Kane’s Computing World

The recent news about the theft of emails and other private and personal information from the Yahoo webmail account of Alaska Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has drawn new attention to security practices associated with webmail accounts. Gov. Palin’s account was not so much “hacked” as her identity was stolen by someone using publicly available [...]

 An email newsletter article from Cloudmark, makers of an effective subscription antispam service, lays it out: How Spammers Get Your Email Address You’ve been careful not to give your email address to anyone except your friends and colleagues, but you still get spam. How did the spammers find you? Even the most well-guarded email addresses [...]