Tag Archives: spam

Phishing has reached epidemic proportions. According to a Gartner study 3.6 million people in the US lost money to phishing scams in 2007, up from 2.3 million in 2006. The only bright point in the study was that more people …

So called zombie PCs, the name given to the malware infected computers that make up botnets, are getting smarter. A new report on InternetNews.com says zombies are getting harder to track down thanks to their new technique of regularly asking …

The recent takedown of McColo and two other dodgy ISPs did result in a drop in spam, although by most reports, volume is creeping back up as the spammers find alternative providers. Taking down these ISPs had both a direct …

AT&T appears to have made a monumental blunder. Over the past week they sent text messages to most of their customers. The messages were ads for American Idol, and urged customers to watch the season premiere. The backlash has been …

That is, if you have a Lexus. Toyota, the maker of the Lexus line of luxury autos, has announced plans to roll out a system that will allow them to send messages to their cars. The messages would be transmitted as audio to …

I don’t know how many of you have received emails from Reunion dot com over the years. But if you did it may have been the result of a practice known as “address book scraping”. Address book scraping is the …

An article in The Register points to a very thorough piece of research by two Microsoft researchers, which holds that the common belief that phishers are raking in the dough is false. Spamming and phishing are often portrayed as highly …

According to the most recent statistics from Spamhaus, Google ranks as number three in the ten worst spam service ISPs. Spamhaus keeps a running list of the world’s worst spam problem networks. Naturally, since Google email is free, it lends …

The latest spam hitting inboxes promises recipients they can get free money from the government in the form of grants. The messages invite them to register at GrantsForYouNow.com, a site that is full of testimonals from happy customers, all who …

This being the end of the year, it’s an appropriate time to think about what the next big spam threats are going to be. Needless to say, spammers are getting more creative, and they’re getting better at defeating the spam …