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Backscatter Spam Gums up E-Mail Boxes

E-mail users worldwide are being buried in a blizzard of bounced messages caused by spammers.  Dubbed "backscatter spam," this latest fad is clogging e-mail accounts and slowing internet boxes to a crawl.  Click below to see the full article.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1590573/backscatter_spam_gums_up_email_inboxes/index.html

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Quit Chasing Your Mouse: Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Why use your mouse if using your keyboard is faster? Save time with these shortcuts.

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Eight Etiquette Tips for Wireless Devices

Technology changes so quickly, but so often the rules of etiquette change as well. Take e-mail etiquette for wireless devices for example...
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX102533521033.aspx
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Sophos Spam Report reveals massive surge in malicious spam
Sophos has released the results of its investigation into the latest spam trends and revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the third quarter of 2008. The figures show an alarming rise in the proportion of spam emails sent with malicious attachments between July - September 2008, as well as an increase in spam attacks using social engineering techniques to snare unsuspecting computer users. Learn more about this, and other developments from the world of spam, in this detailed online and video report.
http://www.sophos.com/spamreport

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UHCL Spam Statistics for October
 

Total E-mail Received

19,573,454

Total Spam

19,328,443

Total Accepted

245,011

 

 

% Spam

98.75%

% Accepted

1.25%

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Will Hackers Make the Apple iPhone an iPh0wn?

Graham Lee, one of Sophos's Apple Mac developers, believes that the iPhone may make the Apple Mac OS X operating system a more attractive target for hackers in future. Learn more about his theory in this guest blog posting.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/11/03/guest-blog-will-hackers

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UHCL Spam Statistics for November, 2008

Total E-mail Received

10,497,871

Total Spam

10,276,961

Total Accepted

220,910

 

 

% Spam

97.90%

% Accepted

2.10%

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