The MyDoom virus appears to be bigger than SoBig. But for me the problem has not been MyDoom, but the dumb traffic it has created. MyDoom spoofs the From field in the emails it creates to spread, so that anyone receiving a virus-laden email will not know, in most cases, who it comes from. This… Read More »
A good piece from Thomas Crampton of the IHT on how bloggers inside the World Economic Forum at Davos have subverted the idea of behind-closed-doors discussions. Several delegates, including the excellent Joichi Ito, have been posting directly from the floor, or even the stage, to their blogs via Wi-Fi connections. Some have been posting video.… Read More »
It’s not my intention for loosewire to become a realtime virus news service, but this is a special case, so here’s more on MyDoom/Novarg, the worm that I’ve reported on before. Doom, it seems, is being prepared for the SCO Group, a company that sells Unix software and has been the focus of several Internet… Read More »
Further to my earlier posting, this MyDoom worm looks nasty. I’ve received three already in the past hour, all with different subject lines (or no subject at all), different attachments, but usually with the same content (‘The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.’ This could… Read More »
This new spam law, so far, is taking us nowhere. A new survey conducted by email marketing service Blue Sky Factory reckons that nearly half of email marketers aren’t sure whether the stuff they send out is compliant and more than half admit that they do not understand the new U.S. laws (called, catchily but… Read More »