Cutwail, one of the largest and oldest active botnets, has gotten an upgrade. A team of security experts from Dell, Damballa Labs and the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that the malware Cutwail uses to propagate itself and do …

  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 …

When you think about spam you probably think about the tons of messages that fill your junk mail folder and make their way into your inbox. Despite advances in spam filtering technology and botnet takedowns, spam is still a big …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …