The Navy had to take one of its websites offline after Internet surfers found they could access confidential Navy databases.
And the Bank of the West mistakenly exposed the e-mail addresses of over 3,300 of its customers when an employee put the addresses in the “To” line of an e-mail rather than the “BCC”
Since 1998, the Federal Trade Commission has requested Internet users to forward unwanted spam to it for investigation. The agency now receives over 70,000 forwarded e-mails a day. What does it do with all of them?
Have you received an e-mail inviting you to download an E-Card from FriendGreetings.com? If so, don’t. When you attempt to download the e-card, the site tells you that you must first download a small program — but included in the licensing agreement is acknowledgement that you are consenting to e-mail all the Contacts in your…
For the second time in two months, scam artists have tricked PayPal users into sharing credit card information and passwords.
Clever spammers are now creating junk mail that masquerades as an alert from your network administrator. Tricky, tricky….now you don’t even have to open your e-mail program to get spam.
Anti-spam program SpamNet, which I previewed in Issue #82 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, has been having some problems the past week, causing waves of spam to be sent to its customers.
I can’t believe they finally caught somebody. Five Nigerians, a British man, a Spanish woman, and a minor have been arrested for scamming over $36 million in a Nigerian e-mail con.
The FBI has posted the 20 most serious security vulnerabilities affecting both Windows and Unix systems, according to a CNET article.
