Tag Archives: Fighting spam

Spam Fighting Boot Camp Week 1: Know Your Enemy

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Spam Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation …

Spam Fighting Boot Camp Week 1: Know Your Enemy
   

Malware developers seem to appreciate a little humor when it comes to naming their schemes. One of the latest email scams to invade inboxes everywhere is no exception, it seems, and the FBI has been quick to let businesses know …

FBI Declares ‘Gameover’, Link to ZeuS
   

January Spam Roundup

Along with a new year, January brought with it a new wave of spam campaigns, most ofthem malicious in nature. Here’s a look at some of the top headlines for the month: Nokia Fined For Spamming Their Customers: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/nokia-fined-in-australia-for-spam-texting-its-own-customers.ars Top 9 Domains …

January Spam Roundup
   

Spam Fighting Boot Camp: The Mission

Please read the following post with the voice of a drill sergeant in your mind. Imagine something between R. Lee Ermey and Samuel L. Jackson if you can, or maybe Stephen Lang. Alright people, listen up! Welcome to Spam Fighting …

Spam Fighting Boot Camp: The Mission
   

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that …

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau
   

The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’
   

This week, a phishing attack landed in the inboxes of several US government agencies, spoofing the US government’s cyber security watchdog and response agency. Complete with attachments, the e-mail’s payload was a nasty little virus that has already been tracked …

US-CERT Hooked by US-CERT Phishing Attack
   

Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?

As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?
   

In Part 2 of our look at what you can expect in the coming year, faint rumblings out of Japan suggest that one prediction from Part 1 of this article has already come true. If the very real prospect of …

Bold Predictions for 2012 (Part 2)
   

In a turn of events appropriate for the most tumultuous year in cybercrime, 2011’s body is barely cold and we’re already smelling something suspicious from its decomposing carcass. Rumors of two worms, one well-known and the other relatively new on …

Looking Back At 2011 And Bold Predictions for 2012 (Part 1)