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Sponsored Post: Spam Archived For Five Years?

A number of compliance and operational risk acts and frameworks including SOX, hipaa , GLBA, PCI, ISO, BASIL, BASIL II, FFIEC, SEC, NFPA, BC, DR to name a few prescribe the storage of information, which includes electronic documents of all nature, including email for a minimum number of ye...

Scamming a Scammer

We get them on a daily basis, sometimes even more. They promise us we've won a foreign lottery, offer us a high paying job, or promise us a huge reward if we'll just help them get their family fortune out of their war torn country-or perhaps they discovered a long lost relative left you m...

Spam King Pleads Guilty

"Spam King" Robert Soloway pled guilty in a Seattle court to felony mail fraud, fraud in connection with Electronic mail , and failing to file a tax return in 2005. He was set to go on trial to face a 40-count indictment that included 13 counts of money laundering and seven coun...

Cybercriminals Create Malware Maze

ITNews is reporting that McAfee has discovered a maze of over 10,000 websites that have been hijacked by cybercriminals with the intent of using them to take over unsuspecting visitor's PCs. The hijacked sites include travel, government and even hobby sites. It's suspected that the page...

Help A Spammer for $3 a Day!

The New York Times is reporting that previous studies from various Internet security firms claiming spammers have devised a program capable of cracking Google's CAPTCHA system may be off the mark. Brad Taylor, a Google software engineer known as the "Spam Czar" is claiming that th...

Controlling Spam

Here is an interesting and informative video from the University of Washington Although it's a few years old I think it's still provides some good information, and an interesting comparison of the spam problem then (2005) and now. Here's an excerpt from the summary posted on Google Vi...

Spam Getting Sneaky

In a recent report, Google's Postini team is warning enterprises to be on alert for socially generated spam and virus attacks. The report found that while threats to enterprise messaging security and compliance appear to be leveling off this year, new techniques using social engineering are o...

Hackers Targeting Routers Next?

There is a great blog post on ZDNet about routers quite possibly being the next target for hackers. A "Router Hacking Challenge" was recently made, with the idea being to share attacks against a variety of routers. Here is an excerpt from the Full Discloser mailing list sharing the fi...

Company Settles Spam Charges

An adult website has agreed to pay $413,000 to settle charges it allowed its affiliates to send porn spam to unsuspecting recipients. Arizona based Cyberheat was accused by the FTC of exposing children to sexually explicit images and violating the Adult Labeling Rule and CAN-SPAM Act. Bo...

Microsoft Set to Release 4 Critical Patches

Microsoft has announced it will release 4 critical patches on March 11th. All will address remote execution flaws found in Office: The first bulletin is rated critical for Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and may address an Excel vulnerability discovered in January and left unpatched. The second bu...

Spam Over IM Hits Skype

Dameon over at the VOIP blog has an interesting post about spam via IM on Skype. Users receive an IM from some with a sexy name and picture asks to be added to your contact list. Of course it isn't really a beautiful woman or handsome man wanting to get to know you-it's a spammer, o...

Sponsored Post: Multiple Levels of Spam Blocking Necessary

Creating a spam free environment is a panacea; however the best approach of blocking spam may also be the most annoying to the end users affected by it. A number of anti spam vendors use several levels of protection, on the ISP, the network edge, the mail server(s) and on the users mac...

Rootkit Wars

The latest Trojan to hit the net is capable of removing rootkits from already compromised PCs, but then installs it's own nearly undetectable backdoor. Named the Pandex Trojan , it stops existing rootkits by removing their hooks into system calls, then installs its own rootkit called Pushu-A...

Spammers Conviction Upheld

The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the country's first felony conviction for spamming, ruling that spamming is not considered protected speech. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh , N.C was convicted under Virginia's anti-spamming law and sentenced to 9 years in prison. He was once considered...

Spammers top 10 report: US Leading the Axis of Evil!

We're counting down the top 10 spamming countries in the world and award one nation with the dubious honor of being miles ahead of the competition in relaying SPAM. This is our interpretation of why the countries rank as they do. Countries are ranked according to percentage of global spam ...

New Botnet on the Loose

A new peer to peer botnet is on the scene, and it's even more powerful than Storm. It's begun attacking U.S. based enterprises, educational institutions and ISPs. Named the MayDay botnet , it's able to evade most anti-virus products. To communicate with it's bots it uses several ...

