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• Would Spam Exist if the Internet Wasn’t Free?

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  Last month I joined a new discussion forum.  The owner of the forum decided to charge members a monthly access fee of $1.95.  I gladly subscribed because the value of the forum far outweighs the membership cost. Now several weeks later and with thousands of members joining the forum I realize the biggest benefit of ...
  12 hours ago

• FBI Issues Warning About Spear Phishing

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  The FBI is warning small and midsize businesses that spear phishing is becoming an ever increasing threat. Over $85 million has been stolen by cybercriminals and only around $45 million has been recovered. The scam starts with a spam campaign that delivers malware. The messages are targeted to individuals responsible ...
  1 day ago

• ICANN move contributing to URL spoofing?

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  By the middle of next year, the lock that Latin alphabets have had on Internet domain names will be broken, when a plan announced last week by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, is implemented. That prospect may have phishers licking their lips. The move–claimed by ...
  6 days ago

• Facebook Wins Suit Against Spammer

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  Facebook announced on Thursday that it has won its lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace. A judge in San Jose, CA awarded the site a $711 million judgement, the second largest in history to be awarded under the CAN-SPAM Act. “While we don’t expect to quickly collect the full amount, we’ll work ...
  1 week ago

• Geocities Shutdown Closes Door on Spammers

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  This week Yahoo! permanently closed down its venerable Geocities service.  This move ended one of the internet’s longest standing free web site hosting services and one of the most frustrating spam problems of more recent years. Geocities became popular in the last 1990s as a free and easy way for people to ...
  1 week ago

• New Sting Operation Snags 18 Nigerian Spammers

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  A new sting operation conducted by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has already nabbed 18 spammers. Dubbed Operation Eagle Claw, it has also led to the shut down of 800 malicious websites. The Commission has partnered with Microsoft on the project and said its goal is to remove Nigeria from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Outlook Web Access Users Hit With Trojan

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  A new spam campaign is targeting Outlook Web Access users with the goal of distributing a nasty Trojan.  The messages are slick and professional-looking and tell the recipient that they need to update their mail settings by clicking on the included link. The link leads to a very well made, but fake, Outlook Web ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spamhaus targets snowshoe spam

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  Snowshoe Spam is a growing problem. Continued growth of snowshoe spam has prompted Spamhaus, a leader in the war on junk email, to craft a specific response to it. Earlier this month, the spamfighters rolled out a CSS component of the organization’s Spamhaus Block List. The SBL is a database of IP addresses from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taking Control of the Risks

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  We can all agree that spam is a huge problem for anyone who is making use of the internet.  But spam itself is not the actual risk we need to focus on. The real risks are the objectives that spammers are attempting to achieve, such as identity theft, credit card fraud, bank fraud, selling fake goods, phishing, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spam From Sites Involved in Data Breach Increases Dramatically

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 466
  Last week we told you about a huge data breach that was affecting Hotmail, Yahoo!, and GMail accounts – hundreds of thousands of them at last count.  Now experts say that the amount of spam messages coming from those sites has shot up dramatically and believe those hacked accounts are to blame. The spams are ...
  4 weeks ago

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