What countries have the riskiest websites?
One of the world’s leading security technology companies breaks down the world’s countries that have the most number of web sites with malicious downloads, browser exploits and spam.
McAfee recently announced the results of its SiteAdvisor research report which created a global road map of the riskiest, and the safest, places to surf and [...]
Spam surge drives net crime spree
The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms race.
Sometimes the security companies have the upper hand as they develop and deploy novel techniques to spot and stop malicious software of all stripes.
And sometimes, such as in 2006, [...]
Report: Spammers Shift to Blogs and IM
A growing number of spammers are using mobile text messaging, blogs, instant messaging, and social-networking sites to deliver their unsolicited sales pitches, a new report has found.
Despite the increased prevalence of advanced spam-fighting tools, spam is once again on the rise, and spammers are abandoning more traditional methods of electronic communication in favor of those [...]
Anti-spam p2p
Since spammers have larger numbers than we do, we must build our numbers up, be mobile and not be targetted. This is what the new anti-spammer program intends to do. The development team intends for the program to complain to only a very minimal number of spamvertised web sites. This is being done so that [...]
P2P Tech Fights Spam
In the wake of Blue Frog’s anti-spam program shut down a few weeks ago, an open source group has launched Black Frog, a distributed do it yourself anti-spam effort.
The basic gist of it is for every piece of spam will get a response, and if enough users participate it will effectively DDOS the spammers [...]
Jailed spam king caught conspiring to kill witness
Spam king and online drugstore operator Christopher William Smith, aka Rizler, 26, who is awaiting trial at the Sherburne County Jail, Elk River, Minn., used his phone privileges to arrange a hit on a witness and the witness’ family.
According to the indictment, Smith called an acquaintance from jail March 4 and allegedly stated he intended [...]
