December 19th, 2008
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Jordan Robertson in The Associated Press –
A new study by Cisco Systems Inc. found an alarming increase in the amount of personalized spam, which online identity thieves create using stolen lists of e-mail addresses or other poached data about their victims, such as where they went to school or which bank they use.
Unlike traditional spam, most of which is blocked by e-mail filters, personalized spam, known as “spear phishing” messages, often sail through unmolested.
Cisco’s annual security study found that spam is growing quickly — nearly 200 billion spam messages are now sent each day, double the volume in 2007 — and that targeted attacks are also rising sharply.
The spam messages that scare me the most are those that seem to be sent by my own e-mail account! It’s already becoming impossible to separate machine generated spam from human generated content. I wonder how sophisticated spam will become in a few years.
December 19th, 2008 |
Posted in Internet, LinkBlog
| Tagged with Associated Press, Cisco, Jordan Robertson, Personalized Spam, Spam, Spear Phishing |
December 2nd, 2008
My blog was mentioned as a source in a Associated Press story on the role of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The story was reproduced in several newspapers including Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, Business Week, Fox News, New York Times and Salon, amongst others.
Here is the full text of the Associated Press story (AP has very graciously waived off the reproduction fees) –
Bloggers provide raw view of Mumbai attacks
By SAM DOLNICK – 1 day ago
NEW DELHI (AP) — When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city’s landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.
Blogs and social networking sites like Twitter and Flickr buzzed with eyewitness accounts from India’s financial capital, providing some of the first photos of the besieged targets and serving as a forum for pleas for updates on friends and family.
Photos posted on Flickr just 90 minutes after the attacks had been viewed at least 110,000 times by Sunday.
Twitter users, who simply tagged their comments “mumbai,” traded information at a rate of 50-100 posts a minute in messages that were sometimes wrong, often fragmented, but always instant.
December 2nd, 2008 |
Posted in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Noteworthy, Press, Social Media
| Tagged with Associated Press, Blogging, Bombay, Business Week, Citizen Journalism, Flickr, Fox News, Hindustan-Times, Huffington Post, Media, Mumbai, New-York-Times, Salon, Social Media, Terrorist Attacks, Twitter |
