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  1. QuintonB

    POPI to render no-spam list useless

    No-spam list for SA rendered useless? The Protection of Personal Information Bill will render the national opt-opt register for direct marketing moot
    • QuintonB
    • Thread
    • consumer protection act (cpa) direct marketing association of south africa (dmasa) headline lance michalson protection of personal information bill (popi) spam tobias schönwetter trustfabric
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  3. jes

    SA e-mail spammers named and shamed

    SA e-mail spammers named and shamed ISPA has updated its Spam Hall of Shame, naming and shaming South Africa’s largest email spammers and address resellers
  4. jes

    Killing spam in SA: POPI

    Killing spam softly: POPI in South Africa The Protection of Personal Information Bill could effectively make “direct marketing” without permission, or spam, illegal in South Africa
    • jes
    • Thread
    • consumer protection act (cpa) electronic communications and transactions (ect) act headline protection of personal information bill (popi) spam tobias schönwetter
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  5. uncapped_shady

    Create SPF record to include Mweb's mail relay servers

    Hi all, As the heading states, I need to create a SPF record on my DNS that will include Mweb's Mail relay servers as I use SMTP.Mweb.co.za to send all my email and I have been bombarded with spoofed Spam mails coming either from myself or one of our domain users. Let me give you all background...
  6. jes

    Suspect arrested for largest cyber attack in history

    Suspect arrested for largest cyber attack in history A Dutch citizen has been arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history
    • jes
    • Thread
    • cyber attacks cyber crime cyber-attack cyberbunker ddos dos loic low orbit ion cannon quicknews spam spamhaus
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. D

    Gadgets - Telkom Phone required with the following features.

    My Wife is going crazy with the number of spam calls on our Telkom line, so I'd appreciate any advice regarding locally-available gadgets or phones that have the following features: Copied from a SlashDot forum post: Microsoft released a 900MHz cordless phone back in late 1998 that had all the...
  8. H

    Esquire please explain

    Why was I added back onto the mailing list? :mad: I shouldn't have to create a thread about this, let alone two threads... You have my details from the last attempt to unsubscribe.
  9. jes

    Cyber attack of unprecedented scale slows global Internet

    Cyber attack of unprecedented scale slows global Internet Spamhaus alleges that Cyberbunker is behind one of the largest cyber attacks in history, resulting in global Internet slow-downs
    • jes
    • Thread
    • cyber crime cyber-attack cyberbunker ddos dos loic low orbit ion cannon spam spamhaus
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. jes

    Turkish govt. agency caught faking Google webpages

    Turkish govt. agency caught faking Google webpages An agency of the Turkish government deployed a deceptive version of some Google web pages, possibly to monitor activity by its employees
  11. J

    SMS spam campaign gets UK residents massive fine

    Spammers fined $700K for SMS spam campaign Mass text message campaign gets UK residents fined
  12. D

    Unsolicited Emails - Pandemic

    There is a serious pandemic on the go in regards to Unsolicited emails - especially from some dying member in some foreign country with some crazy amount of money to be inherited. I'm sure MWEB (my ISP) can be clever enough to filter these mails as SPAM as i'm receiving up to 3 a day...
  13. J

    Twitter spam growing

    Warning: Twitter malware on the rise Twitter users may be vulnerable to malware attacks through direct messages
  14. fanusj

    Is WhatsApp leaking contact info ?

    I received an email from a "trusted" friend a couple of days ago inviting me to a new social network called Twoo.com . Upon opening the link to the website, it gave me the impression that I was already registered on this website and listed some of my contacts on the page offering to invite them...
  15. Z

    Request for South African Spam Trap addresses

    We are looking for South African domain owners who are willing to donate a single spam trap address which we can use to catch spammers harvesting. The spam trap addresses will not be advertised anywhere nor would there be any auto responders. Its sole function would be to sit and wait for spam...
  16. jes

    How to spot a spammer

    How to spot a spammer New initiative, called ZA Spam Spotters, aims to name and shame spammers on social media networks
  17. QuintonB

    SA spam and malware stats July 2012

    SA email spam percentage revealed Symantic has released the latest numbers on spam email statistics for July 2012
    • QuintonB
    • Thread
    • active cyber security email spam phishing south africa spam spam symantic symantic.cloud intelligence
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Networking and Security
  18. QuintonB

    Phishing: half of PC users don't recognise scams

    Phishing: 50% of users don’t recognise scams Study shows that around half of PC and mobile device users can’t distinguish between a legitimate and fake email or message
  19. S

    How to spam South Africans - or How Uniforum fails us yet again

    Register a domain with Uniforum. Host a site somewhere dodge with generated text and plenty of outbound links to a variety of other dodgy sites. Add it to all the search engines - or link to it from indexed sites. Do not pay for you domain. After 4 months, your domain will be suspended for...
  20. werfie

    SPAM!!!

    Ok, so for the last couple of months, I've been on a tirade against spam I receive. Is has been quite a war, but slowly but surely everything is subsiding, from adding myself to the National Opt Out DB, to threats, to public name and shame, hissy-fits the works, I think I'm winning and the spam...
  21. QuintonB

    Top spamming countries in the world

    Top spam relaying countries in the world One in two spam messages sent from Asia, while South Africa is low on the list of spam origins for April-June 2012
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