Monthly Archives: May 2007

How to Prevent Employees from writing or copying to a USB Drive

May 17, 2007 – 10:15 am

One of the biggest security challenges we see today is people with USB flash drives walking in, pluggin into a computer and walking out with data. See how a simple hack can prevent people from having write access to a USB drive without the need for any expensive solutions

By Ajit Gaddam | Posted in Code, Security | Comments (1)

A Secondary Email Address has been added to your PayPal account :Spam Email

May 2, 2007 – 6:32 am

This is a new form of Spam Email I am seeing. In this email, apparantly a seconday email address has been added to my Paypal account. This email could definitely jump out for most people as most of us have a secondary email address which we enter when we sign up in case we forget [...]

By Ajit Gaddam | Posted in Spam | Comments (0)

The First Spam Email sent out by Gary Thuerek

May 1, 2007 – 2:56 am

However, lets go back into the ages, May 1, 1978 to be exact to learn about the first spam email ever. On this day, 29 years ago, Gary Thuerek, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation sent out the first spam email to more than 400 people with mail they did not correspond to. And yes, the email was send in all CAPITAL LETTERS.

By Ajit Gaddam | Posted in Spam | Comments (0)