February Spam Roundup
Written by Sue Walsh on March 1, 2013
2013 is speeding along and, as usual, spam is at the top of the headlines. Here’s a look at what made the news in the spam world in February:
Dropbox Users Complaining About New Spam Attack
Apple Acknowledges Issue With iCloud Spam Filter
Spam King Pleads Guilty
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20130228/266556477.html
Delta Airline Spam Delivers Trojan
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2418
U.S. Top Spam Producing Country
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Even with strict security measures, no one is safe online anymore. Take the case of the Dropbox spam. One day, everything is all right. Then, without warning, you get all these spam messages! It’s good that Dropbox immediately started investigating the incident. But what’s the guarantee that something like this won’t happen again? The same thing happened last year, right? I’m not really sure if there’s a permanent solution to spam problems, but I’m hoping that somebody’s trying to find one. Otherwise, we’ll just have to go with the flow and hope that we don’t get hit by the “bullet”.
Justin, I think it’s like a ticking time bomb really. Something like this is bound to happen with Dropbox. It’s just too sad that it’s going to happen very soon for them, more so when there are already a lot of competitors out there. If users feel threatened, they can immediately move to another service, hopefully a more secure one. I’ve read a conspiracy theory somewhere—that the problem is caused by a jealous competitor or something—but either way, the problem is a huge threat to user security and should be addressed as soon as possible.