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

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 Fails to Stop Spammers... Again

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

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

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

New VoIP Phishing Scams

26 Apr, 2006, 3:15 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

In what can be only termed as the next generation of spamming, Cloudmark, an anti-spam company has put the word out about a new type of email phishing... More

Subliminal Messaging: In a SPAM near you!

07 Sep, 2006, 11:00 am IST Sharon Khare Windows

A new "pump-and-dump" stock spam campaign uses an animated graphic to display a "subliminal" message to potential investors. More

Spammers Use Steve Irwin to Harvest IDs

19 Sep, 2006, 11:00 am IST Sharon Khare Windows

Sophos has warned of a spam campaign designed to harvest email addresses by attracting readers to websites offering topical "video tributes". More

Zipped Trojan Storms Through Internet

14 Apr, 2007, 1:11 pm IST Sharon Khare Windows

Symantec has identified a new spam attack containing the threat Trojan.Peacomm, or Storm Trojan that is being distributed via a password protected Zip file. 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

Spam Containing Romantic Content on The Rise

22 Aug, 2006, 4:30 pm IST Sharon Khare Windows

Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned computer users to take greater care online, fo... More

New Spammer Tricks Thwarting Filters

16 Nov, 2006, 4:20 pm IST Sharon Khare Windows

New spammer tricks are thwarting spam filters and spam has risen by more than 50 percent in just the two months. More

Web Criminals Steal $1.1 Miilion From Bank

23 Jan, 2007, 12:48 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan

Online frauds steal $1.1 million from Swedish bank Nordea. More

U.S. Tops Security Threat List Yet Again

23 Jan, 2007, 4:21 pm IST Sharon Khare

Security firm Sophos has published its Security Threat Report 2007, examining the threat landscape during the previous twelve months. More

New Facebook App to Notify Users about Malicious Content

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

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

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

Image Spam Rises by 500 Percent

19 Nov, 2006, 1:00 pm IST Sharon Khare

Barracuda Networks has announced it has seen a more than 67 percent increase in overall spam volume and a 500 percent increase in image spam since August. More

Google+ Glitch Causes E-Mail Spam

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

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

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

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

Mac Malware on the Rise

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

The threat is very real More