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InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Spammers Pedaling Haiti, World Cup Scams Latest analysis finds spike in malware hidden in messages about major world news events. |
InternetNews January 20, 2011 |
New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on. |
InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise. |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Enterprises Weigh Social Nets' Risks, Rewards New survey by security software firm Sophos reveals most companies allow employees to visit social networking sites despite obvious risks. |
InternetNews February 9, 2010 |
McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. |
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands. |
InternetNews December 31, 2010 |
Smartphone, Social Threats to Mark 2011 Security As enterprises increasingly embrace popular consumer technology, experts warn of coming threats to social networks and popular devices like the iPhone. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2010 Owain Bennallack |
Why Apple Needs a New Social Network Apple has unveiled Ping, a music social network that runs off the back of the iTunes software that's used by 160 million people worldwide. |
InternetNews June 2, 2010 |
Facebook Users Fend Off 'Likejacking' Attacks Hackers looking to take over Web sessions via Facebook are hiding malware under click-inducing, socially engineered links. |
InternetNews February 3, 2011 |
Hackers Use Facebook Mania to Spread Malware Facebook is a magnet for security threats and hackers are capitalizing on users' addiction to the social networking site to do even more damage. |
InternetNews May 14, 2010 |
Facebook's Become a Phisher's Playground Facebook has plenty of security problems of its own making to resolve and, in the interim, professional cyber-thieves are exploiting other vulnerabilities. |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam. |
InternetNews November 22, 2010 |
Spam Scam Targets Miley Cyrus Fans With Miley Cyrus' 18th birthday near, malware mavens are laying the traps for fans who might be willing to click on stray links to find videos. |
InternetNews November 17, 2010 |
Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones. |
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 John C. Dvorak |
John C. Dvorak v25n15 The only cure for spam is for people never to buy anything from a spammer, but apparently there are always dummies who do. |
InternetNews November 10, 2010 |
New Harry Potter Flick Attracts Malware Scams Security experts are warning fans of the Harry Potter series to be on high alert for malware scams praying on their keen interest in the latest movie. |
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett |
Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code. |
InternetNews November 15, 2010 |
Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert. |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild. |
InternetNews January 12, 2011 |
U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos. |
InternetNews August 6, 2009 |
Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes. |
InternetNews October 21, 2009 |
Auto Industry a Spam Magnet: Study Panda Security survey finds that only one-tenth of one percent of all e-mail received by auto industry is legitimate. |
InternetNews September 13, 2010 |
Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form. |
InternetNews November 6, 2009 |
Facebook, MySpace Talk Tough on App Scams Social networking leaders tighten policies about deceptive ads in third-party apps. |
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2009 Ron Jones |
Facebook Marketing 101 Tips on promoting your Facebook fan page, engaging your audience, and how to be found in real-time searches. |
InternetNews July 22, 2010 |
Shortened URLs Are Spam Magnets: Gartner Abbreviated URLs are standard operating procedure on Twitter and everyone loves Twitter. So it's no surprise hackers are embedding malware in shortened URLs to evade security apps. |
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson. |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs. |
InternetNews December 2, 2010 |
Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems. |
InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries. |
InternetNews October 1, 2009 |
Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will. |
InternetNews May 19, 2010 |
'Lost' Finale Gives Cyber Crooks New Bait With the end of the popular ABC drama, hackers are exploiting viewers' interest to spread all sorts of malware. |
InternetNews September 27, 2010 |
LinkedIn Users Hit by Spam Attack Malware designed to capture user's personal information on the popular professional network, LinkedIn. |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January. |
InternetNews December 8, 2009 |
Brazil Edges U.S. as Top Spammer in Cisco Report Spam volume in the U.S. decreased in 2009, though it's still enormous. |
Search Engine Watch June 26, 2010 Johnny Widerlund |
9 Ways to Control Your Privacy on Social Media Sites A look at the top ways online security experts say you can restore or maintain your privacy on social networking sites. |
InternetNews April 5, 2010 |
Facebook Scam Takes Aim at Whole Foods Fans Scammers target Facebook fans of Whole Foods Market grocery store, promising a $500 gift card, but they're really out to swipe users' personal information. |
InternetNews October 21, 2010 |
Facebook Sues Alleged Spammers Facebook charges two individuals and a company with engaging in deceptive spam campaigns. |
InternetNews August 4, 2010 |
Spam Looking More Like Legitimate Email With spam levels surging, it's also becoming harder for users to identify it, according to a new survey. |
InternetNews November 8, 2010 |
Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States. |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston |
Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs. |
InternetNews July 23, 2010 |
Cisco Tags U.S. as Spam Leader In its 2010 mid-year security report, networking heavyweight Cisco concluded that the United States ranks No. 1 in originating spam messages, and warns on IT policy compliance. |
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends. |
InternetNews January 29, 2010 |
Another Bogus Virus Warning Disrupts Facebook The clever scam had Facebook users sharing and posting the bogus virus alert throughout the social networking site. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Twitter Removes 140 Character Limit For Direct Messages Twitter is formally lifting its 140 character limit for direct messages, after informing developers of the update in June. |
InternetNews July 8, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Experts Question UN's Anti-Spam Plan Wiping spam from the planet within two years is not going to happen, industry experts predict. |
PC World December 4, 2007 Eric Dahl |
Leopard Runs on PCs Hackers adapt Leopard to run on a PC... Ubuntu Linux code names... Audio spam... Net access brain implant... Microsoft update woes... Crysis is here... |
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2004 The spam ratio only grew by 1 percentage point, but the economic damage from malware was staggering. |