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With Christmas just around the corner, the FBI can’t be accused of waiting until the last minute to get their Christmas shopping done. This week, the U.S. law enforcement agency – in partnership with several U.S.-based and international agencies – …

In the good ol’ days, our most worrisome concerns when it came to technology were Operating Systems that didn’t do much: fiddling with Winsock while trying to make it work with insipid browsers, popups, Trojans, and yes, even praying that …

We tend to look at mythology in terms of fascinating stories from ancient times that told stories of heroes, deities and maidens. While we pass classical mythology off as literature, we often forget that long ago, these stories were believed …

  Three months after it teamed up with the FBI to take down the infamous Rustock botnet, Microsoft announced it has succeeded in getting rid of over half its zombies removed. In March, the botnet’s command and control servers were wiped …

Spam-ready tablets off the shelves? Zombie PCs out of the box? Testifying before U.S. Congress this week, a top official for the Department of Homeland Security said that technology being imported into the country is sometimes known to contain preloaded …

Security experts are warning of a brand new spam campaign with malicious payload. Hundreds of thousands of spam messages a day, using a banner hosted by the Federal Reserve and designed to look like notifications of a failed bank transfer, …

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.

Are you an administrator new to the world of spam filtering?  Can’t tell Bayesian spam filtering aside from blacklisting, phishing from the vishing?  To help you get started, I’ve assembled a list of the most common spam-related terms, and provided …

A massive resurgence of the Waledec botnet has been detected in the past week. Waldec, also known as Storm, had gone dormant at the beginning of the month for reasons still unknown. It’s speculated that the cause may have been …

Spammers have wasted no time in exploiting the recent drama surrounding WikiLeaks. The site, whose owner has been arrested on sex crime charges and the site itself, has been dropped from Amazon, which was hosting its servers, and Mastercard, Visa, …