Banks, Internet companies team up to fight spam

30 Jan, 2012, 3:11 pm IST Web services 1 Comments

Some of the world's biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting email spam that they hope ... More

AVG launches antivirus solutions for home and business users

14 Sep, 2011, 6:48 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Software

Popular antivirus and other system protection software manufacturer, AVG has announced the launch of AVG Internet Security 2012 and AVG Internet Security More

Google+ links not showing up on Facebook

25 Aug, 2011, 10:56 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking

Facebook is apparently irked at the success of Google+ and is playing dirty, according to Google's Senior Vice President of Social Business, Vic Gundotra. More

Hotmail Gets an Update with ‘My Friend’s Been Hacked!’

18 Jul, 2011, 9:31 am IST Aaron Almeida Social Networking

In the past few months, the spate of hackings has increased to immeasurable amounts from big name corporations to not so big websites. More

Google Strikes at .co.cc Subdomains, Blocks Them

11 Jul, 2011, 12:08 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Social Networking

In order to cut down on malware, Google has gone ahead and blocked some 11 million .co.cc subdomain sites. More

Google+ Glitch Causes E-Mail Spam

11 Jul, 2011, 10:37 am IST Rossi Fernandes Social Networking

Google+ has seen a lot of users using it in the last couple of days. Initially, invites were given out sparingly but now the taps seem to have been opened. More

That Google+ Invite May Be Spam: Sophos

05 Jul, 2011, 10:25 am IST Rossi Fernandes Social Networking

Facebook might have its fair share of spam but newly launched Google+, the social networking service is not being spared. More

New Facebook App to Notify Users about Malicious Content

23 Jun, 2011, 5:16 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Social Networking

At a time when the virtual space, especially social networks are rife with spam attacks, and hackers on the loose, an attempt by a bunch of students surely seems to be a force to reckon with. More

Kindle Spammed!

17 Jun, 2011, 6:13 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Tablets 2 Comments

The popular e-book reader, Kindle’s existence is facing a spam threat. More

Facebook Spammed, Yet Again!

24 May, 2011, 2:04 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Tablets

This spam takes advantage of the gullibility of Facebook newbies. More

Mac Malware on the Rise

19 May, 2011, 9:46 pm IST tech2 News Staff Notebooks

The threat is very real More

Facebook Fails to Stop Spammers... Again

17 May, 2011, 9:36 am IST Aaron Almeida Notebooks 2 Comments

Days after Facebook launched new security features; spammers bypass it. More

Microsoft Slays Rustok, the Spam Monster

19 Mar, 2011, 10:22 am IST Rossi Fernandes General 2 Comments

Cuts down 39 per cent of the world's spam by doing so. More

GSMA Will Recommend a "Mark as Spam" System For SMSes

19 Feb, 2011, 2:11 pm IST Siddharth Basrur Mobile phones

Users can forward suspicious spam stuff to 7726 to report as spam. More

India Is The Number 2 Spam Offender World Over

14 Oct, 2010, 4:06 pm IST Press Release Windows

The United States is number 1. More

Fortinet July Threat Landscape Report Shows Sasfis Botnet Variants Multiplying

02 Aug, 2010, 2:39 pm IST Press Release

Stuxnet attack still under investigation while awaiting microsoft patch. More

USA Leads as Top Spamming Nation. We're Number 2!

15 Jul, 2010, 11:39 am IST Press Release

The UK jumps from ninth to fourth place in the 'Dirty Dozen' of spam-relaying countries. More

To Beat a Spammer, Bank on His Own Methods!

27 Jan, 2010, 12:41 pm IST PTI

Scientists claim to have developed an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, using spammers’ own trickery. More

AVG Predictions on 2010 Internet Security Threats

08 Dec, 2009, 5:05 pm IST tech2 News Staff

Security firm AVG is predicting that in 2010 the threat environment will witness higher volumes of web-threats and be even more transient, agile and organised. More

Image Attachments for Spam Decline

21 Jun, 2007, 6:08 pm IST AP

A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters. More