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Conan finds a lovely button
March 08 22, 2010 |
Conan O'Brien is a cheeky chappie. The charming, former chat show host, with over 500,000 followers on Twitter, chose to follow a young Michigan girl at random - his only ‘following'.
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Hackers prey on morbid fascination
March 01 22, 2010 |
We've probably all read the terrible story about the SeaWorld whale handler who was pulled underwater and killed by the whale she trained, Tilikum, in the Orlando marine mammal park.
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Power up your laptop courtesy of Google
February 22, 2010 |
Could it become reality? Could Google really be powering up your laptop, hairdryer and bacon slicer in the next few years? Google Energy has just been granted authority by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to “buy and sell electricity in bulk like any other utility”.
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Google Launch Catchy-Named Service
February 16, 2010 |
I'm sure there are a few hundred puns that have already been attributed to Google's new Facebook-meets-Twitter service, Google Buzz, so I'll avoid the obvious for a change.
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Plot Twist in e-book Drama
February 8, 2010 |
Many thousands of years ago there were cute little symbols etched in walls. Then there were wise words engraved in tablets of stone from which generations - until sometime in 1968 - derived their morality. After that came parchment and the pens with feathers coming out of them. And then came books.
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Big iPhone – But Without the Phone
February 1, 2010 |
To make up for last week's missing blog (due to travel commitments), this will be an extra special double-fun blog! There won't be double the words or twice the information – it's just … double-fun.
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China Crisis for Google
January 18, 2010 |
China - land of rickshaws, paddy fields and great walls but maybe soon to witness the end of the Google Dynasty.
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Sharing is the New Private
January 11, 2010 |
The more data that Facebook and Twitter (along with search partners Google and Yahoo) try to get you to share, the louder the howls of disapproval seems to get from its user base.
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Chrome Shining Bright in Browser Wars
January 4, 2010 |
In our last blog of 2009 we addressed the slowly-evolving browser landscape with the Opera-inspired shifting of the “ground rules”. Microsoft Internet Explorer’s grip on the market has been loosening for several years and now it’s not just Mozilla Firefox who is in opposition.
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Opera Slay MightyMMMM Microsoft
December 21, 2009 |
The Opera web browser - with its small but loyal following - is relatively inconsequential to market leader Microsoft. So it’s perhaps somewhat ironic that it is the Norwegian developer’s antitrust complaint that has prompted the multinational giant to promote rival browsers inside the Windows operating system.
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Facebook Produce a Tool
December 14, 2009 |
Facebook gave its users 'absolute control' over their privacy with the launch of a new tool last week to much fanfare / complete indifference (delete as applicable). The tool will now give members the opportunity to micro-manage who can see every piece of content that they update.
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Cross-be the Bing Users
December 7, 2009 |
How many of us working in IT stare at our screens for ages just before we push the button that will make changes to a technical environment? You know the drill: read the name of the server or database we’re logged in to, repeat it to ourselves in order to confirm that it is definitely a test environment and not production we're about to screw with.
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EBay Fined for Selling Stuff
December 2, 2009 |
EBay’s bottom line is already feeling the squeeze from Bonanzle, Amazon, uBid and other marketplace competitors. News that they have been slapped with a $2.5m fine for continuing to sell certain perfume brands in France is not going to have made life any easier for the auction site.
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Howlin' Mad Murdoch is a Crazy Fool
November 23, 2009 |
A few weeks ago we revealed that the head of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, wanted to stop Google "stealing" news content from his media organization's news sites. It's his view that people should pay for content that costs money to produce - a view that flies in the face of the evolution of the Internet during the past decade.
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Dolly Does Webslices
November 16, 2009 |
Internet Explorer 8 was released to the usual fanfare this year as Microsoft attempted to halt the steady decline in popularity of its Internet Explorer franchise. Recent figures show that the market leader has dropped from a market share of 91.27% in December 2004 to one of just 64.64% last month.
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Will Computers Soon Come with Credit Card Slots?
November 9, 2009 |
Who doesn't love Rupert Murdoch? Well I think probably quite a lot of people.
The media mogul - chairman and managing director of News Corporation who own the likes of 20th Century Fox, Fox News, BSkyB, MySpace, The Sun, The Times, the New York Post (seriously we could go on and on) – has Internet users scoffing at his plan to charge for access to online news content.
