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Protecting Your Email Address From Spammers

...e's a great video showing how you can protect your email address from email harvesting bots and spammers. ...

BusinessWeek.com attacked by hackers

© Lachlan Hardy Businessweek's website has been hit by hackers. Security vendor Sophos discovered the attack last week. Hundreds of pages of the popular site have been infected with malicious Javascript that redirects users to a Russian website that attempts to download malware to their co...

Hitman Spammer Returns

... 5812863 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Brandon Rose Just when you thought spammers had thought of everything, the FBI is warning that a particularly disturbing spammer is back. Called the Hit Man...

Update on the Storm Botnet

Here is a video from Black Hat 2008 that provides an update on the infamous Storm Worm and it's botnet.

Understanding and Fighting Malware-Conclusion

Here's the finale! Hope you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 7

Here's the next to last part of this outstanding video series on malware:

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 6

Here is part 6 of this terrific presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 5

On to Part 5!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 4

Here is part 4 of this very informative presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 3

Here is part 3 of this very informative presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 2

Here is part 2 of this outstanding presentation. Watch and learn!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 1

Here's part one of an excellent presentation from David solomon on understanding and fighting malware. Here's an excerpt from the summary: Today's Internet is fraught with peril in the form of undesirable and malicious software. These types of software continue to evolve new ways of...

A Look At a Malware Site

Here's a very interesting video that takes a look at OtherHomePage.com, a known malware site. Watch and learn!

Spammers Now Paying For Help Evading Filters

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Dernie Spammers targeting blogs have come up with a new technique. According to an article on NetworkWorld.com , they are now paying people to post for them...

Spam King Dies in Murder/Suicide

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas Spam King Edward Davidson was found dead at his home just days after forcing his wife to help him escape from the minimum security prison where...

Vacation!

Hi everyome! I am currently out of the country on vacation. Posts will resume on July 25th. Thank you for your patience and have a great week!

Anti-Spam Vendor Caught Spamming

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5721884 Popular anti-spam vendor AVG has come under fire for it's Link Scanner feature, which offers real time scanning of search engine results for susp... ... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5721884 Popular anti-spam vendor AVG has come under fire for it's Link Scanner feature, which offers real time scanning of search engine results for susp...

Happy 4th!

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jon Helgason Happy 4th to all our American readers! Take a minute away from the fireworks, food and fun and give thanks for the freedoms you enjoy thanks to the brave men who fought for our independence all those years ago, and to the ones who continue to defend...

419 Spammers At It Again

...w twist. They use phishing tactics to take over web based email accounts and then send their spam to every address in the compromised account's address book. Read more about this new twist ...

Inside Botnets

Here's a great documentary from SophosLabs that examines botnets from the inside out. Very interesting stuff!

Srizbi Botnet Unleashes "Recruitment" Blitz

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrey Volodin The volume of malicious spam has tripled in the past week, largely due to the Srizbi botnet. This botnet is currently responsible for 46% of all spam...

CAN-SPAM Law Updated

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Konstantin Inozemtsev The FTC has made some key changes to the can-spam law: 1. Senders can now use a P.O. Box as their physical address. 2. Nonprofits a... ...to courtesy of iStockphoto, Konstantin Inozemtsev The FTC has made some key changes to the can-spam law: 1. Senders can now use a P.O. Box as their physical address. 2. Nonprofits are now ...

New Types of Spam on the Rise

...oto courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6251275 Symantec has issued a warning about two new types of spam hitting the net. The first takes advantage of the disaster victims in China and myanmar ....

Storm Worm Returns

...chers thought was dead has roared back to life. In the last 24 hours it has sent out over 8 million spam messages. Anyone who falls for one of them will have their PC added to Storm's network of z...

FTC Weakens CAN-SPAM Act

... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Steve Dibblee The FTC made changes to the can-spam act and at least one of them is a boon to spammers. The new rules regarding the required opt-out feature...

Wenn das Smartphone krank wird..

...arbeitet genauso wie die Virenschutzprogramme auf Computern. Es gibt eine Firewall, einen Antispam-Filer für die SMS und natürlich den Virenscanner. Es ist für einen Preis von 30 Euro, so denke ich zu... ...itet genauso wie die Virenschutzprogramme auf Computern. Es gibt eine Firewall, einen Antispam-Filer für die SMS und natürlich den Virenscanner. Es ist für einen Preis von 30 Euro, so denke ich zumind...

Microsoft's CAPTCHA Successfully Cracked

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 4598913 Researchers at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Englandm, have announced they've successfully cracked Microsoft's CAPTCHA system, which is used on services like Windows Live and Hotmail. The researchers claim an amazing...

iPhone SDK beta 6

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40 Charged In Phishing Scheme

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Rich Legg U.S. and Romanian authorities have busted an international phishing scheme that is responsible for the theft of thousands of credit and debit card numbers. 40 people were indicted, 33 in California and 7 in Connecticut. Among the 65 charges the group i...

