SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 77 records
 
Expand article

Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

The Article has images
2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Spammers Strategies and Tactics " I emphasized on the consolidation that's been going on between phishers, spammers and malware authors for a while The allure of being self-sufficient doesnt seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammers results oriented attitude. Spammers excel at harvesting and purchasing email addresses , sending,...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spamhaus litigation: Will spammers get a second wind?

2006-10-16 01:38:55 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...spammers will get a second wind. Knowing that Spamhaus is no longer blocking their messages, spammers could start firing off spam with increased urgency, in the hope that their messages might now reach a greater audience. I just hope that Spamhaus and e360 are able to sort out their differences, since the community at large only stands to...
 
Tags: spamhaus, spamhaus litigation events, spamhaus claims, spamhaus website, spamhaus registrar, spam, billion spam messages, e360insight, e360insight claims
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spammers Successfully Avoid IP Address-Based Reputation By Using Free E-mail Providers

2008-07-18 22:20:39 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Roaring Penguin Software Inc. analysis shows that spam coming from top free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing. Three weeks of spam data research between June 13 to July 3, 2008, reveal that spammers are abusing Gmails privacy preserving feature of not including the senders original IP in outgoing emails. Spammers are...
 
Tags: spammers, spam, spam data research, senders original, gmails privacy, penguin software, yahoo mail, july, feature
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Proj. HoneyPot Team Files $1B Law Suit Against Spammers

2007-04-26 12:04:33 by Editor in Endpoint Security: Translating Policy Into Reality
 
Project HoneyPot's Big News (Spammers Beware
 
Tags: project honeypot, spammers beware, news
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spammers hijack Microsoft site to push pill popping

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x84711bc in Network World on Security
 
Spammers have found another great place to hide spam URLs in plain sight - on Microsoft's Live SkyDrive file sharing service
 
Tags: hide spam urls, live skydrive file, plain sight, microsoft, spammers, service
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spammers cloak scams by redirecting through Google services

2008-01-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b24df8 in Network World on Security
 
Spammers are using thousands of Google accounts to camouflage their scams from antispam filters, a security researcher said Friday. He dubbed the practice "Spam 2.0
 
Tags: spammers, google accounts, security researcher, scams, antispam filters, friday, thousands, camouflage, spam
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spammers still defeating CAPTCHAS

2008-03-10 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Spam originating from Google's Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA security
 
Tags: captcha security, spammers, gmail domain, google, spam, month
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Spammers ramp up siege on Google's Blogger via bots

2008-04-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5a454 in Network World on Security
 
Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense
 
Tags: security vendor websense, google, blogger service, security system, bogus pages, spammers, effectiveness, method
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...spammers include an image in their message that cannot be filtered for words. In addition, upon opening the email message the image is downloaded from the spammers website. Since each message contains a unique ID, the spammer will know exactly which recipient has viewed the mail. This indicates which email addresses are live and can be sent...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly