Latest tweetsIt’s back – the war on spam’s cat and mouse game continues. When the McColo hosting company was shutdown on November 11, 2008, it was predicted that the event would present an obstacle for spammers looking to get their message out in the short term. But now, spam volumes have returned to pre-McColo shutdown levels, accounting for over 79 percent of all email in recent days.
New botnets in Latin America and Asia are increasingly Read more…
Tags: botnets, illegal gambling in China, inauguration, McColo, Nigerian spam, obamania, spam, state of spam, Symantec, Valentine's Day
Too bad I’ll be on the plane - will miss the inauguration ceremony totally. But here’s an interesting piece of news from Symantec :
As anticipation builds around President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration ceremony, Symantec Security Response’s global sensors have detected a new wave of malicious spam messages trying to capitalize on the popularity of the new President.
A new threat - W32.waledac Read more…
Tags: attacks, ceremony, inauguration, obama, obamania, President-elect, social engineering, Symantec, W32.waledac
