Why NZ industry must work together to slow the tidal wave of spam
“The same mistakes keep happening because we aren’t talking to each other about it and what lessons should be learned."
“The same mistakes keep happening because we aren’t talking to each other about it and what lessons should be learned."
IBM may be the fastest-growing vendor in the worldwide security software market, but it's also the owner of the world's largest source of spam.
Google and Yahoo are expanding their use of a successful system used to detect spam.
Level 3’s research report analyses botnet activity around the world
Telecom Retail Chief Executive Chris Quin is warning Yahoo Xtra customers about a spam email that has been sent to some Yahoo Xtra email accounts.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s SCAMwatch is warning people not to click on spam emails which claim to contain links to websites with information about the Boston Marathon explosions.
Junksters exploit Search Giant's good name to whitewash malicious messages
Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? It might cost you $100, if you don't want it to wind up in his spam folder.
Discount airline Tiger Airways has been hit with a $110,000 fine by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for breaches of the Spam Act.
IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology.
Spam - particularly the kind with malicious attachments - is exploding, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just before the SpamIt operation folded its doors, a security firm says.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071510-top-spam-botnets.html">Spammers</a> are experimenting with a new tactic to improve their success rate: setting up their own <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012111-twitter-targeted-with-fake-antivirus.html">URL-shortening</a> sites as a way to dodge anti-spam software and avoid protections put in place by legitimate URL-shortening sites.
Although Linux holds only a small market share, Linux computers appear to send a disproportionate amount of spam compared to other operating systems, according to new research from Symantec's MessageLabs messaging security division.
URL shortening services, including New Zealand developed Hurl.ws, are being used for the latest wave of Twitter spam.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security company Sophos says social networking services were starting to take phishing more seriously but are well behind web-based email services like Hotmail and Gmail. While those sites often filter messages and links, social networking sites are only just beginning to do so.
Spam accounted for 87 percent of all email messages in 2009, says Symantec.