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Spam techniques now 'triple threat'
News Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques to increase the efficacy of attacks, according to security company Symantec.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security implementation/standards, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Domain, Spam, Spammer, social networking, Symantec Corp.
Spammers tap Google's Picasa, Adobe Flash
News New techniques such as using images hosted by Picasa Web Albums and Flash-based site redirection showed up in August, new security report shows.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security Management, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Security, Google Inc., Google Picasa, Spammer, Mark Sunner
Antispam list gets spammed
News They may have signed up for the service to stay free of unsolicited e-mail, but people in a "Do Not Intrude Registry" are getting spammed.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Spam, SMB
Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
News J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the lengths he went to keeping up appearances.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Legal, FBI, IP, Spammer, IP Address, Server, phone, agent
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.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Hacking, Commission, Malware, Romania, European Commission, U.K., Telecommunications, Spam, European Union
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.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Search, MySpace, RSS, Security, Web Page, Microsoft Corp., Spam, Spammer
Spam increasing again after shutdown of hosting company
News Two weeks after hosting provider McColo was shut down, the volume of spam is increasing again as stranded botnets get connected to new domains.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Domain names, MessageLabs Ltd., Domain, Spamming, Spam, Bot, Hosting Company, Washington Post Co., Spammer
Spam reduced following Pricewert shutdown
News Botnets appear to have suffered a big blow with the shutdown of Pricewert, resulting in the reduction of spam activities by 15 percent globally.
Tags: Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Spammer, FTC, Internet Service, Anti-spam, Internet User, Symantec Corp., Internet Service Provider
Facebook admits to increased attacks by spammers
News The social-networking site has come under increased attack by spammers and phishers this year, according to its head of security.
Tags: Network security, Web 2.0, Web sites, Data security, Security, Mobile, E-mail Message, Spammer, CSS, SQL
US spammer hit with 30-month prison sentence
News A New York man receives 30-month prison sentence for sending nearly 1.3 million spam e-mail messages to AOL subscribers.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Legal, Corporate law, Security, Junk E-mail, America Online Inc., Spammer, Server, Anti-spam
MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes
News E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase, MessageLabs says.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Security applications/tools, Domain names, Spam filtering, Twitter, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Social Media
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.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Phishing, Malware, Web Page, Adware, Spam, Password, antivirus, computer, Pacific
Symantec creates havoc with unsigned Norton patch
News Mysterious Norton patch triggers firewall alerts and sends users flocking to forums where Symantec finds itself fending off a spam attack.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Norton Internet Security, Bot, Internet Security, Washington Post Co., Patch, Symantec Norton AntiVirus
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Blogs So it seems that yet another leak of e-mail addresses has occurred in Singapore. People are fearing that spammers who ge...
Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
News The proliferation of insecure corporate wireless networks fuels the growth of this new spamming tactic. And ISPs could cut off companies that fall victim.
