• Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data

  Published one: 03-09-2010

  Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam read more »

• 40% of all spam comes from a single criminal group

  Published one: 27-08-2010

  If you've ever wondered who the heck is sending all that unwanted e-mail clogging your inbox, well, it's very likely that 2 in every 5 spam messages you receive are the handiwork of the same group of criminals.   read more »

• Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths

  Published one: 25-08-2010

  Miley Cyrus is fine. Beyoncé did not perish in a plane crash. Brad Pitt did not meet an untimely demise. Everyone take a deep breath and--whatever you do--do NOT click on any file or link that arrives as a part of a sensational e-mail declaring a celebrity death. read more »

• Explosion of phone spam

  Published one: 18-08-2010

  Mobile phone "spam" now accounts for half of all complaints about nuisance messaging, putting it up there with spam email, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). read more »

• Apple among 36 companies targeted in e-mail spam p

  Published one: 31-07-2010

  A new lawsuit filed this week has accused Apple, Google and numerous others of patent infringement, alleging that the companies are improperly profiting from spam filtering technology created by InNova. read more »

• Your mobile number is out there, brace for more SM

  Published one: 29-07-2010

  Four years after Harshit Gupta dropped out of school to set up ItDoon.com, an SMS marketing firm in his home town of Dehradun, he began to notice a trend. “Somebody with a political background, say, would want to send campaign SMSes to voters in Uttarakhand, but they wouldn’t have... read more »

• Spam attacks to rise 30 per cent in 2010

  Published one: 27-07-2010

  Spam attacks will rise by a whopping 30 per cent in 2010 compared with 2009, presenting a continued threat to the security of enterprise networks and corporate information, according to Cisco's 2010 Midyear Security Report. read more »

• Short URL Spam Reaches Historical Peak

  Published one: 24-07-2010

  

  A new report  from Symantec's MessageLabs finds that short URLs in spam have reached a "historical peak". This type of spam has increased significantly over the past year. read more »

• The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets

  Published one: 21-07-2010

  Spam  continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security  says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion... read more »

• Coca Cola Shocking Video Spam Spreading on Faceboo

  Published one: 19-07-2010

  A new Facebook spam campaign is using a Coca Cola horrific video lure to trick users into visiting a malicious page. Victims are encouraged to propagate the rogue messages and end up with their personal information stolen. read more »

• USA Extends Spam Lead

  Published one: 16-07-2010

  Twice as much spam comes from the United States as any other country in the world, finds Sophos. read more »

• Millions of E-mail Addresses Illegally Harvested f

  Published one: 14-07-2010

  United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized students at hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States, including the... read more »

• Spammers beboeten helpt niets.

  Published one: 19-08-2009

  Het beboeten van spammers heeft geen nut, stelt securityleverancier Trend Micro. Ook niet de recordboete die een Nederlander nu krijgt opgelegd. read more »

• Let op! E-cardspam neemt toe

  Published one: 11-08-2009

  Hoe leuk het ook is om een e-card-berichtje te ontvangen bij een feestelijke gebeurtenis, toch kan dat uitdraaien op een ergerlijke ervaring. read more »

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