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S'pore spam rate crosses global average

S'pore spam rate crosses global average

News Country's spam levels surpassed the global rate of 89.4 percent in July, after dipping below earlier in April, according to MessageLabs' latest security report.

Wednesday, July 29 2009 07:52 PM

Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Singapore, spam message, social networking, Symantec Corp., Germany, Web Address


More malware per spam e-mail last month

More malware per spam e-mail last month

News Proportion of malware-infected spam rose nine times between August and September this year, according to new Symantec report.

Friday, October 09 2009 06:23 PM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Adobe Systems Inc., Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., U.S., India, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Spam, E-mail Message


Spam's carbon footprint: 1 e-mail like driving 3 feet

Spam's carbon footprint: 1 e-mail like driving 3 feet

News Report finds energy used annually to delete spam and rescue legitimate e-mail is equal to greenhouse gas emissions from 3.1 million cars.

Thursday, April 16 2009 09:22 AM

Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, Spam, greenhouse gas emission, Carbon Footprint, greenhouse gas, spam message, e-mail spam, e-mail, spam filtering


Microsoft fixing Bing bug that aided spammers

News Company works to fix a bug, discovered earlier this week by Webroot researchers, that let spammers piggyback onto Bing redirects and get through spam filters.

Thursday, October 22 2009 11:11 AM

Tags: Network security, Security Management, Search, MySpace, RSS, Security, Web Page, Microsoft Corp., Spam, Spammer


UK urged to coordinate with EU allies on spam

News The United Kingdom and other member countries need to make a concerted effort to crack down on spam and spyware, according to the European Commission.

Tuesday, October 13 2009 09:28 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Hacking, Commission, Romania, Malware, European Commission, U.K., Telecommunications, Spam, European Union


Hacked Web mail accounts used to send spam

News While Websense has seen a rise in spam following the compromise of 30,000 Web mail accounts, security experts are split over how the accounts were breached.

Monday, October 12 2009 09:32 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Phishing, security consultant, Security, Sophos Plc., Spam, Keylogging, Password, Websense Inc.


Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site

News Regardless of your political leanings it's unwise to fall for the spam.

Wednesday, August 19 2009 10:28 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Malware, Spam, Attack, computer, e-mail, denial of service, DOS, Web Site, Web


Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing

News Lawsuit alleges that two companies used its Live Messenger service to poach users' contacts for spam and to send them to phishing sites.

Saturday, July 18 2009 04:35 PM

Tags: Legal, Instant messaging, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Security Team, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Attack, general counsel, Seattle


MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes

News E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase, MessageLabs says.

Wednesday, July 08 2009 08:49 AM

Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Security applications/tools, Domain names, Spam filtering, Twitter, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., security provider, Spam


Phishers ride on financial crisis theme

News Spam e-mail exploiting the downturn in the economy have pushed phishing attacks to double in the last month, posing as financial institutions.

Wednesday, February 25 2009 06:43 PM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Hong Kong, Search Engine, e-Mail Message, e-mail, virus


Spam: You just can't win

News No real solutions arise at the Information Security Best Practices conference at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Monday, February 02 2009 07:37 AM

Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Regulations, Tool, social engineering, Comcast Corp., e-mail, CAN-SPAM Act, Internet Service Provider


Postini: Google's take on e-mail security

News Search giant's e-mail security unit uses globally distributed automated systems and Zero-Hour software to keep spam and viruses out of inboxes.

Thursday, July 02 2009 07:42 AM

Tags: Network security, International governments, Spam filtering, Message, Google Inc., Spam, Database, e-mail security, Humans, Anti-spam


Malicious sites jump 200 percent over Feb

News Nearly 3,000 Web sites were blocked daily in March, finds new MessageLabs report. Also, Asia-Pacific economies such as China and India, had most spam.

Tuesday, March 31 2009 06:51 PM

Tags: Network security, Data security, PC security, Security Management, MessageLabs Ltd., Security, India, Spam, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific


Phished Facebook accounts pass along malware

News Facebook users are hit by a second phase of phishing attacks from last week, but this time the spam link leads to a site hosting malware instead of stealing passwords.

Friday, May 08 2009 09:54 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Phishing, Malware, Web Page, Adware, Spam, Pacific, Password, antivirus, computer


Spam techniques now 'triple threat'

News Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques to increase the efficacy of attacks, according to security company Symantec.

Thursday, May 28 2009 06:41 PM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security implementation/standards, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Domain, Spam, Spammer, social networking, Symantec Corp.


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