Data breaches continued to make their very public mark on cybersecurity news in 2008. Despite at one time being compliant with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), experts say the company did not have enough protection in…
The Internet is overrun with spam: Recent estimates suggest that spam constitutes about 95% of all email traffic. Beyond simply being a nuisance, spam exhausts network resources and can also serve as a vector for other types of…
Posted by Matthew McKenzie Monday, Dec 29, 2008, 01:57 AM ET Building a Web 2.0 site is only half the battle. Earlier this month, IBM’s DeveloperWorks site published a two-part guide dedicated to battling spam on Web 2.0 sites….
Researchers report a new piece of malware dubbed “XmasStorm” is spreading through holiday-themed spam. New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said today, a tactic reminiscent of those…
When evaluating email marketing applications, it’s important to know some of the buzzwords so you’re properly informed. As a small business owner, you’ll greatly benefit from email marketing, since it helps you stay in contact…
More than a million jobs have been lost this year, providing a million opportunities for spammers who scour online resume sites for e-mail addresses. The trend of targeted spam means that more of this junk e-mail looks like a…
promote anonymity, the self replicating methods that hackers use and the very fact that some spam originators are actually situated in countries where the activity is considered legal in every respect. So you have the law to…
Comments are a great thing. It’s a great way to interact with a blog or site, to give feedback, or just to start a conversation. But not all comments are created equally. Sometimes, there is a motive, a personal benefit that…
We live in the 21st Century, and this is going to be the first century the mankind will start plugged to the Internet. The vast potential offered by the technologies we have around us should have put us in a situation where…
It’s unanimous. Web application security is the #1 avenue of attack according to basically every industry data security report available (IBM, Websense, Sophos, MessageLabs, Cisco, APWG, MITRE, Symantec, Trend Micro,…