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> EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEEDED, APPLY WITHIN - SPAMCON Foundation Newsletter
1/16/2002 by Tom Geller
> http://www.spamcon.org/about/news/newsletters/021/opinion.shtml
>
> AS YOU PROBABLY GUESSED from the title of this article, I've made the
decision to move on from my position as SpamCon Foundation's Executive
Director.. Before you jump to any conclusions, here are the salient details:
>
> * The Foundation will continue, as long as someone qualified and capable
steps forward to take the position.
>
> * I'll be taking on the additional Board responsibilities of Secretary,
recently vacated by Tracy Kronzak's departure from the Board.
>
> * Nominations for the Executive Director position are open until 5pm
Pacific Time on 15 February 2002. See the Jobs page (URL below);
self-nominations welcome.
>
> <http://www.spamcon.org/about/executive-director.shtml>
>
> Please spread the word: We want to find the best person possible. If nobody
comes forward, SpamCon Foundation will close on 31 March 2002.
>
> SO WHY AM I LEAVING? Three reasons:
>
> 1) I'm a startup kind of guy. I'm good at creating first-stage systems for
businesses, but I know that others have the skills needed to get the
Foundation to "the next level".
>
> 2) Personal reasons. I've decided to focus full-time on the field I was
trained in: performing. I've been putting together the usual support materials
(headshots, videos, music demos) while my jazz standards band ("Les Crmes
Brles") has started playing a few gigs around town. If you're in the Bay Area,
watch for me!
>
> 3) Most importantly, the Foundation should have an injection of new
leadership and backgrounds to avoid the trap of being "Tom's project". It's
always been intended to be a more-stable counterpart than the dozens of
"hobbyist" antispam organizations in the world, but already I feel it's too
strongly identified with me. If it's to be truly representative of the
community, it needs to have direction from people with a variety of views.
>
> I'M PROUD OF WHAT we've been able to accomplish in about six months: See
the summary in this month's "SpamCon Foundation Status" report. Whoever
ultimately takes on this post will be coming in at an enviable time. They'll
be able to substantially determine the Foundation's direction for the future,
without having to mess with the tedious details surrounding startup. If our
situations were reversed, I'd jump on it.
>
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> C O M P A N I E S & P E O P L E
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> MESSAGING SOLUTION PROVIDER NAMES NEW CFO - Opt-in News 1/17/2002
> http://www.optinnews.com/news/showart.asp?DB=NewsTable&ID=962
>
> Critical Path names Laureen DeBuono, the company interim chief financial
officer since September 2001, as executive vice president and CFO, effective
immediately. DeBuono will continue to head the company financial strategy and
activities, reporting directly to William McGlashan, Jr., the company CEO.
>
> "Laureen has proven her skills as an exceptional CFO at Critical Path over
the past several months, and both her financial and operational acumen from
her experience continue to be of immense value to our company," said
McGlashan. "We now have the operational, financial and technical expertise
firmly in place to aggressively attack the market opportunity that lies before
us and build Critical Path into a sustainable, profitable business."
>
> DeBuono came to Critical Path with a track record with excellent
operations, financial and legal skills. As CFO and COO for ReSound
Corporation, a manufacturer of cutting edge hearing devices and communication
products, DeBuono developed and implemented a worldwide restructuring program
that helped the company realize $15 million in annualized cost savings,
improve the company's operational earnings loss to a positive 12% as a ratio
to sales, and pay down the company's long-term debt.
>
>
> *****
> TRAVELOCITY.COM PICKS SOCKETWARE FOR EMAIL MARKETING - List-News 1/14/2002
> http://List-News.com/articles/02january/20020114.html
>
> FORT WORTH, Tex. - Travelocity announced today it will use Accucast email
marketing software to create campaigns to deliver targeted information to the
more than 30 million registered members of its online travel service.
>
> "We needed a product that could easily integrate with a large customer
database and send an extremely high volume of customized emails to our
customers all over the world," said Richard Pendergast, vice president of
systems at Travelocity.com. "Accucast was a great choice for Travelocity.com
because of its scalability, international language capacity and ability to
interact with our database and other systems."
