the same legal status as traditional postal mail.

Hotmail adds support for email aliases, but don’t confuse this with disposable email.

With 2011 just around the corner, let’s take a look at the top new year’s resolutions that can help make the new year a less spammy one: I will use a throw away address for website and software registrations. Registering …

Today’s post is a call to action…join my be embracing, and implementing SPF records, and using hard fails. You know you want to. You know you should.

October is National CyberSecurity Awareness month in the United States, and today’s blog post works right into that…by raising users’ awareness of how their actions contribute to systems security, you are also helping your users help you to reduce SPAM.

I make use of a pretty adequate spam filter, which is good enough that I rarely get spam in my mailbox.  With between 20 spam messages on a weekend to more than 60 on a weekday ending up in the …

According to an article on SecureComputing, spammers are scooping up Russian domains at an alarming rate. So far over 6000 spam domains have been registered. Two domain registrars, Naunet and Reg.ru (also known as NAUNET-REG-RIPN and REGRU-REG-RIPN) are responsible for …

Spam is  everywhere and it’s not going anywhere, but you can keep it out of your company’s inboxes by following  a few simple rules: Don’t use one address for everything. If you need to have your email address posted on …

BusinessWeek has a great article about the FTC and how they’ve evolved to become a fixture in the war against spam and online fraud. They have a server that holds over 314 million spam messages and receives over 200,000 more …

With so much spam choking email channels on the Internet–some estimates peg spam volumes at as much as 95 percent of all email traffic–you’d think they’d be more lawsuits against the perpetrators of the junk. That’s not the case, however, …