Botnets exploit Linux owners' ignorance 

Botnets exploit Linux owners' ignorance

In Hackers - By Phil Muncaster, 10 May 2010 9:16 AM
Symantec warns that port 25 could be the problem.
Spam magnate sentenced to over four years jail 

Spam magnate sentenced to over four years jail

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 25 November 2009 10:44 AM
Breached spam and fraud laws.
Yahoo Mail users warned of brute force attacks 

Yahoo Mail users warned of brute force attacks

In Messaging - By Phil Muncaster, 21 September 2009 1:48 PM
Two-year-old vulnerability exploited.
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.
Spam back up to pre-McColo levels 

Spam back up to pre-McColo levels

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 1 April 2009 10:31 AM
Four months after the highly publicised takedown of the McColo web-hosting company, in which worldwide spam levels dropped by around 70 percent, the prevalence of junk mail has ...
Yahoo touts new spam protections 

Yahoo touts new spam protections

In Messaging - By Shaun Nichols, 22 January 2009 2:38 PM
Yahoo is touting a new set of tools it is using to block spam for its webmail service.
Yahoo Mail has huge hole 

Yahoo Mail has huge hole

In Messaging - By Nick Farrell, 2 October 2008 12:15 PM
Yahoo's Zimbra client has a security hole so big you can fly an entire Borg collective through the middle of it and not worry about the cubes touching the sides.
Spammers use Google name in junk mail assaults 

Spammers use Google name in junk mail assaults

In Messaging - By Sue Marquette Poremba , 22 August 2008 10:25 AM
Google's hosted applications are always a favourite for spammers, and now Google Sites, a free hosting service, is moving to centre stage.
Red faces at Daily Mail after data loss 

Red faces at Daily Mail after data loss

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 9 July 2008 9:37 AM
Daily Mail, which has spent months lambasting the UK government on data security, has itself lost a laptop containing the personal information of staff.
Most spammed man 

Most spammed man

In Messaging - By Sylvie Barak, 7 July 2008 11:14 AM
A list of the five most spammed people in Britain, found one person received 44,000 unwanted emails a day.
Yahoo Mail cross-site scripting flaw targets IM users 

Yahoo Mail cross-site scripting flaw targets IM users

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 26 June 2008 10:42 AM
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail could leave instant messenger users open to attack.
Spammers use hosted services to send unwanted mail 

Spammers use hosted services to send unwanted mail

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 4 June 2008 9:50 AM
Spammers are increasingly turning to hosted services to ship out their junk mail, the latest threat report from MessageLabs revealed.
Germany faces Google Mail shutdown 

Germany faces Google Mail shutdown

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 26 June 2007 3:48 PM
Search giant objects to proposed data retention legislation.
Internet Engineering Task Force approves DomainKeys Identified Mail anti-phishing technology 

Internet Engineering Task Force approves DomainKeys Identified Mail anti-phishing technology

In Messaging - By Fiona Raisbeck, 28 May 2007 10:06 AM
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), whose domain-identification technology prevents fraudulent junk emails from reaching ...
Yahoo plugs another web mail hole 

Yahoo plugs another web mail hole

By Dan Kaplan, 17 August 2006 4:31 PM
Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in its web mail service that, if exploited, could allow hackers access to users' mailboxes.
Postini: Spam and IM attacks up, mail viruses down 

Postini: Spam and IM attacks up, mail viruses down

By Dan Kaplan, 6 April 2006 7:21 PM
Spam and instant messaging (IM) attacks increased in March, while the number of viruses declined, according to message management provider Postini.
New Sober variants in the mail 

New Sober variants in the mail

By Frank Washkuch, 15 November 2005 10:19 PM
Security vendors warned users on Tuesday about a handful of new variants of the Sober worm that have appeared this week.
Sexually explicit mail - an office superbug 

Sexually explicit mail - an office superbug

By David Quainton, 25 July 2005 4:54 PM
Over a third of office computer users are sending or receiving sexually explicit or racist mail, putting their companies at risk.
Prudential cuts out junk mail 

Prudential cuts out junk mail

By Dan Ilett, 1 June 2004 5:20 PM
One of the UK's largest pensions firms has rolled out an email security solution to reduce its spam and virus problems.
Trojan email disguised as Microsoft mail 

Trojan email disguised as Microsoft mail

By Dan Ilett, 12 January 2004 2:28 PM
A Trojan worm contained in an email appearing to be from Microsoft is circulating the internet.
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