"Fingerprints" show who sent anonymous emails 

"Fingerprints" show who sent anonymous emails

In Risk - By Stewart Mitchell, 10 March 2011 9:52 AM
Researchers use speech recognition and data mining to finger rogue emailers.
New emails containing Zeus malware detected 

New emails containing Zeus malware detected

In Applications - By Dan Raywood, 20 September 2010 1:49 PM
Removal tool announced.
Spam and viruses see minor rises in May: Symantec 

Spam and viruses see minor rises in May: Symantec

In Messaging - By SC Australia Staff, 27 May 2010 2:04 PM
All but one spam emails now contain a URL.
Faux Facebook emails use password reset ploy  

Faux Facebook emails use password reset ploy

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 19 March 2010 10:16 AM
Attachment is malicious.
SpamAssassin bug leads to blocking of legitimate emails 

SpamAssassin bug leads to blocking of legitimate emails

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 8 January 2010 12:32 PM
False positive rate lifted dramatically.
Zeus botnet pushes swine flu spam 

Zeus botnet pushes swine flu spam

In Applications - By SC Australia Staff, 4 December 2009 10:13 AM
Installs a keylogger.
Hacked climate emails claim scientific scalp 

Hacked climate emails claim scientific scalp

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 2 December 2009 9:51 AM
Head of Climate Unit steps down during investigation.
Phishing emails featuring Trend Micro logos discovered 

Phishing emails featuring Trend Micro logos discovered

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 26 November 2009 10:26 AM
Links lead to malicious site.
Spammers turn to fake non-delivery reports 

Spammers turn to fake non-delivery reports

In Messaging - 15 September 2009 2:09 PM
Method now accounts for one in five global spam emails.
July sees spam continuing to dominate emails 

July sees spam continuing to dominate emails

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 12 August 2009 11:29 AM
Threat reports for July show that spam continues to be sent at a high level with image spam and phishing still in high figures.
Court rules Palin 'must' hand over emails 

Court rules Palin 'must' hand over emails

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 15 October 2008 10:01 AM
A court in Alaska has ruled that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin must hand over emails sent via a private webmail account.
Bogus Facebook emails pass trojans 

Bogus Facebook emails pass trojans

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 24 September 2008 9:56 AM
A new round of malicious emails tries to trick recipients into believing someone wants to be their Facebook friend.
eBay, Gmail and PayPal seek to limit bad emails 

eBay, Gmail and PayPal seek to limit bad emails

In Web/client - 10 July 2008 11:41 AM
PayPal, eBay and Gmail have teamed up to try and limit the amount of spam or phishing mails that their customers receive.
White House 'loses' five million emails 

White House 'loses' five million emails

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 5 May 2008 9:51 AM
The White House has stated that it is unable to provide investigators with over five million emails relating to the run-up to the Iraq war because it has accidentally deleted ...
Phishing emails disguised as U.S. Department of Treasury complaints 

Phishing emails disguised as U.S. Department of Treasury complaints

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 14 December 2007 9:58 AM
A new round of targeted phishing is underway with attackers again trying to trick recipients into opening malware-laden attachments falsely claiming to originate from the ...
Emails with PDF attachment form new spam campaign  

Emails with PDF attachment form new spam campaign

In Messaging - By Negar Salek, 22 June 2007 3:53 PM
New spam campaign attaches PDF files to gain trust of recipients, security vendors have warned.
Fake M&S emails spread rapidly 

Fake M&S emails spread rapidly

In Messaging - By Fiona Raisbeck, 8 June 2007 10:28 AM
Computer users should remain vigilant following a spate of chain-email scams, security experts have warned.
AusCERT2007: Aussies still being scammed  

AusCERT2007: Aussies still being scammed

In Messaging - By Negar Salek, 23 May 2007 3:27 PM
Queenslanders are forking out around $500,000 a month to Nigerian email scammers.
US brands milked for phishing emails 

US brands milked for phishing emails

In Messaging - By Matt Chapman, 15 May 2007 4:22 PM
Seventy-three per cent of all phishing attacks namecheck US brands.
Bush under fire over '5 million' disappearing emails 

Bush under fire over '5 million' disappearing emails

In Messaging - By Jane Hoskyn, 16 April 2007 10:29 AM
The White House has come under fire after losing a reported 5 million official emails, including several relating to the controversial firing of eight US attorneys.
Spam emails push porn Trojan 

