When a Friend “Sends” You Junk Email

December 9, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

One of the main weapons of organized crime on the Internet is the use of junk email, also called spam. Hackers use spam for a number of purposes such as selling counterfeit products (medicines, particularly) to steal your personal or financial information, or to infect your computer with spyware and malware. This malicious software can then hijack your computer and your Internet connection to help propagate itself.

Signs an Email is SPAM

October 27, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

We all get email. We all get junk email. The term that we use is SPAM email. In modern usage, we think of this as the punch line of a “Monty Python” routine. No, I will not sing the “Spam” song for you. The reality is that the term comes from an incident related to the so-called “Robert Morris” worm of 1988. Imagine a piece of Hormel canned meat thrown at the blades of a fan. What comes out the other side?