Bill's back. According to an e-mail from Microsoft's Sydney office, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will be making the long flight down under in a couple of weeks' time.
The marriage between electronic mail spoofing and social engineering has resulted in a new, malicious tactic dubbed 'spear phishing', which security experts say can diminish users' trust in e-mail.
Over the past year the number of online dating sites has increased significantly but security experts at Internet Security Systems (ISS) say many of these sites are being used at this time of year to spread malicious code, not love.
The Storm worm which first surfaced in January is on the rise, but this time round the attack is delivered over the Web.
Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business.
It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
The issue of how best to handle large email inboxes is a perennial topic here at Snorage, and it doesn't only affect enterprise customers.
According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
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Listen to audio recordings of conversations with real-life internet scammers in this guide to their history and recent activities.
We are drowning under a tide of unwanted e-mails and the person sitting opposite you is just as guilty as the marketers and conmen, writes Dr Monica Seeley.
The Australian Capital Territory police is warning Internet users to be wary of a new e-mail scam that deceptively alerts the recipient that their identity has been stolen.
Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
Can you trust software to block all the spam your company receives? We evaluate four top spam filtering packages for their accuracy.
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks"--Text of e-mail message that accompanies files spreading the W32.Sircam.worm@mm virus.
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