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The percentage of threats arriving in e-mail that rely on links to malicious sites — rather than arriving as a file attachment — has ballooned 10-fold since the first quarter of the year, a security company said today. In a report published Thursday, U.K.-based MessageLabs said that 35% of the e-mail threats it now detects [...]

Spammers are exploiting the fight for democracy in Burma to spread malware, according to recent reports. The surge of media interest in Burma, or Myanmar as the ruling generals prefer, has led spammers to attempt to build up botnets.

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Another phishing attack plays upon the greed of people, this time in the form of a tax refund. More than two dozen domains discovered by McAfee pose as official IRS sites offering the windfall. Don’t you believe it. The form presented on the phishing site asks for so much information, we don’t know whether to [...]

Message Labs has issued its September Intelligence report, showing the threats through e-mails, viruses and spam. The results display an increase in all three, with one in 48.8 e-mails containing malware. As many of us have noticed, the malware isn’t in an attachment in many cases, but in a link within the e-mail, to an [...]

Fraudsters have begun garnishing phishing emails with claims that punters need to respond in order to enrol in the Verified by Visa programme. Verified by Visa is a legitimate service that adds an additional layer of security to online credit card transactions. Anyone using a card enrolled in the programme needs to use a password [...]

Spammers target those that are concerned with computer security. New spam messages appeared just few days ago. This time you get an email from Microsoft that has a ‘security update’ attached or links to the patch. According to Symantec, the attachment is a Trojan.Dropper that can be executed by opening the attachment or visiting the [...]

Image and PDF spam have been on the downturn, with plain old text and a tricky use of the mailto tag arriving in pump and dump spams. Everything old is new again, and we can count plaintext spam in that category.

For quite some time spammers have been trying to hide links advertised in their e-mails. The main reason for this is probably increasing effectiveness of various realtime blocklists, such as SURBL. For those that aren’t familiar with SURBL (http://www.surbl.org), it’s an RBL that lists list URIs found in spam e-mails. In other words, instead of [...]

We have a very timely issue for you today on mortgage scams. As the housing market continues to decline, and legions of homeowners face foreclosure, scammers are swooping in to exploit people’s desperation. Using three new mortgage scams, con artists are lining their pockets by promising to "rescue" financially distressed people.

Gmail has a bunch of lesser-known feature that can end up being very useful once you get to know them. I’ve put together a list of my top 10 favorite features that you may or may not be familiar with. Here are the first five; watch for the second batch sometime next week.

For most Internet users, retrieving wanted e-mail messages is like hacking through the dense underbrush of a rainforest using a Jason Voorhees-sized machete. But, instead of vines and tree branches, it’s pitches for stock deals and Canadian penis pills you’re hacking through.

I get a lot of email that matters to me: often a hundred messages a day. I get even more spam sent to me: thousands of messages a day. I manage this successfully with multiple filters, multiple servers, and multiple email addresses. You might not be able to apply all of my techniques, but some [...]

Zango, a company that used to be called 180 solutions, has a long history of making and distributing spyware. (See the Wikipedia article for their sordid history.) Not surprisingly, anti-spyware vendors routinely list Zango’s software as what’s tactfully called "potentially unwanted". Zango has tried to sue their way out of the doghouse by filing suit [...]

We’re seeing some appalling behaviour from social networking wannabe Quechup, which is conducting a massive spam campaign on a scale not seen since the heady days of Dr Mariam Abacha. If trust is everything, then this is the sort of thing that can kill a brand. Quechup is potentially in a lot of trouble with [...]

Spam levels reached an all time high last month, according to the latest figures by SoftScan. The research, carried out by the email security firm, found that during August spam levels hit a record, with 97 per cent of the emails monitored by SoftScan identified as junk messages. These are the highest levels seen since [...]