Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 30, 2007
You probably get plenty of Spam, but have you ever eaten it? I'm talking about the original Spam, that spiced pork product made by Hormel. Thanks to a Monty Python skit involving a restaurant...
Read the full post.
Microsoft has released the first service pack for MS Antigen. MS Antigen offers server level antivirus, anti-spam, and content filtering, and is part of the Microsoft Forefront Security product...
Read the full post.
More and more enterprises are seeing the benefits of server virtualization, and Proofpoint has introduced a new "virtual appliance" that offers anti-spam, secure messaging, data privacy and...
Read the full post.
A new generation of malicious code is being used in increasingly frequent attacks on banking sites. The technique is called "Man in the Browser" and involves Pharming, which is the practice...
Read the full post.
COMDOM Software has announced partnerships with redhat and Novell, the two leadng providers of Linux based operating systems. COMDOM will provide spam filtering solutions for Linux based servers used...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 24, 2007
Symantec is predicting that this holiday season will bring a flood of new spam hawking everything from cheap watches to penny stocks. With gas prices rising higher and higher, more people are turning...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on November 23, 2007
Once again, Monster.com has been hit by hackers. The job search site was hit by an IFRAME that linked to a malicious site. The attack took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability and was...
Read the full post.
Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of Kaspersky Security 6.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The software offers malware protection for mailboxes, public folders, and relayed emails on...
Read the full post.
The predictions for 2008's risk trends are out. Symantec says the number one risk for 2008 will be data breaches. Data breaches cost companies an average of $4.7 million per incident and that cost...
Read the full post.
Network Information Security & Technology News brings us word of a new phishing scam that goes against the grain of many scams: there's no link to click anywhere in the message. Phishing has...
Read the full post.
A new email service called MyMail claims to eliminate all spam and insure emails stay private. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "MyMail(R) is the most elegant solution available...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 14, 2007
If you got a pop up ad today proclaiming "Hemisphere Finds Gold!" your system is most likely infected with the Storm worm. This nasty bug is estimated to be infecting over 200,000 PC's...
Read the full post.
Do you realize that 96% of all email is SPAM? That means for every 25 emails you receive, only one of them is a real email. At least that's what Ken Rutkowski, host of KenRadio's World...
Read the full post.
Defensio claims their solution will "end annoying comment spam." Unlike many one size fits all solutions, Defensio customizes itself to a particular blog and the preferences of the...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on November 10, 2007
A Los Angeles hacker who worked as a information security consultant by day has admitted to writing and distributing malware to over a quarter of a million computers, creating a botnet that stole...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 09, 2007
Symantec recently released a report that estimates that over 70 percent of emails received in most people's inboxes is spam. The report also discusses the recent trends toward MP3 and Google...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 06, 2007
Spammers are now using Google to get their messages past spam filters. According to a report by Symantec, they've learned to exploit the search engine's "Advanced Search Feature"....
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on November 06, 2007
PCWorld.com has an amazing slideshow about the disturbing new "shadow economy" that's sprung up online.It used to be that hackers, spammers, and the like were people with low morals or...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on November 04, 2007
According to a report on PCWorld.com, U.K. security vendor Prevx is claiming a recent study of 300,000 PCs revealed that over 15% of them had at least one spyware or malware program installed. These...
Read the full post.
This is something I picked up on Slashdot a while back that sounded interesting. The short version of receiver initiated authentication is: when a receiver receives an email from an unauthenticated...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on November 03, 2007
Presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign was hit with a scandal last week when several security researchers discovered a spam attack earlier this week that allegedly sent spam messages...
Read the full post.
Every once in a while, I have to sift through the spam filters here for my Creative Weblogging blogs and my other blogs. I occasionally run across these what appear to be nonsensical comments that, at...
Read the full post.
