The User

I’ve just discovered the new Norton website! Just sweet!

They went in a completely new direction instead of the old boring one which kinda rusty and stuffy.

Check it out here.

The first recognizable e-mail marketing message was sent via Arpanet on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC – a now-defunct computer-maker.
In 1993 it was named spam by Joel Furr – an administrator on the Usenet chat system. the inspiration came from a Monty Python sketch set in a restaurant. The sketch ended with everyone in the restaurant, encouraged by a troupe of chanting Vikings, shouting: “Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam.”

Statistics suggest that more than 80%-85% of all e-mail is spam or junk and more than 100 billion spam messages are sent every day.

Read an interesting article about this topic on BBC here.

BBC exposes Facebook identity security breach with the help of a team of experts from Click. By developing a software that would steal the users identity and the identity of their friends, like name, personal address, date of birth, employer and other. The application could be disguised as a game or a quiz and can be innocently sent from one user to another.

Check out the story here.
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