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Nigeria Clamping Down On Scammers With Project Eagle Claw
10:00AM Chris Jacob | The awesomely named Project Eagle Claw is an effort to shut down Nigerian email scams and improve the nation’s image. Apparently the initiative is well underway — already officials have made 18 arrests and shut down 800 sites. More »
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Let’s Look At Credit Score Rankings By Email Domains
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | Ranking the highest according to a sample of 20,000 credit scores and their corresponding email addresses are BellSouth and Comcast, with Gmail trailing right behind. Reasonable enough, but what’s AOL doing anywhere but at the bottom? [Mashable] More »
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Gmail Integrates Handy Google Docs Previews
11:15PM Mark Wilson | Now, if you’re using Gmail and a friend emails you a Google Doc, you can display the document right in the email — no need to switch tabs. Just be sure to activate “Google Docs previews” in Labs. [GmailBlog via InformationWeek]
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“Got The Bob” Keeps You From Sending Emails To The Wrong People
5:00AM Adam Frucci | Nothing’s worse than realising you sent those pictures of you in the shower to mum instead of Mona. Trust me. Now, Gmail is here to help you out, making sure you’re sending emails to who you intend to. More »
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FBI Chief Is As Internet Savvy As Your Grandparents
10:20AM Sean Fallon | FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed himself as an internet newbie yesterday when he admitted to nearly being duped by an email phishing scam. More »
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The Most Popular Password Is 123456 (Just Like Spaceballs)
7:20AM Mark Wilson | I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. With the list of 10,000 email passwords that’s been making the rounds following Hotmail/Gmail/etc phishing, Bogdan Calin of Acunetix analysed the data for real-world trends. The results are shamefully funny. More »
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Gmail, Yahoo Users Also Caught In Web Mail Phishing Scam
12:40AM Danny Allen | As you may have heard, about 10,000 Hotmail passwords were leaked online yesterday, and that list only started with the letters A and B. At that rate, over 100,000 users could have been lured into giving their passwords to fake websites. Now the BBC says it’s seen a list on the same Website that had more than 20,000 email accounts — this time with addresses from Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and AOL. More »
Random Stuff
11:00AM Chris Oaten | An email came in the other day from the ninemsn people about emoticonworld.com.au and I kinda brushed it off. Yeah, yeah… emoticons. 10th anniversary of Windows Live… yada, yada. But then last night’s item about emo the meatspace emoticon surfaced and I thought to myself: “Self, a history lesson is in order”. More »
Revision. Emoticon History 101 :)
11:00AM Chris Oaten | An email came in the other day from the ninemsn people about emoticonworld.com.au and I kinda brushed it off. Yeah, yeah… emoticons. 10th anniversary of Windows Live… yada, yada. But then last night’s item about emo the meatspace emoticon surfaced and I thought to myself: “Self, a history lesson is in order”. More »
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Push Gmail Finally Comes To The iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile
2:40AM Adam Frucci | Apple hasn’t added push for Gmail to its Mail app on the iPhone, but Google has worked around that via Google Sync. All you have to do is set it up as a Microsoft Exchange account. At last! More »
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