A picture does paint a thousand words, which is why a Many Eyes Visualization of the most common terms used in phishing is so powerful. But simply listing the top terms isn’t enough to help people understand how phishing works. …

There’s nothing quite so satisfying as seeing bad things happen to bad people. And unquestionably, spammers are bad people. Before you jump all over that statement and try to make a case for some email or text marketers, trying to …

While spam levels continue to decline take botnet activity with it, a new report says that there are still occasional spikes in activity, and some familiar names are to blame. Festi, Cutwail, Waledac  and Kelihos are still out there and …

Welcome back to our series on a brief history of spam. In this post we are going to take a look at some of the early years of the Internet, when there were more than just ARPA funded researchers working …

Overall spam volumes rose by a whopping 92% last month. The rise in February’s levels is alarming. Malware-laden messages rose by 156% and phishing emails rose by 69%, and it’s prompting a European security agency to call for businesses to stop …

When it comes to security, there is no shortage of jargon that gets tossed around the blogs and forums. Much of it comes from the threat landscape growing so rapidly and changing so fast that new attack methods are introduced …

A few strange spam messages led a writer for Salon to discover a huge scam costing taxpayers a lot of money. It all started when he got an email from BachelorDegreeOnline.com asking him to remove a link to them from …

Those of you who hold a mad, crazy iLove for your iDevices should stop reading now. Apple Corp. would have people believe that it invented the computer mouse (it didn’t), the GUI (it didn’t), and running water (okay, we made …

  Dropbox users are again complaining about receiving spam at the email addresses they have registered with the service and blaming it on the data breach the popular storage service suffered last year. Users say they believe their email addresses …

If you’ve spent any time at all as a IT professional, you know that your colleagues have what to outsiders could only be considered a bizarre sense of humour, and will often latch on to memes and other pop culture …