A couple of days ago someone hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account… … her personal e-mail account, not her official Alaska-government one. It was a Yahoo! account that she used for both personal and government business. The hacker has posted an account of how he or she hacked into the account. Magic? No, the hacker [...]
If you’ve got a Hotmail, Yahoo or Google account you’ll probably of come across “captchas” before — the pictures of distorted text that you have to decipher and type into a box when you create an account. This is a device to prove you’re human rather than a program signing up for an account from [...]
This article describes Non-delivery reports (NDRs) & Delivery Status Notifications in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. It is an abstract of Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 284204 Non-delivery reports (NDRs) are system messages that report the delivery status of a message to the sender. The messages are a subclass of a general message [...]
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning on the dangers of “vishing”, similar to phishing, claiming that instances of the scam are increasing at an unnerving rate. Alert Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) January 17, 2008 VISHING ATTACKS INCREASE Are you one of many who have received an [...]
E-mail spam, also known as “bulk e-mail” or “junk e-mail,” is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. “UCE” refers specifically to [...]
This article contains a list of possible SMTP & POP error codes that may be returned by the Microsoft mail clients when trying to send/receive email: Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) Errors ——————————————– ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION ———— ————- 0x800CCC60 Invalid response. 0x800CCC61 Unknown error code. 0x800CCC62 Syntax error returned. 0x800CCC63 Parameter syntax incorrect. 0x800CCC64 Command [...]
Open Outlook Express Click on the Start button in the bottom left corner of the screen. Now move the mouse up so that the cursor rests on the word Programs, or All Programs if you’re using Windows XP. Then move the cursor along the new list that appears until it rests on the words Outlook [...]
Spam is a daily nuisance for all of us. It doesn’t matter whether you’re at work or unemployed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Company owner of a multinational or if you’re a work at home parent – spam affects us all. There are dozens of progams available for combatting unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam). [...]
