at 5:25 pm by Roy Schestowitz The state of the botnet is a reality that can’t be immediately escaped unless there is a large-scale disconnection of Windows-running PCs. However, rather than making steps in the right direction,…
Two weeks after a hosting firm’s shutdown sent global spam volumes plummeting, some researchers continue to claim that junk mail rates remain dramatically down, while others say spam has already bounced back. The shutdown of…
AVG 8.0 SP2 beta1 released:http://betaforum.avg.com/viewtopic.php?t=287The download is available from the download section in the left side menu. We kindly ask you to install and test this new version. Please report any bugs…
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)It wasn’t too long ago that blogging and pull technology, including RSS, first became popular. If you published new Web site content, and wanted the world to know…
Spammers knocked offline two weeks ago when their hosting company, McColo Corp., was shut down are finally coming back online, security researchers said on Wednesday. San Jose, Calif.-based McColo was believed to be responsible…
$873 million Facebook award could add fuel to CAN-SPAM lawsuits Now that courts have awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to both Facebook and MySpace, will more civil lawsuits start smacking spammers directly in…
Now it’s time for an explanation.I truly believe Twitter is a great online tool to get quick updates about what’s going on at a moment in time. The PhocuWright coverage was indeed very much interesting to follow via Twitter….
Recently, I had someone who goes under the handle of PetLvr make some comments on one of my inflamatory posts which discussed and lauded the Twitter Autoposter software at twitterblaster.com. But… …during the course of my…
Spam was once a simple annoyance. But its exponential growth — reports suggest that about 90 percent of all e-mail is spam — has led e-mail users to build daunting ramparts to block unwanted messages and companies to…
When McColo was taken down, worldwide spam volume dropped by 75 percent. No single event has ever accomplished what Brian Krebs and security firm Security Fix did nearly two weeks ago. [ Read the InfoWorld Test Center guide:…