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Security

Analysis of Spam Thru botnet

January 29, 2007

Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst at MessageLabs was among the many security analysts watching one Trojan called “Spam Thru”, a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer, at the turn of last year. Spam Thru represented an expontential jump in the level of sophistication and complexity of these botnets, harnessing a 70,000 [...]

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Nigerian Scammer moves to London, England

January 28, 2007

The most visible form of fee fraud today is the Nigerian Letter or 419 fraud. A typical letter claims to come from a person needing to transfer large sums of money out of the country or from a lottery company. As the Nigerian letter has become well known to potential targets, the gangs operating the [...]

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Spammers now using TinyURL to flood comments

January 28, 2007

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, spam in blogs is becomming huge these days along with search engine spam and mobile phone messaging spam. Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management [...]

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What a Paypal phishing email looks like and how to detect it

January 19, 2007

In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication. Phishing is typically carried out using email or an instant message, although phone contact has been used as [...]

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How to hide your email address from spammers, a thorough guide

January 18, 2007

Every IT professional worth his/her salt has their own webpage/blog these days. While you may have people from all over the globe dropping a line at your site, Email harvesters are the most unwanted visitors on any website. These email spambots crawl the web via search engines to find and extract email addresses from webpages. [...]

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