items tagged with Spam
Storm continues as USA declares war on Iran
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-10 05:51:06
Is it "The beginning of World War III" as news breaks that the "US Army crossed Iran's borders" and there are now "20000 US Soldiers in Iran" which in effect means "USA declares war on Iran" as a number of reports are suggesting?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-10 05:51:06
Is it "The beginning of World War III" as news breaks that the "US Army crossed Iran's borders" and there are now "20000 US Soldiers in Iran" which in effect means "USA declares war on Iran" as a number of reports are suggesting?
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The UK's most spammed man
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-04 05:32:47
An anti-spam outfit in the UK has compiled a list of the top five most spammed individuals in the UK. Three of them use Orange as their Internet Service Provider, and the most spammed man gets an average of 44,001 junk emails on a daily basis. But just who is the most spammed man in the UK?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-04 05:32:47
An anti-spam outfit in the UK has compiled a list of the top five most spammed individuals in the UK. Three of them use Orange as their Internet Service Provider, and the most spammed man gets an average of 44,001 junk emails on a daily basis. But just who is the most spammed man in the UK?
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McAfee global S.P.A.M. experiment concludes that spam will never go away
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-30 18:11:10
McAfee has today published the results from its 'Spammed Persistently All Month' experiment, which saw people from 10 countries surf the web unprotected for a whole month. What they encountered is disturbing to say the least...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-30 18:11:10
McAfee has today published the results from its 'Spammed Persistently All Month' experiment, which saw people from 10 countries surf the web unprotected for a whole month. What they encountered is disturbing to say the least...
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Global spam trends reveal a taste for text, drugs and eBay
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-28 09:32:52
An in-depth survey of the state of spam for the first half of 2008 reveals that spammers have re-discovered a love for the written word. They still rather like drugs and ebay as well...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-28 09:32:52
An in-depth survey of the state of spam for the first half of 2008 reveals that spammers have re-discovered a love for the written word. They still rather like drugs and ebay as well...
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Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-25 04:26:57
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-25 04:26:57
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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The most dangerous Euro 2008 football team online
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-20 10:47:32
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-20 10:47:32
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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The world must unite to fight malware, says OECD
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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Practical Linux home security
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-05-25 04:46:23
Most all modern home computer users are switched on to the fact they have to protect their computer from nasties: anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls have all entered the common vernacular. If you don’t use 'that' operating system from Redmond though does this still apply? And what packages should you use?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-05-25 04:46:23
Most all modern home computer users are switched on to the fact they have to protect their computer from nasties: anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls have all entered the common vernacular. If you don’t use 'that' operating system from Redmond though does this still apply? And what packages should you use?
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Spammers stung for $US230 million - but who collects?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-05-14 17:56:40
A US court has made a $US230 million judgement against a pair of spammers, one of them the notorious Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. But the money might not be going where you would expect.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-05-14 17:56:40
A US court has made a $US230 million judgement against a pair of spammers, one of them the notorious Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. But the money might not be going where you would expect.
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Srizbi sending half the world's spam
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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“Celebrate” 30 years of frustration - with junk mail spam
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-04 23:05:13
Happy Birthday, spam – you’re 30 years old, and while most of us hope that you get a heart attack and die before you turn 31, chances are you’ll outlive us all.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-04 23:05:13
Happy Birthday, spam – you’re 30 years old, and while most of us hope that you get a heart attack and die before you turn 31, chances are you’ll outlive us all.
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Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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You have been photographed naked: you are being sued; you have a tax refund coming.
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-04-20 21:04:30
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-04-20 21:04:30
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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Volunteers to just say yes to spam
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-31 08:07:20
Imagine actually choosing to live on a diet of email spam for 30 days, with no computer security, and simply replying to and particpating in every offer that arrives in your inbox that takes your fancy. That's exactly what 50 volunteers from around the world intend to do in an attempt to demonstrate the devastating consequences that spam can have for the unsuspecting user.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-31 08:07:20
Imagine actually choosing to live on a diet of email spam for 30 days, with no computer security, and simply replying to and particpating in every offer that arrives in your inbox that takes your fancy. That's exactly what 50 volunteers from around the world intend to do in an attempt to demonstrate the devastating consequences that spam can have for the unsuspecting user.
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Beware hijacked Facebook accounts, vendor warns
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-30 22:47:18
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-30 22:47:18
Spammers are using hijacked Facebook accounts to post misleading links to dodgy sites, a security vendor has warned.
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Spam blocker rises from the dead to bite lax email administrators
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-03-26 00:47:50
A database of open relay email servers, provided until late 2006 as a voluntary service to help email administrators block spam, has suddenly re-activated but is returning every address queried as being on its blacklist.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-03-26 00:47:50
A database of open relay email servers, provided until late 2006 as a voluntary service to help email administrators block spam, has suddenly re-activated but is returning every address queried as being on its blacklist.
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Melbourne IT (WebCentral) filters email with Cloudmark
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-17 19:23:29
Resource savings of around 80 percent are being claimed for the Cloudmark Authority email filtering system which checks messages against a real-time updated database compiled by continuously monitoring 260 million email boxes.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-17 19:23:29
Resource savings of around 80 percent are being claimed for the Cloudmark Authority email filtering system which checks messages against a real-time updated database compiled by continuously monitoring 260 million email boxes.
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Pitcairn Islands a cesspit of spam, Australia in 85th spot
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-11 09:58:55
The US, Russia and China aren’t in the top 10 countries ‘relaying the most spam per capita’, with the Pitcairn Islands rocketing to number 1, as Australia drops from 33rd spot to the vastly lower 85th position – but not as low as China.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-11 09:58:55
The US, Russia and China aren’t in the top 10 countries ‘relaying the most spam per capita’, with the Pitcairn Islands rocketing to number 1, as Australia drops from 33rd spot to the vastly lower 85th position – but not as low as China.
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Yahoo! "most abused" web mail service
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-07 00:05:26
Yahoo! Mail is the source of almost nine out of ten spams coming from web mail services, a security provider has claimed.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-03-07 00:05:26
Yahoo! Mail is the source of almost nine out of ten spams coming from web mail services, a security provider has claimed.
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Google’s CAPTCHA – caught by spammers!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-28 19:56:03
Uh-oh – it looks like Gmail addresses could soon be the originators of spam - instead of being known for having a great spam filter, with the news that Google’s CAPTCHA system to prevent automated sign-ups has been busted.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-28 19:56:03
Uh-oh – it looks like Gmail addresses could soon be the originators of spam - instead of being known for having a great spam filter, with the news that Google’s CAPTCHA system to prevent automated sign-ups has been busted.
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