Digital BW, The Print

On Jun 29, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Mark Savoia wrote:

> We are all getting hit with these SPAMERS and them "borrowing" our e-
> mail addresses. From what I can tell there is absolutely nothing we
> can do about it, as soon as somebody figures  a way to stop it they
> just find another way around it. If you look at the IPs they come
> from, they will be different each time, even though it says from the
> same e-mail address so you can not even firewall the IP. People have
> said, don't make your e-mail public but I get SPAM on one I have never
> given out or used, it was just created as a test e-mail box for me to
> use if needed.
> [snip]


This week's issue of TidBITS has an article which might help:

"Change your Passwords: Email Account Hacking on the Rise"

is at <http://db.tidbits.com/article/11376>.


TidBITS is Apple-centric, but I don't think that makes this article  
any less relevant.
--
Sam