You should exercise extreme caution if you are allowing access to your social network account from any application.
Since the cybercriminals seem to shift from randomly directed mass attacks to more focused attacks, the total volume of spam will decrease.
A default restrictive approach to public sharing of personal information will result in less information shared.
Bots and botnets comprise one of the biggest threats to the Internet and its users. However, recent news report of a success story: beheading the spam botnet Rustock.
Several organizations, which monitor the email spam situation around the world, have reported that the amount of spam decined significantly during the end of 2010. This led to some speculation regarding whether email spam as a technique was being abandoned, and newer ways of tricking users were upcoming and preferred.
The first Internet killer application is by many considered to be email. Unfortunately email as a secure and reliable communication method has recently been threatened by ... email!
Several users of the instant message service MSN messenger have recently been attacked by so-called ”SPIM” This has led some to believe that they have been attacked by an MSN-worm or a virus, which mission is to damage their computer.
A honeypot can be loosely defined as a device that it meant to trick someone (or somewhat) to use it and thereby trick that person to perform a specific action with the honeypot instead of the real thing. Honeypots of different kinds are widely used as a security device in computer security.
Don’t you hate spam...? Spammers get smarter every time and try new ways to get your attention and to avoid spam filters.
The spam problem is growing faster than ever and the spammers are getting increasingly sophisticated. The number of spam has grown with more than 40 % since April and the latest form of spam is so-called image spam.
Threat is maybe not the first word that comes into your mind when talking about spam.