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Hackers Do Job on British Jobs Site
November 2, 2009 |
The Twitterverse is a strange place. It's a digital landscape where ordinary folk like you and me (unless of course this is Megan Fox reading as I heard you're a big fan of the blog) occasionally collide with celebrities as diverse as MC Hammer, Serena Williams, Tim Berners-Lee and Taryn Southern.
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Hackers Do Job on British Jobs Site
October 26, 2009 |
British newspaper The Guardian had their jobs website hacked on Friday night with reports that up to half a million users may have had their information compromised.
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Google Showing Spine in Digital Books Debate
October 19, 2009 |
A few hundred years ago I'm pretty sure that if someone was wanted by authorities in another country then he or she would be thrown in the cargo hold of a steamship with a sticker on their head (impossible to remove without warm, soapy water) saying “wanted for some crime or other”.
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Google Showing Spine in Digital Books Debate
October 12, 2009 |
We visited the Google Books story before – the Google project that aims to digitise millions of manuscripts including out-of-print and hard-to-find books.
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The Price is Right for Drew
October 5, 2009 |
Two accused Romanians, Petru Bogdan Belbita, 25, of Craiova, Romania, and Cornel Ionut Tonita, 28, of Galati, Romania were arrested on fraud charges earlier this year and extradited to the United States for trial last month.
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Google Celebrates Its Latest Random Birthday
September 28, 2009 |
In spite of incredible success in the technosphere, the masses still haven't yet launched a backlash at Google in the way that they have at Microsoft in the last 15 years (mind you, Google don't charge you $320 to run an operating system).
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Yahoo! Take Security Seriously
September 21, 2009 |
I thought I'd take a break from Microsoft and Google this week to see what's going on at Yahoo! Remember them? They were one of the leading Internet innovators about ten years ago – until Google came along. Struggling to compete in their core business they recently hopped in to bed … with Microsoft. Ok. I couldn't even make it to the end of a paragraph without mentioning them.
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Users Feast on Low-cal Facebook
September 14, 2009 |
Much excitement in the Internet world (well in my house at any rate) as Facebook finally launched their much-vaunted “Lite” site. Eliminating the fat of the main site it was initially aimed at users in developing countries who have narrowband connections.
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Gmail Goes Slightly Down
September 7, 2009 |
More bother for Google last week as Gmail suffered significant downtime. The email service – which is used by millions of businesses – was unavailable for over an hour on Tuesday.
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Tennis Players Courting Trouble
August 31 , 2009 |
The entertainment industry isn't the only one struggling to come to terms with how to operate in the uber-connected 21st century.
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Bloggers on Alert
August 24 , 2009 |
Unlike mediums such as newspapers, television and radio, the world of blogging has always considered itself beyond the reach of libel laws.
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Bing Goes the Internet
August 17 , 2009 |
It seems odd to cast anything Microsoft do as "David" in a technology battle. But that is the role they have been forced to take up in search as Google’s Goliath continues to steamroll everything in it’s path for the best part of a decade.
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Twitter Staff on the Dos(s)
August 10 , 2009 |
It’s obvious what the big news of the week was: Kevin Federline has piled on the pounds. There is an upside for the former Mr Britney Spears though as weight-loss supplement producer EP-2 are set to pay him $2.5m to endorse their product.
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Microhoo!
August 3 , 2009 |
The long-expected search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo was announced on July 29th with Microsoft having full access to the Yahoo search engine for ten years using the Bing search technology…and Yahoo will sell premium ads across the two sites…and they will share revenue…I think.
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Virus Update Stymies iTunes
July 27 , 2009 |
How many social networks does one need to be on to stay in touch with friends? Being on Facebook seems to be sufficient for most but the odd time there might be someone on MySpace or Bebo who hasn't made the move yet. So perhaps you'd keep a presence on one or both of those sites just to make sure you're in contact with everyone.
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Gmail to the Rescue
July 20 , 2009 |
You have to admire Google for coming up with fresh ideas all the time. Last year they took advantage of available technology to ensure that all emails from ebay.com and paypal.com passed a DKIM or DomainKeys authentication test on Gmail. If they didn't then the email would not even appear in the spam folder.