Spam emails push porn Trojan

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 27 March 2007 11:45 AM
Experts are warning of new emails being spammed out purporting to offer recipients free access to pornography.
Phishing fraud emails target domain name owners 

Phishing fraud emails target domain name owners

In Risk - By Frank Washkuch, 27 March 2007 1:20 AM
Domain name owners are the target of a sophisticated scam disclosed by the US SANS Internet Storm Center late last week.
Virus emails soar by a factor of 20 

Virus emails soar by a factor of 20

In Applications - By Robert Jaques, 1 February 2007 9:43 AM
Experts warn of 'explosive growth' in cyber-fraud, theft, spam and viruses.
Korean duo arrested for allegedly sending billions of spam emails 

Korean duo arrested for allegedly sending billions of spam emails

In Messaging - By Fiona Raisbeck, 31 January 2007 8:38 AM
Two South Korean men have been arrested on suspicion of sending 1.6 billion spam emails, in what police describe as one of the biggest spam campaigns in the country's history.
NASD accuses Morgan Stanley of lying about losing emails 

NASD accuses Morgan Stanley of lying about losing emails

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 21 December 2006 5:57 PM
The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has accused investment house Morgan Stanley of lying that millions of emails it possessed were lost in the terrorist ...
Spoof Microsoft IE7 emails install Trojan 

Spoof Microsoft IE7 emails install Trojan

In Networks - By Robert Jaques, 19 October 2006 10:27 AM
Security experts warn of fake emails.
DVLA sacks fourteen over porn emails 

DVLA sacks fourteen over porn emails

By René Millman, 22 June 2006 3:45 PM
Fourteen people have been sacked from the U.K.'s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in Swansea after sending pornographic email attachments to each other and people ...
Origin of mystery 'self-spamming' emails revealed 

Origin of mystery 'self-spamming' emails revealed

By Dan Kaplan, 9 June 2006 10:05 PM
The mystery spam containing only numbers that began hitting inboxes this week has been identified as the payload of a new trojan, Symantec said in an advisory today.
Experts theorize on self-spamming emails 

Experts theorize on self-spamming emails

By Dan Kaplan, 6 June 2006 6:57 PM
Security experts are perplexed over a new spamming technique in which victims receive emails that appear to be coming from themselves.
Send the IRS taxing phishing emails 

Send the IRS taxing phishing emails

By Frank Washkuch, 4 April 2006 8:14 PM
With tax-time scammers prowling, the IRS wants to take a look at phishing emails being sent to Americans setting up their tax paperwork.
Double attack fires 650,000 trojan emails at U.K. firms  

Double attack fires 650,000 trojan emails at U.K. firms

By William Eazel, 22 March 2006 10:59 AM
A double virus attack hit U.K. businesses with an estimated 650,000 trojan-laden emails before antivirus vendors were able to issue a patch against the new malware, a security ...
Report: 80 percent of emails out to manipulate 

Report: 80 percent of emails out to manipulate

By Dan Kaplan, 10 March 2006 9:00 PM
Four out of five inbound emails are designed to deceive the recipient, according to a new report studying the scope of abusive online messages.
Sober now one in 13 emails 

Sober now one in 13 emails

By Frank Washkuch, 6 December 2005 2:54 PM
The latest variant of the Sober worm, called the most widespread virus outbreak ever, has infected one in every 13 email messages, according to a leading online security company.
One third of Brits send fake emails 

One third of Brits send fake emails

By René Millman, 24 November 2005 11:18 AM
Nearly a third of people in the UK have admitted to impersonating someone else when sending an email, according to new research.
Phishing emails soar 

Phishing emails soar

By Marcia Savage, 2 August 2005 9:35 PM
Phishing email reached a new high in July, according to email security company Postini, which tracked more than 19 million phishing attempts last month.
Emergency emails canned as spam 

Emergency emails canned as spam

By David Quainton, 3 May 2005 5:20 PM
Emails from Florida-Emergency managers are being blocked by AOL because it detects them as spam.
US ISPs sue hundreds over spammed emails 

US ISPs sue hundreds over spammed emails

By Steve Gold, 11 March 2004 2:10 PM
Four major US ISPs - America Online, Earthlink, Microsoft Network and Yahoo - have teamed up to take legal actions against hundreds of alleged spammers.
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