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According to experts, e-crime has been constantly going up for the past couple of years. Mobile phone technology has not been targeted yet, but this is about to change as iPhone and Blackberry devices become more and more popular. Over 30 million smartphones have been sold in the first quarter of 2008 alone and anot... |
30 June 2008
08:50 GMT |
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I think there is not one Internet user out there that enjoys having their email inbox stuffed with spam. And as most of the spam victims know, spam mail generally redirects you to a certain website, which ultimately tries to trick you into giving away your personal information or simply wants to take your money. Appa... |
28 May 2008
03:51 GMT |
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It's no surprise that phishers take over bank clients because this is the most common way to steal financial information, bank account details and other sensitive data. However, phishers use more and more sophisticated techniques which could simply trick their targets and turn them into victims. A few days ago, ... |
27 May 2008
03:49 GMT |
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The world is still terrified by the earthquake which shook down China on May 12 and scammers, hackers and phishers still want to take advantage of this. Another scam was detected by security company Sophos under the form of a 419 email which asks readers for their money. The only difference from a traditional 419 sca... |
26 May 2008
10:44 GMT |
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Celebrities have always been some of the most popular subjects on the web and spammers know it. That's why an important percentage of their attacks actually rely on celebrities, lots of messages promising hot pictures with Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie and many other stars. However, the purpose of these emails is... |
26 May 2008
06:48 GMT |
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SoftWin has just launched BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta, the latest attempt of the company supposed to keep users' computers safer than anytime before. The suite contains numerous security tools, starting with anti-virus and anti-spyware and ending with anti-phishing utilities, firewall and anti-spam filt... |
26 May 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Today's phishers have pretty advanced techniques and today's report comes to support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an email account belonging to First National Bank of Bellevue in order to send phishing emails to its customers. As usual, the main goal of the scam was ... |
26 May 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Manchester United is the most important football club these days after it managed to win Champions League, a competition which involves teams from all around Europe. As you probably know, United won the cup against Chelsea after a dramatic penalty shootout. Because the Champions League final was one of the most expec... |
23 May 2008
03:13 GMT |
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A new spear phishing scam is currently in progress as lots of companies have received fake emails apparently sent by the US Tax Court that ask recipients to click on a link included in the message body. Security company McAfee has also received an email of this kind. According to Kevin McGhee, such attacks are usuall... |
23 May 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users and steal their information or get inside their computers. Toda... |
22 May 2008
02:28 GMT |
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Following the recent disasters in Burma and China, companies and charities are continuously asking for donations, which is quite a good thing considering the recorded number of victims. However, US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) warned that more and more phishers rely on these tragedies and at... |
21 May 2008
06:43 GMT |
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A new study conducted by AusCERT revealed that some users simply ignore the basic security measures which should protect them and their computers while connected to the Internet. The research included 1,001 Australia residents and was made with the help of Nielsen. According to the findings, no less than 95 percent o... |
20 May 2008
06:49 GMT |
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SpamAssasin, a very popular open-source application which tries to block spam on the web, will become more powerful in the near future as the developers announced the integration of Traffic Control 3, a traffic-shaping solution, Network World revealed today. According to the same source, MailChannels, Traffic Control... |
19 May 2008
16:36 GMT |
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A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo rolled out SearchScan, a special search security utility developed with the help of McAfee and supposed to filter the risky websites returned by Yahoo Search. However, it may seem like the warnings provided by SearchScan are not quite correct, as several website owner... |
16 May 2008
05:27 GMT |
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The fact that spamming is annoying, dangerous and, besides all, illegal is well known. However, this doesn't stop spammers from sending tons of unsolicited emails every day, most of them going straight into our inboxes. The good news is that some of the spammers really pay for their malicious actions, the best e... |
14 May 2008
04:34 GMT |
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Yesterday, news about a potential Gmail security flaw that could let attackers turn Google's service into a spamming machine could be spotted everywhere around the web, but all users were still expecting an official statement from the Mountain View-based company. Well, the statement came today and, according to ... |
13 May 2008
05:35 GMT |
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There are a lot of types of email spam, most of them relying on medicines, watches or all kinds of pills. However, some new unsolicited messages appeared a few days ago and, according to Jeremy Gilliat of McAfee Avert Labs Blog, they attempt to offer a product that helps victims save money on gas. Since the gas price... |
12 May 2008
09:22 GMT |
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As we, here at Softpedia, told you back in April, Srizbi is the world's largest botnet ever. Following its evolution, which is also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, Marshal, one of the global leaders in Email and Internet Content Security, just announced that Srizbi accounts for half of the world's spam. A p... |
12 May 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Gmail, Google's very popular email technology, which is for many users their main email service, can easily turn into your worst nightmare as a security glitch could allow an attacker to use the service as the perfect spamming bot. According to security research team INSERT, the security glitch "is related to th... |
12 May 2008
04:45 GMT |
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A couple of Yahoo! mail users have recently found themselves winners at the lottery contest, in which they haven't even participated. According to the Yahoo! Mail Blog, a number of users have reported receiving a mail from the "Yahoo! Awards Center" that claims they are winners of a £845,000 prize. The notificat... |
9 May 2008
07:13 GMT |
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If you work in the military and think your email is safe, think again. A rather large scheme has been recently detected by security researchers at the Romanian company BitDefender. The company's head of AV Research, Sorin Dudea, has declared "It's not every day that you stumble on the workings of an honest-... |
6 May 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most expected PS3 and Xbox 360 games ever launched, makes a lot of victims among addicted gamers, and not only due to the fact that the stores' stocks got depleted soon after the game became available. According to ClearMyMail, wise spammers around the world attempt to speculate t... |
29 April 2008
09:34 GMT |
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The SMS spam is a different meaning of the term spam and even if it occurs quite rarely, it's extremely difficult to block it. A long time ago, one year or so, there were multiple reports revealing massive SMS attacks which harmed the mobile phone owners from multiple regions of the world. However, the attacks w... |
29 April 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Following the recent reports that hackers managed to break into the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA and to create email accounts for spamming purposes, another web-service gets compromised with the same goal. Google's Blogger, the free blogging platform which lets users create blogs and post messages from a web-bas... |
25 April 2008
08:57 GMT |
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We've seen it in the past and we see it again: a spam email which informs me that I have won the grand prize, which by the way means no less than 1 million pounds, at the UK National Lottery arrived in my Gmail inbox although it should be redirected in the spam folder. However, Gmail's mistake may be excusa... |
16 April 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has just published a report concerning the spam stats during the first quarter of 2008, revealing that the United States are again responsible for the most unsolicited messages sent on the web. According to figures provided by Sophos, US-based spammers, no matter if we're talking about co... |
15 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Following today's report that spammers are currently looking to hire people for breaking CAPTCHAs, it seems like two of the services supposed to be used during spam attacks are actually the leaders Gmail and Yahoo Mail. According to The Register, some spam filtering service have already took attitude and deviced... |
10 April 2008
08:38 GMT |
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Hackers work 24/7 and new victims of their malicious attempts appear every day. But what's interesting is that, of the total number of complainants who reported attacks, no less than 57.6 percent were male. This means that women are more difficult to trick when it comes to hacking/infecting/compromising a comput... |
4 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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Microsoft fails to play well with both pornographic content and spam. Bringing these two together only increases the stakes for the Redmond company. Case in point: a case against Impulse Media Group in Seattle in which Microsoft has played a pivotal role. The evidence delivered by the Redmond giant's investigato... |
27 March 2008
13:41 GMT |
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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
06:58 GMT |
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Ever heard of the "King of Spam" before? I know I have, and it was not Robert Soloway who was referred to by that title. Then again, every guy going behind bars for spamming must be talked about as being "X of Spam," else the news isn't worth reading. So, don't be surprised the next time when some other man... |
19 March 2008
13:21 GMT |
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True to the old school slogan of "you live and you learn," my lesson today is that despite the technological advancements, big nations are not those with the highest malware ratio per capita. Neither are they the ones with the highest average salary, but that's business talk and I'm not really big on that.C... |
11 March 2008
14:36 GMT |
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Only the sixth company to settle an U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint for sending porn spam since 2005, Cyberheat from Tucson, Arizona, has agreed to pay the $413,000 as a penalty for its actions. The Company did not directly send the spam to the recipients, but it operated an affiliate marketing program paying... |
5 March 2008
17:36 GMT |
