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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Symantec also has about two million active email accounts that its uses to collect and analyse spam and a "honey pot network" of vulnerable websites, to entice hacking and examine techniques. Symantec's security... [21 Jul 2008]
The Changing Face of Online Fraud
White Paper Not that long ago some officials were declaring the war against spam all but won. The Federal Trade Commission as recently as December 2006 published a "State of spam" report, citing... [10 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment But unlike the Second World War, this is a struggle that we're losing. Back in the distant past of 2003 the threats were different - viruses, spam, hackers, SQL Slammer and so on. What can be done to... [29 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war This was identified as being the prelude to a spam or phishing attack and the attack was traced to a Seattle hosting service. The popular... [23 Apr 2008]
Webcast: Reputation Systems and the Battle for the Inbox
White Paper Traditional content filtering methods are proving ineffective in the war against spam and other e-mail security threats. Fortunately, advancements in reputation systems—the e-mail security technologies... [13 Dec 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests that the industry is winning the war on spam, with two of the most common forms of spam-related scams on the... [22 Jun 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment The increasing adoption of session initiation protocol (SIP) for VoIP is expected to open up a whole new front in the security war. Spit could be generated in a similar way to email spam with botnets... [09 Mar 2007]
Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?
Comment When the nation goes to war, or faces violent insurrection, the situation seems no better. For instance, we are now entitled to believe that the mass of people who marched in London against war in Iraq... [20 Jun 2006]
Spammer claims scalp in antispam cyber war
News A prominent crusader against unsolicited email ads withdrew from an escalating cyber war with spammers on Wednesday after his website and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack. Blue Security, a company... [18 May 2006]
Australia makes crucial step in war on spam
News Australia, already regarded as the world's champion of anti-spam law, has taken the latest step in outlawing unsolicited bulk email with the introduction of a Code of Practice which, among other measures, will force ISPs... [29 Mar 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment This is a war after all. The building, of which Kaspersky occupies four floors, was the headquarters of the agency responsible for developing Soviet nuclear weapons guidance systems during the cold war. [25 Jan 2006]
'Technology our only hope of cutting spam'
News News from the 'war room' is sounding bleak for proponents of legislation and regulation as a plausible cure to spam email, with the UK's Information Commissioner all but admitting technology is now our... [12 Dec 2005]
Is latest can of worms a cyber-crime turf war?
News Signs of a turf war between cyber crooks lie in the behaviour of the worms that have emerged since Sunday, according to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, a Finnish security software company. [18 Aug 2005]
Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast
News The Asian tsunami, the war in Iraq and also the 9/11 attacks on New York saw similar social engineering attempts. The Trojan then uses the compromised PC and the SMTP servers which it is configured to use to send out... [09 Jul 2005]
Spam: Use Sender ID or we'll junk you, says Microsoft
News Microsoft is to wage war on spam by pushing for all emails to have Sender ID or risk being identified as junk mail by Hotmail and MSN. Around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential... [23 Jun 2005]
