Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
One of the great problems that any system manager has to deal with is capacity. In a strange way we all aspire to have capacity problems…in my opinion capacity problems come hand in hand with success and it is very rare that you have one without the other.
If you work ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The emailcloud network processes plenty of data every day. Over the past few months we have been trying to make some of this data public so that other people can use it and last year we published some of this data in the form of a map of worldwide spam locations. ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
A few weeks ago I wrote a simple article about why I think that 'Downtime is Unacceptable' when you run an IT service. I noticed that after around 15 seconds that my article was number one on Google.com for the search phrase! Being really surprised I posted a really quick ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Alleged spammer Lance Atkinson (left) and his lawyer Darrell Kake (right) leave the Federal Court in Brisbane after the trial. Photo: Scott Casey"][/caption]
Almost every country in the world has drafted legislation that penalises spammers. We feel that these laws are not strong enough as they focus ...
Posted in Email (spam and Malware) | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
We have all heard about the Advance Fee Fraud scam emails that have been going around for the past 10 years. This scam has been around for generations...I remember getting a fax version of it over 15 years ago!
The Scam operates as follows: the target receives an unsolicited fax, email, ...
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