Security News

Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin Could Expose Website User Data
2021-05-05 20:58

An SQL-injection vulnerability discovered in a WordPress plugin called "Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk" could expose user emails, passwords, credit-card data and other sensitive information to an unauthenticated attacker. Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk is installed on more than 100,000 sites, and is mainly used to weed out spam and trash comments on website discussion boards.

Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.4: Protects orgs from spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing emails
2021-03-31 01:15

Enterprise software developer Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has released Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.4, the latest version of its open-source email security solution. Proxmox Mail Gateway is a complete operating system based on Debian Buster 10.9, but using Linux kernel 5.4.106, which is under long term support status.

Android: How to quickly block spam SMS
2021-03-12 18:00

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to block and report spam SMS messages on the Android platform.

India pauses blockchain-powered SMS spam-scrubber after it swallows people's one-time login codes
2021-03-10 02:24

India's Telecom Regulatory Authority has paused the rollout of a national SMS "Scrubbing" service and blamed business for the delay. The authority, aka TRAI, introduced the scrubbing service to curb text spam in India, where mobile phone users can expect a couple of unsolicited messages every day according to spam-blocking app Truecaller.

Countless emails wrongly blocked as spam after Cisco's SpamCop failed to renew domain name at the weekend
2021-02-01 07:04

Cisco's anti-spam service SpamCop failed to renew spamcop.net over weekend, causing it to lapse, which resulted in countless messages being falsely labeled and rejected as spam around the world. When the domain name expired, *.spamcop.net resolved to a domain parking service's IP address.

SpamCop anti-spam service suffers an outage after its domain expired
2021-01-31 23:29

Cisco's SpamCop anti-spam service suffered an outage Sunday after its domain was mistakenly allowed to expire. SpamCop provides a Real-time Blackhole List that mail servers can use to determine if incoming mail should be considered spam.

How to quickly block spam SMS in Android
2021-01-26 17:59

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to block and report spam SMS messages on the Android platform. How to block spam SMS. You'll be shocked at how easy this is.

HMRC phishing scam abuses mail service to bypass spam filters
2020-12-02 17:10

Threat actors are exploiting legitimate SendGrid mailing service to spoof HMRC phishing emails that bypass spam filters. Email delivery service abused for spoofing HMRC emails.

Microsoft Teams Calling gets CarPlay support, SPAM id service, more
2020-12-01 12:01

The new Microsoft Teams additions include call transfer, spam reduction, CarPlay support, streamlined calling experience, and more. Microsoft is rolling out a new enhanced calling experience with a new screen to access the dialpad, call history, voicemail, contacts, and settings.

Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King
2020-11-09 04:58

The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports. A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who'd legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum.