"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"

"Over the last week, I've talked to some of those who participated in the HBGary hack to learn in detail how they penetrated HBGary's defenses and gave the company such a stunning black eye—and what the HBGary example means for the rest of us mere mortals who use the Internet."

"FireEye's formal effort to shutdown this botnet stared last night. The research team here worked in multiple directions simultaneously. The purpose was to work against all the fallback mechanisms so fast that bot herders wouldn't get a chance to counter react."

"Now, I love jokes that tackle the difficult subject of stereotypes as much as the next person but I spied an interesting footer after the final joke: “SEND THIS TO SMART WOMEN WHO NEED A LAUGH AND TO MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT !!!”. I decided to test her sense of humour and see what she could “handle” by responding with the following..."

"Screenshots of emails purportedly lifted from this account - which carries the address "gov.palin@yahoo.com" - were then passed to Wikileaks, and Wikileaks shared the stash with world+dog."

"The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, se

"We are studying the spread of two chain letters that were frequently forwarded by email over approximately the last ten years. .. including the network structure and patterns of transmission in time and location"

"Contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs for free."

"Your post advocates a (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam."

"Spamming IPs per ASN detected by spamshield.org: Last 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes."

"A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are. Meanwhile, image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006, according to antispam company Borderware."

"The hardest thing I have to do every day is to decide what to ignore."

"todd... no more.. omfg we are SO busted.. fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK. everything was PERFECT until their night noc ran a reverse udp traceroute back to one of the hosts we had set up. after that, straight DOWNHILL."

A collaborative anti-spam system based on hashes of naughty mails.

That IBM research study that takes a new look at e-mail.

Observations on a flirtatious email that got forwarded around the world. Plus some guidelines on how to do it without looking like an idiot.

Convert RSS feeds to e-mail.