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  • Source of 75% of sent spam forced offline

    Posted November 13, 2008 - 4:31 am

    A web hosting company allegedly responsible for at least 75% of the daily spam volume worldwide has been forced offline, thanks to evidence gathered by security experts. McColo Corp, based in California, had its service terminated by its ISP, Hurricane Electric earlier today.

  • Former IT Manager Sentenced to One Year in Prison For Hacking Former Employer

    Posted November 10, 2008 - 4:22 am

    A California man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer system and giving spammers access to the mail server.

  • Trojan Compromises Over 300,000 Accounts

    Posted November 5, 2008 - 9:02 am

    Over the past three years a powerful Trojan maintained by a cybercrime organization has been responsible for stealing the usernames and passwords of nearly half a million bank accounts and nearly as many credit card numbers.

  • India’s Booming Business: CAPTCHA Solving

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 5:58 am

    Is text based CAPTCHA on the way out?

  • Two of the World’s Largest Botnets May Be Connected

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 5:29 am

    Rustock and Srizbi, two of the world’s biggest spam botnets, may be connected. Researchers have discovered that the two botnets share the same malware delivery method, a Trojan called Trojan.Exchange, which is activated when unsuspecting users click on malicious links in spam messages.

  • Spam Mistake Blamed for Lawsuit Dismissal

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 5:23 am

    John J. Moser, Of The Morning Call, reports a Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed a woman’s lawsuit. The suit claims East Penn Township, PA police used excessive force. The judge’s dismissla of the law suit said her attorney ignored a dismissal motion and the judge’s order to respond to it.

  • Bounty Hunters Look for Spammers

    Posted October 3, 2008 - 9:41 am

    A precedent has now been set in South Africa. Repeat spam offenders are now on notice. Spammers now have a price on their heads and their names on a Wall of Shame. It would be nice, if this was a sign of things to come for other countries to place bounties on spammers.

  • CNN, MSNBC Latest To Be Exploited By Spammers

    Posted October 3, 2008 - 9:33 am

    Spammers have long been using lurid headlines based on current events to trick people into opening their messages and clicking on the links they contain. Their latest trick exploits the alert features of both CNN and MSNBC. Users are receiving mail that looks like a breaking news alert from one of the popular news sites.
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