LinuxLala’s Temple of Wisdom

I guess you can call this a prediction.
Doing rounds these days is musical spam. Unsolicited Commercial emails with embedded midi files that play as soon as you click on the email. Nice!
The mails originating from the far east have been termed as the Japanese Musical Mails. “Whilst the music itself is fairly harmless, it is [...]

This has totally amazed me. I logged in today to see the traffic my blog was attracting and lo-and-behold, right on top was “rapestory.linux-doc.org”. Blimey! That’s some serious adaptive work to get people clicking on the link. It’s a porn link of the perverted kind, ofcourse. linux-doc! How could they ever think of something like [...]

Well, almost. Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has opened their Spam Control Bill for feedback. The bill proposes that anyone who suffers because of non-compliant spam hasa right to sue the spammer. Wow, what a blow!
‘Harvesting’ for email addresses over the net can also be used as grounds for filing a case in the [...]

I am sure the answer from the blogger guys would be Eventually! Recently, many reports have claimed that google’s blogger is home to countless spam blogs. And if you, like me, have ever used the excellent Next Blog feature, you’d know, like me, that those reports aren’t lying.
Some good has come from all such reports [...]

There is no point reiterating the words as mentioned in this article, but I would like to stress on the fact that none of the words appear in any of the present day English dictionaries.
On the top of the list is ndsfrwudG, which I believe has no relevent meaning in the 21st century. It could [...]

The Federal Trade Commission had hoped for the impossible, when they wished that commercial emails be tagged as ADV. Proposed in the CAN-Spam Act, the FTC had thought that the tagging of unsolicited commercial email would make filtering easy.
From the article:
In its report, released in June, the FTC says that state laws requiring such labeling [...]

This is an article published today in the WSJ. It is a beautifully written piece with some good quotes and important remarks. The article talks about the splurge in the phishing attacks recently and the shockingly-fast rising number of people succumbing to these attacks.
The piece is full of information, which alone should help making people [...]

It’s better to be cautious of the mails you reply to. This article identifies the ways in which you may unsuspectingly provide your email address to spammers.
The first thing you need to understand is that spammers are not GOD. They may send you an email but they don’t know if it’s valid. To determine if [...]

The Spam Kings Blog is reporting that head of California-based iMedia Networks, Michael Lindsay, is number one at the Spamhaus list of the world’s top-10 spammers, replacing Alan Ralsky.
According to SpamHaus, Alan Ralsky is in cahoots with Michael Lindsay even though the latter has de-throned him.

Computer Associates, this past Tuesday announced they were aquiring the anti-spam firm Qurb. This follows the Feburary acquisition of Sybari by Microsoft.
CA plans to continue marketing the Qurb technology as eTrust Anti-Spam as well as bundling it in its eTrust Threat Management suite.
Once installed, Qurb builds a comprehensive list of approved senders by scanning [...]