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E-mail was invented at the MIT in the mid 1960s as a communications tool for the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), several years before ARPANET (which later became the Internet) was started. It was used on several operating systems during the 1960s, including MIT’s CTSS and SDC’s Q32, and it was also a basic feature in [...]

Over time, spammers have changed their spamming tactics in their bid to gain access to people’s mailboxes. The latest tactic is to use the common PDF file format to send image spam. Brian Azzopardi from GFI Software reports. By using PDF attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email [...]

Security researcher Aaron Weaver claims visiting a random Web site could send unwanted print requests to your nearest office printer.In a paper published in November (PDF), and cited on Wednesday in a blog by Jeremiah Grossman of White Hat Security, Weaver demonstrates the code necessary for sending a formatted page to a remote network printer, [...]

The January State of Spam report shows that as 2007 ended, spam surged and accounted for 75 percent of all email, increasing to 83 percent in the last few days leading up to the holiday season. The December State of Spam report had showed that 72% of email traffic was spam.

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Our labs trapped many thousands of spam overnight that are abusing the Windows Live SkyDrive Beta service launched in August last year (or rather it’s the new name for Windows Live Folders…). The service allows you to upload up to 1Gb of files and share them with anyone via weblinks.

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It’s the new year yet spammers are out with old tricks as TrendLabs Content Security (CS) researchers report that last year’s DOC spam is back. An effective means of getting through most antispam filters, DOC spam promotes low-cost pharmaceuticals using varying subject lines, messages, and attachment file names.

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Somewhere in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second biggest city, a tiny startup has struck Internet gold. Its dozen-odd employees are barely old enough to recall the demise of the Soviet Union, but industry analysts believe they’re raking in more than $100 million a year from the world’s largest banks, including Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual.

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If our biggest wishes for the season would come true, there would be no need for ScamBusters issues like this — because we’d live in a world without Internet scams! Until that day comes, however, it’s important to stay informed and alert for the most likely ways that scammers will attack you and your wallet.

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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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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.

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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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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.