Author Archives: Sue Walsh

Consumer Reports is recommending Mac users dump Safari due to its lack of protection against phishing. The publication’s annual Internet security survey is recommending Firefox or Opera instead. Safari doesn’t include any anti-phishing tools, while the other browsers-and IE7-warn users …

After weeks of dragging its heels, Apple has finally patched a dangerous DNS flaw that could have allowed scammers to execute a domain poisoning attack-essentially hijacking a legit domain and redirecting its traffic to a malicious look alike site. (Most …

A federal court sentenced a 27 year old Brooklyn man to nearly three years in prison for flooding AOL users with spam. Prosecutors say Adam Vitale spammed over 1.2 million AOL subscribers spam that advertised a computer security product. In …

The latest wave of spam appears to come from spammers with a sense of humor. Recent subject lines include “Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson” “Afghanistan to Become 51st State” and “Obama Admits to Exercise Addiction”, but they aren’t very …

A security vendor in the UK has discovered a new trojan. Called Limbo 2, it is designed to steal information from financial institutions and banks. Jacques Erasmus, director of malware research at Prevx says it may be the most sophisticated …

Spammer Robert Alan Soloway is facing heavy prison time and stiff fines after pleading guilty in U.S. District court to single counts of mail fraud, email fraud and tax evasion. The original indictment included over 40 criminal charges including aggravated …

The new updates to the federal CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act of 2003 are now in effect. The rules, which we’ve gone over in detail in a previous post, include changes to the unsubscribe (also known as …

Yes, really! A new wave of malicious spam is proclaiming the Internet will come to an end in 2012. Obviously if this were true, spam would also come to a screeching halt. The messages have subject lines such as “Secret …

A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply while spam originating from Yahoo and Hotmail remained flat or dipped slightly. Experts say this huge rise …

Colin Wells, a Workshop Foreman for Stagecoach buses in the UK, holds a dubious honor. According to a study by ClearMyMail, his email account gets more spam than any other in the UK-over 16 million a year! That works out …