Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Pump-and-dump spam has not only taken up resources and threatened the smooth functioning of Hotmail, but it “continues to result in significant costs to [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently published the results of a survey about how American’s relate to spam. The overall conclusion is that “The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace email accounts, but email users are less bothered by it.”
So what does this mean for those of us in [...]
We always knew that security can’t be left up to users, and now there is hard proof. Reuters just published the results of an (admittedly ridiculous) test in which a computer specialist named Didier Stevens offered free viruses on Google Adwords. The text of the ad was “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” [...]
Virus signature update mistakes critical Windows files for malware.
“It’s a terrible day for lots of Chinese users (especially Enterprise Users) who use Norton products today,” CISRT said. “This issue has made a huge effection to Chinese people.” Other reports claimed that more than 7,000 users had already contacted Rising Antivirus, a Chinese security company, asked [...]
We reported last month in the Commtouch Q1 2007 Spam Trends Report that a new kind of spam had appeared that links to a hosted image rather that embedding it in the message itself. In the samples reported on spammers fraudulently hijacked legimate email newsletters and implanted a reference to a spam image at the [...]
F-Secure is one of the leading companies devoted to the study and prevention of computer viruses, spam, and other types of malware. Mikko Hypponen, the company’s Director of Anti-Virus Research, joins Phil and Scott in a discussion of the current status of the virus problem. In addition to reviewing his background, Mikko talks about how [...]
