Newsletter Archives

• Wonder why I don’t use Microsoft Mail and the Outlook email service?

  Posted on April 4, 2017 at 10:17 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Last time I checked my watch, it was 2017. Last time I looked at my test machine, tied to a very old @outlook.com account, here’s what I saw:

  

  Could somebody tell me how, in this day and age, a spam message like that could make it all the way to an @outlook.com address, break through, and get displayed in Windows 10 Creators Update’s Mail application?

  Sorry, folks. I’ll take Gmail any day of the week.

  Windows News Gmail, Outlook, spam

• World-class spamming operation River City Media exposes their OWN data with bad backups

  Posted on March 6, 2017 at 11:41 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Steve Ragan at CSO has the breaking story:

  Faulty Rsync setup exposes River City Media’s entire operation… Nobody would knowingly give their email address to spammers, so they have to be tricked into it. Usually, there is some kind of offer for a ‘free gift’ in exchange for giving up an email address and personal information. The fine print of these offers allows the company to share their address with their ‘partners’ which ends up also being their partner’s partners, and their partner’s partner’s partners, until every spammer on the planet has their address

  Fascinating, well-reported story of 1.37 billion (with a “b”) leaked records.

  Expect to hear reverberations from this for months.

  Thx to @Microfix

  Other River City Media, spam

• Spam catchers catching spam better

  Posted on May 31, 2013 at 23:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The spam thing is getting better, slowly, but there’s one little twist.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other spam

• Spammers getting better

  Posted on July 25, 2012 at 21:45 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Filters getting worse.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other spam