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Twitter has a very open attitude, allowing any developer to access much of the service and its users to express themselves as freely as possible, but this openness has a downside, namely it makes it very easy for spammers to take over. Twitter has been battling this problem for quite a while now, but without too much... |
6 November 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Facebook has won a second huge judgment in a spam-related case, being awarded $711 million in damages by a US court. The judgment is against self-described Spam King Sanford Wallace, a man who has seen his fair share of spam lawsuits and who already owes MySpace $234 million in a similar case. The man used a phishing... |
30 October 2009
11:43 GMT |
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Spam has always been a problem online but as the web evolves so do the means of spreading it. Email spam isn't going anywhere but social networks are increasingly flooded with the problem and the bigger they are, the more likely target they become. Twitter has been battling with the issue and has just launched a... |
15 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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So Act Network, Inc. a company providing "a global social network where its members are free to accomplish and promote all of their important goals without being subjected to spam or ads," has announced that its network is now compatible with Apple’s iMac and iPhone. The company aims to provide Mac and iPhone ... |
14 October 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Yahoo masterminds have concocted a great idea to stop spam and help charity organizations around the Globe. The Internet giant is pondering introducing a digital version of the classical mail stamp for its emailing system. The virtual stamp will cost approximately one cent and will be sold in packs of 500 for 5$. Af... |
18 August 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Australian-based email marketing firm Campaign Monitor was subjected to a prolonged hack-and-spam attack during the last four days. In a post on the official blog, website representative Matthew Patterson admitted that the service was facing a complex and well-planned intrusion from an unknown source.The attack start... |
11 August 2009
09:16 GMT |
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According to the monthly reports issued by Symantec Corporation, State of Spam and State of Phishing, spam email has dropped 8% since last month, while phishing attacks have increased by a staggering 52% during July. The majority of spam topics continued to deal with Barack Obama’s political issues and the deat... |
10 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Even for the most casual user, emails can come in at a rate that makes it hard to keep up with them. And most of these emails are unsolicited or unwanted junk mail, usually newsletters from all sorts of places. Most users though don't bother going through the unsubscribing process and, at least in Gmail, just hi... |
24 July 2009
05:47 GMT |
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In a move designed to stop the contributors to the process of undermining the security and privacy of Windows Live users, Microsoft announced that it had debuted legal action against Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company led by Christian Heilesen and Henrick Heilesen. The civil lawsuit filed in King County Superi... |
17 July 2009
07:55 GMT |
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Email spam and phishing are as big a hassle as they have ever been. The numerous attempts to block or reduce spam email numbers have managed to make a small, temporary dent in the overall spam traffic at best. The same is true for phishing, as, even with ever-greater security measures, the number of attacks has been ... |
14 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Spam is a constant nuisance on the Internet and while its volume and diversity is growing each year so are the tools to combat it. Most email services offer powerful spam filters, though they aren't perfect, as do many blog hosting services. One service, however, that has seen a big rise in popularity in the las... |
17 June 2009
07:05 GMT |
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Microsoft indicated that the Forefront anti-spam resource center was designed to provide customers with solutions and resources capable of protecting them from the deluge of unwanted email. In the Security Intelligence Report volume 6 (July - December 2008) released in April 2009, the Redmond company indicated that o... |
7 May 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Webgate is offering users of Symbian devices a solution to block incoming SMS messages considered spam. SMS Spam Manager stops these messages using six different filters, which greatly improves its efficiency. Furthermore, users have the option to reject all incoming messages or to accept messages only from people li... |
9 April 2009
12:01 GMT |
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According to a security report released by Microsoft, some 97 percent of all e-mails sent throughout the world are unwanted, as in spam. The paper also reveals that, most often, the advertisements refer to all sorts of drugs and health schemes, to ways to make easy money and to personal messages sent by unknown perso... |
8 April 2009
08:59 GMT |
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It would appear that someone from an advertising agency sent the wrong spam message to the wrong people. On Thursday, two US senators have decided to neutralize spam messages, describing them as a “nuisance to millions.” The bill will be entitled the m-SPAM Act of 2009, and is meant to drastically reduce ... |
3 April 2009
09:05 GMT |
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A report claims that a scammer has sent out spam spoofed to appear to come from Apple, in another attempt to con MobileMe users into providing their credit card information. The phony e-mail directs users to a fake site designed to look like Apple's. Users unknowingly follow the email link and enter their inform... |
27 February 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Because of an error in the malware filters, Google not only flagged all the websites on the Internet, including Google.com, as being malicious, but also cataloged valid emails as spam. The past Saturday, because of an incorrect labeling of the URL of '/' as a value to the file, Google associated the followi... |
