Users should be on guard for spam touting the guilty verdict of former professional football star O.J. Simpson, a security company warned today.
"Anytime there's a big news story, spammers latch on to it to get people to click on a link and download their malware," said Sam Masiello, vice president of information security at MX Logic Inc.
This white paper describes how Bayesian mathematics can be applied to the spam problem, resulting in an adaptive, ‘statistical intelligence’ technique that achieves very high spam detection rates.
It also explains why the Bayesian approach is the best way to tackle spam once and for all, as it overcomes the obstacles faced by more static technologies such as blacklist checking, comparing to databases of known spam and keyword checking. These technologies are not obsolete, but cannot be relied upon without a Bayesian filter.
Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware -- and it's only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages will be sent in 2008, costing businesses more than US$140 billion worldwide -- a significant increase from the 18 trillion sent in 2006 and the 30 trillion in 2007.
Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail, offering the anti-impotence drugs Viagra and Cialis. Anyone who replied to the sender could have been targeted with scams or computer viruses.
The failing drags the Corporation into the on-going row over how large organisations store private information about individuals. Last night a senior MP called the incident "very serious" and demanded that the BBC take action to tighten its security.
Trend Micro, an online security research company, has stated that several firms in the Middle East are receiving almost 1.5 Million e-mails everyday throughout their networks, of which 90% are junk e-mails, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks launched by hackers.
Furthermore, security analysts said that firms encountering e-mail related attacks on their messaging system and network supports compromise their businesses to several damaging risks like information leak, compliance problems plus legal risks.
BORED SPAMMERS have reportedly disseminated millions of e-mails accusing random surfers of illegally downloading copyrighted files on Bit Torrent.
The phony e-mails, disguised as a stern message from the anti-piracy company Media Defender, warns the recipient that his or her download activity has been logged. In addition, the message demands an immediate cessation of illegal downloads and threatens criminal prosecution under US federal law.
Hackers are using the U.S. presidential elections to infect user's machines with malicious code.
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network are warning of emails with fake news of a sex scandal which will adversely affect the candidate in the title and body of the email, offering you a video to watch which will prove their case that the candidate named was involved in a sex scandal.
You click on the video and while watching, hackers are installing malicious applications onto your computer.
Pop Icon Madonna’s popularity has been hijacked by spammers who are sending malicious spam messages which compromise security.
According to an Australian online newspaper, IT NEWS, the warning was issued by security vendor Sophos, who said the spammers are using the hype around Madonna’s 50th birthday and looming world tour, which kicks off this weekend, as a lure to malware in a new round of malicious spam messages.
A despicable new spam attack is fooling people into installing a Trojan Horse by claiming to have "hijacked" their baby.
The email arrives with the subject line "We have hijacked your baby" and demands a $50,000 ransom for the return of the child.
India figures among the top 10 spam sending countries, accounting for nearly 3% of spam sent globally in the second quarter of 2008, according to enterprise security firm Secure Computing’s Internet Threats report. Spam or unsolicited e-mails sent from emerging markets is expected to grow as internet infrastructure improves.
