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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
We're counting down the top 10 spamming countries in the world and award one nation with the dubious honor of being miles ahead of the competition in relaying SPAM. This is our interpretation of...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
Researchers with Marshal's TRACE team have identified the top 6 botnets in terms of each's share of the world's total spam production: Srizbi, 40 percent of spam Rustock, 21 percent...
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by Sue Walsh on February 19, 2008
ComputerWeekly is reporting that a man in Tokyo, Japan has been arrested for allegedly sending over 2 million spam messages. Authorities say he bought 600,000 email addresses for about $900US and made...
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by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
Websense Security Labs is reporting that spammers have found away around Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA system and are using bots to create thousands of accounts to spam with. Since the Microsoft...
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by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop sending spam promoting it's weight-loss and anti-aging products. The judge also fined Sili Neutraceuticals nearly $6.2 million dollars for...
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by Sue Walsh on February 02, 2008
A new botnet is on the scene, and it's overtaken the Storm worm's. Called Mega-D, it is currently responsible for 32% of all spam mails sent, 11% more than the Storm Worm botnet at its peak...
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by Sue Walsh on January 31, 2008
Infamous spammer Sanford Wallace has been busted again-this time for using Myspace to spread his spam and spyware. Wallace began his spamming career more than a decade ago, resulting in lawsuits from...
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by Sue Walsh on January 29, 2008
A new wave of spam claiming to be a money transfer notice from western union is delivering a nasty piece of malware-a keylogger. The email claims over $3,000 has been transferred to the recipient and...
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by Sue Walsh on January 24, 2008
A large scale attack is occurring against Linux Apache web servers. According to Don Jackson, a senior researcher at SecureWorks, the attack has been successful because it uses an automated password...
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by Sue Walsh on January 19, 2008
According to Ferris Research, spam can cost over $500 per user a year. Even with spam filters in place, they claim it still costs $140 per user a year. It also results in lost productivity and higher...
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by Sue Walsh on January 19, 2008
An anonymous programmer going by the name "John Wane" has claimed to have cracked Yahoo's CAPTCHA software. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans...
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by Sue Walsh on January 14, 2008
trend micro is reporting that spammers have found a new way to attack-networked printers. The attack, called Cross Site Printing for Spamming, relies on a built in, rarely used feature om such...
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by Sue Walsh on January 11, 2008
F-Secure is reporting that a number of phishing sites have appeared within the last 24hrs on domains associated with the Storm Worm. Experts speculate that the latest variations of the worm use...
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by Sue Walsh on January 08, 2008
Despite the arrests of several major spammers in 2007, spam levels rose to record levels in December, accounting for 97% of all emails sent that month. Viruses accounted for .11%. Researchers at...
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by Sue Walsh on January 05, 2008
This week a federal grand jury indicted 11 men in an international spam and stock fraud scheme. The 41 count indictment names Michigan resident Alan Ralsky and 10 other men. They are accused of...
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by Sue Walsh on January 02, 2008
BitDefender has released it's Top Ten Spams of 2007: 1. penny stocks spam 2. Drug spam 3. Pornography 4. Replica watches 5. Loans 6. Phishing spam 7. Pirated software 8. Fake job ads 9. Dating...
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by Sue Walsh on January 01, 2008
Today the FTC released a new report describing findings from its July 2007 workshop "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions". It also includes actions that can be taken to...
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by Sue Walsh on December 27, 2007
The Storm worm has once again made its presence known, this time with a New Years themed attack. Victims receive emails with such subject lines as: "As you embrace another New Year"...
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by Sue Walsh on December 22, 2007
Verizon Wireless customers were hit with a wave of text message spam this week. The messages asked receivers if they were looking for a date and included a link to an adult website. You have kids with...
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by Sue Walsh on December 14, 2007
Symantec has released it's December State of Spam Report. In it they note that in November spam increased to 72% of all email traffic. The report also notes some seasonal spam trends: Penny stocks...
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by Sue Walsh on December 13, 2007
This past week saw a new botnet attack, increasing spam traffic by 600 percent. The botnet responsible is believed to have over 5 million nodes and interesting enough, only works from 9-5. It appears...
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by Sue Walsh on December 12, 2007
Hackers have attacked two of the U.S.'s most important science labs, New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oakridge National Laboratory. At the Oak Ridge lab, the...
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