September 3rd, 2010 → 8:08 am @ John P Mello Jr
Facebook spam is more successful than email spam and more lucrative, too. Those were some of the findings in a study performed by an Internet collective of security professionals, according to the Winnipeg Sun.
The findings shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone familiar with Facebook. A problem with email spam is that much of it is [...]
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September 2nd, 2010 → 7:49 am @ Sue Walsh
Here’s a look at the Zeus botnet’s top spam campaigns:
An unauthorized transaction billed to your bank account- Although most people should know that if their bank spots a fraudulent transaction they will call you or send you a letter - not email you, this subject line is alarming enough to get some people to open [...]
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August 31st, 2010 → 7:44 am @ Paul Mah
You might have been considering implementing a hosted spam filtering solution such as GFI’s Max MailEdge service, but are unclear as to how it works, and what reprecussions it might have on your existing IT infrastructure.
Simply put, the majority of hosted or cloud-based spam filtering works by redirecting incoming e-mails directly to the appointed service [...]
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Some Reasons to Consider Hosted Spam Filtering
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August 30th, 2010 → 6:31 am @ Sue Walsh
Google announced that it has fixed a bug that caused a small percentage of GMail accounts to send the same email messages over and over again. The unending barrage of messages caused some of the affected accounts to be blacklisted by services such as SORBS.net and Backscatterer.org and left users wondering if their computers had [...]
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August 30th, 2010 → 3:48 am @ Sue Walsh
The folks over at InformationWeek are reporting that the Pushdo botnet has been crippled. Thanks to a combined effort on the part of several security researchers, Pushdo, also known as Cutwail, has had the majority of its command and control servers shut down. Pushdo pumps out enormous amounts of spam, much of it malicious, and [...]
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August 27th, 2010 → 6:08 am @ John P Mello Jr
Apple’s walled garden, also known as the iTunes store, showed a crack this week when reports began flooding the Internet of compromised accounts being used to siphon money from PayPal for unauthorized purchases at the online music outlet.
Sums charged to PayPal varied, but one iTunes customer claimed $4700 had been debited to his account through [...]
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August 26th, 2010 → 8:27 am @ Paul Mah
One aspect of spam has to do with trickery, where users are cajoled or tricked into performing an action, usually in the form of clicking on a specially prepared URL link. While the best way to stop the proliferation of spam would of course be the implementation of a good spam filter, the inevitable junk [...]
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Five Ways to Train Your Users to Identify Spam
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August 25th, 2010 → 7:54 am @ Sue Walsh
Security researchers say the massive Rustock botnet is currently responsible for 40% of the world’s spam volume. This is particularly impressive considering the number of infected computers under its control has dropped from 2.5 million to 1.3, probably as a result of increased detection by anti-virus software. Still, even with the reduction in size it [...]
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August 24th, 2010 → 7:03 am @ John P Mello Jr
In newspaper circles, when a correction to a story has to be written, a rule of thumb used by many organizations is to omit the original mistake from the correction. That’s not to eschew embarrassment, although it often works out that way, but to avoid printing the incorrect information twice. Bad information, you see, has [...]
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August 23rd, 2010 → 5:50 am @ Sue Walsh
Thousands of UK students are furious with the country’s Universities and Colleges Admission Service after receiving an email from them with the subject line “You’ve Been Accepted”. The message, which led students to believe it was an acceptance notice from a university, was actually a spam message advertising discounted HP laptops. This infuriated students, as [...]
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