Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Everyone knows that some people get more spam than others, but new research shows that it may have something to do with the first letter of your email address.
Richard Clayton, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., says he found evidence that the more common the ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Remember the UPS spam runs that were popular last month (see previous blog posts here and here)? Spammers have chosen a different courier this time, but the message was basically the same.Posing as FedEx notifications, these email messages have the same format as their earlier UPS counterparts: tracking number (perhaps ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users to exercise diligence when checking their email in the wake of a new widespread wave of dangerous spam messages that claim to be breaking news alerts from MSNBC. Samples intercepted at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, so Dan Kaminsky said when speaking publicly about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today.The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web ...
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