• Your mobile number is out there, brace for more SM

  Published one: 29-07-2010

  Four years after Harshit Gupta dropped out of school to set up ItDoon.com, an SMS marketing firm in his home town of Dehradun, he began to notice a trend. “Somebody with a political background, say, would want to send campaign SMSes to voters in Uttarakhand, but they wouldn’t have... read more »

• Spam attacks to rise 30 per cent in 2010

  Published one: 27-07-2010

  Spam attacks will rise by a whopping 30 per cent in 2010 compared with 2009, presenting a continued threat to the security of enterprise networks and corporate information, according to Cisco's 2010 Midyear Security Report. read more »

• Short URL Spam Reaches Historical Peak

  Published one: 24-07-2010

  

  A new report  from Symantec's MessageLabs finds that short URLs in spam have reached a "historical peak". This type of spam has increased significantly over the past year. read more »

• The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets

  Published one: 21-07-2010

  Spam  continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security  says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion... read more »

• Coca Cola Shocking Video Spam Spreading on Faceboo

  Published one: 19-07-2010

  A new Facebook spam campaign is using a Coca Cola horrific video lure to trick users into visiting a malicious page. Victims are encouraged to propagate the rogue messages and end up with their personal information stolen. read more »

• USA Extends Spam Lead

  Published one: 16-07-2010

  Twice as much spam comes from the United States as any other country in the world, finds Sophos. read more »

• Millions of E-mail Addresses Illegally Harvested f

  Published one: 14-07-2010

  United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized students at hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States, including the... read more »

• Greed for a Free iPhone 4G can be Dangerous

  Published one: 20-05-2010

  'Too good to be true' free iPhone claims spammed via email and Twitter. read more »

• Facebook emerging as major target for phishing att

  Published one: 17-05-2010

  The all-conquering social network is proving a magnet for scammers too, with Facebook now the fourth biggest target of phishing attacks on the web. read more »

• The Source of All That Spam Dwells Among Us

  Published one: 07-05-2010

  We talked about how spam can hurt the company brand. But where is the spam coming from? read more »

• UK Listed Amongst Biggest Spam Relays

  Published one: 05-05-2010

  Internet security software and hardware vendor Sophos has released a study report which has placed UK, along with Russia and Italy, at the ninth position in the list of top 12 spam generating nations in the world. read more »

• Linux computers send more spam!

  Published one: 03-05-2010

  Linux computers send more spam relative to market share than Windows machines, says Symantec. read more »

• Spammers beboeten helpt niets.

  Published one: 19-08-2009

  Het beboeten van spammers heeft geen nut, stelt securityleverancier Trend Micro. Ook niet de recordboete die een Nederlander nu krijgt opgelegd. read more »

• Let op! E-cardspam neemt toe

  Published one: 11-08-2009

  Hoe leuk het ook is om een e-card-berichtje te ontvangen bij een feestelijke gebeurtenis, toch kan dat uitdraaien op een ergerlijke ervaring. read more »

• Nieuw inzicht in botnet helpt spambestrijders

  Published one: 13-05-2009

  Spamfilters zijn in de toekomst mogelijk beter in staat om ongewenste reclamemailtjes te herkennen, nu onderzoekers beter inzicht hebben in de totstandkoming ervan. read more »

• Plaatjesspam maakt explosieve comeback

  Published one: 06-05-2009

  Spamberichten met afbeeldingen zijn weer helemaal terug van weggeweest en zijn nu goed voor een kwart van alle spamberichten. Eind 2006 en begin 2007 bestond bijna de helft van alle spam uit plaatjesspam, waarna het aandeel kelderde. Zo kwam het de eerste drie kwartalen van vorig jaar niet boven... read more »

• 91% van alle ontvangen e-mail is spam

  Published one: 04-05-2009

  PandaLabs heeft aan de hand van een onderzoek bekend gemaakt dat in het eerste kwartaal van 2009 91% van alle ontvangen e-mail spam was. Hiervan was 1,6%, ofwel meer dan 1.1 miljoen berichten, geïnfecteerd met een vorm van malware. read more »

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