E-mail deletion attacked by Beith
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An order for civil servants to delete old e-mails could lead to crucial information being destroyed, a senior MP says.
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Richard Thomas comments on a "funny little PHP 'virus'" that he's noticed coming to him via emails:   Got an email that claimed to be from my host, it used a generic return address and talked about security upgrades and such and how due to new policy to help keep a secure data center I was required to upload and run 1 of 2 files in a zip attachment, the first was a php file the other was an asp file.   Of course, it wasn't from the host, so he investigated a little further to find out exactly what was going on with the file. Basically, it was a modified nsTView file with some added emailing and password discovery code. The code was "hidden" though - through a base64_encode call on one side and then decoded it on the other to cause the server to execute the code. He even posts and example of what the base64ed code might look like.
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Police called to major hack Exclusive: Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host", has fired off emergency emails telling customers to change all their passwords after police were called in to investigate a major data breach.â¦
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The personal details of up to 600,000  people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen  in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister  Gordon Brown.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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Arms campaigners claim a High Court victory over defence firm BAE Systems in a row over a leaked e-mail.
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CHILD sex offenders should be forced to reveal their email addresses to police, John Reid said yesterday.  The Home Secretary wants to stop paedophiles "grooming" young victims over the internet.  They would be forced to register all online details including "chatroom" nicknames.
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The Conservatives brand the government "hypocritical" over reports of mass e-mail deletion at the Cabinet Office.
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Blog: E-mail supposedly from the I.R.S. hides a malicious attached file.
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The US defence secretary is under attack over machine-signed letters to the families of US soldiers killed in action.
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And viruses make a festive season appearance The politics of unwanted email is changing with China set to overtake the US any day now as the originator of most Irish inbox clutter.â¦
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Images showed black man being decapitated An email showing a man being decapitated has led to disciplinary action for 100 Herfordshire police officers and staff after a "robust" investigation.â¦
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Eighteen DVLA workers have been sacked and 147 disciplined after an inquiry into misuse of e-mails.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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For 15 hours, e-mail addresses are exposed through flaw in Google Docs' new Presentations feature, before Google fixes it.
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Humiliation for 'Australia's smallest loser' A Sydney candidate for the Family First Party was sacked at the weekend after an email addressed to a number of student organisations' mailing lists, with attachments showing him apparently flashing his penis, popped up on gay websites and subsequently escaped into the wild.â¦
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'Pain in the butt' customer gets email short shrift If you're at a loose end this afternoon and fancy copping a bit of an email earful, try throwing a query over to technical support at CCTV outfit Gadspot.com.* The reply is likely to surprise and delight, as one Reg reader found out:â¦