items tagged with Spam

Cast your mind back four years. Bill Gates was spruiking sender ID as the solution to spam, proposing extensions to the standard e-mail protocol. Nothing came of it. Does the new kid on the block have the goods?

Spam levels in Australia have now outstripped those seen in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and even the United States - Symantec says.

If you want to keep the spambots out of Gmail then you might want to try a bit of upside down thinking.

That devil of a Conficker worm that’s never far from the surface these days is likely to cause a significant increase in spam levels over the next three months, according to a report by yet another security firm that’s closely monitoring the worm’s exploits.

There was a three-fold increase in the number of malicious websites around the world infected with malware in March, with almost 3,000 potentially harmful sites intercepted every day of the month.

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.