New Tool To Fight Comment Spam

...oded with. Fear not! SixApart has introduced a new spam fighting tool for bloggers called TypePad antispam . Don't let its name fool you-the software is Open Source and available for a varie... ... Comment spam is the bane of every blogger's existence. The more popular your blog gets, the more spam you'll be flooded with. Fear not! SixApart has introduced a new spam fighting tool for...

Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers

...oto courtesy of iStockphoto, Yong Hian Lim Yahoo has filed suit against a group of scammers. The spam mails claimed the recipent had won a lottery run by Yahoo. In reality there is no Yahoo sponsor...

FBI Issues Phishing Warning

...on May 10th, 2008 or later means that your refund will be delayed due to the volume of requests we anticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund. To access Economic Stimulus refund, please click here.&... ... © Yong Hian Lim The FBI has issued a warning about a new spam attack. The spams, which are phishing attempts are designed to look like official correspondence from the IRS. Here is their offici...

Spammers Hit Google Docs

...rs weren't enough. Now spammers have moved on and hit Google Docs as well. MessageLabs senior anti-spam technologist explains: What's happening with Google Docs is that Google Docs is a way t... ... © Felix Möckel Blogger, Adsense, and Google's mail servers weren't enough. Now spammers have moved on and hit Google Docs as well. MessageLabs senior anti-spam technologist explains: W...

Anti Spam for MAC OS X Servers

... Message Partners recently announced Anti Spam protection for Mac OS X email and collaboration servers. MPP provides services like spam filtering, anti virus protection, content filtering,... ... Message Partners recently announced Anti Spam protection for Mac OS X email and collaboration servers. MPP provides services like spam filtering, anti virus protection, content filtering,...

Spam King Loses Again

... © Claudecf "Spam King" Sanford Wallace has lost yet another lawsuit . This one was a brought against him by MySpace, which sued him after he used a phishing scheme to gain unau...

30 Years of Spam and Counting!

...May 3rd will mark spam's 30th anniversary. It was on that day in 1978 that a marketing rep at a computer firm called DEC emailed an invite to every single west Coast user on the Arpanet, the p...

Why is there Spam

... © TheeErin SpamStopsHere, Inc ., today launched a blog to inform and educate the public about security and spam issues. Ted Green at SpamStopsHere posted a very interesting blog post " Why...

Verizion DSL's Spam Filter Failing?

... © dampeebe If you have Verizon DSL like I do, you've probably noticed a sharp increase in spam. The messages are the same old thing, purposely misspelled messages promoting online pharmacies,...

Sender Policy Framework

... If you are administrator you must have got spam from your own email address. How does this happen? How do you stop this? If you have Sender Policy Framework published, you can specify that you onl...

Backscatter

...atter can be a big IT administrative headache, if it's not fixed it can bring down a server and spammers can use this to create a DoS style attack. Best way to prevent Backscatter to prevent bounc...

McAfee Launches SPAM Experiment

... McAfee launches global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and studen...

Microsoft Open to Spammers?

... users to invited their contacts to the social networking service of their choice, it may also give spammers a new tool. I wouldn't be surprised to see a wave of fake invites from spammers. Micros...

How Goes The War on Spam?

...How is the war on spam looking from your inbox? I still get a dozen or so spams a day, mostly those annoying Nigerian scams and there many variations. How about you? IGotSpam?! wants to know! T...

MIT Spam Conference 2008

... Two Day Spam conference, on March 27 and 28, 2008, on campus at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts , USA. Topics Include Game Theory of Botnets, Black Market Botnets, Major ISP Botnet fightin...

4 Ways to Prevent Cell Phone Spam

...many people, especially the teenage set. Unfortunately it also means it has become a big target for spammers, and what makes SMS spam even worse than the kind filling up inboxes is that the receiver g...

Interview with Michael Katz founder Message Partners

... Michael Katz Founder of Message Partners agreed to do an e-mail interview with me regarding anti spam solutions. Michael Katz has worked with some of the most prominent customers in finance, b... ... Michael Katz Founder of Message Partners agreed to do an e-mail interview with me regarding anti spam solutions. Michael Katz has worked with some of the most prominent customers in finance, bankin...

Mailinator?

... Do you want create a throw- away email address that will help your control spam? Here is a solution for you, create an email address at Mailinator . It's so easy to create an email address, ...

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What is Greylisting?

...mote server. It may be vary from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. If you are administrator make sure your anti spam product for SMTP gateways provide per domain policy where you can turn off Greylistin... ... Greylisting is a method of defending email server against SPAM emails and it is usually implemented at a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Greylisting is very simple to understand, send a temporary failur...

