Security biz Websense has drawn up a list of the five most common spam subject lines. The nuisance list, based on the subject lines of the millions of spam messages blocked by the firm every day, … [Read more...]
Dutch ISP A2B internet files complaint against Spamhaus project
Friday, 14 October 2011 By
Dutch ISP A2B Internet has filed a complaint with the police after it claimed to have been "blackmailed" by London-based anti-spam outfit Spamhaus. A2B managing director Erik Bais told Webwereld … [Read more...]
Spam messages are down according to Microsoft
Friday, 14 October 2011 By
In a bi-annual security analysis, spam messages are down, but no one should start breathing any easier. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report focused on the first half of 2011 to bring … [Read more...]
Microsoft makes changes to hotmail to improve spam handling
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 By
Microsoft is making a series of changes to its Hotmail service aimed at cutting down the amount of old mail stuck on servers, falsely labeled spam. Redmond reckons that only about two per cent of … [Read more...]
27 million spam messages on Facebook = possibly 40 years in jail
Tuesday, 9 August 2011 By
A Las Vegas man accused of sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users faces federal fraud and computer tampering charges that could send him to prison for more than 40 years, … [Read more...]
Google+ causes spam wave (due to a bug)
Monday, 11 July 2011 By
Some early adopters of Google+ have found themselves bombarded with multiple notification messages in their email, due to a bug in the social networking's code after the site - astonishingly - ran out … [Read more...]
Washington Post’s job site hit by attack; 1.27 million email addresses might feed SPAM-wave
Thursday, 7 July 2011 By
The Washington Post discovered that an unauthorized third party attacked their Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user IDs and e-mail addresses. No passwords or other personal … [Read more...]
Video: How to detect SPAM emails
Wednesday, 6 July 2011 By
A cartoon video explaining how to detect SPAM emails. … [Read more...]
Spam has hit the Kindle eReader from Amazon
Friday, 17 June 2011 By
Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing … [Read more...]
Osama Bin Laden dead hottest Google search topic; but be aware of the results
Monday, 2 May 2011 By
Google's top-trending Anglophone search term right now is, understandably, "osama bin laden dead", says Sophos. Google officially describes its hotness (you couldn't make this stuff up) as … [Read more...]
TripAdvisor exposes email addresses of their members
Friday, 25 March 2011 By
TripAdvisor alerted its users that some attackers had got their way with the list of their member email addresses. In a statement they said: This past weekend we discovered that an … [Read more...]
Rustock botnet taken down in joint effort from Microsoft and US law enforcement
Friday, 18 March 2011 By
The botnet Rustock, which typically was representing 50-70% of all spam has been taken down. Rustock also has been known as the largest emitter of spam on the Internet. Yesterday, Microsoft … [Read more...]
10 things you can do for safer computing
Wednesday, 16 February 2011 By
It is true, safe computing starts with yourself. You may have a lot of good security measures in place, like antivirus, firewall, spam checker, and so on ... but if you are the weakest link in the … [Read more...]
Spam network uses 500K users/password to fill your inbox
Thursday, 3 February 2011 By
According to NBC, the once-mighty Waledac botnet, which lay dormant for most of 2010, has suddenly made a strong resurgence into the spam-spewing scene — and it’s likely that your inbox will soon … [Read more...]
My adwords needed fixing ?
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 By
Today I received an interesting message from Google (it appeared to be from them anyway). Hello, Your Google Adwords Account has stopped running this morning. Some of the ads have stopped … [Read more...]
