Friday, July 17, 2009
Twelve Percent of Email Users Have Actually Tried to Buy Stuff From Spam
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has?
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has?
Congress is a tech-savvier place today than it was when Edward Amoroso, AT&T’s chief security officer, started making trips to Washington more than 20 years ago.
Back then, he says, he would discuss virus threats at length before a lawmaker would raise his hand. “You’re expecting some question that might impress you, and they’d ask, ‘Can you tell me what a virus is?’”
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