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You will inevitably receive some spam in your inbox - there is no getting around that fact of life. How you handle this unwanted junk mail will go a long way toward reducing or increasing the amount of spam you will receive in the future. It may also protect you from viruses, credit card fraud, [...]

Blog spammers have exploited a vulnerability in the archive.org website, in order to redirect users to paid-for pharmaceuticals listings. The practice has unfortunately become increasingly common, with innocent websites being hacked or otherwise exploited in order to try and capture traffic from Google.

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If you’ve seen the identity theft commercials on television — the one that portrays the big guy sitting on the couching talking with a cheerleader’s voice or the one with the little old lady with the voice of a gangster — it can be hard not to laugh. But is identity theft really a laughing [...]

Could your soul mate be waiting for you somewhere out there in cyberspace? And if so, how can you avoid dating scams that might lurk there as well? If you’ve ever been tempted to try online dating, you’re not alone. An Online Publishers Association study showed U.S. residents paid $600 million on online dating and [...]

Since my last posting on my battle against spam, I’ve made quite a bit of progress. I’ll concentrate on my personal experience in this entry, and cover some broader issues in a future post. I needed to take several additional steps to make the setup of my domain’s email server and SpamJadoo work well for [...]

Authorities in several countries have cracked down on Nigerian e-mail scammers, resulting in the seizure of over $2.1 billion in fraudulent checks. The National Consumers League, in conjunction with the US Postal Inspection Service, announced yesterday that 77 arrests have been made in connection with the scams. Those arrested were from Nigeria, the Netherlands, and [...]

SPF, short for Sender Policy Framework, is one of the many ways to fight spam. It’s based on verifying insecure data (mail) with secure data (dns). SPF is a check that is performed on the receiving mailserver. SPF fights the type of spam that sends via open (or hacked) mailservers which use forged sender addresses. [...]

Showing it is making good on a promise six months ago to crack down on spam intended to take advantage of unsuspecting investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday suspended trading in three stocks it said were "susceptible" to e-mail promotion schemes. The stocks, all listed on the Pink Sheets market, were Alliance Transcription [...]

Spammers have taken a special interest in the US housing market, capitalizing on news about the US housing slump and the recent interest rate cut, as PDF, image and e-card spam fell in September, according to a new report by Symantec. According to Symantec’s monthly report, “The State of Spam in September,” spam levels continue [...]

Subscribers to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security daily e-mail bulletin were inundated with dozens of e-mails on Wednesday due to a glitch with the mailing list. The gaffe started after one man, Alex Greene, a manager at GKN Freight Services Inc., sent a reply to the Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report, a round-up of [...]

There is no escaping the suspicion that spammers have been charting a cagier course in recent months. Electronic messaging managed service provider MessageLabs has noticed too. Previously pristine inboxes are finding that image files and PDFs containing pump-and-dump stock pitches and advertisements increasingly slip through. Excel and Rich Text Format (RTF) spam have also been [...]

The elusive "Rock Phish" group continues to be innovative. The group appears to have started using the so-called "fast flux" method to fool researchers and elude detection, according to new security research. Cambridge University security researchers Richard Clayton and Tyler Moore tracked 30,000 phishing reports that came in through Phish Tank, a clearing house that [...]

Virus levels down in Australia but spam surging again according to MessageLabs. Global virus and phishing scams significantly increased in September reaching levels not seen since 2006 despite reduced figures in Australia.

The endless barrage of spam e-mails clogging inboxes around the world is becoming increasingly dangerous, an international privacy conference heard Friday. A panel of experts discussing Internet crime before privacy commissioners and data protection advocates said the unwanted messages are more than simple nuisances.Authorities, meanwhile, look on with relative impotence.