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Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News B is for Botnets The security threat from email attachments has fallen dramatically during the same period, dropping from one infected attachment in every 332 emails in the first six months of 2007 to one in every 2,500 during the first six months... [23 Jul 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News B is for Botnets In the past, the Storm worm authors would directly link to malware on websites or within spam emails. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been identified by the security... [07 May 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News B is for Botnets According to Gartner, 3.3 per cent of the 124 million people who received phishing emails in 2007 were duped and lost money. PayPal has brought in a number of tech solutions including digital email signatures - something that the... [11 Apr 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment B is for Botnets Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. [10 Mar 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News B is for Botnets Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing emails targeting eBay users for personal and account details. Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in... [10 Mar 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News B is for Botnets Those threats from things like botnets that once might have been a silly academic exercise have become a real issue. B is for Botnets They had no idea and they will look at it and say 'this can not be right' because say there have... [15 Feb 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News B is for Botnets Up to 4,000 online customers were also linked to the wrong accounts, receiving other people's emails and were able to access other customers' personal information over the web, including names, addresses and phone numbers. [16 Jan 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study B is for Botnets The email filtering system allowed Liddell to construct a specific dictionary of Korean words that it could use to flag up potentially abusive emails for this student and hold them for her to confirm their validity, before sending... [11 Jan 2008]
'Big Brother IT' fuels workplace stress
News B is for Botnets Monitoring noted by the PSI study includes logging emails and internet usage, keystroke loggers, recording and timing calls and measuring shop-till throughput. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [08 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment B is for Botnets A recent survey showed that almost 90 per cent of public sector IT managers said staff would open unknown emails and 75 per cent connect private USB devices to their work PCs. The issue of data encryption has been brought into... [21 Dec 2007]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper Download this paper to learn about Symantec's approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six... [12 Dec 2007]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment As outlined in the first article of this special report there are millions of infected computers forming botnets, whose primary purpose is to spew out countless messages urging us to buy Viagra, or providing the latest 'hot tip' in shares. [10 Dec 2007]
Google calls for help in flagging up the bad guys
News B is for Botnets These are ranked via information concerning whether the site hosts malware, if it is a spamming site - where entering your email address could result in thousands of spam emails, if the site is linked to sites hosting malware, or... [04 Dec 2007]
Who's been reading your emails?
News B is for Botnets But in other situations your emails could be monitored or accessed by anyone from your line manager, other senior employees and the IT team. A number of different people in the workplace can monitor employees' emails as long as... [30 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment The botnets grew too quickly, were difficult for them to control and were large blips on the radar screens of the antivirus vendors. Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing penetration of always-on home broadband networks... [19 Nov 2007]