DH Attacks!

...com email address and actual message data for that email address, once you receive greeting, your anti spam software or appliance will check if x@yourdomainname is a valid email username in the... ... As I mentioned in my previous blog post that I would discuss other harvesting techniques used by spammers, one popular among them is Directory Harvesting Attacks or DHA. So what is DHA? Wikipedi...

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Ransomware Trojan Attempts To Extort Victims

...r desktop and displays this full screen, poorly spelled warning: "ERROR: Browser Security and Antiadware Software component license exprited!" It goes on to a grammatically nightmarish exp...

BitDefender Announces 2007 Top 10 Lists

... BitDefender has released it's Top Ten Spams of 2007: 1. penny stocks spam 2. Drug spam 3. Pornography 4. Replica watches 5. Loans 6. Phishing spam 7. Pirated software 8. Fake job...

FTC Issues Report on Malicious Spam and Phishing

... Today the FTC released a new report describing findings from its July 2007 workshop "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions". It also includes actions that can be taken...

Happy New Year from IGotSpam?!

... We at IGotSpam?! would like to wish all our readers and their families a very happy and healthy new year filled with peace and prosperity. Stay with us throughout 2008 for breaking news, tips, tric...

Stock Spammers Using Video to Dodge Filters

... Stock spammers have armed themselves with a new tool to get around spam filters-video. It joins past filter fooling schemes like pdf and image spam. Symantec reports that they had samples of spam t...

Storm Worm Strikes Again With New Year's Attack

...o You" "Happy New Year to...", and "New Year Wishes for You." Links in the spam mails direct the recipients to a malware site called uhaveapostcard.com. This latest attack fol...

A Look At PDF Spam

...Just when we thought spammers had moved on to new delivery methods like mp3 and search engine spam, PDF spam seems to be on the rise again. Most PDF spams seem to have subject lines targeted toward fi...

Verizon Customers Hit With Wave of Text Message Spam

... Verizon Wireless customers were hit with a wave of text message spam this week. The messages asked receivers if they were looking for a date and included a link to an adult website. You have kids...

McAfee Releases GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange

...rosoft Exchange. GroupShield provides threat protection and security management solutions including anti-virus and content security. It scans for viruses and malicious code and manages any outbreaks, ... ... McAfee security products from a single console and create detailed graphical eports. - Effective spam and phish blocking: Businesses can block incoming spam and phishing messages with minimal false...

Botnets-How They Work and What They Can Do

Botnets are big news these days, thanks to the Storm worm, this week's massive botnet attack, and other internet security issues. Users whose computers have been infected and joined to a botnet usually never even know it. Here is an eye-opening video from Symantec . In it, a Symantec Int...

December State of Spam Report

... Symantec has released it's December State of Spam Report. In it they note that in November spam increased to 72% of all email traffic. The report also notes some seasonal spam trends: Penny st...

BotNet Hitting Networks Hard

... This past week saw a new botnet attack, increasing spam traffic by 600 percent. The botnet responsible is believed to have over 5 million nodes and interesting enough, only works from 9-5. I...

Hackers Attack U.S. Military Labs

Hackers have attacked two of the U.S.'s most important science labs, New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oakridge National Laboratory. At the Oak Ridge lab, the hackers broke into a database that contained the birthdates and social security numbers of everyon...

Computer Security 101

Here's an interesting video from the Department of Justice about Computer Security. It's hosted by John Walsh, who you may of heard of via his show "America's Most Wanted". Although it's roughly 10 years old (check out the floppy disks! Remember those?) it's interesting...

Spam Filters-Desktop or Server Based?

...Here is an interesting video that discusses spam fighting software and whether it's more effective when run via the desktop or server side at ISP's. It's a great roundtable discussion the ...

Successful Spammers To Get More Time in the Slammer

... A federal judge's recent decision may mean more jail time for spammers who profit greatly from their crimes. The case tackled the matter of determining the actual financial harm done to an ISP ...

Protecting Your Server From Rootkits

Here is a great video I found. It's from LiveSecurity's Malware Analysis series. This video talks about rootkits, what they do, and how to protect your server from someone using one. This video shows how the rootkit looks from both the hackers view and the victims! This is a must view...

FBI's "Operation Bot Roast" Nets Eight Arrests

Seven FBI offices participated in the second phase of "Operation Bot roast ", leading to the execution of 13 search warrants and 8 arrests, including that of 21 year old Ryan Brett, who allegedly lead a DDoS attack on the University of Pennsylvania. The operation uncovered an es...

Yoggie Gatekepper Pro

...ncorporating many security features commonly implemented in software on a personal computer such as anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, intrusion detection, firewall, web filtering, VPN client and m... ...orating many security features commonly implemented in software on a personal computer such as anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, intrusion detection, firewall, web filtering, VPN client and much, ...