2 February 2009
06:44 GMT |
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The antispam capabilities of the Yahoo Mail service have evolved with the help of solutions from third-party providers Abaca and Return Path. Both companies announced earlier this week that the Sunnyvale Internet giant would bundle their technologies with its email service, in order to provide superior spam filtering... |
23 January 2009
06:27 GMT |
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A phishing campaign that makes use of the Google Calendar features was recently distributed to the users of the service. The same techniques were employed by another Google Calendar-based phishing scam that made the rounds during May and June 2008. According to a report by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant ... |
30 December 2008
08:45 GMT |
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TUAW points out to a Mac OS X Hints find alleging that if you try to send an email to someone registered with spamcop.net using your MobileMe account, the message is likely to get lost. Notifications are also out of the question, according to the discovery. Moreover, the sources note, if a user attempts to send a mes... |
9 December 2008
06:36 GMT |
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The writers of the Koobface worm that propagates on social networking websites have just released a new variant that is able to trick the security filters enforced by Facebook. In order to achieve this, the new strain makes use of the website's own features against itself. The Koobface worm was first detected b... |
6 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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SonicWall, a well known vendor of firewall and other security-related appliances, announced that a licensing server outage caused the license keys in its products to be reset on Tuesday. The glitch left enterprises, organizations, and other entities unprotected from Internet threats for a significant period of time. ... |
4 December 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Following the recent takedown of the notorious McColo ISP, the control servers of several major botnets have been knocked offline, rendering the armies of zombie PCs out of the reach of their owners. Researchers from the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab have fought and succeeded to keep the largest of these botnets, ... |
1 December 2008
05:29 GMT |
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Security researchers, anti-spam groups and the whole security community in general were taken by surprise yesterday when reports of a sudden drop in junk mail activity started flowing in. This was the result of ISPs depeering McColo Corp., a U.S. based company offering web hosting services to many international cyber... |
12 November 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Judy M. Devenow, 56, of Lansing, Michigan, has pleaded guilty for assisting notorious spammer Alan M. Ralsky orchestrate a global complex spam and fraud operation back in 2004. According to her plea agreement, she is facing a maximum of 41 months in prison and a fine of $7,500.A press release from Acting United State... |
20 October 2008
05:55 GMT |
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has obtained a court order to shut down a number of companies serving a vast spam network. All the assets and accounts have been frozen and the two individuals behind the whole operation have received restraining orders.Lance Atkinson from New Zealand and Jody Smith from Texas ... |
15 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Security researcher Aviv Raff has recently gone public on a few flaws he discovered in the iPhone OS a couple of months ago. While Apple was notified of the discovery of the flaws at the time, the company is yet to issue a patch. Since being notified of the vulnerabilities, Apple has released as many as three firmwar... |
3 October 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Researchers from the security company BitDefender came across a new e-mail scam aimed at spreading malware and claiming to deliver invoices and e-tickets acquired through an online airplane ticket purchase system. As expected, contained in the attached .zip file are several trojan installers.The e-mails have subjects... |
22 September 2008
11:34 GMT |
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes should go free, after he was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to serve 9 years in a federal prison. The court's decision was not taken because Jeremy Jaynes was actually innocent, as he did send spam e-mails, but because the law under which he was con... |
13 September 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Three new spam campaigns have been circulating around the web in the recent few days. One claims to contain an adult video featuring the US presidential candidate, senator Barack Obama, another announces that a nuclear power station exploded near London and the authorities keep it secret and the third warns that user... |
12 September 2008
09:18 GMT |
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A white paper written by security researcher Jart Armin, in collaboration with James McQuaid and Matt Jonkman, analyzes the inner-workings of the biggest cyber crime hosting company in US, Atrivo, and its associates. The paper leads to the conclusion that such companies have influence over Internet authorities. At th... |
3 September 2008
11:51 GMT |
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For a while now, the mainstream media has been reporting on the upcoming ability of Google's Picasa photo organizer to recognize faces, thanks to a revolutionary technology. While everyone is focused on the new feature and the possibilities it presents, security experts recommend users stay away from any unsolic... |
3 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Richard Clayton, a researcher working at the Computer Laboratory from the University of Cambridge, has published the findings of one of his latest studies, which aimed at determining whether the amount of spam someone receives depends on their names or not. Of course, the research was performed bearing in mind only t... |
29 August 2008
08:21 GMT |
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The FBI has decided to take more measures to fend off the wave of spam attacks in which the sender pretends to be a hitman hired to kill the recipient of the email, or a loved one. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the federal authority, has released an official note, advising people not to liste... |
