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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.  |
InternetNews July 8, 2009 David Needle |
Short URLs, Big Trouble? Security firm MessageLabs says the bad guys are exploiting a popular resource.  |
InternetNews December 3, 2010 |
Phony Holiday Tweets Hide Malware Shortened URLs posted on Twitter may not lead to the holiday-themed sites listed.  |
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 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 December 2, 2010 |
Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems.  |
InternetNews November 8, 2010 |
Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.  |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month.  |
InternetNews November 15, 2010 |
Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.  |
InternetNews March 25, 2010 |
Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.  |
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 July 15, 2010 |
Spammers Stalk Smaller States, Businesses Latest spam report from Symantec finds that large spamming syndicates send a larger percentage of malware missives to SMBs and consumers in states with smaller populations.  |
InternetNews August 16, 2010 |
Symantec Uncovers Another Sneaky Spam Scam Latest Trojan conceals itself in innocent-looking attachments designed to get you or someone you know to open up the offending file.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2010 |
Spam Looking More Like Legitimate Email With spam levels surging, it's also becoming harder for users to identify it, according to a new survey.  |
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.  |
InternetNews July 13, 2010 |
New Malware Scam Picks On eBay Fans Hackers know where people like to go online and what brands the average Internet user responds to when they conceive their illicit plots. This time around, it's eBay users they've targeted.  |
InternetNews September 13, 2010 |
Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.  |
InternetNews April 29, 2010 |
China Slides Out of Spam Top 12 While China is widely regarded as the unofficial headquarters for hacking and digital espionage, the country doesn't even crack Sophos' Top 12 for spam production.  |
InternetNews October 27, 2010 |
Malware Scams Pick Up In Retail Sector Targeted attacks are becoming more and more common as hackers seek out specific individuals or groups to steal proprietary information.  |
InternetNews July 16, 2010 |
U.S. Snags Dubious Honor of Spam Leader The United States has again landed atop the list of countries that relay spam e-mail messages, according to software-security vendor Sophos, while the United Kingdom gains some ground.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Enterprises Weigh Social Nets' Risks, Rewards New survey by security software firm Sophos reveals most companies allow employees to visit social networking sites despite obvious risks.  |
InternetNews September 8, 2010 |
Apple Spruces Up Ping Social Net New social network on iTunes attracts more than 1 million users and more than its fair share of spam.  |
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 6, 2011 |
Google Ups Ante in Fight Against Spam The latest addition to the Google Apps suite for business customers is a free email authentication option.  |
Fast Company Rose Pastore |
Google Can Tell If An Email Came From You... Or An Impostor Google detailed its latest spam-fighting artificial intelligence technology, which employs a brain-like network that detects spam masquerading as legitimate correspondence.  |
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.  |
InternetNews November 3, 2009 |
Mobile Tweeting Device Debuts Hardcore Twitter users get their own dedicated hardware.  |
InternetNews June 24, 2009 David Needle |
Guy Kawasaki's Tweet Gone Wild The social media expert and former Apple evangelist's Twitter account distributed a porn link leading to a Trojan. Who's to blame?  |
InternetNews January 5, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Phishers Hit Twitter Users Obama, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly among reported victims of phony Twitter messages that also included an iPhone scam.  |
InternetNews November 17, 2010 |
Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones.  |
InternetNews August 27, 2010 |
Latest Malware Trap: Bogus Celebrity Deaths After mastering the art of rigging search engine results to spread malware when breaking news and celebrity gossip is trending hot, hackers have decided to just cut out the middleman.  |
Wired January 18, 2008 Brendan I. Koerner |
Why Things Suck: Spam Filters It's simply not possible for spam filters to keep up with the permutations of text and images used in spam mail.  |
InternetNews January 20, 2011 |
New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2011 |
U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos.  |
InternetNews June 15, 2009 David Needle |
Google to Dig Deep Into Twitter? Rumors of a new microblogging search service from Google.  |
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 July 7, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec Offers Public Beta of Security Tools Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 are live for users to put through the paces.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.  |
InternetNews December 31, 2010 |
Smartphone, Social Threats to Mark 2011 Security As enterprises increasingly embrace popular consumer technology, experts warn of coming threats to social networks and popular devices like the iPhone.  |
PC Magazine August 11, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel |
The Rise of Blended Threats Technology has made the world smaller, and therefore more dangerous.  |
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 January 18, 2011 |
Attack Toolkits Spark New Malware Strains Do-it-yourself malware kits are all the rage online and they're making life much easier for cyber-criminals looking to turn a quick buck.  |
InternetNews November 30, 2010 |
Most New Malware Disappears Within A Day: Study New strains of malware are popping up at an unprecedented rate but, fortunately, most of these variants are stamped out within the first 24 hours.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise.  |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."  |
InternetNews June 4, 2010 |
Hackers Zero In On Execs With World Cup Scam A flurry of malware scams are using e-mails related to the upcoming World Cup to target executives at companies and organizations around the world.  |
InternetNews August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Filled With 'Pointless Babble,' Study Finds Researcher comes to the arresting conclusion that 41 percent of the content on Twitter is "mindless" status updates.  |
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett |
Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code.  |
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray |
Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.  |