Spam

Sanford Wallace and a partner are ordered to pay $230 million in damages to MySpace for “phishing” scam. Original post by Michael Arrington for Myspace News Read Full Story

Symantec just released it's monthly spam report. I always find these reports a valuable tool to see exactly what trends the cybercriminal and less than ethical e-commerce communities have been up to in the past month. Although most of us view spam as a major nuisance, the fact remains that spam is the preferred vehicle of marketing garbage and ripping off human beings on the Internet. This month continues a nasty trend where spammers and phishermen (identity and information thieves... Read Full Story

I must admit that I get very tired of opening my email accounts only to see spam email after spam email, reminding me that enlargement, growth, and natural male enhancement techniques can all be mine if I just click on the enclosed link. It didn’t take long to establish that the driving force behind the majority of these annoying emails is the well established Storm bot network. Security experts maintain that the Storm bot network continues to be leased to online pharmacy spammers. The... Read Full Story

I must admit that I get very tired of opening my email accounts only to see spam email after spam email, reminding me that enlargement, growth, and natural male enhancement techniques can all be mine if I just click on the enclosed link. It didn’t take long to establish that the driving force behind the majority of these annoying emails is the well established Storm bot network. Security experts maintain that the Storm bot network continues to be leased to online pharmacy spammers. The Storm... Read Full Story

Phishing can be defined simply as the act of tricking people into revealing sensitive or private information. It relies for its success on the premise that asking a large number of people for this information, will always fool at least some of those people. Most of this activity is automated, and the targets are, as stated earlier, large numbers of Internet users. So phishing is considered an opportunistic attack, rather than the targeting of a specific person. In a phishing attack, the... Read Full Story