Tag Archives: antispam

With 2011 nearly half over, the year so far has revealed a litany of high profile victims of cyberterrorism. To make matters even more disturbing, the U.S. has decided to declare war on anyone who dares infiltrate its servers. In a year where it seems you can’t watch the news without learning about a new cyber attack, some interesting perspectives have been suggested, but when hackers decide what’s right and what’s not, where will it all end?

Over the past couple of days, security companies that sell anti-malware protection have released reports that while malware infections are on the rise, the levels of spam have begun to plummet. While there is plenty of data to back up …

Trends are a great thing. SEO marketers use Google Trends to get a bead on what people are looking for on the web at any given moment, the fashion industry looks to current and past trends to develop the clothes …

As of this morning – if my Junk e-Mail folder has anything to say about it – I am worth more than Bill Gates and Steve Jobs combined. And here I thought I had to work for my money. Of course, the tricky part will be collecting all my riches.

In the most recent spam scam to assault Facebook, users are being greeted with a message advising them to ‘verify’ their account, seemingly a noble act of spam prevention and surely not spam itself, right? Not so fast.

On April 13th, the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that they have disabled an international botnet infecting more than 2 million computers and responsible for the theft of corporate data, user account details and financial information.

If you search the web for how to recognize spam you will be presented with over 10,000,000 results. Most of these articles cover the basics of how to identify SPAM that has snuck past your mail filters and infiltrated your …

If a big fish like Condé Nast can fall victim to a simple spear phishing scam, what does that say for the state of enterprise wide security to protect against these types of schemes? With phishing schemes becoming more sophisticated (relatively speaking), is anyone safe?

In what appears to be a hot and nasty brawl brewing between David and Goliath, a tale of two search engines is getting significant press about respective plans to fight spam by removing spam-laden sites from search results. It has …

‘Tis the season to take five simple steps to help prevent spam.