Thursday, February 02, 2012
Trojan can break Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes Cridex uses infected PCs as proxies for anti-CAPTCHA engine
Thursday, January 19, 2012
McAfee to patch spam relay problem in cloud product The flaw in McAfee's SaaS for Total Protection can be used by attackers to send spam from victims' computers
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Social networks ripe for spam The tactics remain largely the same as the e-mail spam era, but social network spammers are having just as much success today
Monday, April 25, 2011
Symantec updates e-mail security for enterprises The new defensive capabilities Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 offers IT departments
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Spam not going anywhere anytime soon Although pharmaceutical spam saw a decline, spam in general continues to threaten enterprises by targeting employees and challenging network performance
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Bill C-28 and your inbox OPINION Will Ottawa's freshly passed antispam legislation have an impact? Or will it simply be a burden to business?
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Hackers, spammers to target Facebook Messages Addition of e-mail to inbox, Koobface-hijacked accounts lead concerns by security pros
Friday, October 08, 2010
Defensio adds Facebook integration, more protection Websense's hosted service for social networking platforms adds integration with one of the most popular sites
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
LinkedIn users attacked by Zeus spam Businesses are apparently the target of the lastest campaign, which seems to be aimed at getting financial data
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve We don't expect everyone -- or even a majority of people who read this article -- to agree with our picks. Each person has his or her own axes to grind. Tell us what we've missed
Friday, September 10, 2010
'Here you have' e-mail worm spreads quickly If you get a message from a colleague with “here you have” in the subject line it is probably a worm. A Symantec Corp. IT security expert said it appears to affect Microsoft Corp. Outlook users
Friday, July 30, 2010
REVIEW: PCSecurity Shield 2010 is3Inc.’s PCSecurity Shield has an anti-spam feature that works only on POP3 e-mail services and integrates only with Outlook. Its dashboard is simple to work with
Friday, July 30, 2010
REVIEW: Panda Internet Security 2010 Panda Security SL's Internet security software costs a little more than its competitors but is simple to set up. Find out about the firewall and anti-spam features
Friday, May 28, 2010
Kudos for anti-spam bill, concern over PIPEDA changes Experts welcome the re-introduction of the federal anti-spam bill. But they've got serious reservations about proposed changes to Canada’s privacy law
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Psychology, spam! and exclamation points Symantec finds 5 out of the 6 most commonly used words in spam have exclamation points. These punctuation marks activate the human alarm system – speeding up brain processes and exaggerating judgment calls, according a social psychology professor at Utrecht.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
ISPs could cut spam easily, says expert A Trend Micro security executive explains two techniques ISPs should be implementing to reduce spam and botnets. Find out what they are
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
U of T 'SnowFlock' project tackles VM management The university's computer science students show off technology that could rapidly create clusters for cloud computing, an approach for dealing with spam on IP telephony networks and a way to do away with touchscreen keyboards
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Scammers exploit hijacked Hotmail passwords Don’t touch that e-mail you got offering a new MacBook Pro for a mere $700. It’s all part of scam working off stolen Hotmail passwords...
Monday, July 06, 2009
Recession hits malware authors too Even cyber crooks are feeling the pinch according to a security company
Monday, June 29, 2009
UK's plans to hire hackers slammed A plan by Britain's security forces to recruit former "naughty boys" to help protect the country's IT infrastructure from online attacks meets with steep opposition 
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Phished Facebook accounts spewing spam A Russian cyber-gang is believed to be behind the ploy to use Facebook accounts that were phished last week as spam bots according to an online security researcher. Here's what to do if you think your account is infected
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter accounts Thirty three celebrities including President-Elect Barack Obama and pop singer Britney Spears had their Twitter accounts hijacked by hackers using Twitter's own support tools 
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Top 10 tech stories of 2008 Here, not necessarily in order of importance, are our picks for the Top 10 technology stories of the year 
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
U.S. took China's place for most malware in 2008 Whether knowingly or not, American computers are making a 'disturbingly large' contribution to the distribution of viruses and span, says Sophos
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Obama beats McCain in spam-off Spammers prefer Sen. Barack Obama over his rival Sen. John McCain by landslide numbers, a security researcher said Tuesday.