>
> Accucast, a product of Atlanta-based Socketware Inc., specializes in
customized, personalized email marketing campaigns for travel companies,
including Delta Air Lines and Swissotel. For more information, visit the
company Web site: <http://www.socketware.com>
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> H A R D W A R E | S O F T W A R E
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> BALTIMORE MIMESWEEPER GROUP RELEASES MAILSWEEPER FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE
2000 SERVER - Business Wire 1/15/2002
> MAILsweeper for Exchange 2000 enables organizations to effectively manage
internal e-mail threats to business and network integrity
>
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20020115460000060.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
>
> SEATTLE -- Baltimore Technologies (London: BLM), a global leader in
e-security, today announced the release of MAILsweeper for Exchange 2000, a
policy-based e-mail content security solution designed for Microsoft(R)
Exchange 2000 Server environments. This product enables customers to combine
the advanced capabilities and performance of Exchange 2000 with the most
comprehensive content security solution on the market.
>
> "Exchange 2000 provides a rock-solid foundation for communication and
collaboration. This next generation content security solution offers
incredible new capabilities due to its new architecture and integration with
Windows 2000, therefore enhancing reliability, scalability and performance.
With MAILsweeper for Microsoft Exchange 2000, companies will be able to build
and deploy a more customized solution to address their specific business
needs," said Kevin McCuistion, group product manager for Exchange at
Microsoft.
>
> MAILsweeper for Exchange 2000 enables administrators to define and enforce
policies on e-mail sent between individuals, groups, departments or to
theentire organization. For example, administrators can uniformly apply
antivirus scanning policies to all e-mail passing through Exchange servers or
establish policies limiting the distribution of large video files with the
exception of specific marketing promotions.
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> I N D U S T R Y
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> FEEDBACK: VANISHING SUBSCRIBERS, PART TWO - eZine Tips 1/16/2002 by Janet
Roberts
> http://Ezine-Tips.com/articles/management/20020116.shtml
>
> When you want to know more about dealing with bouncing email, ask the
people who earn their salaries by making sure their clients' email gets
delivered.
>
> In response to a reader's problem with a list host automatically dropping
bounced addresses, we heard from Lynda Partner, CEO of GotMarketing.com, and
Peter Mesnik, chief technology officer for iMakeNews.com. Both had thoughts
and advice both on automated bounce management and ways to keep a mailing list
clean:
>
> Lynda Partner:
>
> "We NEVER delete our bounced email addresses, and we often see the number
of bounced emails DECREASE in future campaigns. The customer should always be
able to decide if they want to delete addresses flagged as bounced or not. For
the sake of a penny a try, I'd want them included.
>
>
> *****
> POSTINI EXCEEDS 1 BILLION MESSAGES PROCESSED IN 2001 - Business Wire
1/15/2002
> Postini Discloses Analysis of Email Statistics Based on Email Management
and Protection Services
>
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20020115960000198.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
>
> REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Postini, Inc., the leader in the seamless delivery
of email management tools and applications functionality, today revealed that
it processed more than 1 billion email messages in 2001. With its
patent-pending SMTP infrastructure, Postini provides a unified console for
monitoring and tracking email message statistics and usage patterns across any
email installation. This position in the SMTP flow provides detailed
visibility into messaging characteristics and trends.
>
> The volume of email characterized as spam or virus infected email increased
dramatically in 2001. Spam volume increased by 39% over 2000 to an aggregate
27%. Postini identified and quarantined nearly 400 million junk email messages
before they reached customer servers. Postini enabled our customers to
eliminate the costs associated with receiving, processing, and storing over 2
Terabytes of spam.
>
> Where other solutions can only recognize spam messages that have previously
been cataloged, Postini's technology is based on a unique content processing
model. This in-line processing capability allows spam to be identified and
quarantined, regardless of IP routing information, even for unique messages
that have not previously been detected. Typical spamming techniques, such as
modifying sender ID, spoofing IP information, or adjusting message content, do
not defeat the Postini processors.
>
>
> *****
> SURFCONTROL OFFERS TOP FIVE TIPS TO HELP NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS COPE WITH
MASSIVE INCREASES IN SPAM - PR Newswire 1/15/2002
> Security Expert Provides Guidance in Protecting Network From Unprecedented
Flood of Unsolicited Commercial Email and Other Digital Junk
>
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20020115790000145.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
>
> SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Network performance and security experts at
SurfControl, the number one Internet filtering company in the global security
market, today announced the "Top Five Anti-Spam Tips" to help network
administrators cope with the recent sharp rise in email messages that
undermine productivity and deplete resources.
>
> The guidance comes in the wake of a holiday season that saw a huge increase
in the use of email for distribution of sales pitches. SurfControl tracks the
growth of spam and "e-risk" messages with its "RiskFilter" database, part of
the SuperScout Email Filter software. The RiskFilter database is a
constantlygrowing and updated Signature Database List of chronic email
messages that continue to circulate the Internet and populate email inboxes as
a plague on corporate resources. The RiskFilter offers users a simple point
and click way of preventing spam and other unproductive email from entering a
business's network.
