David Quainton
Recent articles by David Quainton
Banks failing to tackle email phishing attacks
Jan 10 2005 4:53PM
Security
Spam study shows spam hits study
Educational institutions are under threat because they can’t deal with the amount of spam being sent their way. New methods of attack are hitting establishments with up to 11 million emails a day, and the poorer funded can’t afford the technology to stave off the attack.
Jan 10 2005 2:30PM
Security
Scammers prey on tsunami disaster fundraising efforts
Hordes of scammers are exploiting the Asian tsunami to prise money from email recipients, it has emerged. 419 scams and phishing attacks are being crafted to extort money from those wishing to help victims of last week’s disaster.
Jan 5 2005 11:56AM
Security
Google kicks worm into touch
Google has finally stopped the Santy worm dead in its tracks, thanks to lobbying from anti-virus vendors. The worm, which trawls Google for vulnerable versions of bulletin board software known as phpBB, had reached epidemic proportions by Tuesday night.
Dec 22 2004 10:32AM
Security
UK spam law - "completely ineffective"
As reported here on December 3 Britain’s first anti-spam law is one year old today, and not a single conviction has been made. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulation the Government has failed to bring spammers to task, and the situation looks unlikely to change soon.
Dec 14 2004 12:04PM
Security
Microsoft won't eat its own dogfood
Microsoft is failing to publish sender authentication mechanism SenderID records for its own domain, even though it originally proposed the standard and drove it through the IETF standards process before patent concerns lead to it being delayed. Emails from the company can instead by verified using the original Sender Policy Framework version 1.
Dec 8 2004 10:42AM
Security
Trojan poses as spam-hating screensaver
A trojan posing as Lycos’ “Make Love Not Spam” screensaver is threatening computers, it has been revealed. The news, the latest in the Lycos’ vigilante saga, will come as a further blow to the company after being lambasted by various industry pundits for it’s anti-spam efforts.
Dec 6 2004 5:06PM
Security
Public bodies not ready for new FoIA legislation
Dec 6 2004 4:24PM
Security
VPNs set the market on fire
The firewall and VPN business will be worth $843 million by the end of next year, according to a new survey. With hardware and software revenue increasing by 2 percent through 2004, projected figures for 2005 suggest growth will increase to 16 percent.
Dec 6 2004 3:45PM
Security
