Olympics – A Major 2008 Computer Threat

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

2008 may be a busy year when it comes to computer threats, as the attackers prepare an avalanche of malicious attempts over our systems, Websense wrote in the "2008's Top Ten Security Threats" report published today. Although the security vendor presented all the top ten threats which may appear next ...

United States – The Most Vulnerable Country

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Security company Sophos rolled out the report concerning the spam evolution in the third quarter of the year, revealing that the United States won the first position with 28.4 points. This means that "almost one in three of all the world's spam emails is being sent through a compromised US ...

Fergie’s MP3 Files Asking For Money

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Security company Sophos discovered one new spam campaign which appears to be based on MP3 files attached to the messages asking for consumers' support for a Canadian company. The filenames are pretty attractive as they use the names of several celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Fergie and others. According to ...

Scammers Make More Money Than Some Companies Do

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

You’ve heard the news, cyber-crime is worth more than drug dealing, but who knew that spam-scam netted, this year only, more than $2.1 billion. These numbers have been pointed out by Reuters that also informs the 2 billions are just in fake checks and arrests, so, who knows how much ...

Come On Google, Block the Spam!

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Google is now hosting all kinds of spam, no matter we're talking about Gmail messages or unsolicited posts published on Google Groups. First of all, how can you define spam? Dictionary.com sustains spam is an "unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminatelyto multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; ...