Spam and email
Blackhat SEO expert explores Digg and Reddit sites
By Gina on October 14, 2010 | Spam and email
It is not surprising that poisoned links spread across the World Wide Web and they mostly target major search engines. Social bookmarking sites as Digg and Reddit are not an exception. A blackhat SEO expert announced about his attempt to drive traffic from Reddit to his blog entries. The expert posted how he was able to intrude to Reddit site. In this case, he used fake accounts to artificially boost voting on selected stories.An attack against Reddit appeared to be easy as pie. Read more.
Be careful Yahoo! users: new phishing attack floats
By Gina on October 4, 2010 | Spam and email
Recently a new phishing attack was noticed. This time hackers use Yahoo! for their malicious intentions. Cybercriminals send email masquerading as “The Yahoo! Mail Team” which warns and asks users to confirm their accounts by replying to the letter and sending personal information including passwords. The latest scam subject is “Update your Account”. If you noticed you’ve got this letter to your email, ignore it. Read more.
Spam statistics of third-quarter 2010
By Gina on October 1, 2010 | Spam and email
In a report which is done by Panda Security 95 percent of all e-mails during the third quarter is spam. 55 percent of them came from 10 countries, such as, India, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, South Korea, Vietnam, United States, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Poland, China, Colombia, Israel and Taiwan. In a report UK took and attention because it was not found at the top 10 list this time. It seems like United Kingdom is doing something that keep them out of the list. Read more.
Fake AV Spreads in a New Way
By Gina on August 3, 2010 | Spam and email
A new way for spreading malware was discovered. The fake antivirus creators and distributors are very inventive because last week was found some fake antivirus spreading via a fake Firefox/Flash Player update site according to Avira . Avira warns that rogue antivirus authors spreading malware by using an old-fashioned spam emails with the subject: “Review your annual Social Security statement”. The fictitious attachment name “statement. Read more.
Google's Research on Spam
By Jason on April 16, 2010 | Spam and email
Despite security researchers effort to make sure that spam disappears from its existence it seems like it is not working at all. According to Google's e-mail filtering division Postini, the volume of unsolicited email in the first quarter was around 6 percent higher than a year earlier. Security researchers can rejoice over their triumph of winning few battles against spammers, but the war is not over yet. Read more.
