E-mail security company MessageLabs has warned that spammers are already modifying their tactics when it comes to the emerging trend of using audio rather than text attachments in unsolicited mail.
Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business.
Spammers are increasingly targeting individual companies' domains with large volumes of concentrated spam.
A strain of malware disguised as anti-spyware has become the latest double-agent in multi-step "convergence" crime online.
Spammers have launched the first mass MP3-attached pump-and-dump spam campaign, which security experts say could be used to distribute malware.
Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing a new tactic -- launch a DDoS attack on the Web site of the company whose customers they are targeting and then send e-mails "explaining" the outage and offering an "alternative" URL.
As we embark on a new year, the industry hype-machine is slowly warming up to sell us new technologies that will make our jobs easier in 2007. Rest assured though that some problems will remain, like spam.
In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage. Additional reading: Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author
Anti-virus companies said they intercepted several copies of a new password-stealing Trojan over the weekend.
Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.
MailGuard's Andrew Johnson and MessageLabs' Nick Hawkins -- the leaders of two popular managed e-mail services specialists -- go head to head.
Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at Messagelabs, said the company's latest research indicates that Australian spam levels are well below the global average. The bad news is that social networking sites, such as MySpace, are helping phishers create more targeted attacks.
From server-level software, to appliances, to managed services, we review the latest anti-spam solutions to help enterprises manage the onslaught of unsightly spam.
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