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InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.  |
InternetNews April 10, 2009 David Needle |
Short URLs Just Got Shorter New TweaK service creates shorter URLs than the other guys and sends them directly to Twitter.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.  |
InternetNews July 22, 2010 |
Shortened URLs Are Spam Magnets: Gartner Abbreviated URLs are standard operating procedure on Twitter and everyone loves Twitter. So it's no surprise hackers are embedding malware in shortened URLs to evade security apps.  |
InternetNews September 25, 2009 |
Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.  |
InternetNews December 15, 2009 |
Google, bit.ly Heat up URL Shortening Race Google and bit.ly make significant new releases and add some unique elements.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.  |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?  |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Leon Erlanger |
Spam War In the battle for your in-box, spammers keep coming up with new tricks.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.  |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Gets Short Google is hoping to make the short list of Web-address slashers.  |
PC Magazine October 16, 2007 Larry Seltzer |
Microsoft on the .Info Block Note to software giant: applying blanket rules isn't good security.  |
InternetNews August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Financial E-mail Spam Skyrockets The bad guys really, really want your money.  |
Information Today December 7, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Archiving Web Shortcuts: Internet Archive Launches 301Works.Org Participating companies will provide sets of their URL mappings to 301Works.org with regular updates.  |
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring |
Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail.  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.  |
PC World February 2004 Stan Miastkowski |
Stop the Spam -- How to Filter Out Junk E-Mail Tweak the settings of your antispam software for best results.  |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.  |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot  |
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities As we ship URLs to each other and use them in citations, unlocking some of their stranger secrets, along with knowledge of URL shortening tools, can make it easier to actually get to the appropriate Web page.  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz |
The Spam Stoppers If you don't have a spam filter or you're having trouble running the one you do have, you might consider outsourcing the task.  |
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
MessageLabs Takes Malware Fight To The Clouds New Web Security Services tries to catch malware before it hits your computer.  |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild.  |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.  |
Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Kevin Gibbons |
10 Things You Need to Know to Get Started on Twitter Doing social media badly is far worse than failing to do it. Tips on how to get started on Twitter and use it effectively to spread the word about your brand or small business.  |
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Spam Spikes This Holiday Season Recent stats by Symantec show spam volumes leveling off, but think of it as the calm before the holiday storm.  |
InternetNews September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.  |
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.  |
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan |
Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy.  |
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.  |
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Sean Gallagher |
'Don't Click' Tweetbomb Stresses Twitter Service The exploit, hijacked Twitter users' status to spread itself around the microblogging network.  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer |
Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?  |
PC Magazine March 11, 2004 Michael J. Miller |
Fixing the E-Mail Mess I understand the appeal of "fighting spam with spam," but the practical implications are staggering.  |
AskMen.com May 7, 2003 Steve Richer |
How To: Avoid Spam E-mail Rest assured there are things the little people can do to overcome that quagmire. Read on to find out how you can modify your surfing behavior to minimize the risk of a spam invasion.  |
InternetNews September 21, 2010 |
Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack Twitter hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites.  |
Inc. June 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
The Best Spam Fighters Six ways to protect your E-mail.  |
PC World January 24, 2007 Yardena Arar |
Spam Explodes, but You Can Fight Back Changing the way you handle e-mail could reduce your junk-mail intake.  |
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Volunteers For Spam Security vendor McAfee hires 50 volunteers to be spammed as much as they can manage, and then have them blog about it.  |
CIO November 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon |
Be a Spam Slayer The ubiquitous awfulness of spam affords CIOs a rare opportunity to look good. Here's how CIOs can leap into the spam fray and keep e-mail viable and valuable for users.  |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston |
Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.  |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon, Twitter ... and Spam? Amazon.com, the country's leading e-tailer, is doing what even Twitter hasn't been able to do: Make money on Twitter.  |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2011 |
Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.  |
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
4 Steps: Eliminate Spam Before your inbox gets hit one more time, read up on our four steps to eliminate spam.  |
PC Magazine December 30, 2003 |
IM Spam, Spam I Am You don't have to put up with spam coming at you when you're iming. Here's what you need to know.  |