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Tagged - You’re Signed Up for It.
July 13 , 2009 |
Maybe - like a student doctor who skips class a lot - my finger is not on the pulse like I think it is, but I’d never heard of Tagged until this week.
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Napster II: The Pirate Bay Sold
July 6 , 2009 |
With the founders of The Pirate Bay sentenced to jail in April, the future of the file-sharing site has been unclear. Well Swedish gaming firm Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has taken a punt on the entertainment industry's public enemy number one by paying almost $8m for it.
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Spammers Prey on the Desperate
June 29 , 2009 |
It has been a while since we looked at the Symantec monthly spam report but, with the rise of Twitter, it seems germane to re-visit it. And it is Twitter where the main focus is with the security company identifying two particular spam campaigns: Make Money Fast (MMF) and dating spam.
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Green Technology Comes Out in the Wash
June 22 , 2009 |
Just this minute I have filled my washing machine with a week’s worth of dirty laundry, all too aware that gallons of water will filter through my filthy clothes, accumulating more damage to the environment in the process.
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A fight with the Opera
June 15 , 2009 |
There seems to be a rather tetchy argument breaking out between Internet browser "Goliath", Microsoft, and Internet browser "David", Opera.
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Not hip to be Squared
June 08 , 2009 |
I don’t know why software companies try to rile people up so frequently. Twenty years ago, when the Internet was the exclusive play-toy of the army and a few colleges, you could get away with everything.
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Yahoo! online project failures pile up
June 01 , 2009 |
I'm sure some people think that setting up a successful social network is an easy business for large organisations. You spend lots of money building a website, set up a help@ email address with automated...
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Tvviter Tries to Make Twit Out of You
May 25 , 2009 |
The planet is full of the “uninitiated” – a polite term for people who might otherwise be considered gullible. Sadly these are the very people who crooks prey on and frequently manage to defraud.
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eBay Scammer Invests Badly
May 18 , 2009 |
At 57 years of age you would think that Derrick Lee Swantz would know better. The Colorado native has been sent down for an oddly-numbered 52 months (why not just four years?) for swindling $259,000 from eBay buyers.
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Pirate Bay Judgement Biased?
May 11 , 2009 |
There was a mixed response to the conviction of the four men behind file-sharing site The Pirate Bay a few weeks ago with some feeling that a custodial sentence and huge fines were completely over-the-top.
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Send in the Goats
May 4 , 2009 |
I don’t think Barack Obama is going to be too happy to see US cybersecurity described as “childlike” and “broken”. The US President, who has just completed 100 days in office, ordered a review of America’s cyber defences back in February.
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Internet Nearly Broken
April 27, 2009 |
Are we reaching a critical mass? Is this the end of the Internet?
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Captivity for the Copyright Crooks
April 20, 2009 |
The entertainment industry was buoyant last week after a Swedish court found file-sharing website The Pirate Bay guilty of breaching copyright law. The four defendants (and my spell-checker is gonna go crazy here) - Fredrik Neij, 30, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 24, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, 30, and Carl Lundström, 49 – were ordered to pay over $3m in damages and spend a year in jail.
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Internet to trump TV by 2012
April 13, 2009 |
We touched on the Conficker (aka Downadup) superworm a few weeks back and you will be bemused to know that the tedium continues. This week security experts are telling us that the long-running malware saga is set to continue.
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Google Want to Tweet but Twitter Flip the Bird
April 6, 2009 |
According to a report on April 2nd, Google are in late stage negotiations to buy Twitter for a number in excess of Twitter’s own £250m valuation. But a source later claimed that founder Evan Williams would not even sell the company for $1bn.
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Spy Game to be Unleashed on Facebook
March 30, 2009 |
There has been outcry from computer users to the news that the UK government are to set about monitoring communications on social networking sites. The proposals would involve information been kept on who is contacting who on sites like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo. Crucially the content of the actual communication is not to be kept.
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BBC Sends Experimental Spam
March 23, 2009 |
They say that the law does not apply equally to everyone and that looks set to be proven after the British Broadcasting Corporation (aka, the BBC) appeared to flagrantly violate the UK Computer Misuse Act.
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Online Fraud Hits Internet Creator
March 16, 2009 |
If you were a mean-spirited person you might think the news that the Internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been a victim of cybercrime to be a fair dose of karma.
