Author: Adam Vincent

Spam: we all know it and love to hate it. Our emails are clogged with it and our junk folders are overflowing. It’s the wasp at the picnic of the internet. Kind of annoying, but not all that dangerous – or so most of us think. The recent revelation that a spam dump of 711 million email addresses highlighted that spam is one of the most prevalent forms of personal security breaches. Far from being a mere irritation, it is deserving of proper respect. The dump was compiled from databases from previous breaches – the likes of the LinkedIn and Badoo hacks.…