http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/1997/all xx http://www.itworld.com/security/57756/source-75-sent-spam-forced-offline 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/57756/source-75-sent-spam-forced-offline#comments Security News anti spam spam spam news spammers Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:31:31 -0500 gzammit 57756 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/57536/former-it-manager-sentenced-one-year-prison-hacking-former-employer 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/57536/former-it-manager-sentenced-one-year-prison-hacking-former-employer#comments Security News hackers hacking IT manager physical security spam news Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:22:10 -0500 gzammit 57536 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/57244/trojan-compromises-over-300000-accounts 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/57244/trojan-compromises-over-300000-accounts#comments Security Feature security spam news trojans Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:02:45 -0500 gzammit 57244 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/55992/india-s-booming-business-captcha-solving Is text based CAPTCHA on the way out? http://www.itworld.com/security/55992/india-s-booming-business-captcha-solving#comments Security News anti spam CAPTCHA spam spam news Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:58:16 -0400 gzammit 55992 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/55988/two-world-s-largest-botnets-may-be-connected 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/55988/two-world-s-largest-botnets-may-be-connected#comments Security News anti spam botnets hackers spam news spammers Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:29:59 -0400 gzammit 55988 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/55987/spam-mistake-blamed-lawsuit-dismissal 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/55987/spam-mistake-blamed-lawsuit-dismissal#comments Security News anti spam fighting spam hackers spam spam news spammers Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:23:12 -0400 gzammit 55987 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/55621/bounty-hunters-look-spammers 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/55621/bounty-hunters-look-spammers#comments Security News anti spam fighting spam spam news spammers Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:41:43 -0400 gzammit 55621 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/55619/cnn-msnbc-latest-be-exploited-spammers 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/55619/cnn-msnbc-latest-be-exploited-spammers#comments Security News anti spam exchange security spam news Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:33:51 -0400 gzammit 55619 at http://www.itworld.com