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NY Times Mistakenly Sends Email to 9M People

Dec 28, 2011 3:29 PM CST

NY Times Mistakenly Sends Email to 9M People

It was apparently just a miscue, not spam

(Newser) - Nearly 9 million people got a puzzling email from the New York Times today, but fears of a massive hack are apparently unfounded. Turns out, it was good old-fashioned human error. The newspaper meant to send the email only to a few hundred people who had recently canceled home delivery,...

Tech Firm Outlaws Email

Nov 29, 2011 6:40 PM CST

Tech Firm Outlaws Email

CEO of Atos thinks it wastes too much time on the job

(Newser) - Soon, employees of the biggest IT company in Europe won't be able to do the most common of tech tasks: send or receive email. Atos CEO Thierry Breton thinks email is a tremendous waste of time, and he's in the process of having it eliminated in the workplace,...

Virginia Republican Email Portrays Obama With Bullet Wound

GOP Email
Shows Obama
Shot in Head

Oct 31, 2011 6:30 PM CDT

GOP Email Shows Obama Shot in Head

Virginia Republican Party goes ballistic over gory image

(Newser) - Conservatives in Virginia checked their email today and found an image of President Obama with a bullet through his head—courtesy of Loudon County's Republican committee. The image portrayed Obama as a zombie, with a bleeding hole in his forehead and part of his skull missing, the Washington Post...

The New Status Symbol:
AOL Email Address

The New Status Symbol: AOL Email Address

Bigshots in politics, media, entertainment hang on to old addresses

(Newser) - AOL.com email addresses are so nineties, right? But apparently they're also a sort of weird status symbol amongst a certain set. Ben Smith first made the argument last week on Politico , noting that despite the "stigma" long associated with the AOL.com domain, there's also "...

MG Siegler of TechCrunch Is Going Without Email for a Month

Tech Writer's Experiment:
'I’m Quitting Email'

OPINION

Jul 7, 2011 12:19 PM CDT

Tech Writer's Experiment: 'I’m Quitting Email'

MG Siegler will try to escape the 'devil' for a month

(Newser) - MG Siegler of TechCrunch sees email as the "absolute devil," a time-sucking demon that haunts him morning to night. Solution: "For the rest of this month, I’m not going to respond to any emails," he writes. "None." Those who email him will get...

Spammers
Actually Deliver
What You Order

study says

Jun 12, 2011 5:04 PM CDT

Spammers Actually Deliver What You Order

Researchers surprised credit cards weren't abused

(Newser) - Researchers probing the world of spam were surprised to discover that the email-box-clogging lowlifes of the Internet aren't quite as scummy as one would expect. The investigators, whose study involved making numerous purchases from spammers, found that the goods ordered—including pills and fake Rolexes—were usually delivered, reports...

Gmail Hackers Went
After White House

Jun 2, 2011 7:58 PM CDT

Gmail Hackers Went After White House

Officials' personal accounts may have been compromised

(Newser) - Those alleged Gmail hackers from China weren't messing around: They went after the White House, reports the Wall Street Journal . It remains unclear exactly who was targeted or whether any sensitive information was compromised, but the hackers were apparently hoping that high-ranking officials were conducting government business on their...

Finally! Study
Discovers Way
to Kill Spam

May 20, 2011 9:18 AM CDT

Finally! Study Discovers Way to Kill Spam

3 financial companies control most spam-prompted card payments

(Newser) - Researchers in California think they’ve found spammers’ weak point—and say it could be used to help kill off the industry. To make their discovery, the researchers spent months trying to attract all the spam they could before buying thousands of dollars worth of products advertised in those emails....

Should You Worry About
the Epsilon Email Breach?

Apr 5, 2011 12:10 PM CDT

Should You Worry About the Epsilon Email Breach?

Not if you're tech savvy...

(Newser) - If you're sitting at a computer reading this story, chances are you've received an email—or two or three—from the likes of Citibank or Best Buy or Walgreens apologizing for the Epsilon email breach . But just how worried or angry should you actually be about the incident? Perhaps not...

Customer Emails Breached
at Big Companies, Banks

Apr 3, 2011 3:14 PM CDT

Customer Emails Breached at Big Companies, Banks

Kroger, TiVo, Citi, Capitol One are among those affected

(Newser) - Look out for email scams—ones that appear to come from a legitimate business, not a Nigerian lawyer—in the near future. That's because the nation's biggest email marketer has been hacked, reports Security Week . The breach at Epsilon means that the names and email addresses of customers at its...

