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Spam emails sent by hackers from compromised Gmail and Hotmail accounts is on the rise.According to a report released by Commtouch, the number of spam emails sent from hacked email accounts significantly increased between the...

Matthew Anderson, who was arrested for being part of a global e-mail spam scam, has been sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment by Southwark Crown Court. According to BBC News, Scotland Yard found in the course of its...

Social networking giant Facebook has warned its users about a new password stealing scam that has hit the popular social network, involving users receiving a fake email asking them to reset their passwords.  According to the...

Alan Ralsky, the unofficial ‘Godfather of Spam’ has been sentenced to fifty-one months in prison along with five years of supervised probation and a $250,000 fine for committing violations under the CAN-SPAM Act, wire...

Email security firm MessageLabs has claimed that every nine out of ten emails in circulation can be categorised as spam emails although most of this fails to reach users' inboxes. According to the study conducted by the company,...

Spam and phishing attacks make up 97% of the email that is sent, according to an information security report from Microsoft. The figure is a three percent rise on the previous year.Microsoft said that 97% of the email sent around...

Security consultancy Global Secure Systems (GSS) says this week’s revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlights the dangers that spam...

Interesting to read over on the AP newswire that one of the 38 people charged in a global Internet phishing and fraud ring the other week has copped for a plea.Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, aged 22, of Craiova, Romania, leaded...

– Fake university degree offers appear to be way up.– A new type of spam which pushes affiliate links. The look is always the same — green link text, simple headline.This one pushes AdultFriendFinder:This one...

Mc Afee has announced that it will conduct an experiment with 50 volunteers to find out the extent of spam has invaded and influenced daily internet users' life, 30 years after the first spam email was sent.The experiment, called...

A report published IronPort systems entitled "Internet Security Trends Report 2008" estimates that UK inboxes receive on average 20 billion spam emails on a daily basis, double the rates of 2006. UK internet users are...

I was intrigued to read that a father-son team called Knujon (no junk spelled backwards) which has dedicated its time and energy to fighting spam, claims to have shut down more than 50,000 Web sites in the last two years that use...

IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed the most prevalent malware threats causing problems for computer users around the world during September 2007. The figures, compiled by Sophos's global network of monitoring...

Pump and Dump scam emails are slowly replacing the traditional text and images spam emails that used to fill our inboxes. In the past few days, there has been a resurgence in the number of such scams hitting our inboxes. The Pump...

Spammers have become much better at slipping through spam filters, sending colourful promotions as images rather than text. Diego d’Ambra, CTO of SoftScan, gives OUT-LAW readers the full picture.In November last year, Southeby’s...