World's Largest Spammer Organisation Ordered To Close Down By US Judge

Facebook has been hit by the biggest wave of spam in its history, according to a security firm which registered five different attacks leaving unsolicited messages on users' walls in the last 24 hours. "Facebook is vulnerable...

Security vendor Cloudmark has unleashed a suite of services tailored to help mobile operators to address the soaring SMS spamming attacks over their networks. The security service suite, codenamed as...

McAfee has published a 12-page report, compiled in collaboration with ICF international, which shows that the carbon footprint of every single spam message is 0.3 grams of carbon dioxide. This multiplied by the estimated 62...

A surge in spam caused Virgin Media users to be cut off from their email inbox for nearly 100 hours and affected those who used the Virgin.net email address; it is not the first time that Virgin.net is buckling under the...

We’ve all seen it before, another email advertising anything from free garden gnomes to spectacular cravats, not only is it a cause of constant irritation and frustration but it is also quite embarrassing when a work...

Research unveiled by anti-spam software company Clearmymail shows a significant increase in the number of spam blocked per customer, quadrupling to nearly 31,000 compared to just over 8100 in Q1 2008. A breakdown of these emails...

Security Firm McAfee Launched An Experiment Called S.P.A.M (Spammed Persistently All Month) in back in April 2008 and results just released show that UK citizens are a particularly targeted species, especially amongst Nigerian...

Spamming seems to be the source of everyone's problems in an average office; clogging our inboxes, bringing pestilence and death to our PCs thanks to viruses and trojan horses, trying to siphon money from our accounts through...

Security firm Webroot released its latest research report, "State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email" which reveals the significant impact that rapidly growing email security threats, in size and volume,...

SoftScan announced today that spam has pushed up its record breaking levels even further during November when the company classified 96.3% of all emails scanned as junk mail. SoftScan also notes that spam is more frequently...

MXSweep reports on massive outbreak of MP3 spam by stock market pump-and-dump fraudsters. This brand new type of email borne spam has been flooding users since last week and in a very short time accounted for around 7 - 10% of...

Malicious spam containing fake URLs pointing at assorted YouTube videos have started flooding t'Internet in recent days, according to Marshal, the email and Internet content security provider.According to the Marshal TRACE team,...

SoftScan announced that spam levels are back up in the nineties, with 90.06% of email scanned during June classified as spam. Spam levels fluctuated throughout the month and some days saw levels drop to 86%, but SoftScan...

The latest spamming stats from SoftScan, a specialist in the area, claim to show that spam percentage levels are back up in the nineties, with a whacking 90.06 per cent of email scanned during June classified as unwanted.The MSP...

I was amazed to read over the weekend that Marshal, the email and Internet content security provider, reckons that the problem of business spam is over-estimated.Marshal's comments come in the wake of an IDC report that suggests...