Views: 8,088 [ad] In my opinion, the best way to keep clean of spam is simple: The first rule is NEVER reply to spam, NEVER click the unsubscribe link and NEVER e-mail to the unsubscribe address. These are simply underhand tactics to get ‘active’ e-mail addresses. Some other tips to avoid getting spammed in the […]
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Taiwan Kings of Spam from CipherTrust
Views: 3,764 [ad] Hmm Taiwan are really way ahead of everyone when it comes to being a spam hub, sadly that’s nothing to be proud of and generally it’s due to a large amount of poorly configured/unsecured servers. Taiwan needs to start doing some vulnerability assessment! Taiwan and Korea have always had loads of open […]
Carders Scamming Spammers!
Views: 7,584 [ad] Sounds complicated, it’s almost a tongue-twister. It turns out the carders (people using stolen credit card details fraudulently) have worked out how to get money out of the spammers (spamming being massive nowdays) Fraudsters who deal in stolen credit card data have devised a means to extract money from sponsors of junk […]
The Tale of a Real Malaysian E-mail Spammer Exposed – Webflexx
Views: 10,675 [ad] So a friend of mine received a spam, which is not unusual, but this one was a little different. This guy is in Malaysia, and the spam he usually receives is from all over the place, mostly US-centric, but this one was targeting Malaysians, Malaysian spammer producing Malaysian spam, is it the […]
Jan 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics
Views: 5,440 January at a glance: Vicious and Varied The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded “low intensity”, 7 (37%) “Medium Intensity” and 4 (21%) were massive attacks & a rare phenomenon for a single month. One outbreak of specific interest, consisting of […]