Let’s say you have your email locked down so that it does an excellent job of identifying spam; people and businesses have their own folders or labels. Let’s also say you have a rapid-fire delete finger for any email that doesn’t fit nicely into the categories above. If an email goes into its corresponding folder and appears to come from a “trusted source”– be it a family member, business associate,…
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Exclusive: Arrested spy compromised China's US espionage network: sources
Reuters HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Chinese state-security official arrested this year on allegations of spying for Washington is suspected to have compromised some of China's U.S. agents in a major setback that angered. |
The private information of thousands of El Paso Independent School District students, teachers and other employees is at risk after hackers broke into the district’s internal computer network. The security breach was discovered Wednesday when a …
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Lev: botnets
effectively targeted
Recent takedowns of automated networks used to spew electronic junk mail on the Internet is encouraging spammers to turn to compromised accounts to ply their trade, according to a report from a provider of cloud-based security services.
Commtech, of Sunnyvale, CA, noted in its Internet Threats Report for July, “Spammer tactics are changing as spam levels flat-lined this quarter to the lowest levels in around three years, primarily due to the highly-publicized Rustock botnet takedown.”
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