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The Latest Google Apology
March 9, 2009 |
First they shut down the Internet. Then Gmail died for a bit. Now Google Docs has suffered a security lapse that removes some of the silver lining from the “cloud computing” concept.
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Military Launch Unfriendly Fire at Google
March 2, 2009 |
Thanks to Google I can now acquaint myself with the positioning of British military might simply by logging on to Google Maps.
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Head In the Clouds Computing
February 24, 2009 |
As Microsoft, Google and several other bit hitters of the technology world try to convince us that cloud computing is the way forward, the last thing they needed was a service blackout. That’s exactly what happened to Google this week.
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Walking the Plank
February 16, 2009 |
I’d love to be the guy who sits around all day thinking of clever names for the latest virus threats. I mean I am the guy who sits around all day but that’s not to say anything productive ever comes from it.
Today the Brandmail Solutions blog is bought to you by the term “clickjacking”, a malicious technique employed by cyber criminals to trick you in to downloading malware from what seems to be an innocent Internet link.
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Wikipedia Goes Authoritarian
February 9, 2009 |
We've all wasted many a work hour on Wikipedia (many, many hours) checking out information as diverse as the peak chart position of Karel Fialka's classic 1987 hit “Hey, Matthew” to the origins of the Renaissance.
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This Blog May Harm Your Computer
February 2, 2009 |
There is only one place to start this week and that is with the more than amusing news that Google shut down the Internet on Saturday. Because of what Google are calling “human error”, users of the search engine found every single site flagged with the warning “This site may harm your computer” and then met with this warning screen when they clicked through anyway.
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A Monster Hack Job
January 26, 2009 |
Job websites are always doing great business. When there’s a boom everyone logs on every two weeks to try and find a company who will overpay them by an even greater amount than their current employer. When there’s a recession everyone is panicking and uploading half a dozen CVs to three hundred different sites.
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. It’s not.
January 19, 2009 |
I was shocked to read today that a new Internet worm called Downadup is spreading exponentially. I looked up “exponentially” (expressed in terms of a designated power of e, the base of natural logarithms – that didn’t help) and then read on through the article. Apparently 6.5m new infections in the last four days have brought the total number of infected PCs worldwide up to 9m.
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Apple to Give Us Five Fingers
January 12, 2009 |
The good people at McAfee have been beavering away on their January Spam Report for a while now, producing a colourful pdf with some excellent line and area charts.
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Swoopo!
January 5, 2009 |
A Silicon Valley startup called Swoopo has turned the auction model made popular by eBay on its head. They charge you 75c to make a bid on any item and when you do the auction price is increased by 15c and the auction time by 20 seconds.
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Exploitation!
December 22, 2008 |
Developers at Mozilla and Microsoft headquarters have been getting to the office early, skipping lunch, having coffee fed to them intravenously and sometimes power-napping overnight on makeshift bedding made from heavy-bound UNIX manuals.
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Happy Birthday…Mouse?
December 15, 2008 |
First up is Symantec’s warning that “Christmas” is a spam keyword this month. I know. Can you believe it? Like, what are the chances!
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The MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Security Report Awards
December 8, 2008 |
Good evening! Welcome to the MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Security Report Awards. I’m your host for the evening, David Jay O’Brien.
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Srizbi is Back! For a Bit
December 1, 2008 |
When network provider McColo was taken offline a few weeks back it led to a drop in worldwide spam. It was predicted that it wouldn’t last forever and, as expected, the botnet in question bounced back for a very short time.
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Online Fraud is Recession Proof
November 24, 2008 |
If you thought that the much-discussed recession will affect all areas of “e-commerce” you'd be wrong. The Financial Times reports that internet fraud is becoming a “recession-proof economy”. A report from Symantec estimates that online fraud is potentially worth a staggering $7bn.
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Did You Hear There Was an Election a Few Weeks Ago?
November 17, 2008 |
Well, so say researchers at the University of California. They ran a test to see just how much money they could make by running a controlled spam campaign. The brilliantly named Stefan Savage took control of over 75,000 hijacked machines from the Storm botnet and sent out 350 million email messages in 26 days.
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McCain is Dead! Long Live McCain!
