You are a proud owner of a blog or business site or a portfolio showing expertise and work, peoples should be able to contact you, what would you do? keep and hyperlink in plaintext format there ready to be engulfed by spam bots or create a contact form with little bit of php coding..! Or do entirely new thing like inserting your email into an image.

What to do? if you hosting server dont have good spam filtering software Chinese will bombard you daily with 100s of junk and mails with malicious codes, of course they can be deleted but some condition it can be disastrous when some naive is using email account from your server who can by mistake or unknowably open those emails containing exe files. Read the rest of this entry »

If india is pivot point for circulating pirated content, using illegitimate cooy of software free and downloading lots of media. Chinese boys are trying to learn the art of hacking, through phishing and spam mails.

If you have your personal email address like john.doe@example.com which is not hosted by popular email services like Gmail, hotmail or yahoo most probable that you are a victim of email spam. Actually Gmail spam filters are so smart that Chinese spammers are unable to reach normal public.

They usually include doc or exe files as a email attachment if that is tried to run your computer will be infected by spyware..! I hope they will also be trying to send XSS attacks where malicious scripts are included in the text body of email. So opening those email itself is dangerous. If you are using risky email clients that dont not parse email body before displaying them it can be hazardous.

It is logical  to think that they use spam bots to do this and not manual, otherwise it doing this boring and disappointing job so ruthlessely is not a human can do. Occassionaly they will hit something in the mud.

Suppose you are the administrator of companies server containing websites, and critical information resource about company, if you are use webmin and multiple users are accessing email through it there will be some users who can click spammed message or open doc file. So its better to information all email users and make sure that you are using spam filter script such as “spamassassin”

There was a time when peoples had to entirely depend on books for any information in their research, studies or their projects because most information is provided in the forms of books or papers, now the situations is very much different in todays world where billions of web pages easily searchable through Google and provides you exactly what you looking for in a very short form. Twitter has even  way of sharing information through micro-blogging concept. This article will try to discuss are, books/ebooks media still relevant ? will they loose grounds completely in future? Read the rest of this entry »