An Australian entrepreneur has made what could prove to be a major breakthrough in the fight against spam - an email 'congestion charge', which will effectively mean spammers wanting to get messages into your inbox will have to pay for the privilege.
Spam would be wiped out at a stroke, as would much fancy formatting and most of the boring legal disclaimers on the end of messages. But is more IT really the way to gain efficiency, or might less IT be the solution?
Computer users' inboxes continue to be littered with threats, nuisances and costly and unwanted emails - and there is no sign of this situation easing. Volumes of spam email are continuing to soar month-on-month and the levels of virus-infected...
A similar threat exists with viruses. According to messaging management companies, security threats propagating via IM networks, increased by 1,000 to 2,000 per cent over the last year. Spim - spam over instant messaging - is becoming problematic.
I see this as a real threat to usability online in the coming year. Spam surge emanating from the Far East This is a real problem for my user base and even the spam filter specialists are finding it hard to keep up.
These are the same threats as any other large network would experience. Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as...
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