Mega-D Trojan Analysis

Secure works has released an excellent analysis of the Ozdock/Mega-D trojan, whuch is responsible for creating and adding to the Mega-D botnet. Here is an excerpt: Some sample Ozdok filenames are icf.exe, icf32.exe, cacglivn.exe, guyymgvl.exe and mm27nov.exe. The (phony) embedded file descriptio...

Top 6 Botnets

Researchers with Marshal's TRACE team have identified the top 6 botnets in terms of each's share of the world's total spam production: Srizbi, 40 percent of spam Rustock, 21 percent Mega-D, 9 percent Hacktool.spammer, 8 percent Pushdo, 6 percent Storm, 2 percent Mega-D shut down bri...

Auto-responder Spam on the Rise

McAfee is warning that the number of spammers using the out of office or "vacation" functions of web-based email services to send spam is in the rise. These auto-responders are configured to send spam rather than a real "out of office" message. "In recent weeks we have ...

The Economics of Information Security

Here is another great video from DeepSec2007 . This one is a talk about the Economics of Information Security. From the summary: The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fastmoving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from ... all » machines belonging to...

Unseen Spam Costs Rising

A new study by the European Network and Information Security Agency( ENISA ) is reporting that spam is posing an increasing threat to corporate security and bandwith costs. Even though only 6% of all spam ever makes it to actual inboxes, the overall amount is growing. 20% of the world's pop...

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The Criminal Ecosystem

CIO.com has an excellent article about the Cybercriminal Ecosystem. It examines the evolution of crimeware and how malware creation groups follow the organization of legit groups. Here is an excerpt: It began a year or so ago with a shift in the very nature and principles of malware creation to ...

Spammers Use Lunar Eclipse to Deliver Malware

The latest newsworthy event being exploited by spammers is the recent lunar eclipse. According to a security alert issued by Websense , a new wave of spam has emerged, promising videos of the eclipse. Instead, it downloads a Trojan onto the user's computer and steals personal info. The malic...

Observing The Tidal Waves of Spam

Here is an interesting video about malware and threat management. It is from DeepSec2007 , an indepth security conference that took place in Europe this past November. Here is an excerpt from the description: In this talk we will address the main challenges to be solved in order to build an automa...

Russia Becomes New Malware Leader

According to a report by security vendor PC Tools, Russia has overtaken China as the malware leader, accounting for over 27% of it. China is second with 26%. Russia is also a huge producer of spam. Despite the recent demise of the Russian Business Network, a haven for cybercriminals, malware prod...

Japanese Spammer Accused of Sending Over 2 Million Spams

ComputerWeekly is reporting that a man in Tokyo, Japan has been arrested for allegedly sending over 2 million spam messages. Authorities say he bought 600,000 email addresses for about $900US and made over $17,000 in profit by sending spam promoting gambling and dating sites. He was caught afte...

Sponsored Post: SPAM, Viruses and the Blacklisting of Exchange Servers

By Nicholas Blank An Exchange organization may find itself blacklisted - due to a virus infestation on an otherwise well guarded network. Here's the scenario - One day out of the blue a corporation's domain is blacklisted. The whole world seems to be returning its mail for violation of ...

Prefix Hijacking and the Spam Wars

Here is an interesting and informative talk given by a Systems Administrators about BGP prefix hijacking and how spammers use it to evade RBL's. Here is an excerpt from the description: BGP prefix hijacks take the IP addresses of others and make them your own. This talk provides a chilling acco...

Spammers in 1934

Modern Mechanix recently featured an article from one of it's 1934 issues that reveals something shocking-spam existed even then! That was more than 70 years ago! It's true! The article talks about a pirate radio station that took over a popular spot on the dial and began broadcasting a...

Hillary Clinton Spam Spreading Malware

Researchers at Symantec and McAfee are reporting a spam that carries a Trojan horse masquarading as a video of Hillary Clinton. "Hilary [sic] Clinton visited her campaign headquarters in Virginia and did satellite interviews, looking beyond Tuesday's trio of contests and touting th...

Back In Business

We're Back in business folks. The past week has been fraught with DDoS attacks and cranky servers and I apologize. Please bear with us as we get caught up and back into the swing of things, and stay tuned for all the breaking news about Spam and Internet Security that you've come to...

We Got Spammed!

