December 6th, 2010 → 3:16 am @ Sue Walsh
Security researchers say spam volumes for the third quarter were at their lowest levels since 2008. This is due in large part to the shutdown of Bredolab and several other botnets. However despite the drop in overall spam levels, spam spreading the infamous Zeus Trojan has increased. These malicious spam messages exploit well known companies [...]
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December 3rd, 2010 → 7:06 am @ Sue Walsh
A bulk email company has filed suit against Yahoo!, Microsoft, Cisco, and several other companies, claiming they breached several communication laws in an effort to block emails the company sends on behalf of its clients.
California based Holomaxx Technologies Corp., which says it is completely CAN-SPAM compliant, filed two separate complaints in California Northern District Court [...]
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December 2nd, 2010 → 4:54 am @ John P Mello Jr
A spear phishing campaign directed at email service providers could have far reaching consequences, including increased attacks on online shoppers.
The attacks are organized, deliberate, destructive and clearly aimed at grabbing access to industrial-grade email deployment systems. The potential consequences of the mailing lists of major email service providers being compromised at this time of year [...]
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Spear phishing campaign could have “unimaginable” consequences
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December 1st, 2010 → 5:49 am @ Sue Walsh
The infamous Canadian Pharmacy group of shady websites that promote themselves by using botnets to pump out billions of spam messages has reinvented themselves. Now known as World Pharmacy, they are still advertising the same collection of popular prescription drugs. The former Canadian Pharmacy scheme took a serious hit when the alleged mastermind behind it [...]
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Canadian Pharmacy Spam Group Reinvents Self as “World Pharmacy”
November 29th, 2010 → 4:36 am @ Sue Walsh
Consumers who hit the web looking for Cyber Monday deals were hit with a deluge of spam links. Almost every search for keywords such as “Cyber Monday” and “cyber Monday deals” returned the same handful of domains as the top results.
These domains included tgifridaydeals.com, gadgetglass.com, and ifridaydeals.com and contained blogs filled with gibberish along with [...]
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Cyber Monday Spammer Hits Google
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November 29th, 2010 → 2:55 am @ Sue Walsh
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is reporting that the mastermind behind the infamous Mega-D botnet has been arrested. The FBI took Oleg Nikolaenko into custody on November 4th and he was indicted on November 16th. Authorities say he is the man who ran the huge botnet, named for one of the pharmaceutical products it pushed in its [...]
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Mega-D Botnet Mastermind Arrested
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November 25th, 2010 → 9:13 am @ John P Mello Jr
Facebook will be rolling out in the coming weeks a new messaging system that will include email. For the first time, you won’t have to be an employee of the world’s largest social network to have an @facebook.com email address.
The new system has been called by some a Gmail killer, but others, including Mr. The [...]
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November 25th, 2010 → 9:13 am @ John P Mello Jr
Facebook will be rolling out in the coming weeks a new messaging system that will include email. For the first time, you won’t have to be an employee of the world’s largest social network to have an @facebook.com email address.
The new system has been called by some a Gmail killer, but others, including Mr. The [...]
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November 24th, 2010 → 9:48 am @ Paul Mah
Social networking site Facebook recently unveiled Facebook Messages, essentially a messaging system that merges the traditional email inbox with other communication platforms such as text messages (SMS) and instant messaging (IM). The idea, says Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is to combine the “slower” email service with much faster modes of corresponding such as SMS and [...]
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November 19th, 2010 → 6:54 am @ Sue Walsh
An Australian web design company has been fined $11,000 for violating the country’s 2003 Spam Act. The Australian Communications and Media Authority says the company, Bunology, purchased a mailing list for the sole purpose of spamming the addresses on it, and didn’t get consent from the owners of the email addresses first.
“Consent is key [...]
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