29 August 2008
06:01 GMT |
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One of the new trends in spam e-mails used for malware distribution is the use of maliciously crafted SWF files hosted on legitimate servers. The ActionScript code of the files includes a redirect that takes users to websites that host malware or prompts them to download the malware directly.The beginning of August m... |
28 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Although the Olympics ended this Sunday, the malware employed by attackers, using Olympic-related headlines, is still causing damage. “News” stories about the most popular athletes still linger among other spam messages that are continuously sent to sometimes unwary recipients. Michael Phelps, the multi-O... |
27 August 2008
12:03 GMT |
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BitDefender has unveiled a new spam method employed by attackers to deliver an "extremely dangerous" trojan, as the company classified the malware. The hijackers use the name of FedEx, the famous company that, among other things, works in the currier shipping business. Pretending to be part of the company’s sta... |
27 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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It has been discovered that two of the botnets that are responsible for the largest number of spam attacks, Srizbi and Rustock, share the same principle when it comes to malware spreading. They both use Trojan.Exchanger, a type of malware that comes with unsolicited email. Each time users decide to check what's ... |
21 August 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Symantec has just released its monthly spam report for July, and it shows the appearance of new ingenious ways that hijackers use in order to either sell products through spam or infect the targeted machines. The latest artifice that tricks people into clicking on images that lead to webpages hosting malicious conten... |
21 August 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Recent Marshal poll results show that 29% of Internet users buy products of whose existence they find out via spam. The percentage is incredibly large if we don't take into account the fact that the Marshall survey included only 622 respondents, a sample that can hardly be held as sufficient. Moreover, the quest... |
20 August 2008
06:54 GMT |
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As a Secure Computing report shows, Angelina Jolie was "responsible" for 2.28% of the total spam that affected Americans' computers in July. Curious users were teased with the promise of pictures and videos in which the Hollywood star appeared half-clothed, to say the least. Other celebrities whose image was ove... |
14 August 2008
12:51 GMT |
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The worm that we previously reported on as being the latest threat to Facebook and MySpace community has been eliminated, as users can no longer click on malicious links. Max Kelly, Head of Security at Facebook, assures that at least Facebook users can forget about the danger and put it behind them."We spent most of ... |
8 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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In the last few days, Opera received complaints and notifications regarding some emails sent to random people on behalf of the Norway-based company. These emails, bearing fake signatures, contained malicious software that was installed on people's computers as soon as they chose to read what the Opera staff want... |
1 August 2008
11:03 GMT |
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According to Sophos, company that specializes in endpoint security and control solutions, spam messages have started to circulate informing users (erroneously of course) that popular social networking site Facebook is used by the FBI in an effort to track people down. In order to get you hooked and open the spam mess... |
29 July 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Nobody wants to login to their email address and find the inbox chucked full with spam messages, especially since said messages are sent out in order to propagate all sorts of malicious software. Most of the times the goal of the spammer is to infect your machine, turn it into a zombie PC in an ever increasing botnet... |
28 July 2008
10:58 GMT |
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A little while back we were reporting that a fake UPS invoice scam was going around, and that people who had sent parcels through UPS should be very careful about these spam messages. Well, it seems that the spammers have changed their MO and are now sending out messages that claim to be from the US Customs office.PC... |
28 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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As of today, the 28th of July, Sophos Email Security and Control will be able to better fight botnet propagated spam through the use of Sender Genotype, a next-generation filtering technology. Sender Genotype, unlike traditional filters that rely only on prior information regarding the email sender, identifies aberra... |
28 July 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Bob Richard, the marketing director of Javelin Marketing, a California based company that specializes in selling promotional material, has recently revealed to the general public that the organization he works for wasted $14,000 on an e-mail address list. It was purchased from Emailappenders and seemed to be genuine,... |
25 July 2008
11:12 GMT |
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According to security researcher Aviv Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari software applications are vulnerable to URL Spoofing. What this means is that an attacker can exploit said vulnerabilities and conduct a phishing attack on the user. The problem is not a new one, except that Aviv Raff and a handful of other... |
25 July 2008
04:57 GMT |
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After responding to reports of gun fire, the Sheriff's deputies of Bennet, Arapahoe County, discovered the dead bodies of Eddie Davidson, the spammer who escaped from a minimum security prison facility earlier this week, Amy Lee, his 29-year-old wife, and their 3-year-old daughter. The officers also discovered a... |
25 July 2008
03:10 GMT |
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