Wisconsin Woman Emailed Death Threats to GOP: Cops

Apr 1, 2011 12:20 PM CDT

Wisconsin Woman Emailed Death Threats to GOP: Cops

Katherine Windels was not happy with idea of anti-union law

(Newser) - As Wisconsin Republicans pushed for a law curbing union rights, 26-year-old Katherine R. Windels decided to send a note to 15 GOP lawmakers voicing her displeasure. That part's fine. What's not, police say, is that the subject line of her March 9 email read: "Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!"...

New Phone Etiquette:
Don't Call Anyone

OPINION

Mar 20, 2011 7:53 AM CDT

New Phone Etiquette: Don't Call Anyone

Phones are so smart now, we've stopped calling altogether

(Newser) - Smartphones are the most important accessories in our lives, good for doing just about anything—except actually calling people, writes Pamela Paul in the New York Times . In fact, phone use in general is way down over the past five years, reports Paul, so much so that when her phone...

150K Gmail Users
Lose Everything

Feb 28, 2011 8:59 AM CST

150K Gmail Users Lose Everything

It appears accounts were reset; Google promises a fix

(Newser) - Bad news for less than 0.08%, by Google's count, of Gmail users: Your account may have "vanished into the cloud," Engadget reports. Gmail users started reporting yesterday morning that they'd lost access to their inboxes—and that, by the time some of them were able to log...

I Sent 2 Emails
as President:
Clinton

Feb 17, 2011 6:51 AM CST

I Sent 2 Emails as President: Clinton

One was to troops; the other to astronaut John Glenn

(Newser) - As president, Bill Clinton fired off "a grand total of 2 emails," he admitted at a conference in New York yesterday. One was “to our troops in the Adriatic,” he said, and the other “to John Glenn when he was 77 years old in outer...

Emails Spark Outrage in
Town Corruption Scandal

Feb 15, 2011 2:13 PM CST

Emails Spark Outrage in Town Corruption Scandal

Bell officials planned to 'get fat together'

(Newser) - Los Angeles county prosecutors have released a batch of damning emails as evidence in the corruption case in the city of Bell. The city was in the midst of hiring a new police chief, when the top candidate fired off the following message: “I am looking forward to seeing...

How 'Reagan.com' Plans
to Take Down Google

How 'Reagan.com' Plans to Take Down Google

With... $39.95 e-mail?

(Newser) - Look out Google! There’s a new email-and-search site in town, and this one isn’t run by hippy liberals! Last year Michael Reagan launched Reagan.com, in an attempt to counteract what he sees as a liberal bias in email. “Every time you use your email from companies...

Spam Levels
Plummet Worldwide

Jan 7, 2011 11:46 AM CST

Spam Levels Plummet Worldwide

Spam down to a quarter of August levels as botnets go quiet

(Newser) - Along with assorted wildlife, there appears to have been a mass die-off of something else: spam emails. Spam levels, which had been dropping steadily since August, plummeted rapidly in late December, reports the BBC . Some 200 billion spam messages were being sent every day in August, but just 50 billion...

'Dear' Has Gone the
Way of the Dinosaur

Jan 6, 2011 2:29 PM CST

'Dear' Has Gone the Way of the Dinosaur

In our Internet age, it's too intimate for some, too formal for others

(Newser) - Dear reader: If starting your correspondence with the word “dear” seems just a bit too familiar to use, you’re not alone. The long-penned salutation appears to be headed for extinction, thanks in part to the proliferation of informal communication like email, the Wall Street Journal reports. Even one...

Hubby Busted for Hacking Into Cheating Wife's Email

Dec 27, 2010 6:00 AM CST

Hubby Busted for Hacking Into Cheating Wife's Email

He faces 5 years in prison

(Newser) - A Michigan man faces five years in prison if convicted of felony charges for hacking into his wife's email. Leon Walker, 33, was busted after he accessed his wife Clara's account—and discovered she was having an affair. The affair was with her second husband, who was once arrested for...

What the Heck Is
a 'Cable' Anyway?

Nov 30, 2010 2:30 PM CST

What the Heck Is a 'Cable' Anyway?

No, the State Department isn't sending telegraphs

(Newser) - When WikiLeaks released 250,000 classified State Department cables, it raised an inevitable question: The State Department still sends cables? Fear not; our diplomats aren’t actually communicating in Morse code, Slate’s Explainer column assures us. Though “cables” used to refer to telegraphs, these days they’re basically...