ACMA names-and-shames Sydney-based spammers

It's probably quite difficult to annoy the ACMA, but when your spamming gets beyond a joke, expect to be thrust into the spotlight.
 

Social media scams go mainstream

Where the good guys go, the bad guys follow. The popularisation of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter has led to malicious links becoming commonplace.
 

Using business logic as a hacking vector

Imperva's latest analysis of the hacking landscape shows that the bad guys know as much about your business as you do.
 

Symantec: spammers ever clever with deceptive, themed emails

Symantec’s latest January 2012 report shows that spammers are being as deceptively clever as ever, “using holidays and major events to make their mail more appealing”, with 1 in every 327.9 Australian emails containing malware.
 

Nokia nabbed for spamming users of its handsets

Nokia has fallen foul of Australia's anti-spam laws for 'helpful' SMS messages it sends to owners of Nokia mobiles.
 

ACMA hits the nightclub floor hard

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from nightclub promoter, Urban Agent, to comply with provisions of the Spam Act 2003, after the nightclub was investigated for possible Spam breaches.
 

Kaspersky cloud update in February

Australians' summer holiday habits are causing a delayed local rollout of Kaspersky's latest cloud security update.
 

M86 Security predicts next year’s Internet threats

There is merit in knowing (in general) where the major Internet threats will come from in the near future.  Clearly, we can’t predict the exact future, but we can extrapolate the trends.
 

Half of all spam comes from Asia

The latest Sophos spam report shows that since Q3 last year, Asia as a spam originator has increased from 35% to 50%.
 

Steve Jobs' passing – and now comes the spam parade

The scum of the Internet have very little respect for anything –natural disasters, significant milestones even the passing of important people are all grist to the mill of the spammers and malware merchants; so it is with the death of Steve Jobs.