November 10, 2008 |
Last Tuesday was a victory for democracy (Obama) and so on. But once again spammers and fraudsters found ways to try and hijack the moment. The BBC report that security threats built on news and developments from the momentous day have aimed to illicit personal information from people.
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It’s the US Election Special…
November 3, 2008 |
Welcome to the US Election special where we’ll be reviewing some of the stories that pop up on Google when you enter the words “election” and “spam” in to the search window. With the election on November 4th just hours away, palms are sweatier than a mouse who has inadvertently turned up at the 2008 Cat World Boxing Championships. Let’s get cracking.
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The Russia House [of Spam]
October 27, 2008 |
I love our Russian cousins (sociologically speaking rather than biological – but if I had Russian cousins then I would love them every bit as much as my Irish or British ones). But I tell you something, they really need to get the spam thing sorted out.
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Crime Does Pay, Unsurprisingly
October 20, 2008 |
I may have used this headline before but unfortunately I seem to be all too frequently reporting on lucrative scams.
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From Cyberspace to Outer Space
October 13, 2008 |
Before she suggested she could see Russia from her bedroom window or was unable to name a single newspaper in the world, it probably seemed like a real achievement for David Kernell to infiltrate the Yahoo webmail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Apple to Pull iTunes Plug?
October 6, 2008 |
American music publishers have issued a request for an increase in artist royalties to 15c per track from 9c per track – an increase of 66%. This has prompted Apple – reasoned protector of all things profitable - to threaten closure of its successful online music store, iTunes.
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Everybody’s got a price
September 29, 2008 |
The things that some people do for money - David Blaine impersonated a bat for 60 hours, Dustin Diamond sold t-shirts (and his last remaining scrap of self-respect) to prevent foreclosure of his home and 60% of people will hand over their computer password to get their hands on a £5 department store voucher.
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Phishing is the (Brad) Pitts
September 22, 2008 |
At a time when unemployment lines are longer than they’ve been for decades, some of the world’s largest financial institutions are filing for bankruptcy and billions have been wiped off stock market valuations, news reaches us that Brad Pitt is the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Internet.
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Black Holes and Apple’s Revelations
September 15, 2008 |
When musing over what stories to include in this week’s blog (bonus points to anyone who picks up on my clever musical reference there), there was one obvious contender for the headline act. But in the end I decided that Lance Armstrong didn’t need any further publicity and have plumped for a more obscure tale about Big Bangs, black holes and atoms.
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Browser Wars!
September 8, 2008 |
There's a new browser in town and his (or her) name is … Chrome.
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The Cost of Democracy
September 1, 2008 |
It’s heating up in US politics with the Democratic National Convention come and gone and the Republican National Convention kicking off today. Who will it be? Obama? McCain? Barr? Nader?
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Free Speech Lives!
August 25, 2008 |
It doesn’t take much to impress me (seriously, I’m a big fan of eighties pop music). So if I were a retailer and a couple of guys in uniforms with ID badges and a little toolkit turned up and told me they were servicing my PIN card device, I’d probably believe them.
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You’ve Got Jail!
August 18, 2008 |
Trend Micro are warning that spam emails alerting computer users about the credit crunch are already circulating. Inevitably the infamous Storm botnet is responsible for these in a trend that is as tiresome as it is threatening.
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How Not to Make Friends With the US Military
August 11, 2008 |
The Financial Times reports on British hacker Gary McKinnon is to again appeal his extradition to the US. I reported on McKinnon - who infiltrated a US military network seven years ago - at the end of June.
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May the X-Force Be With You
August 4, 2008 |
IBM’s X-Force security division may not have the raw fury of Wolverine or the magnetism of, erm, Magneto, but they proved they are a force to be reckoned with as they unleashed the results of their latest cyber-threat survey.
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No Mail, We’re iPhone Users
July 28, 2008 |
In a surprising piece of news it seems that the iPhone 3G - Apple’s impressive-looking but feature-lacking device – is vulnerable to phishing attacks. I know, I know. Who’d have thought it?
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Spam! D’oh!
July 21, 2008 |
Are you the sort of person who adds a cartoon character's email address to your chat program because it appeared on TV? If so then perhaps you too were fooled by the spammers who are now using Homer Simpson's original email address, revealed in the episode “The Man Who Knew Too Little” in 2002, to infect your computer.
