New M86 Security Labs Report Reveals Spam Volume Drop, Third-Party Phishing Increase and More … – Consumer Electronics Net
ORANGE, CA — (Marketwire) — 02/14/11 — RSA Conference® 2011 — Moscone Center — Booth #1825 — Frustrated email users may have noticed a significant drop in spam in recent months, but cybercriminals are gaining ground with creative new phishing …
Kay Hoflander: Attack of the zombie (e-mail spam) – part one – Blue Springs Examiner
Once activated, they use your computer to send out junk e-mail. They try to collect credit card information or other private data by ‘phishing.’” Some of these attacks are true viruses that send their tentacles deep into your system. Other attacks …
Hoflander: Attack of the zombie (e-mail spam) – part two – Blue Springs Examiner
By 9 a.m, I was in full combat mode fighting the attack of the zombie. After checking with my computer guru friends, I learned that my “mother ship” computer and laptop were most likely just fine. Virus checks turned up nothing. I changed all my …
What is the difference between spam, malware and phishing? – Daily Telegraph
According to Sophos’s annual Internet Security Threat Report, malware attacks, phishing and spam reports, are all on the rise across social networks. Sophos analysts define the terms in the following ways: A malware attack is a piece of malicious …
Facebook Chat Spam Directs Users to Phishing Site – Softpedia
Phishers are trying to steal login credentials from Facebook users by spamming them with malicious links through the social network’s chat system. The new campaign abusing the Facebook chat feature has been spotted …
Explaining Facebook’s Spam Prevention Systems (Caroline Ghiossi/Facebook Blog)
Caroline Ghiossi / Facebook Blog:Explaining Facebook’s Spam Prevention Systems — As a global service connecting 400 million people, Facebook has helped build and extend communities around the world. As with any community, the benefits of bringing people together are occasionally accompanied by inappropriate or unacceptable conduct by a small number of people.
FTC Pulls ISP 3FN Offline For Spam, Scumware – Broadband Dslreports
According to Network World , the FTC managed to get a Judge to pull notorious ISP 3FN online after a long history of hosting spam, botnets, phishing and assorted other malicious content. The ISP’s networking and server hardware have been seized and will be auctioned off, and the ISP is also being …
Kaspersky Internet Security: Internet security, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft Windows, Malware, E-mail spam, Phishing, Data breach, Yevgeny Kaspersky
Product DescriptionKaspersky Internet Security or KIS is an Internet security suite developed by Kaspersky Lab compatible with Microsoft Windows. KIS supports the detection and remidition of malware, as well as e-mail spam, phishing attempts and data leaks…. More >> Kaspersky Internet Security: Internet security, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft Windows, Malware, E-mail spam, Phishing, Data breach, Yevgeny [...]
