Aug 26

BitDefender Offers Twitter Spam Protection Tips

With the popularity of social networking platforms such as Twitter on the rise, cyber criminals have found an easy target among unsuspecting users.

Mar 18

Spam attacks focus on victims' economic gloom

Symantec warns about the dangers of spam focusing on users interested in today's economy

Jan 28

New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse

Spam trumpeting the power of love is nothing more than an old trick dressed up in new clothes.

Jan 19

Next-gen botnet armies fill spam void

The demise late last year of four of the world's biggest spam botnets was good news for anyone with an email inbox, as spam levels were cut in half - almost overnight.

Dec 22

U.S. Computers Generate Most Malware

American websites host more malware and computers relay more spam than any other country, the latest security report showed.

Dec 16

Nine in ten emails now spam

Nine in ten emails are now spam with an estimated 200bn junk mail messages a day clogging up the internet, according to a new report by networking and security giant Cisco.

Nov 27

Srizbi spam botnet in failed resurrection

After being stranded for weeks, a monster botnet responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the world's spam was able to briefly reconnect to its mothership in a tense international duel playing out online that could have a dramatic effect on the amount of junkmail flowing into inboxes everywhe

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Spoofing
Faking the origin; for example, forging mail headers to make it appear that messages originated elsewhere. One spoof incident reported by CERT involved messages sent to users, supposedly from local system administrators, requestin...
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