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Spam is a wildly growing contagion, a blight on the universe, the creation of the most disgusting denizens of the darkest depths known to man. Even with new technologies and techniques for limiting the amount of spam filling your inbox, it’s tough to stay ahead. It’s no wonder then that anti-spam software is such a […]

It used to be that high school students would get out of class for an assembly and the speaker was usually a recovering alcoholic there to warn about the dangers of substance abuse and drunk driving. While those are certainly very valid and beneficial topics young people need to know about, there’s also a new […]

Apparently it’s not just unwary individuals that fall victim to online scammers. Even large corporations, it seems, can get suckered into parting with their money by devious phishers. Case in point: Eden Prairie, MN.-based grocery chain Supervalu Inc., which earlier this year got conned into depositing more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts […]

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to avoid falling for another new variant of an IRS email scam in which victims receive a fake email claiming they are the subjects of a criminal probe by "IRS Criminal Investigation." The email states that the recipient filed a false tax return to the California Franchise Tax […]

The outbreak is the latest in a string of tactics from the past six months which avoid filters by using file formats not generally blocked or difficult for filters to disassemble and search. It started with "image spam" which used picture files to bypass filters. That was followed by spam that used the PDF file […]

The spam is a short, 30-second MP3 file recorded at low bit-rate with a synthetic female voice promoting a particular stock; the voice heavily distorted to avoid signature-based anti-spam approaches (click here to listen to an edited sample of MP3 spam). Spammers are taking advantage of the fact that the MP3 format is one of […]

Here’s a quick how-to guide on how you can track email to it’s originating location by figuring out the email’s IP address and looking it up. I have found this to be quite useful on many occasions for verification purposes since I receive lots of emails daily due to my blog. Tracking the IP address […]

The registry for the new .asia TLD (top-level domain) plans to ban domain names that are consistently used for phishing sites. DotAsia Organization Ltd. has agreed to implement a policy to ban domain names associated with phishing, said Laura Mather, of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of companies and government groups that studies […]

Thanks to rapidly-evolving technologies, identity theft has become one of the fastest-growing financial crimes in the world today. Last year in Canada, more than 7,700 victims of identity theft contacted Phone Busters, the Canadian Anti-fraud Call Centre. They reported a total loss of $16 million.

Almost 90 per cent of all email sent from some Asian nations is spam, according to recent research.The percentage of spam coming from most areas is significantly worse than the global average of 61 per cent, according to data from security firm Symantec. Among the worst hit nations are the Philippines at 88 per cent, […]

Identity theft has been on the rise in recent years, and a recent news article has indicated that Birmingham, Alabama has now made the top 50 U.S. cities for identity theft. There are always stories that highlight the risk of identity theft for citizens living in certain cities, states, or geographic regions.

Carnegie Mellon University is researching the best ways to educate e-mail users about the dangers of phishing, such as how to distinguish the URL of a fraudulent Web site from a legitimate one. Not exactly rocket science…or is it?

"A campaign’s ability to understand the Internet and protect itself is directly proportional to its investment in staff who understand it," said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Web site TechPresident.com. "They don’t even think of it," he said, adding that the lack of precautions is a "symptom" of how poorly the Net is understood in […]

The scourge of spam has spread to mobile phones, with Britons being bombarded by more than one million unwanted text messages every day. A report from uSwitch.com, the consumer website, also showed that security groups are losing their battle with the criminal gangs behind conventional e-mail spam.

Yahoo’s Domain Keys allows e-mail providers to validate an e-mail’s originating domain, making the use of blacklists and whitelists much more effective. Domain Keys also makes phishing attacks easier to detect by helping to identify abusive domains. The technology is so promising that in May 2007, the IETF adopted it as a proposed standard.