Seth’s Blog: If you don’t want to get email…don’t send email.
Wireless Week: CTIA Rallies Against Spam, But Controversy Continues - “Wireless carriers already block up to 200 million texts per month but many times the senders cannot be located and brought to justice without government help, the industry lobbyist group said.”
Twitter Notices "Invasion of the Spammers" - Twitter appears to finally be getting serious about the twinned challenges of improving deliverability and no longer being a vector for spam, following what will surely prove to be a common pattern among social networks.
SC Magazine US: Cybersecurity and the presidential campaign -
Barack Obama said (among other things) “I’ll declare our cyber-infrastructure a strategic asset, and appoint a national cyber adviser who will report directly to me. We’ll coordinate efforts across the federal government, implement a truly national cyber-security policy, and tighten standards to secure information – from the networks that power the federal government, to the networks that you use in your personal lives.”
(via circleid)
In a related article, Kevin Werbach writes that “John McCain is poised to announce his great insight: tech policy isn’t worthy of attention from the President of the United States” — which has sparked an interesting conversation in the comments.
And in yet another related article, this one from the Washington Post (via circleid & fergdawg), it appears that the Bush administration’s proactive “Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative” is both highly classified and extremely expensive.
Network World: Romainian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects -
“…the suspects were accused of stealing identities online, in apparent phishing or auction-fraud schemes, and that they had taken US$640,000 from non-Romanians. Several U.S. Web sites, including eBay, were targets of the fraud…”
(via circleid)
Economic Times: Ybrant Digital to buy Scott Richter's Media Breakaway - “…a Hyderabad-based digital marketing solutions firm is mounting a bid to acquire ‘Spam King’ Scott Richter’s Media Breakaway for about $100 million…”
Washington Post Security Fix: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers - a new study shows that URL redirectors — often used to track outgoing links from blogs, email, or other sites — continue to be a major security hole
Terry Zink's Anti-spam Blog: The problem of backscatter, part 12 - Don't make the problem worse by contributing to it - Terry Zink wraps up his series on backscatter with a good list of ways to avoid scattering back
Seth’s Blog: If you don’t want to get email…don’t send email.
CAUCE North America: Good news from three spam cases in the U.S.