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Novel Mechanism to Defend DDoS Attacks Caused by Spam
White Paper Fast mail delivery, large size file transfer as an attachments, high level spam and virus protection, commercial advertisement free environment are some of the advantages worth to mention. But these mail services are... [01 Jul 2009]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News 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... [23 Jul 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News The flaw affected the BlackBerry Attachment Service - a function within BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) that is used to process PDF attachments and make them readable by BlackBerry users on that network. [23 Jul 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Greene said: "People are used to not opening attachments or maybe not clicking on a link that shows up in their IM [Instant Messenger], but this emulates a real conversation, so you more are likely to give over personal... [10 Dec 2007]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to 147KB in size,... [19 Oct 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News The Storm botnet was initially created at the beginning of 2007 when the Storm Worm was spammed out, hiding in email attachments with a subject line of "230 dead as storm batters Europe". H is for Hackers [17 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware-infected RTF attachments have been recorded over a 16-hour period this month. H is for Hackers C-level employees of publicly... [26 Sep 2007]
Fraudsters fool ABN Amro customers
News The bank has compensated the affected customers and warned customers not to open attachments from people they do not know. A spokesman for ABN Amro said the bank took the issue seriously and would be taking steps to... [20 Apr 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "More email at the moment does appear to be phishy rather than containing malicious attachments. Once the users have validated themselves on the real system... [31 Jan 2007]
Hackers coveting online video - McAfee
News As people become more reluctant to open email attachments from anonymous sources, hackers will target users who open media files instead. Security vendor McAfee has predicted the increasing popularity of... [04 Dec 2006]
How serious is HSBC's online banking flaw?
News The other thing to do is not open unknown attachments," he said. Cardiff University claims that any account can be broken into within nine attempts of hacking the website, though first the hackers would... [10 Aug 2006]
Rising IM use poses corporate security risk
News IM viruses are usually transmitted using social engineering tactics to get victims to click on executable file attachments or hyperlinks in IM messages that link through to malicious web servers. Uncontrolled and... [01 Jun 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News But Thomas readily admits that it will be an on-going battle to try and stay one step ahead of the high-tech criminals and said one of the weak links is people who are still unable to resist opening dodgy email... [01 Mar 2006]
Leader: Good news amid the gloom of insecurity?
Leader After all if you're not being criticised for letting staff wander in and plug 60GB iPods into the backs of their PCs, you're being criticised for letting staff open unauthorised CDs on their desktops, IM one-another or open .exe... [20 Feb 2006]
Microsoft gets ahead of itself with WMF patch
News Additionally, instant messaging worms, Trojan horses and spammed emails with malicious image attachments have surfaced, according to experts. Also, hackers have been quick to craft tools which make it... [06 Jan 2006]
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