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Gyrre:
Thanks for the info and updates.

Case:
"To battle hackers, IBM wants to encrypt the world"

Only tangentially related to wannacry, but seems like an interesting push by Big Blue.

"All matters encryption" might be a topic deserving of a thread of its own, but I couldn't find one?

audrina:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 May 2017, 00:04 ---Just a bit of advice from my own hard experience: It may look like a fake email to introduce malware in every possible way but it may not be. If the email's source address claims to be from your employer's supplier, contact them to confirm whether it is legitimate before Ctrl+Del. I'm just lucky they kept a backup of those invoices!

That said, you would think that a local authority's procurement department's emails wouldn't look so much like a copy-and-paste job originating from some hacker's basement!

--- End quote ---

Ouh, i think this type of spam can be called phishing. They are coming from the business account. May I add that such type of emails may look like an email from the bank. Usually, such emails asking for some private information. Be careful, do not feel your private information. By the way, do antivirus programs help to minimize the quantity of spam?

audrina:
Hello, everyone! I keep getting a lot of spam emails during the last 2-3 weeks. I have no idea from where does it start because I did not give my email to someone.... Any ideas how to eliminate these spam emails?
Thank you  :-)

Jimor:
This is usually because somebody who *does* have your email got hacked, not you. The person gets hacked, the hacker sells the e-mails in their address book to spammers, and even if you kept your e-mail completely private and never used it for anything online except e-mail with close friends and colleagues, you're suddenly on every spam list in the world.

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