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SPAMfighter, Europe’s leading spam filter, received a perfect overall score from top French magazine, Windows News, in a spam filter round-up. SPAMfighter PRO was given the Editor’s Choice award upon receiving a perfect 10/10 overall score for the magazine’s November N ° 162 edition.

You all remember cybersquatting, a popular sport in the late 90s, right? McDonalds.com, JenniferLopez.com, Hertz.com and Avon.com thankfully all point to the right web sites today, but thaiairline.com, mcdonald.com, luftansa.com, gugle.com, barnesandnobles.com and other misspellings are fake web sites intended to trap the casual surfer with a hand that’s a bit too much quicker than […]

In mid-summer, you might have noticed a surge in spam in Adobe PDF documents. Proofpoint did. The data security company reports that in late July and early August, PDF spam grew to a dizzying one-quarter of all spam. Considering that 90% of all mail that reaches corporate servers is spam, 25% represents a large number.

After being in New York City last week and being busy almost the entire time, I spent a good part of the weekend catching up on e-mail. I have more inboxes than I care to admit and use more technologies than I should be using to see access them (Via the Web, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc). […]

Google’s spam engineers have just added a nice short blogpost here. It’s a "state of the service" report, but it does show a very believable graph above on how little spam reaches us. Most importantly, though, they’ve a nice video at the bottom of the blogpost for those of us with ADHD.

The Federal Trade Commission is warning businesses to be on the lookout for spam that contains a trojan-laden attachment claiming to be a legal complaint against recipient. The bogus emails appear to come from frauddep[at]ftc[dot] gov, a spoofed address, and contain the actual logo for the FTC in an attempt to establish legitimacy.

An effective war against spam requires that open source collaborate with the proprietary world. That’s the view Vipul Ved Prakash Prakesh (right), creator of Vipul’s Razor, and Justin Mason of the Apache Foundation, project committee member for Spam Assassin.

Google has claimed that its spam filters are discouraging spammers, after a decline in attmepts to spam Gmail users. In a post on the Official Google Blog, Brad Taylor, Google "Spam Czar", claimed that: "Attempts to spam Gmail users have been leveling off over the last year and more recently, even declining slightly."

Spammers are using a virtual stripper as bait to dupe people into helping criminals crack codes they need to send more spam or boost the rankings of parasitic Web sites, security researchers said Tuesday.

A bogus email is circulating that says it is from the Federal Trade Commission, referencing a “complaint” filed with the FTC against the email’s recipient. The email includes links and an attachment that download a virus. As with any suspicious email, the FTC warns recipients not to click on links within the email and not […]

Many online media avenues have recently been focusing on the topic of Internet fraud. Business leaders, computer security experts, lawyers, medical boards, banking institutions, etc. They do not fully understand the kinds of frauds that can be conducted through or with the aid of the Internet, or the ramifications of such frauds for the future […]