You may have noticed that IGotSpam has been unavailable for much of the last two days. This is because Creative Weblogging became the victim on a DDoS attack , presumably from a botnet, and quite likely the Storm worm, which was rumored to resurface via an attack on or near Valentine's Day. ...

Hackers Attack Anti-Virus Site

According to AVG , the website for antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked, resulting in a virus being installed on visitor's computers. The malware is being hosted in the site's download section. "They let one of their pages get hit by an iFrame injection," Rog...

Spammers Crack Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA System

Websense Security Labs is reporting that spammers have found away around Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA system and are using bots to create thousands of accounts to spam with. Since the Microsoft domain is more or less blacklist proof, it's very attractive to spammers. From the Websense blog...

Judge Orders End to Weight Loss Spam Organization

A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop sending spam promoting it's weight-loss and anti-aging products. The judge also fined Sili Neutraceuticals nearly $6.2 million dollars for violating the CAN-SPAM Act and the FTC Act. Judge David Coar said the company violated the FTC act ...

Using Throttling and Traffic Shaping to Fight Spam

Here's an interesting talk about spammer economics and behavior and how to fight spam using connection management from the 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference . It provides an interesting history of spam, new spam fighting techniques and real world scenarios. It also pr...

Sponsored Post: Server Based Anti-Spam Solutions

Spam isn't just annoying, it can cost your company time, money,lost productivity-or worse. Here is an interesting and informative video from GFI about how spam and phishing can affect your company, how to protect it, and how GFI's MailEssentials software can help!

Security Software Industry Takes First Steps Towards Forming Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization

More than 40 security software firms from around the world recently met in Spain to formalize the charter for the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO. The organization was formed in response to the increasing concerns about what anti-malware technologies actually do and the test...

DDoS Attacks on the Rise

DDoS attacks are predicted to rise in 2008. These cyber attacks can disable websites, interrupt commerce and can take down entire commercial and government networks. Such high profile sites as Yahoo! and Amazon have already been hit with such attacks. This video examines DDoS attacks and looks at wh...

New Botnet Overtakes Storm

A new botnet is on the scene, and it's overtaken the Storm worm's. Called Mega-D , it is currently responsible for 32% of all spam mails sent, 11% more than the Storm Worm botnet at its peak last September. Mega-D's botnet heavily promotes so called "male enhancement" pills...

Botnet Source Code For Overachievers

This video is a companion to the video series I recently posted called "Malware Analysis: Botnets". This video examines botnet code line by line and examines how bot herders configure them-a must watch for IT professionals! It also examines how bot herders use encryption to protect the...

Malware Analysis: Botnets

Botnets have become more and more of a concern lately, thanks to the Storm Worm. Storm is believed to have created the net's largest botnet, with somewhere between 5-10 million computers turned into zombies . The users of the affected systems likely have no idea they are members of this no...

GFI Adds Support for January 2008 Microsoft Security Updates

GFI has announced it has added support for these recent Microsoft Security Updates: MS08-002 Severity Rating: Important Vulnerability in LSASS Could Allow Local Elevation of Privilege (943485) Description: This important update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Win...

Infamous Spammer Sandford Wallace Busted Again

Infamous spammer Sanford Wallace has been busted again -this time for using Myspace to spread his spam and spyware. Wallace began his spamming career more than a decade ago, resulting in lawsuits from AOL, CompuServe, and Earthlink. As a result he agree to stop spamming but ultimately did not. H...

Western Union Spam Delivers Keylogger

A new wave of spam claiming to be a money transfer notice from western union is delivering a nasty piece of malware-a keylogger. The email claims over $3,000 has been transferred to the recipient and includes a tracking number. The keylogger is contained in a Trojan posing as a transfer ...

PDF Spam Rises Again

PDF spam has returned. According to management services vendor MX Logic , PDF spam accounted for .5% of all spam volume last week. "It could be somebody testing the waters or it could be the calm before the Storm ," Sam Masiello, Director of Threat Management, said. "Generall...

Dave Perry Does Malware

Malware is no laughing matter, but here is a new and informative video from Trend Micro that takes a lighter approach to explaining and examining malware.

Spammers Using Google To Evade Filters

According to a researcher at Websense Inc , spammers are now using thousands of Google accounts to get past spam filters. Instead of including links to the website they want people to visit, they insert a link from Google Page Creator. "They'll send out a big long spam run, and include...

