Real Viagra sales power global spam flood
The truism that spam mostly consists of inducements to buy products such as Viagra turns out to spot on, a security company has found.
John E. Dunn | 15 Jul | Read more
The truism that spam mostly consists of inducements to buy products such as Viagra turns out to spot on, a security company has found.
John E. Dunn | 15 Jul | Read more
About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of obnoxious pitches per day, according to a new survey.
Jeremy Kirk | 15 Jul | Read more
A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and marketing software designed to send bulk commercial e-mail messages, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Grant Gross | 08 Jul | Read more
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported Tuesday that unsolicited e-mail made up 90.4 percent of messages on corporate networks last month.
Robert McMillan | 27 May | Read more
Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Apr | Read more
Botnets will employ more obfuscated control techniques including the use of peer-to-peer networks during 2009, according to security researchers, following the [[artid:556517764|McColo datacentre take-down|new]] last year.
Darren Pauli | 28 Jan | Read more
Web security vendor Websense has acquired Defensio, a provider of Web services used to delete comment spam off of blogs and Web sites.
Robert McMillan | 28 Jan | Read more
An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer's computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Robert McMillan | 05 Nov | Read more
New survey results from Sophos find the number of spam emails with dangerous attachments have soared. The report reveals the malicious messages rose eight-fold in just three months.
Joan Goodchild | 30 Oct | Read more