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It was just last week when a security company noticed that Gmail captchas had been cracked, or should I say, a way to crack them had been found. The percentage of the successful attacks is pretty low, about 20 percent, but the number of attempts makes up for it. Once one of the most spam-free email services, Gmail is... |
4 March 2008
15:46 GMT |
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The all so hated billions of spam messages are coming from a surprisingly small number of zombie networks, also known as botnets, according to net security firm Marshall, who analyzed the numbers. There is a big variation from each and every one of the group, but the metrics for the passed month indicate that 85 perc... |
3 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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The first ever felony conviction for illegal spamming in the United States has been affirmed once again, after Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C. on the defending end, protested that Virginia's anti-spamming law violated the right to freedom of speech. He claimed that the law was against both the First Amendment and... |
3 March 2008
11:43 GMT |
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The usual spam message is easy to recognize for those with the minimum level of know-about, and there aren't many Internet users nowadays that lack any interest in the matter. The methods and techniques used by cyber criminals must evolve continuously because the security companies are hot on their tracks in fin... |
29 February 2008
17:46 GMT |
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The spam-free Gmail is about to become spam-full and on an accelerated rate from now on. When the email service from Google first came to be, it prided itself with its filters that would redirect spam directly to the folder specially created for it. Slowly but surely, hackers managed to evolve methods of fooling the ... |
26 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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In case you were interested, and as a result you are reading this, you would have very likely fallen for the latest Trojan attack to hit the Internet. Receiving a message with the very same title and a "Download Now!" link inside is the sure way to get the Downloader.SQV on your computer and there's no telling o... |
22 February 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Electoral Cyber crime started last October, when the first wave of spam 'advertising' for a candidate was released into the wild. And the wildly election hype that the spammers were counting on did not fail to provide, Ron Paul's supporters falling for the trick. It was later linked to an Ukrainian bot... |
18 February 2008
15:46 GMT |
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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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With reports about Valentine's Day spams, scams, worms and Trojans coming in as early as the 11th of January, it's a wonder that cyber criminals haven't cooled down and remained contempt with the batch of malware that they have already sent out. I mean they could have taken the day off just to enjoy th... |
14 February 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Usually, the man who gets others to do his job for him is either called 'boss' or just 'smart'. Wait till you see the latest sample of hacking ingenuity: Mr. Brain, a Moroccan group was just found to be offering free phishing kits for scammer wannabes for free. The catch is that they have some cod... |
13 February 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Sophos warned yesterday against the latest means that spammers came up with in order to bypass the filters every email service has erected. Suppose music files from well-known artists, such as Elvis Presley, Fergie and Carrie Underwood, are just some of the names who were associated to the malicious emails.To nobody&... |
12 February 2008
11:36 GMT |
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In 1978, the first 600 spam messages were sent. Ever since, the amount of unsolicited email has grown exponentially, up to nowadays' 50 million infected computers sending spam everyday. Every email service is working continuously to reduce the spam that actually gets to the users, setting up filters over filters... |
12 February 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Would you like to have your computer infected and have it spread the love that the Storm botnet has for everybody? Then, don't open emails that have something of the following in their title: "Looking for that perfect Valentine's Day Gift?" or "Make Valentine's Day Night a memorable one." While I don&#... |
11 February 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Is spam losing importance in cyber crime today? No, it's just a slight decrease, probably due to the fact that the Holidays were a time for spending hours at home, near the PC and when every mail that read "free [insert holiday item here]" was clicked upon. The decrease shouldn't 'worry' us, spam ... |
8 February 2008
08:17 GMT |
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For the third month in a row, Europe has been the top source of spam, according to security vendor Symantec. It's a worrying fact, because historically, the United States have been the leader of the trend, both in spam sent and as the most spammers' home. Hearing what Frederik Sjostedt has to say and in wha... |
6 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Guitar Hero III's issue is already popular by now, as it's troubled quite a lot of gamers. As we informed you a couple of weeks ago, the Wii version of the acclaimed music game only manages to output mono sound, unlike the Dolby Pro Logic II compatibility promised by Activision. Of course, customers were a... |
22 January 2008
05:06 GMT |
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A new Microsoft update threatens Windows users with the expiration of their copy of the operating system unless deployment is completed within half a day. This is obviously nothing but a fake Microsoft update spammed to spread malware. Sunbelt Software Chief Executive Officer, Alex Eckelberry, warned of the existence... |
22 January 2008
04:55 GMT |
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