Earlier this month, popular website and newspaper The Onion, which offers a satirical look at the news and current events, had their Twitter account hacked by a Syrian group calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army. The account was then used …

“Spam” is a word with remarkable properties. As this history has demonstrated, the meaning of this word has remained surprisingly consistent through enormous shifts in technology and scale. – from Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, by Finn Brunton It’s …

Malicious spam levels continued to rise in Q1 of 2013, with overall spam levels rising by 98% and malicious spam by a whopping 157%. In the first quarter, 97.4 billion spam messages a day were sent with 973 million of them …

Get out the party favors, the cake and the noisemakers: spam turned 35 years old this week, even though it doesn’t look a day over 20. Yes, you heard that right, and stop using your fingers to count. Windows, Mac …

A group of 12 and 13-year old students at Schoenbar Middle School in Ketchikan, Alaska were able to take control of over 300 computers after crafting a phishing scam and  sending the emails to various teachers. The messages asked them to …

  A new phishing campaign is involved in the compromising of over 100 websites across the net. They are hosting fake login pages asking for Apple IDs and passwords and are linked to in spam messages. This scam has been …

The goal of spammers is to make money, and they will use email in any way possible to do just that. But when we think of spam pharmaceuticals, mortgage scams and dating websites are usually the first topics to come …

Spam. The sleaziest of the sleazy. If only spam could talk, what would it tell us? Therein lies the conundrum, because if we are to use only the product – the waste product – of the spammer as evidence of …

According to Wikipedia, Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May. It …

Just a day after we recognized the 35th anniversary of that first mass marketing email that Gary Thuerk sent to about 400 users of ARPANET news spread of the Commtouch Internet Threats Trend Report for the first quarter of 2013 …

Researchers at the University of Alabama say data mining is a much more effective way to fight spear phishing attacks than any traditional methods. They say that using “big data” can develop valuable phishing intelligence systems that link phishing attacks to …

If you are considering a hosted or cloud-based antispam solution, there are a few things you should consider to make sure you get the most for your money, have the best results you can get, and have the minimum number …