Joan Goodchild writes "spammers are finding new ways to send out their junk mail just weeks after the shutdown of a major Web-hosting firm took many of them off the map." read more » DiscussBury
Security researchers at the University of California, San Diego and UC Berkeley infiltrated the control system of the Storm botnet to research the economics of spam. They found that pharmacy-touting read more » 1 CommentBury
Angela Gunn writes " Spammers have figured out a way to get around certain implementations of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and thus abuse Blog read more » DiscussBury
The reports are in and the news is not good. Malicious spam rose sharply in the third quarter. From July to September 2008, one in every 416 emails was malicious spam - compared to one in every 3,333 read more » DiscussBury
Alice LaPlante writes about internet hoaxes. They can potentially be really harmful, from instilling fear in people to providing a gold mine of email addresses for spammers. Sometimes a warning email read more » DiscussBury
The FTC has issued an alert - Bank Failures, Mergers and Takeovers: A "Phish-erman’s Special" Spammers are using the current bank crisis to try to get financial information from people. read more » DiscussBury