>
> "Companies saw a huge increase in spam and junk email in the weeks leading
up to the holidays," said SurfControl's Vice President for Global Product
Development Kelly Haggerty, one of the pioneers in the development of network
security and filtering tools. "This kind of traffic can seriously pollute a
network, and there are a few simple steps systems managers can take to
alleviate many of the headaches."
>
>
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> L E G A L & P O L I T I C A L
> =========================================
> LOVE BUG SUSPECT OFF THE HOOK - AGAIN - Computer Weekly 1/16/2002
> Onel de Guzman, author of the Love Bug virus, has been cleared of all
criminal charges for the second time.
>
http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQSESS=0Z72F422&690REQEVENT=&CARTI=109259&CARTT=14&CCAT=2&CCHAN=22&CFLAV=1&CPAGEN=ArticlePage&CPAGET=-99999&CSEARCH=&CSESS=-99999&CTOPIC=
>
> The US Department of Justice (DoJ), through a resolution signed by
prosecutor Archimedes Manabat, recently ordered the dismissal of the motion
for reconsideration filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), said
Elfren Meneses, chief of the Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division at the
NBI.
>
> The NBI filed the motion in June 2001, almost a year after De Guzman's case
was first dropped by the DoJ, despite what the NBI said was strong evidence
against the suspect.
>
> "This would mean that De Guzman is off the hook once again," Meneses said
in an interview. "There's not much that we can do about the case. At least the
NBI has done its best."
>
> Upon hearing the news, however, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation
contacted the NBI through the American Embassy, seeking a copy of the
investigative findings on the case, Meneses disclosed. "This is a
manifestation of their interest in the case, but the NBI has no knowledge as
to what legal actions they intend to take," he said.
>
>
> *****
> PRIVACY GROUP SUES OVER DATA SALES - Computerworld 1/16/2002 by Jennifer
DiSabatino
> EPIC contends credit bureaus are selling personal records to IRS, FBI, and
other agencies.
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,80004,tk,dn011602X,00.asp
>
> The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit seeking the
release of information involving the purchase of individuals' private
information by U.S. government agencies from companies that sell personal
data.
>
> In a statement yesterday, the Washington-based privacy advocacy group said
it brought suit under the Freedom of Information Act after several agencies
under the Departments of the Treasury and Justice failed to provide EPIC with
information about contracts with private profiling companies. Those companies,
most notably ChoicePoint Asset in Alpharetta, Georgia, and Experian, the
Orange, California-based subsidiary of GUS, sell information on U.S. citizens,
including credit information, property records, state motor vehicle records,
and marriage and divorce data, to these agencies, the group said.
>
> The concern, according to Chris Hoofnagle, the EPIC attorney who filed the
lawsuits, is that these private companies--and ChoicePoint in particular--are
furnishing the government with information on individuals that may not be
regulated or monitored for accuracy.
>
>
> *****
> JUSTICE ESTABLISHES NEW ANTI-HACKER UNIT - CNN 1/15/2002
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/01/15/catching.hackers.ap/index.html
>
> ARLINGTON, Virginia -- The Justice Department formed a new cybercrime unit
Monday in northern Virginia to go after hackers, cyberterrorists and software
pirates. It is the 10th such specialized outfit nationwide.
>
> Six full-time federal prosecutors, including three who were hired using new
funding from Congress aimed at computer crimes, will make up the unit.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Hanly will lead the unit, which will investigate
crimes in Virginia's eastern federal district.
>
> Hanly prosecuted hacker Eric Burns, the Shoreline, Washington, teen-ager
known online as "Zyklon," who pleaded guilty to breaking into the White House
Web site in 1999. The White House Web site is run from computers in northern
Virginia.
>
>
> *****
> SEN. WELLSTONE RIPS QWEST'S OPT-OUT PRIVACY POLICY - Newsbytes 1/14/2002 by
Dick Kelsey
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173627.html
>
> Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., today urged federal regulators to require
Qwest Communications [NYSE:Q] to adopt an opt-in policy for gathering and
distributing customers' personal information.
>
> Wellstone called on Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Powell to
require Qwest to adopt an "opt-in" policy, obtaining customers' permission
before sharing their personal data with Qwest's business partners.
