Google, Yahoo sued for preemptive reading of email to serve ads
Google and Yahoo have been sued in the state of California for intercepting emails and serving ads based on keywords in those emails before they’ve reached the inbox of the intented recipients. Such is...
View ArticleUpdated: Botnet hits Android smartphones, sends spam from Yahoo accounts?
Compromised Yahoo accounts have been used to send out spam by a botnet recently. In this case it’s not a ‘regular ol’ botnet’ living on zombie computers, but one operating out of Android powered...
View ArticleUS Senate votes to extend FISA Amendments Act for five years
The FISA Amendments Act, which has been in effect since 2008, has been extended for another five years by a US Senate vote. The vote turned out to be 72 to 23 to extend the FISA Amendments Act for five...
View ArticleTo prevent phishing scams, banks are collecting special TLD domains
Scammers will have a harder time trying to do phishing: banks are picking up new type top level domain names (TLD) to prevent attacks. In the land of email, phishing scams are a common sight: your bank...
View Article16 million German email addresses stolen, including passwords
The BBC has reported no less than 16 million German email addresses stolen, and account passwords stolen as well by hackers. The hackers infected the computers of the victims which in turn registered...
View ArticleGerman anti-stress law in the making that bans work email and phone calls...
In Germany, it’s already common at a few employers to not receive any work email and/or phone calls outside office hours. Companies that have enforced this in the past years include BMW, Volkswagen and...
View ArticleMicrosoft rejects handing over emails stored overseas
PCMag reports that Microsoft rejects handing over emails stored overseas in Ireland. A New York judge ordered the email data to be handed over to the US government, while the data is stored in Ireland....
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Email insight: How to keep your email address as secure as possible
There’s been a rise recently in whole databases of email addresses being breached, stolen and blatantly posted on the web. Sometimes it was a specific hack to harvest addresses from ESPs, because the...
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It is not ok to start mailing an old list…ever
We’re back after about a month of much needed time off! Full of new ideas, experiences and more it i’s now time to return to the writing board. First up I’d like to talk about sending mailings to old...
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EA goofs up big: sends Battlefield 3 email to unsuspecting people
Imagine being a big company, let’s say Electronic Arts (revenue: $3,8 billion last year). Imagine launching Battlefield 3, and wanting to inform the correct audience about the game. Surely you have a...
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