Security News

Huge spam operation on Twitter uncovered (Help Net Security)
2015-03-26 10:39

What does it take to execute a successful spam operation peddling diet pills of questionable effectiveness? For one spammer, it took some 750,000 fake Twitter accounts. Symantec researchers first s...

Why Email Filtering Needs to be More than Just Anti-Spam (Reddit)
2015-03-17 16:37

$1.1M fine issued to firm for violating Canada's anti-spam law (SC Magazine)
2015-03-10 16:37

Canada's anti-spam law gets first success with $1.1m fine (Naked Security)
2015-03-09 12:55

Canada's fledgling anti-spam laws have brought their first success, with a $1.1 million fine levied against a Canadian business training firm.

Spam Uses Default Passwords to Hack Routers (Krebs on Security)
2015-02-26 17:06

In case you needed yet another reason to change the default username and password on your wired or wireless Internet router: Phishers are sending out links that, when clicked, quietly alter the...

How To Reduce Spam Phishing With DMARC (Dark Reading)
2015-02-26 16:19

Researchers explore underground market of Twitter spam and abuse
2013-08-15 07:25

http://www.csoonline.com/article/738100/researchers-explore-underground-market-of-twitter-spam-and-abuse By Steve Ragan Staff Writer CSO Online August 14, 2013

Experts take down Grum spam botnet, world's third largest
2012-07-19 08:29

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57475328-83/experts-take-down-grum-spam-botnet-worlds-third-largest/ By Steven Musil Security & Privacy CNET News July 18, 2012

Russia named world’s third-biggest internet spam source
2012-05-04 14:00

https://rt.com/news/prime-time/russia-spam-cyber-attacks-528/ By Maksim Bogodvid RIA Novosti May 3, 2012

Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet
2011-03-22 06:41

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214884/Man_charged_with_hiring_pump_and_dump_spam_botnet By Robert McMillan IDG News Service March 21, 2011 A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S....