According to a report (PDF) from email and web security company MX Logic, pharmacy and other healthcare-related junk e-mails accounted for almost 69% of all spam last month. Meanwhile, malware authors preferred the fake invoice theme to distribute their creations via email.The email and web filtering solutions vendor... |
1 September 2009
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Spammers radically changed their methods from what they used last year. If, at the end of June 2007, 60% of spammers used images in order to make people swallow the bait, the percentage dropped to 3% at the end of June 2008. On the other hand, after conducting a global study, BitDefender researchers noticed the reviv... |
1 August 2008
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Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications mark... |
24 March 2008
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The numbers above might sound stellar, but let's not forget that we're talking about spam here, and the quality-over-quality rule doesn't quite apply: ask any spammer and he'll tell you that the more, the merrier. The Tokyo police found one of these merry men today and arrested him for sending nin... |
15 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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