Tag Archives: spam

Imageshack protects, educates users

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Maxim Weinstein

A couple weeks ago, intrepid security reporter Brian Krebs blogged about Imageshack, a site that hosts images for free, taking a proactive approach to protect users from spammers. It seems that spam messages would reference images hosted at Imageshack, presumably … Continue reading →

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Gadu-Gadu spam

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Maxim Weinstein

We were surprised this morning when we learned that StopBadware.org received over 50,000 visits from users across Poland yesterday, an increase of 69,000% from the previous day. The mystery increased as we learned that the visits were all "direct," meaning … Continue reading →

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IBM and Websense Release Reports on Internet Safety-Status

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Laureli Mallek

“Websense”:http://www.websense.com and “IBM”:http://www.ibm.com released security reports this week covering topics from spam to research on the impact of publicizing software vulnerabilities. In his Security Fix blog post, Brian Krebs continues his coverage on “badware distribution”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/75_percent_of_malicious_web_si_1.html, prompted by the release of … Continue reading →

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Spam Targets a Wide Field of Users

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Laureli Mallek

The Internet Storm Center (ISC) “reports”:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4289 that CEOs have been receiving faux federal subpoenas via email. While there is an “online component”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CM/ECF to some case filings, ISC points out that initial contact is *always* made the old fashioned way, via … Continue reading →

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McAfee Launches S.P.A.M. Experiment

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Maxim Weinstein

Security vendor McAfee “announced on its blog”:http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/04/02/the-spam-experiment-kicks-off/ that it launched a “really cool experiment”:http://www.mcafeespamexperiment.com/: bq. Spam is not just a nuisance. It’s a constantly evolving threat to our identities and our wallets. Spam can put users at risk of far … Continue reading →

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To search spammers, even death is a badware opportunity

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Erica George

The Bits blog at the New York Times yesterday highlighted a disturbing twist to a common spammer practice. Search engine spam, or spamdexing, involves spammers gaming search engine results by creating pages that pretend to have useful content, often based … Continue reading →

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