Don’t be fooled by fake New Zealand earthquake relief spam
All too predictably, after the recent earthquake in Canterbury, New Zealand, spammers are taking advantage of people's natural kind inclinations and sending out spam for fake earthquake relief organizations. If you do want to send something, send it through one of...
BBC World News Facebook Account Hacked
Sadly, it can happen to anyone. Poor passwords, or clicking on an errant link can end up with something like this on your Facebook account. There is, of course, no such tool, although the landing page at http://valcreepers.tk/ will try to convince you otherwise....
Yes, People Still Care About Email Spam
Just over a month ago, we posted an article entitled “Do People Still Care About Email Spam Anymore?”. Part of the reason why people might not care anymore, according to this article, is that email has become passé. With so many other new ways to communicate, why even bother with email?
I don’t really want to stay in touch on LinkedIn
Imagine my surprise (I imagine yours to be similar), when whilst sitting around watching t.v. on a cold Sunday afternoon I was fiddling with my new iPad, and decided during a commercial to cross-check my gmail contacts to my LinkedIn contacts.I was shown a short list...
‘Official Limewire Replacement’ Scamware
A friend alerted me to a piece of spam he just received with the subject line "Can't Use Limewire? We Have Your Replacement" It includes links, presumably to downloads of some sketchy software, at 20hugeupdates.info (the site is down at the moment). The...
Where Every Phisher Knows Your Name
Spear phishing is the unholy love child of email spam and social engineering.
It refers to when a message is specifically crafted, using either public or previously stolen information, to fool the recipient into believing that it’s legitimate.
Do People Still Care About Email Spam Anymore?
CAUCE obviously still cares about email spam, and always will, but does anyone else?
The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care
We suspect that the number of dangerous security violations is larger than any of us know is growing. You are advised not to sit “in hope that Saint Nicholas would soon be there”.
C-28 Receives Royal Assent
By Shaun Brown: It's been a long time coming, but Canada finally has an anti-spam law. Bill C-28, the law with no name, was just passed. First introduced in April 2009 as C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act, it died when parliament was prorogued in...
C-28 The Law of The Land!
VICTORY! It’s been a long time coming, but Canada has an anti-spam law, and one, which sets a new world standard, and a tough, but fair, opt-in protocol for everyone in North America who sends commercial email and other electronic messages.Yesterday, The...
Canadian Anti-spam Bill C-28 Goes to senate Committee Tuesday Dec. 14
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS NOTICE OF MEETINGTuesday, December 14, 20109:30 a.m.Room 2, Victoria Building 140 Wellington Street Clerk: Keli Hogan (613-993-9021) (Televised live on PTN) Webcast of Senate Meetings :...
Déja-Vu All Over Again! C-28 Goes to Senate Committee
C-28 finished second reading in the Senate yesterday, and has been refered to the Standing Committee on Transport & Communications for review.
