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Are virus scanners putting you at risk?
Is it a bug or isn't it? A flaw in several virus scanners could let a malicious file evade detection, a security researcher has warned. But some in the industry dispute that it's a security bug. By adding some data...
New worms could be born from Samy.
The newly discovered Samy worm is one of the first to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability, a technique security experts fear could be used to open a new front in attacks. Samy is a self-propagating worm that appears to have...
Anti Spam Software Provider Targets the Spam Bull’s-Eye
Securence, a leading internet and email filtering service provider helps control the onslaught of spam and viruses. Minnetonka, MN, October 14, 2005 -- http://www.securence.com - Securence, Inc., a leading provider of anti spam, anti virus software and Internet filtering services...
Beware of the old classmate worm
A new variant of the e-mail worm is masquerading as an old class photo sent by a schoolmate: "A new variant of the Sober e-mail worm has started spreading as an attachment that claims to be an old class photo...
AdWare targets major search engines
ComputerWeekly reports that the major search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN are being spoofed by adware called Premium search. Once the adware is installed, users visiting those search engines are actually viewing spoofs. Full story at ComputerWeekly. For protection...
Oklahoma Man Wins $10 Million Judgment Against a Spammer
I'm sure it was a long and hard battle but an Oklahoma man wins a legal fight with a spammer. "On Thursday the 22nd, Robert Braver, an Oklahoma ISP owner who is a long time activist against both spam and...
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| Spam in the News |
Clock Quotes - ScienceBlogs
Clock QuotesScienceBlogs - 7 minutes ago(Email is required for authentication purposes only. Comments are moderated for spam, your comment may not appear immediately. Thanks for waiting.) YES! ... |
YOUR MONEY MATTERS: Planning to beat inflation - Phnom Penh Post
YOUR MONEY MATTERS: Planning to beat inflationPhnom Penh Post, Cambodia - 9 minutes agoShould you wish to contact Trevor, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . ... |
Police facing tough battle to tackle cybercrime - Kent News
Police facing tough battle to tackle cybercrimeKent News, United Kingdom - 37 minutes ago... computing department at the university, spoke of the huge scale of the problem from spam and junk email to scams and child sex abuse on the internet. ... |
Allied World Announces Swiss Office - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Allied World Announces Swiss OfficePR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 55 minutes agoTo contact Allied World's Swiss office, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . ... |
Gearworx Launches Dual Platform Hosting - PR Leap (press release)
Gearworx Launches Dual Platform HostingPR Leap (press release), CA - 1 hour agoGearworx also offers Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus protection for all email accounts hosted on its servers using MailFoundry’s Anti-spam appliances. ... |
Avion Resources Appoints Investor Relations Manager - PR-USA.net (press release)
Avion Resources Appoints Investor Relations ManagerPR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 1 hour agoShould you wish to receive Company news via email, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view ... |
AXcess News: Taking a Byte Out of Canada's Real Estate Market - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Three major spam waves in August - CIOL
Three major spam waves in AugustCIOL, India - 2 hours agoThis attack was in the form of email that varied in its complexity from a simple "CNN Top 10" subject to emails that mimicked the actual CNN news alerts ... |
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| Anti-Spam News |
Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks
MojoKid writes "A recent study (PDF) by Richard Clayton at Cambridge University determined that the first letter of a someone's email address directly affects how much spam they receive. As shown in the graph at either link above, email addresses with numbers as their first characters receive even fewer spam emails. The corpus used in the study was 8 weeks' worth of email from the UK ISP Demon Internet, just over half a billion messages, of which 56% was deemed to be spam."
Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court
kevinqtipreedy writes "Social networks like Facebook and Myspace are now bringing spammers into the court systems in new attempts to put a stop to it. Although spammers rarely show up in court and the suits do not always lead to monetary reward, companies are hoping the 'chilling effect' will help in the effort to curb spam."
Where Has All My Spam Gone?
An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive all my personal email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real. Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much stopped. My volume of mail has plummeted to less than 100 a day, and as far as I can tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list subscriptions I'm expecting, and every time I ask someone to send me a test message, it gets through. My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox, and that they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message tagged by SpamAssassin. But it's virtually all gone. And I haven't changed anything about my own mail configuration, or the harvestability of my site (my personal email has been harvestable for almost a decade). So what's going on? I can't believe that several major botnets would have vanished overnight. Any ideas?"
Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash
CWmike writes "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 site, include links to what are supposedly the day's Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network. Clicking on any of those links, however, brings up a dialog that says an incorrect version of Flash Player has been detected and that tells users they needed to update to a fake newer edition, which delivers a Trojan horse — identified by multiple names, including Cbeplay.a — that 'phones home' to a malicious server to grab and install additional malware."
Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives
RomulusNR writes "Yahoo has stopped delivering This Is True, Randy Cassingham's 14-year-old mailing list, because too many Yahoo readers have mistakenly or carelessly flagged it as spam. Yahoo readers make up over 10% of True's readership, slashing the ad revenue that keeps it going. And Yahoo doesn't negotiate with spammers. As Randy describes it: 'The yahoos... ask to be put on True's distribution, then confirm that request, and... then click the "This is Spam" button when they don't recognize the mailing or simply don't want it anymore. Yes, those yahoos have screwed thousands upon thousands of others who really do want my newsletter. Too bad: Yahoo is listening to the yahoos instead: they're blocking it. To them, we're "spammers" and no protestations from "spammers" count.' The irony is that This is True is one of the first profitable mailing lists, predating Yahoo! Mail by almost three years."
Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
Lt.Hawkins was one of many readers sending in word that the escaped spam king discussed yesterday was found dead in Colorado, after apparently killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter. A teenager was injured, and an infant was found alive in the car.
Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.
Spammers Choose GMail
EdwardLAN writes "A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply." My spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although I have no idea if this is part of it. It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.
Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs
An anonymous reader recommends Computerworld's look at the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs, and at some of the ways bad guys are leveraging broken CAPTCHAs to ply their evil trade. "CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. By January 2008, Yahoo Mail's CAPTCHA had been cracked. Gmail was ripped open soon thereafter. Hotmail's top got popped in April. And then things got bad. There are now programs available online (no, we will not tell you where) that automate CAPTCHA attacks. You don't need to have any cracking skills. All you need is a desire to spread spam, make anonymous online attacks against your enemies, propagate malware or, in general, be an online jerk. And it's not just free e-mail sites that can be made to suffer..."
Spammers Announce World War III
schliz writes with the stub of a disheartening article at IT News: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."
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