Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams.
New anti-spam was introduced into the House of Representatives today that allows for penalties of up to AU$1.1 million per day for sending spam, and Senator Alston has called on the United States to follow suit with similar legislation.
Just pause before you forward that e-mail joke or petition to your friends and colleagues. You will probably find you are straining the relationship.
A Queensland government department's spam-filtering dragnet has snagged large numbers of genuine users and reignited heated debate over use of e-mail blacklists.
Chain letters generate more heat under the collars of e-mail users than other forms of spam, including e-mail pornography, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Western Sydney.
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Just pause before you forward that e-mail joke or petition to your friends and colleagues. You will probably find you are straining the relationship.
Managed properly, e-mail filtering software can reduce the risks spam brings to your network. How can you tune your filter so it stops spam without choking off enterprise e-mail?
Frustrated with the combined costs of lost productivity, virus cleanups, and e-mail monitoring, it's very likely that many companies may soon be taking a "just say no" approach toward employee requests for Internet access.
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