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  • Anti-spam company under fire over marketing

    United States anti-spam company SpamArrest has come under fire for a controversial marketing campaign based on the very practice it claims to prevent.

  • Brains gather to outsmart spam

    A group of researchers and developers hopes to cut back the burgeoning growth of unsolicited e-mail by coming up with new ways to block unwanted messages.

  • Opposition's spam attack

    The federal opposition has lashed out at the government's latest initiative to reduce spam, claiming it has come too late.

  • Facebook admits it's the in thing for spammers

    The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.

  • Storm worm evolution continues

    The Storm worm is now more streamline and stable after malware authors ditched some key functions from the malicious code, according to researchers from Symantec.

  • Berners-Lee: Web security still a fight

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".

  • Anti-spam advocate succumbs to spammer

    A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack.

  • Users need refresher on Bluetooth security

    With Bluetooth now a common feature on nearly all new mobile devices, there needs to be greater awareness from users about security problems and vulnerabilities associated with the function, according to industry figures.

  • Symantec keeps weather eye out for Net threats

    Symantec on Tuesday plans to launch the Symantec Internet Threat Meter, a free service meant to inform consumers about the state of Net security.

  • Malicious videos open dangerous attack vector

    Administrators should consider restricting access to sites such as YouTube and MySpace because they have the potential to deliver malware that has been embedded inside video files.

  • Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes

    A cyberattack that shut down Blue Security also felled thousands of blogs when the antispam site deflected the malicious hits, analysts said.

  • MSN blogs 'launch' spam, virus attacks

    Spammers have started using Microsoft's MSN blogging service to host malicious content used during spam and virus onslaughts, Internet security firm SurfControl said.

  • Spim, splog on the rise

    Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

  • Commbank attacked by instant phishers

    Commonwealth Bank customers have been targeted by phishers in a scam that combines a clever social engineering lure sent over instant messaging application ICQ.

  • Skype may assist botnet attacks

    Internet phone services such as Skype and Vonage could provide a means for cybercriminals to send spam and launch attacks that cripple Web sites, experts have warned.

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