US Rogue ISP McColo Closes Down; Spam Goes Down by 75 percent

A US Internet Service Provider (ISP), McColo was knocked offline on Tuesday after a research report alleged that the company aided cybercriminals in promoting spams, child pornography, and other online frauds

THU 13 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Researchers Take Over Storm Botnet To Study How Spam Works

A group of researchers have taken over a spam network to understand how junk mailing and the results were rather startling

MON 10 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Spammers Choose Obama For Their Email Campaigns

It seems that US President elect Barack Obama has become a favourite subject for spammers to indulge in their malicious activity as they are shooting out numerous Barack Obama themed emails to deceive internet users

MON 10 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

World's Largest Spammer Organisation Ordered To Close Down By US Judge

In its response to the complaint filed by Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has instructed the owners of the world’s largest spam enterprise to stop their spamming operations as soon as possible

FRI 17 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Virgin Email Spam Woes Highlight Necessity to Outsource Non-core Services Carefully

A surge in spam caused Virgin Media users to be cut off from their email inbox for nearly 100 hours and affected those who used the Virgin.net email address

TUE 14 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Romanian phisher pleads guilty to nicking $700,000

Newswire reports suggest that a 22-year-old Romanian has pleaded guilty to stealing $700,000 from more than 7,000 Netters, after sending out vast quantities of phishing emails claiming to come from financial institutions including PayPal and Citibank.

TUE 14 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Australia cracks down on SMS scammers, sorry, spammers

According to Australia's Courier Mail, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (AAAC) is less than happy with a firm offering a Macbook Air - you know, the ultra-thin Mac laptop - as a prize in a text message compo.

MON 13 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

US couple fined $236 million for spamming

A US couple who sent vast quantities of spam via a small ISP for around four months in 2003 have been fined a whacking $236 million.

FRI 10 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Symantec scoops up MessageLabs - alle ist klar

I nearly dropped my coffee cup yesterday lunchtime when the release came through that Symantec is buying into anti-spam specialist MessageLabs for a cool $695 million in readies.

THU 09 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Messagelabs reports Egham is spam capital of the UK

In its latest monthly reports on companies being hit by spam, MessageLabs has come up with the fact that Egham, in Surrey, has the highest level of businesses hit by spam email.

FRI 26 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News