Company Adopts MailMarshal and WebMarshal to protect information, guard against spam, viruses and malware, and help increase productivity for its employees. Perot Systems Government Services provides IT services to the…
Facebook, MySpace Users Hit by Software Carrying Spam Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 26, 2008; Page D04 If, by chance, you’ve received a message from a “friend” in the last few days saying that you’ve been…
Posted by Caroline McCarthy On Sunday, I had an e-mail alert about someone writing on my Facebook wall–a college acquaintance whom I hadn’t spoken to in quite some time. As it turns out, I was a victim of “wall spam,” a…
New computers almost always come loaded with the trial version of a software suite designed to thwart spam, viruses and spyware. But Consumer Reports’ latest tests of 11 security suites show that not all of them deliver…
Computer antivirus and Internet security software company McAfee recently completed an experiment in which 50 people from around the world surfed the Internet for 30 days on a totally unprotected computer. The results…
Botnet, called “Shadow”, spread entirely through social engineering and distributed using MSN. A Brazilian man has been charged for trying to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam, US authorities said Thursday….
Since the site was having trouble with comments hanging. I decided to upgrade the blogging software to the new version, which is reputed to be much quicker. Installion of the new version kept quitting during the import…
Network of 100,000 hacked computers used to send spam was a botnet spread entirely through social engineering By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service A Brazilian man has been charged for trying to rent out a botnet that would be…
Pop-diva Madonna is the highlight of a new round of malicious spam messages, security vendor Sophos has warned. Spammers are using the hype around Madonna’s 50th birthday and looming world tour, which kicks off this weekend,…
E-mail fills our in-boxes with come-ons to see celebrities naked and to get rich quick. In fact, a study out this month indicates that nearly 30 percent of Internet users confessed to purchasing something from spam e-mail. Bill…