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by Sue Walsh on October 6, 2008
The growing financial crisis may lead to an even sharper rise in malicious spam as scammers exploit the grim headlines and prey on worried consumers. Troubled bank Wachovia has already been used as th...
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by Sue Walsh on September 16, 2008
Just when you thought spammers had thought of everything, the FBI is warning that a particularly disturbing spammer is back. Called the Hit Man Spammer, he first showed up back in 2006. Unlike most sp...
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by Sue Walsh on September 13, 2008
Here is a video from Black Hat 2008 that provides an update on the infamous Storm Worm and it's botnet.
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by Sue Walsh on August 15, 2008
A new wave of spam appears to be exploiting the Georgia/Russia conflict and has a decidedly pro-Russia slant. According to a report in ComputerWorld, the spam started going out this morning and includ...
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by Sue Walsh on August 4, 2008
Spammers targeting blogs have come up with a new technique. According to an article on NetworkWorld.com, they are now paying people to post for them. The apparent theory is that comment made by an aut...
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by Sue Walsh on July 28, 2008
Spam King Edward Davidson was found dead at his home just days after forcing his wife to help him escape from the minimum security prison where he was serving time for his role in a penny stock spam s...
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by Sue Walsh on July 11, 2008
Notorious spammer Robert Alan Soloway is facing 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count each of mail fraud, email fraud, and tax evasion. He also faces nearly $300,000 in fines. He was o...
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by Sue Walsh on July 10, 2008
The Storm Worm's latest campaign wants you to believe the U.S has invaded Iran. Its newest spam messages spread malware using the following text:
"Just now us army's Delta Force and U.S....
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by Sue Walsh on July 5, 2008
Popular anti-spam vendor AVG has come under fire for it's Link Scanner feature, which offers real time scanning of search engine results for suspect pages before the user clicks on them. The probl...
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by Sue Walsh on July 3, 2008
We've all gotten at least one in our inbox-an email from a foreign aristocrat of some sort, begging for your help in getting their multi million dollar fortune out of the country. In return for le...
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by Sue Walsh on June 28, 2008
Here's a great documentary from SophosLabs that examines botnets from the inside out. Very interesting stuff!
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by Sue Walsh on June 26, 2008
The FTC has made some key changes to the can-spam law:
1. Senders can now use a P.O. Box as their physical address.
2. Nonprofits are now required to comply with CAN-SPAM.
3. Senders can not requir...
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by Sue Walsh on June 21, 2008
Symantec has issued a warning about two new types of spam hitting the net. The first takes advantage of the disaster victims in China and myanmar. It pretends to be a solicitation letter asking for do...
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by Sue Walsh on June 21, 2008
The Storm Worm is back folks. That's right. The monster botnet security experts and researchers thought was dead has roared back to life. In the last 24 hours it has sent out over 8 million spam m...
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by Sue Walsh on June 16, 2008
MySpace has won yet another lawsuit against a spammer. This time it was an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and it's CEO, Scott Richter. His company was accused of sending over 100 million...
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by Sue Walsh on June 13, 2008
The FTC made changes to the can-spam act and at least one of them is a boon to spammers. The new rules regarding the required opt-out feature now dictate that only one of senders of a spam message nee...
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by Sue Walsh on June 10, 2008
A new wave of phishing spam is hitting the net. This time, it's targeting victims of Internet fraud. The emails. which claim to be from the UK Government and Internet Crime Complaint Center, offer...
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by Sue Walsh on May 31, 2008
Researchers at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Englandm, have announced they've successfully cracked Microsoft's CAPTCHA system, which is used on services like Windows L...
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by Sue Walsh on May 30, 2008
U.S. and Romanian authorities have busted an international phishing scheme that is responsible for the theft of thousands of credit and debit card numbers. 40 people were indicted, 33 in California an...
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by Sue Walsh on May 29, 2008
Yahoo has filed suit against a group of scammers. The spam mails claimed the recipent had won a lottery run by Yahoo. In reality there is no Yahoo sponsored lottery and anyone who tried to claim the b...
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by Sue Walsh on May 24, 2008
The FBI has issued a warning about a new spam attack. The spams, which are phishing attempts are designed to look like official correspondence from the IRS. Here is their official statement:
The FBI w...
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by Sue Walsh on May 22, 2008
Blogger, Adsense, and Google's mail servers weren't enough. Now spammers have moved on and hit Google Docs as well. MessageLabs senior anti-spam technologist explains:
What's happening wit...
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by Sue Walsh on May 14, 2008
Google had to make a hasty apology after it inadvertently spammed its Adsense members. The gaff happened when they sent a mass email out to them asking them to agree to the new terms and conditions re...
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by Sue Walsh on May 9, 2008
Malware is becoming big business for cybercriminals. Thanks to massive botnets like Storm and Kraken, it's easier than ever for them to spread their malicious programs to PCs all across the world....
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by Sue Walsh on May 8, 2008
Just in case you were wondering just how low hackers and spammers will stoop, here's your answer. The Epilepsy Foundation's website was attacked by hackers who flooded it with hundreds of link...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on May 2, 2008
E-mail users first got a taste of spam on May 3 1978 when a marketer at DEC Computer send a email to 400 people on the west coast. You can learn more about this in a recent article by AFP,Washington a...
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by Sue Walsh on May 1, 2008
"Spam King" Sanford Wallace has lost yet another lawsuit. This one was a brought against him by MySpace, which sued him after he used a phishing scheme to gain unauthorized access to thousan...
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by Sue Walsh on April 26, 2008
Colorado Bill Ritter signed in to law a bill making spam and violation of the can-spam ACT a crime under state law and allowing recipients to recover damages of up to $10 million if they can identify ...
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by Sue Walsh on April 25, 2008
Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, was at at the recent Web 2.0 Expo offering some tips to help users who manage websites fight back against spam.
"Spammers are human," Cutts...
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by Sue Walsh on April 24, 2008
May 3rd will mark spam's 30th anniversary. It was on that day in 1978 that a marketing rep at a computer firm called DEC emailed an invite to every single west Coast user on the Arpanet, the precu...
