SPAM : Don't let this modern day scourge ruin your life

We’ve all seen it before, another email advertising anything from free garden gnomes to spectacular cravats, not only is it a cause of constant irritation and frustration

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Spam Increase By 400 percent in Q2 2008, UK Spammers to blame

Research unveiled by anti-spam software company Clearmymail shows a significant increase in the number of spam blocked per customer, quadrupling to nearly 31,000 compared to just over 8100 in Q1 2008

FRI 08 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Internet ‘Poisoning’ Opens Corporate Networks Security Vulnerability

A major new security risk, concerning ‘DNS cache  poisoning’, has been discovered which can reroute web browser and email traffic to fraudulent criminal servers without the security protection in place being aware of any problems

THU 31 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

SQL Injection Technique is Hacker's Best Friend, Says Security Firm

While some are still evaluating the threat caused by SQL injection technique, security firm Sophos released a security threat report that underlines the fact that this technique is currently the favourite method used by hackers to infect computers

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Super Malware Asprox Takes UK By Storm, Targets Government Websites

The last few weeks have seen a resurgence in the number of attacks based on the Asprox malware and coming from East European countries, something that was highlighted by GSS back in May 2008

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Seattle based “Spam King” Goes Behind The Bars For Almost 4 Years

Robert Soloway, popularly known as “Spam King”, is sentenced to 47 months of prison, for distributing millions of junk mails to users, after an extraordinarily long sentence hearing of almost thirty six hours in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Spammer Faces 30 Months Sentence For Sending Spam Mails To AOL Subscribers

A 27 year old spammer, Adam Vitale, is sentenced to 30 months prison by a district court in Manhattan, New York, for sending spam messages to AOL subscribers

FRI 18 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Symantec: 80 per cent of all email is spam

I was listening to the podcast version of The Bottom Line - Evan Davies' excellent radio program which is broadcast on BBC R4 each Saturday - last night and was intrigued to hear John Brigden, the executive vice president of Symantec talking about email.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

New Guidelines To Help ISPs Eliminate Spam Faster

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has published guidelines that should help internet service providers improve the way they fend off spam attacks

TUE 01 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Spam More Critical Than Security for Social Networkers

Social networkers across Europe are three times more frustrated by spam and advertising (36%), than the security of their personal information (11%), according to research by Mobile Services Specialist, Wadja

MON 09 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News