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Survey: Nearly all phishing from forged addresses

News Almost 5 percent of recipients of such emails disclosed vital information such as credit card numbers, account user names and passwords, leading to identity theft and financial loss, the report said. The past few months saw phishing emails emerging...

29 June 2004, 11:00

Email gateway products get smart with spam

News As the number of spam emails and virus attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, security companies are updating their products to keep up. Unlike the more traditional filtering methods employed by NA, Mirapoint on Tuesday...

25 May 2004, 16:25

Australians face devious phishing scam

News The perpetrators of the exploit lure unsuspecting Australian users to the malicious Web site by widely distributing spam emails -- purporting to be from one of the Big Four local banks -- containing what appears to be a legitimate link to the...

5 April 2004, 11:15

Spam law risks blocking genuine sales pitches

News Some researchers claim that 80 percent of all emails will be spam by 2007, providing impetus to the federal government to tighten the provisions of the Act. Chuawiwat warns not to put "spam phrases" such as 'click here to unsubscribe' in the emails...

7 April 2004, 11:30

Microsoft's anti-spam plan 'hijacked by zombies'

News About six months ago he unveiled an initiative called Penny Black, which was a method for reducing a spammer's ability to send large volumes of unsolicited emails using Hotmail and MSN accounts. The puzzle's result is attached to the email's header...

4 June 2004, 12:55

Spammers fool Outlook with a new trick

News Although spam is very simple for a human to spot, the artificial intelligence systems used by junk filters rely on spotting obvious keywords, applying statistical theories to messages, and using rule-based systems to try and differentiate between...

2 April 2004, 16:10

Copycat phisher arrested for Smile attacks

News Phishing scams operate through spam emails that typically purport to originate from a bank and send people either to a fake Web site to illicit their username and password or - in more sophisticated attacks - to the real Web site, over which an...

29 April 2004, 11:30

AOL and Microsoft secure ruling against spammer

News Microsoft and AOL received numerous complaints from the recipients of the emails. In November 2003, Microsoft brought proceedings before the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris against Mr Korac on the grounds that his unsolicited bulk emails breached the...

28 June 2004, 15:35

PCs take more sick days than their users

News A survey of 2,500 UK email users found that 70 percent of users had been infected by a virus in the past year and 42 percent say they found it less stressful fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate emails among the...

23 June 2004, 16:10

Symantec throttles automatic virus-notification 'spam'

News Some users have been getting so frustrated at the high numbers of such emails that they have been dubbed "as annoying as spam", according to Greg Day, solutions architect at rival antivirus firm McAfee.

17 May 2004, 11:20

Staying one step ahead in the anti-spam arms race

News We have more than two million "honey pots" and receive about 100 billion spam emails every month. We block these emails by doing fuzzy matching. When I joined Brightmail three years ago, 8 percent of emails were spam.

16 June 2004, 9:30

Sober worm hits new heights

News We don't know how many people are infected, but those infected are just spewing these emails out. Sober.P -- which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O and Sober.S -- travels as an attachment in emails written in English and...

10 May 2005, 8:14

Nuclear shelter turns to email

News You have information in a digital form, like emails covering a subject, and you may have something like an e-statement covering that same subject, and you may have paper records on that subject. The Internet-based service aims to consolidate...

1 June 2004, 11:00

Comcast sends out less spam

News In contrast, approximately 665 million emails were sent out of Comcast's network on 10 June. Web portal Yahoo ranks second with 297 million emails and Time Warner Cable's Road Runner third with 200 daily emails.

30 June 2004, 8:25

Asian Trojans attacking UK, agency warns

News The Trojans can infect computers through emails and Web sites. The emails are usually spoofed and appear to be from news or government agencies. Three hundred key UK business and government organisations have been threatened by a wave of data...

17 June 2005, 8:40

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