Two years ago, Microsoft took down a nasty botnet named Waledac in what was a pretty unprecedented move at the time. At the time, Microsoft teamed up with several other interested parties and went to U.S. Federal Court, securing a …

Recent reports show that there has been a rise in the number of spam messages that contain malicious HTML files as attachments. Studies show that the volume of email messages that contain this malicious HTML code has risen to volumes …

  A San Francisco-based newsletter was shut down last week after a single reader filed a complaint with the company that distributed it. When Mailchimp (which San Francisco Weekly kept erroneously referring to as the Bay Citizen’s internet service provider) got the …

There is a reason why the gossip magazines are right next to the checkout lines in the supermarket. It is because marketers know that they can easily catch the eye of those who follow the lives of famous people. The …

My name’s Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I’ve drunk more coffee and purged more junk and filtered more spam and stomped more phishers than most of you could imagine. My job today is to educate you on the actions you can …

An Oregon legislator has gotten himself into hot water thanks to his decision to harvest hundreds of thousands of email addresses for what he calls a survey but others say is nothing more than spam. State Representative, Dennis Richardson, was dubbed …

In a year that’s already shaping up to be the proving ground for new – and troubling, some might say – legislation on free speech and intellectual property infringement, it’s appropriate, perhaps, that the Canadian Anti-Spam Law of 2010 poises …

Hotmail has more than earned its reputation for being  a spam trap. For years huge amounts of spam were sent and received by hotmail.com accounts. However, to their credit they have been making a real effort to change that. They are …

During an election year, most people who are registered to vote expect to be flooded with those annoying automated phone calls begging them to vote for one candidate versus another. Because political groups are specifically exempted from having to honor the …

A recent report has revealed that government contractors have been the victims of a series of phishing attacks. The attacks, which were first detected in 2009 and haven’t let up, pump out spam that turns out to be fake invites to …