Archive for July, 2008

The Tale of Two Busted Spammers

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

It’s stuffed with press releases, notices from mailing lists I subscribe to, invitations to events — you name it, it’s in there. I’ve never used McCauley’s services before, and I know I haven’t opted in for any sports-related…

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FBI to Use Facebook in Its Investigations, Reports Storm Spam

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

According to Sophos, company that specializes in endpoint security and control solutions, spam messages have started to circulate informing users (erroneously of course) that popular social networking site Facebook is used by…

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Message Systems: Message Systems and Commtouch Join Forces to Fight Zombies

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

CHICAGO, IL (MARKET WIRE) HostingCon ‘08 Booth #810 — Millions of agile botnets dodged defenses and polluted the Internet with email threats, according to the Q2 2008 Email Threats Trends Report issued by messaging and web…

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1 SEo Experts Announces New SEO system, for Google, Yahoo and MSN Live

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Today 1 SEO Experts Michael Guy announced the release of REMORA, a new program designed at going after web spam in the search engines one client at a time. The system includes proprietary software and a philosophy that includes…

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Over 80 percent of Storm Worm Spam Sent by Pharmaceutical Spam Kings

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

It used to be a case where a botnet would be used for a single purpose, spamming, phishing, or malware spreading. At a later stage, the steady supply of malware infected allowed botnet masters more opportunities to “sacrifice”…

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Message Systems and Commtouch Join Forces to Fight Zombies

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

CHICAGO, IL, July 29 / MARKET WIRE/ — HostingCon ‘08 Booth #810 — Millions of agile security technology provider Commtouch? (NASDAQ: CTCH). While spammers and malware writers experimented with a few new techniques during the…

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nPost.com Interview with Karl Jacob of Cloudmark

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Cloudmark is a company that stops spam before it costs you money. Cloudmark’s groundbreaking, peer-to-peer (P2P) solution has proven effective at fighting spam since 1998. The advantage is that Spammers change their tactics…

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Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears and Barack Obama Comprise BitDefender’s Trojan of the Week

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Spammers Continuing to Use Sensationalized Headlines to Lure Unsuspecting Computer Users BUCHAREST, ROMANIA–(Marketwire - A new malware distribution scheme performed via spam messages aimed at tricking computer users to…

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10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains

Monday, July 28th, 2008

No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users…

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Security guide: reducing risks from outbound traffic

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Although the IT security arena has matured immensely in the past few years the bulk of security systems and products concentrate on protecting from external threats. But what about the threat from within and, more specifically,…

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