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Inside Man Gets Nine Years Inside
July 14, 2008 |
Hot on the heels of the detection of hackers Gary McKinnon, Danielle Duann and Jon Paul Oson comes news that former HSBC worker Jagmeet Channa has been jailed for nine years for trying to steal $141m from the bank.
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Spammed Persistently All Month
July 7, 2008 |
Anti-virus software company, McAfee, offered free PCs to 50 volunteers across 10 countries who agreed to answer all the spam messages they received in a sort of electronic masochistic exercise.
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Get Your Finger Out, Boys!
June 30, 2008 |
We talked about botnets before when we reported on how rampant the Srizbi botnet had become. Now The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has released a set of guidelines developed by its members to combat the threat of botnets and spam.
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Is This the Way to Kalamazoo?
June 23, 2008 |
In the week that MySpace released their new overhauled website - i.e. they shifted some boxes around to make room for their advertisers – they were cleaning up in court again.
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What’s This Got to Do with the Price of Corn?
June 16, 2008 |
The global nature of phishing scams becomes apparent when you read about how British scammers turned their attention to the fairly remote island of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean nearly 20,000km away.
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Spam is Dead! Long Live Spam!
June 9, 2008 |
MessageLabs disappointed the eternally hopeful amongst us by announcing that spam levels are back at highs not seen in over a year. Spam mail accounted for 76.8% of all email in May 2008.
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Linked In but Clued Out
June 2, 2008 |
If you thought it's only the uninitiated who falls for phishing scams, think again. LinkedIn, a networking site for intellectuals who want to do more mature stuff than listen to 50 Cent and upload photos of themselves binge-drinking, is now a target for phishers.
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Capital Letters and Exclamation! Marks
May 26, 2008 |
The tiresome chase of Yahoo! by Microsoft is almost as tiresome as the fact that my word processor automatically capitalises the letter that immediately follows “Yahoo!”. Despite selling zillions of Xbox consoles and, um, Zune music players, Microsoft still lags way behind in the online advertising market.
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Open-relay, Brought to You by Google
May 19, 2008 |
Pressure on at Google as the brilliantly-acronymed Information Security Research Team (InSeRT) discovered a flaw in Google's previously highly-regarded spam and phishing filter.
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The State of Spam
May 12, 2008 |
How long before the US adopts its 51 st State: Spam, capital city, Phishville. A State which is over run by zombies, employing many address harvesters in local industry and administered by Mayor F Raud.
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The Phisher Kings
May 8, 2008 |
I mentioned last week how text message spam was becoming more than a nuisance for mobile phone users. Well, a new survey shows that two-thirds of UK users have been the victims of mobile spam and phishing attacks.
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Google Explain this New-fangled Phishing Threat
April 30, 2008 |
No one is impacted by phishing more so than the financial sector. Apacs, the UK payment association, have revealed that reported attacks on UK consumers have more than doubled in the first quarter of the year at more than 10,000.
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Last Week in the News (4/13 ~ 4/19)
April 21, 2008 |
The first article of note comes from MediaPost's Email Insider. This article discusses the various techniques that senders use to bring across their branding in the subject line. This is particularly timely as Brandmail Solutions is going to be at the Email Insider Summit down in Florida next month. We hope to see some of y'all there.
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Last Week in the News (4/6 ~ 4/12)
April 14, 2008 |
Our first article brings us the subject of this week’s blog: War. The concept is one that comes up pretty often in the rhetoric of email security companies. “Spam ‘cold war’ set to continue.”
It’s an interesting concept. Are we actually fighting a war?
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Last Week in the News (3/23 ~ 3/29)
March 31, 2008 |
TechNewsWorld brings us our first article, which I'm choosing because it has an awesome headline:
“Teach a Man to Phish and He’ll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime”
I bet that headline had it spelled as “Phools” before it went to editing.
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Last Week in the News (3/16 ~ 3/22)
March 24, 2008 |
Welcome to the first Brandmail Solutions "Last Week in the News" blog post. Each Monday, we'll discuss a few notable articles from the past week. These articles will touch on topics relevant to the email sender and ISP communities. Some topics of note will be phishing and spamming, email authentication, branding, online advertising, email statistics, and others.
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