Published in December 9th, 2008
Scumbag spammers are making use of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai to get users to click through their messages. They are using various different headlines related to the event. Spammers are more commonly using world events and tragedies as part of their arsenal. It is advised that all users ignore any such messages unless […]
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Published in November 25th, 2008
An exploit has just been discovered in Google’s Gmail, which could allow hackers to add filters to certain accounts. The filter can then be used to forward email from a Gmail account to a hackers account while also deleting it from the victims inbox. Aside from getting into your email, this could also be used […]
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Published in October 9th, 2008
India is the seventh largest spam sender in the world, according to Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security. India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4 per cent of the total global spam. The world’s top 10 spam relaying countries account for about 57.4% of the […]
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Published in September 19th, 2008
Hackers have broken into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account and posted many of the messages and email addresses of Palin’s family and friends to other sites across the Internet. Screengrabs and what appears to be a full listing of her email contacts have been posted on the web, including on WikiLeaks, raising concerns about the […]
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Published in September 2nd, 2008
Analysis of more than 500 million junk messages found that addresses that began with an A, M, S, R or P were likely to receive 40 per cent of their mail from spammers. The analysis was carried out by University of Cambridge computer scientist Dr Richard Clayton, in a bid to understand the widely noted […]
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Published in July 23rd, 2008
The “spam king” was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals. Robert Soloway is the second person in the country to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act for flooding the virtual world with fraudulent e-mail messages. His sentence of 47 […]
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Published in July 16th, 2008
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to sending unsolicited “spam” emails to about 1.2 million subscribers of Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) America Online. Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking […]
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Published in May 28th, 2008
Phishers are now using the iTunes Store as a way to get personal information from iTunes customers, using emails similar to those that purport to be from banks or auction sites. The Computerworld report says that users began receiving spam email messages on Monday telling them that they must correct a problem with their iTunes […]
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Published in May 6th, 2008
Today marks 30 years since the birth of that never-ending electronic mail everyone loathes to see in their inbox. Originally called flooding or trashing, spam has grown from a 1978 mass e-mail to a 2008 worldwide nuisance. The first spammer was Gary Thuerk, a salesman for computer firm Digital Electronic Corp. (DEC). Thuerk recognized that […]
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Published in April 17th, 2008
The SANS Internet Storm Center on Monday warned that CEOs of some companies are being targeted with a phishing attack involving fake federal subpoenas sent via e-mail. This type of targeted e-mail attack, called “spear-phishing,” is a variation on the more common “phishing” attack. Both attacks use fake e-mail messages to try to lure victims […]
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