Groundbreaking Technology in Spam Prevention

According to Ferris Research, spam can cost over $500 per user a year. Even with spam filters in place, they claim it still costs $140 per user a year. It also results in lost productivity and higher IT costs. InformationWeek is offering an interesting white paper detailing a groundbreaking new a...

Exposing a Phishing Attack

Here's a video from LiveSecurity exposing a phishing attack directed at US Bank. It explains all the techniques phishers use and how to spot them, and actually examines a malicious website designed to steal personal info. It's a great learning too for some of your more computer illiterate ...

Researcher Cracks Yahoo's CAPTCHA Software

An anonymous programmer going by the name "John Wane" has claimed to have cracked Yahoo's CAPTCHA software. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) software is used by most major websites to prevent automated systems from creating ...

New Toolkit Infects Over 10,000 Websites

A security firm called Finjan has discovered over 10,000 websites infected by a toolkit called "random js toolkit". The kit stores the IP addresses of web crawlers sent by anti-virus tools and security firms to examine web pages and when it detects one it serves up legit content to fool...

Sponsored Post: University of Liverpool Selects GFI MailSecurity

The University of Liverpool has selected GFI MailSecurity for it's email security needs. As on of the UK's leading universities, it depends on email as it's foremost means of communication. Its computer network hosts 34,000 mailboxes and delivers over 8 million messages a month...

Networked Printers New Weapon for Spammers

trend micro is reporting that spammers have found a new way to attack-networked printers. The attack, called Cross Site Printing for Spamming, relies on a built in, rarely used feature om such printers. They listen on port 9100, a permanently open and non-authenticated port. Once hackers t...

New Phishing Attack Masquerades as Government Alert

The latest phishing attack involves an official looking government message from the National Payroll Consortium that claims that the recipients' employer has been caught attempting to fraudulently lower workman's compensation costs. It asks that the recipients fill out an attached form an...

Phishing Sites Now Using the Storm Worm Botnet

F-Secure is reporting that a number of phishing sites have appeared within the last 24hrs on domains associated with the Storm Worm. Experts speculate that the latest variations of the worm use security keys, which allow the botnet to be sectioned up for rent . In other words, phishers ar...

Spam Reaches Record Levels

Despite the arrests of several major spammers in 2007, spam levels rose to record levels in December, accounting for 97% of all emails sent that month. Viruses accounted for .11%. Researchers at Softscan released a list of the top five viruses sent in December: 1. Phishing: 87.54% 2. Dropper:...

New Trojan Targets iPhone

Researchers at Symantec have discovered a trojan targeted toward the iphone . Disguised as "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep", it claims to be a critical firmware update. Fortunately, it turns out to be more annoying than malicious. It overwrites "Erica's utilities" and Ope...

End Of Year Security Wrap Up for 2007

2007 was a banner year for cybercriminals. We saw them find more and more ways to get past spam filters and anti-virus software. PDF spam died out but MP3 spam rose. There was ransomware, increased phishing, bluetooth spam, search engine spam, Skype and YouTube were hacked and used to send spam, and...

11 Indicted in Pump and Dump Spam Scheme

This week a federal grand jury indicted 11 men in an international spam and stock fraud scheme. The 41 count indictment names Michigan resident Alan Ralsky and 10 other men. They are accused of running a spamming operation consisting of promotions for Chinese penny stocks, also known as ...

Sponsored Post: Spikes In Spam Put Your Business at Risk

Around 70% of all emails hitting your company's servers is spam. Time spent dealing with spam affects efficiency and productivity. The malware that often accompanies spam can wreck havoc on your servers, comprise important data, and become a PR nightmare if the security of customer data is br...

Yoggie Gatekepper Pro

This device brings me into the realm in which I cover in my day job: network security. Or rather, network security for your personal computer. The Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro is a device that serves as a network security device, incorporating many security features commonly implemented in software o...

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Secure Your Home Business from Phishing

Stumbled upon this 44 ways to protect yourself against phishing . Here are some of the mentioned ways of warding off phishers who lurk on your e-business: SideStep those links: What happens if your spam filter is fooled into delivering junk mail to your inbox, and you happen to open it...

Phishing attacks primer for consumers

...e financial/banking institution have been hit by such attacks. A good reference site is http://www.antiphishing.org should you want to research the topic and they have very interesting statistics as...