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A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware.
Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes.
Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today.
A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China's recent earthquake.
McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign..
Security organisations are warning of a new virus attack that uses the upcoming Chinese Olympics to spread a new variant of the Storm malware..
While Kaspersky Lab is yet to crack the 1024-bit encryption key used to blackmail unwitting victims of the Gpcode virus, the security research firm has created a free utility to restore files that may have been deleted by the ransomware variant.
Four out five social network users have received unwanted 'friend' invitations, messages or postings over the past year, new research suggests..
Security specialists are warning of a new virus that encrypts data on infected machines and demands money for the decryption key..
The Federal Government kicked-off National E-security week today with the launch of a new security alert service for internet users and small businesses.
The infamous Storm botnet has been linked to a new spam run recorded earlier this week.
Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message..
Security experts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme described as being of "Byzantine complexity"..
Security firm Sophos has launched a Spam Pledge to mark the 30th anniversary of junk email, urging users to help stamp out the scourge of spam..
Security vendor Marshal is warning email users of a new mass targeted spam outbreak which contains a personalised subject line claiming to have caught 'you' naked on video.
New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam..
One spam related web page is appearing approximately every three seconds on the Internet according to Sophos’s latest quarterly spam report.
Spammers are increasingly relying on legitimate content and web sites to cloak their messages, attempting to bypass traditional controls by passing their messages off as genuine.
The world of cybercrime is thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..
Spam accounted for 96.63 percent of all email scanned in March, making it the third consecutive month that junk mail levels have remained steady..