>
> The "opt-out" policy used by Qwest requires customers to notify the company
that they do not want their customer proprietary network information (CPNI)
shared. The procedure is not consumer-friendly, Wellstone said in a letter to
Powell dated today.
>
>
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> M A R K E T I N G
> =========================================
> AMR RELEASES EMAIL MARKETING STUDY - Opt-in News 1/17/2002
> http://www.optinnews.com/news/showart.asp?DB=NewsTable&ID=964
>
> A new AMR Research study offers insight for decisions such as whether to
host or license software through a Marketing Service Provider or Application
Service Provider. In addition, the report may help determine the viability of
a provider, such as its core products, management team, and ability to provide
vertical references.
>
> AMR Research recommends that before designing an e-mail marketing campaign,
companies should consider vendor selection, technology platforms, list
procurement, and various creative tactics.
>
> AMR Research interviewed several experts from e-mail service providers,
users of hosted and licensed systems, and marketing experts for insight into
the best practices in e-mail marketing today. The firm also conducted a web
survey of 50 marketing professionals that focused on their use of e-mail in
marketing efforts.
>
>
> *****
> ADVERTISERS LOATH TO COMMIT TO ONLINE AGENCIES: REPORT - Direct Newsline
1/16/2002 by Larry Riggs
>
> Advertisers are skeptical about forming long-term relationships with
agencies for interactive marketing, according to a study by Jupiter Media
Metrix.
>
> The study revealed that 37% of advertisers prefer to compensate agencies on
a per-project basis, while 23% favor paying a straight retainer.
>
> "Advertisers are ambivalent about the future of their agency relationships,
preferring project-based compensation during uncertain economic times,"
Jupiter senior analyst Marissa Gluck said in a statement. "As advertisers
respond to a dismal economic climate by slashing their marketing budgets, it
is not surprising that their approach to agency compensation reflects such
austerity."
>
> In addition, 34 % of advertisers polled believe their agency relationship
will improve as those agencies enhance their services. Just the same, 21% of
advertisers are unsure how their agency relationship will evolve, 27% want to
bring services in-house and 18% feel their agency relationship is transient
and based on cost rather than quality of service.
>
> Jupiter polled 45 marketing executives from different industries in
November.
>
>
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> S E C U R I T Y
> =========================================
> HOW TO PROTECT YOUR NETWORK FROM THE EVILS OF IM - ZDNet Tech Update
1/15/2002 by Wayne Rash
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2838782,00.html
>
> The fuss is over. AOL has plugged the well-publicized security hole in its
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and all's well with the world. Right? Well, not
exactly. The AIM filter fix ended up directing users to commission-generating
ads that put cash into the hands of fix creator Robbie Saunders. (This latest
issue has been resolved.)
>
> Though the main AOL security hole could have been serious if exploited, it
was handled in time, if only because AOL was forced into action. However, the
quick fix is hardly the issue, because it ignores the much larger issue of
software and services that are invited into your enterprise environment--those
you don't control, approve, or even know much about.
>
> THE PROBLEM GOES beyond AOL's AIM software. There are other
instant-messaging (IM) systems from Yahoo and Microsoft, for example.
Likewise, there are applications ranging from music sharing to meeting
planners to conferencing systems. They all exist for your convenience, but how
do you know whether they're secure? How do you know whether they collect
information from your users, and if so, what they do with it?
>
>
> *****
> THE GIGGER "UPDATE" WORM TRIES TO REFORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE - CNET 1/11/2002
by Robert Vamosi
> This JavaScript worm poses as a Microsoft Outlook upgrade.
> http://www.cnet.com/software/0-7760531-8-8443338-1.html
>
> Don't be taken in by Internet worm Gigger, which poses as a Microsoft
update. Gigger (js.gigger.a@mm) attempts to spread itself to everyone in your
Outlook Address Book, propagate via mIRC, and copy itself to computers
connected on a local network. Gigger then tries to delete all the files on
your hard drive the next time the computer reboots. Written in JavaScript,
this 17K worm uses the Windows Scripting Host to execute on infected systems.
Although there have been few reports of it worldwide, Gigger has the potential
to damage computers and overwhelm e-mail servers and currently ranks a 6 on
the CNET Virus Meter.
>
> Gigger arrives as e-mail. The subject line reads either "Outlook Express
Update" or has the e-mail address of the recipient. The body text says either
"MSNSofware Co." or "Microsoft Outlook 98." The attached file is always
mmsn_offline.htm.
>
> If a user opens the attached file, Gigger creates the following files in
the root directory:
>
> Bla.hta
> B.htm
>
>
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