Is spam causing greenhouse gas? Is spam causing green-house gas? That's what McAfee says in research findings that spam isn't only a nuisance; it's a danger to the environment. What's the carbon footprint of spam?...(Like I care)It's official: Carbon-footprint mania has flown past "getting to be a bit much" and landed smack in the middle of a cow patty (produced, of course, by one of those inscrutably oblivious bovine gas bags). Botnets: Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. The state of spam 2009, Part 2 Cloudmark CTO Jamie de Guerre: I think there have been several changes and a couple of events that happened in the past year that are interesting and will have an effect on how spam is sent in the coming year. The state of spam 2009, Part 1 Spam - not SPAM the luncheon meat (and you have GOT to visit the official SPAM Web site, which plays like a parody the Monty Python crew might have dreamed up) - is a dreadful nuisance, with estimates that 95% of all e-mail in the world now consists of rubbish. Periodically I look into the state of the spam to see how the war is going. The state of spam: An interview with Jamie de Guerre, Part 2 What does the future hold for fighting spam? My two-part interview with Jamie de Guerre, CTO of Cloudmark, concludes today. The state of spam: An interview with Jamie de Guerre, Part 1 Spam is a major operational problem for all professionals because of its waste of bandwidth; it is a significant nuisance even for non-professionals, contributing to computer-based crime and increasing doubts about e- ... Senators introduce texting spam bill Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill aimed at attacking a growing problem: unsolicited commercial text messages or mobile spam. Spam recovers from a knockout blow The Internet is now officially as bad as ever, at least as far as spam goes. Spam filters block legitimate e-mail, finds test Many antispam products still block an inconvenient amount of legitimate e-mail, a new test of leading products has suggested. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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