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2012 Internet spam spreading malware E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Monday, 14 July 2008
Is there an email sitting in your inbox with a subject line predicting the death of the Internet in 2012? If so, beware: the file attached to it probably contains malware.

 
The UK's most spammed man E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Friday, 04 July 2008
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?

 
McAfee global S.P.A.M. experiment concludes that spam will never go away E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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...


 
Global spam trends reveal a taste for text, drugs and eBay E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 29 June 2008
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...

 
Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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.


 
Yahoo! sets law loose on the spammers again E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Spammers beware - Yahoo! is back in the courts taking legal action against those involved in phishing attacks on its users. But is the web giant fighting a losing battle?

 
Srizbi sending half the world's spam E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.

 
You have been photographed naked: you are being sued; you have a tax refund coming. E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 21 April 2008
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.

 
Beware hijacked Facebook accounts, vendor warns E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Monday, 31 March 2008
Spammers are using hijacked Facebook accounts to post misleading links to dodgy sites, a security vendor has warned.

 
Pitcairn Islands a cesspit of spam, Australia in 85th spot E-mail
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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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