Daily Archives: August 16, 2006

Not all unsolicited email is SPAM

Posted by David Hurst on August 16, 2006 None comments

SPAM messages are the scourge of the internet. The people that send out this garbage are nothing short of thieves, as in almost all cases they hijack servers and steal bandwidth in order to spread their disease around the digital planet. However, not all unsolicited email falls into this category, and much of it may be perfectly legitimate. Read more »

PHP Mail Script Security – Stop SPAM Vulnerabilities

Posted by David Hurst on August 16, 2006 None comments

Have you written any PHP scripts to handle email sending? The mail() function is one of the simplest and most useful of PHP’s in-built functions, but poorly written code can expose a huge vulnerability that allows your simple mail script to be hijacked by spammers. Read more »