Spam filtering on the cheap for your domain's email
A little over a year ago I was faced with a spam filtering problem, but it's not what you might expect.
Jeffery Battersby | 19 Jun | Read more
A little over a year ago I was faced with a spam filtering problem, but it's not what you might expect.
Jeffery Battersby | 19 Jun | Read more
The website 4Chan is infamous for birthing Anonymous--and more recently the major alleged iCloud hack that exposed the private photos of several celebrities. But some who frequent 4Chan, it seems, have nobler intentions.
Is Apple's iMessage the new favorite tool of spammers worldwide? A widely-quoted recent article written by Wired's Robert McMillan suggests it is, even going so far as to claim that iMessage "is being taken over by spammers."
Marco Tabini | 23 Aug | Read more
While the scope and power of the Italian Mafia fades in the United States, it is still a pervasive force throughout many part of southern Italy. In fact, the problem of organized crime in Italy is seen by many as both a root cause and exacerbater of that nation's economic woes.
Evan Dashevsky | 05 Nov | Read more
Two encrypted communication service providers are turning to you for help in building the next-generation of secure email services. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison and Silent Circle recently began a Kickstarter initiative to help fund the development and roll out of the first Dark Mail clients.
Secure email provider Lavabit is coming back from the dead for a brief time to give users a chance to recover their data, after abruptly shutting its doors in August to protest what the company considered intrusive data requests from the U.S. government.
What's your worst nightmare about your own cybersecurity? How about being contacted by a stranger who proves he has nude photos of you taken on your own PC without your knowledge or consent?
Hayden Dingman | 11 Oct | Read more
BitTorrent, the company, continues its push to prove that the BitTorrent, the protocol , isn't just for online piracy anymore. The company's latest product tease is a new instant messaging service predictably dubbed BitTorrent Chat.
For the last several years, the National Security Agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of Americans using a program called PRISM--which tapped directly into the servers used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others.
Mark Hachman | 07 Jun | Read more
Yahoo officially put the old interface for Yahoo Mail to rest Monday.
John P. Mello Jr. | 04 Jun | Read more
Oracle released Java 7 update 11 (Java 7u11) on Sunday following a warning from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) advising users to disable the software due to a serious and previously unknown security vulnerability. Even with the available fix, CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is still advising users to disable Java on their systems unless running the software is "absolutely necessary."
Microsoft says it is investigating a possible bug in Internet Explorer that allows others to follow the position of your mouse cursor on screen, even if IE is minimized.
Daniel Ionescu | 14 Dec | Read more
Privacy in America is being transformed in many ways -- the intersection of your personal identity and your online activity is one example.
Christina DesMarais | 10 Dec | Read more
Microsoft has disabled the option for users to reset their Skype passwords after security experts uncovered a serious flaw in the software that allowed anyone who knows your email address to hack your Skype account.
Daniel Ionescu | 14 Nov | Read more