Last Friday’s Asian WSJ, and the online edition(subscription only, I’m afraid), published a feature I’d been working on for a while: The digital divide. I focused on Newmont’s mine in Sumbawa, in eastern Indonesia, and the company’s limited success in…
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“We have a specific campaign for IT professional awareness. I think it’s important that they know their legal responsibilities when handling illegal content in the workplace”

View more Voices columns Read, hear or watch interviews with a galaxy of tech thought leaders conducted by Joaquim P. Menezes, online editor, IT World Canada. via ITWorld Canada
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This week’s WSJ.com column (subscription only, I’m afraid) is aboutwhat I call The Hole — the absence of decent devicesin terms of size, weight and functionality between the smartphone and the notebook. To me it’s not just about cramming everything…
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“Even under defendant’s more restrictive interpretation, however, messages sent through MySpace.com fall within the definition of ‘electronic mail message’ sent to an ‘electronic mail address,’”

Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims … via The Register
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See Spamsuite for the various documents. In short, search warrants are being issued on various properties associated with Robert Soloway in pursuit of the cash he withdrew from various bank accounts.

Among the places searched were a public storage unit in Washington, property in Minnesota,

Items to be seized include big piles of cash, business records, any correspondance about his businesses, phone books and telephone records, computers and disks, two rolex watches

Interestingly enough, the search also turned up 76 men’s coats, jackets and shirts, 27 pairs of shoes, 24 pairs of sunglasses and other retail items.
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Flooded site with a million messages

Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims Wallace flooded MySpace with more than 1m come-ons related to gambling-related sites.
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Flooded site with a million messagesSanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims Wallace flooded MySpace with more than 1m come-ons related to gambling-related sites.Original post by Dougal and […]
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See Spamsuite for the various documents. In short, search warrants are being issued on various properties associated with Christopher William Smith in pursuit of the cash he withdrew from various bank accounts.

Among the places searched were a public storage unit in Washington, property in Minnesota,

Items to be seized include big piles of cash, business records, any correspondance about his businesses, phone books and telephone records, computers and disks, two rolex watches

Interestingly enough, the search also turned up 76 men’s coats, jackets and shirts, 27 pairs of shoes, 24 pairs of sunglasses and other retail items.

The Motion for Preliminary Order of Forfeiture is the most interesting read, as it details some of Rizler’s assets and the lengths he went to to hide them. The tale includes Rizler stuffing bundles of cash into cereal boxes and hiding them in the basement of his mother’s boat house.
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“Meanwhile, with spammers always looking for new ways to bi-pass anti-spam solutions such as attaching PDF files, the industry is struggling to keep up.”

PineApp survey highlights growing threat from image based spam 50% of organisations not coping with image-based spam 24 July 2007: A survey by PineApp of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found … via Total Telecom
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Usually, I’m in favor of billions of anything. But that’s not the case with spam. via Fool.com
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“Meanwhile, with spammers always looking for new ways to bi-pass anti-spam solutions such as attaching PDF files, the industry is struggling to keep up.”

PineApp survey highlights growing threat from image based spam 50% of organisations not coping with image-based spam 24 July 2007: A survey by PineApp of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found … via Total Telecom
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Usually, I’m in favor of billions of anything. But that’s not the case with spam. via Fool.com
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“Meanwhile, with spammers always looking for new ways to bi-pass anti-spam solutions such as attaching PDF files, the industry is struggling to keep up.”

PineApp survey highlights growing threat from image based spam 50% of organisations not coping with image-based spam 24 July 2007: A survey by PineApp of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found … via Total Telecom
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Just weeks after we started getting PDF spam, this morning I received my very first DOC spam. The document spam talks about the usual “I am Barrister Musa Adams a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to MR. Harry Edward Cook a national of your country, who used to work with CADBURY NIGERIA LIMITED, on […]
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Source: Computer World Sophos today released its global statistics naming and shaming the Dirty Dozen spam relaying countries with the United States and China sharing the number one position from April to June … via Hackinthebox.org
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MX Lab has intercepted the first Excel based stock spam messages! These messages appeared today in the afternoon local Belgian time. via Mxlab.be
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Ex Spamfrica, semper aliquid novi. PDF spam is only a few weeks old, and the stock spammers are already trying something new. Check your mailbox for the first wave of stock spam sent as Excel spreadsheets (.xls).
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