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PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Hacking for Dollars Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today's PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth. |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato |
Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost. |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again. |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number. |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain. |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down. |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs. |
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands. |
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that. |
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else. |
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Image-Based Spam a Server Threat With spam now embedded in graphics files, e-mail servers are getting creamed. |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch? |
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Cyber Criminals Turn to Home Users Phishing and spam are on a dramatic rise as home users become the prime targets of online criminals. Attacks are up 81 percent over the last six months and spam jumped 50 percent over the same period. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends. |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston |
Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs. |
PC Magazine June 21, 2006 Neil J. Rubenking |
Buying Guide: Security Suites Cherry-pick firewall, antivirus, and antispyware utilities from different vendors and you risk incompatibility. |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Tim Scannell |
Jamie de Guerre, Director, Partner Programs, Cloudmark Spam isn't going anywhere, and Jamie de Guerre's company is tracking its trails through our inboxes. |
InternetNews July 19, 2010 |
Zscaler Leverages the Cloud for Email Security The Zscaler cloud-based security suite now includes real-time filtering to block spam and phishing attacks. |
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later. |
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters. |
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S. |
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005. |
Entrepreneur June 2003 Catherine Seda |
A Bad Rap Have you been slammed as a spammer? Here's how to fight back. |
AskMen.com May 7, 2003 Steve Richer |
How To: Avoid Spam E-mail Rest assured there are things the little people can do to overcome that quagmire. Read on to find out how you can modify your surfing behavior to minimize the risk of a spam invasion. |
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb |
When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. |
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 Robert Lemos |
The New Security Threats More secure operating systems mean that attackers are looking elsewhere for holes to sneak through. |
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring |
Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail. |
InternetNews August 4, 2009 |
Businesses Not Immune to Botnets, Report Warns A new report delivers best practices on dealing with this spam vector. |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead. |
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components. |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats. |
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan |
Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy. |
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever. |
InternetNews January 24, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM: Users Are The Weak Link in Security IBM is warning in a new report that, though widespread virus outbreaks are on the decline, on the whole online attacks are expected to rise in 2006. The culprit? Highly targeted attacks that rely on naive users to help perpetrate cybercrimes. |
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Tim Gray |
AOL Winning Its Spam Battle? The ISP said its spam numbers are dropping and staying that course. |
InternetNews August 7, 2009 |
Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack. |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study. |
Entrepreneur June 2010 Ericka Chickowski |
Protect Your Small Business Against Cyber Attacks Cybercrime costs the economy more than $1 trillion per year, and crooks are increasingly setting their sights on small businesses. A look at the most destructive threats to your network - and what you need to do about them. |
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Security Lapses Aplenty Despite Growing Threats A study by Verizon Business's RISK team reveals some disconcerting shortcomings in companies' security. |
InternetNews March 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
SMBs Playing The Ostrich When It Comes To Security Small to medium-sized businesses often don't have the security policies, systems or know-how in place of their larger enterprise brethren, and that's a lurking danger. |
InternetNews July 20, 2009 |
Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right. |
AskMen.com Thomas Bey |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Spam 1 - Spamming is legal... 2 - Many companies you know use spam... 3 - The spam is coming from inside your house... |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest. |
CIO November 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon |
Be a Spam Slayer The ubiquitous awfulness of spam affords CIOs a rare opportunity to look good. Here's how CIOs can leap into the spam fray and keep e-mail viable and valuable for users. |
Inc. June 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
The Best Spam Fighters Six ways to protect your E-mail. |
InternetNews December 16, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
'Shockers' in Cisco's Year-End Security Report But it's what didn't make it into the report that could be even more revealing. |
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel |
There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations. |
PC World January 24, 2007 Yardena Arar |
Spam Explodes, but You Can Fight Back Changing the way you handle e-mail could reduce your junk-mail intake. |