March 26th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
A new spam campaign is using fake DHL tracking notifications to deliver malware. The emails inform the recipient of a shipment that’s on the way to them and to check the attachment for details. In this zip file, there are two …
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DHL Brandjacked in New Malicious Spam Campaign
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March 22nd, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Jeff Orloff
Nowadays, just about every organization that uses email has some sort of spam filtering solution in place. If they didn’t, their employees would be under an avalanche of junk mail promoting anything from pharmaceuticals to the promises of instant millions. …
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5 Tricks Spammers Use to Get Past Your Filter
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March 21st, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
As proof there is no honor among thieves (or hackers), the database of a message board that at one time was the uber-exclusive home of spammers and cybercriminals was turned over to a few security researchers. This came as the result …
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How the Zeus Trojan Author Does Business with Spammers
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March 20th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James
If one is to believe the CRTC, then it appears that the much-ballyhooed Canadian Anti Spam Law is about to become reality after two long years of controversy and debate. The law, considered by many as being far too constrictive …
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Canadian Broadcast Watchdog Publishes Anti-Spam Regulations
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March 19th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
GoDaddy.com, a popular and controversial domain registrar, has over a quarter of a million spam domains on a group of servers called SPAM-AND-ABUSE.com. This domain is non-resolving so the sites who have had their name servers pointed to it are …
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GoDaddy Corals Hundreds of Thousands of Spam Domains
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March 15th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
It started out as nothing particularly new. An Indian spammer sent out a email blast to thousands of people. It was written in a foreign language and was promoting an Indian website. It wound up in the inboxes of people …
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A Feel Good Spam Story – Really!
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March 14th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James
We (‘we’ meaning everybody) often speak about spam email as if it represents some demonic presence levied upon the world like a curse spawned in a Greek tragedy. Often, we tend to forget that not every spammer is a bearded, …
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Less is More: Why Retail Spam Needs to Be Curtailed
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March 12th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
A look at February’s spam reports shows that Valentine’s Day themed spam helped driveoverall spam volumes up to about 3 times higher than pre-Valentine’s Day volumes. This really isn’t surprising or unexpected. Holidays have always been peak times for spam …
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Valentines Day Spam Helped Increase Overall Spam Volumes For February
March 9th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Jeff Orloff
We all know that spam is never a fun thing, unless of course it is part of a Monty Python skit. But the spam we are referring to has no humorous side to those who receive it. Whether your inbox …
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Less Conventional Ways in which Your Email Address can Be Compromised
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March 8th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James
With a slew of high profile botnet takedowns in the past year or so, some have argued that we’d see a reduction in the amount of spam being slung around. Some have even published stories about how the number of …
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Spam is Alive, Well and Making its Way to Your Inbox!
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