As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, we look at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded. Read the rest of this entry »

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The anti-malware manufacturer Commtouch released its quarterly update on the state of spam in Q2 of 2008 earlier this week. The report (PDF) runs some 15 pages, but the company’s overall message is considerably more succinct. In the war between the forces of good anti-malware and evil malware, we (the good guys) aren’t making much headway.

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Online scammers are expected to latch on to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, opening in a month’s time, in a bid to lure unsuspecting victims, a new security report has revealed.

Symantec’s latest State of Spam monthly report (PDF) highlighted a series of messages that purport to be from the “Beijing Olympic Committee”. The official title of the body tasked to oversee the upcoming Olympics is the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad or BOCOG.

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SYDNEY - The spam and malware tsunami continues to cast a mounting shadow over the Internet this week.

An announcement from F-Secure warned that malware is growing faster than ever before, while Marshal’s TRACE team claims that the volume of malicious spam in circulation has more than tripled in one week.

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The bane of online advertisers is click fraud, in which people or computers click on ads solely to generate a payment.

And just as spammers have adapted to evade detection, the people who commit click fraud are adopting increasingly sophisticated techniques, according to Click Forensics, a firm that analyzes traffic on behalf of advertisers and ad networks.

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Symantec Corporation has announced the emergence of a new type of Instant Messaging (IM) spam, further exploitation of trusted brands, as well as the reemergence of spear phishing in its May 2008 State of Spam report.

These are some strong indications that there are no signs of spam slowing down to mark its 30th anniversary at the start of May this year.

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I found a website that supposedly invalidates email harvesters by filling them up with poison email addresses (randomly generated bugos email addresses).

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Posting your email address publicly on the internet poses a great risk. Many spammers operate “bots” which crawl the internet looking for email addresses, once your email is found it will be added to a spam mailing list. This is where the problem begins, you will be sent UCEs (Unsolicited Commercial Email), like those viagra, cialis, investment emails that you sometimes see on your mailbox.

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