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Lame spams of the day: another roundup

Robert Weiner

Adobe Systems Incorporated. Sender: support@rlweiner.com (also sent from sales1@rlweiner.com and Tagged@taggedmail.com). Sender: Willie Crawford [Willie@Acumlator.co.us] (also Lazy Cash System [LazyCashSystem@65.com]). An almost identical spam with Invoice_P350.htm Thank you for buying Adobe InDesign CS4 software.

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Top 10 Threats to Higher Ed Computer Systems

Robert Weiner

In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled “ Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students ,&# Jeffrey Young says. He then lists the following threats: #10: Spammers (&# attackers use college networks to help them send more spam&# ). #9: Tags: IT Management Security. No surprise there).

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Future of Tagging ??? You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. read_later,???

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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New phishing scam: Please Update Your Email Account

Robert Weiner

investigated a system wide security audit to improve and enhance our. Tags: IT Management Security Spam. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center i.e. homepage view. We shall bedeleting old email accounts which are no longer. active to create more space for new accounts users.we current security.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. rating items.

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New Threats Emerge for Online Security

Tech Soup

Apparently there are now "tech support scammers" who allegedly can contact you via voice and deliver a "fix" to your system, when in fact they are delivering more malware directly. Spammers are also becoming more sophisticated in targeting spam with recipient-relevant subjects based on geography or language.

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