Post McColo, Spam On The Rise Again
It seemed from the beginning something that would only be temporary as spammers regrouped. Though spam levels dropped by as much 75 percent in the hours following McColo Corp.'s now infamous booting, spam's already making a comeback.
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Date: 2008-11-25
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Underground Economy Booming
There's good news and bad news regarding Symantic's underground Internet economy report, released today. The good news is that the bad guys have steely eyes upon them at all times. The bad news is that the bad guys' business is booming.
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Date: 2008-11-24
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75 Percent Of World’s Spam Knocked Offline
Score one for the security industry-a big one, a massively ginormous and temporary strike against spam. A slew of security companies and the Washington Post tracked massive amounts of spam back to one San Jose-based hosting company, now offline, and 75 percent of the world's spam went offline with it-for about 12 hours.
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Date: 2008-11-13
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Zombies, How to Fight Them
Just so you're warned: If the zombies come back it could be your fault. "It is only a matter of time until the next W32/ZMist heads our way," premonishes McAfee's Vinoo Thomas. And it could all be because of something stupid.
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Date: 2008-11-12
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AVG Update Labeled Windows File As Trojan
File this one under super embarrassing: Some users of the latest two versions of AVG's free virus scanner ended up with a computer in eternal boot mode. The antivirus software had falsely identified a critical Windows XP file as a Trojan virus.
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Date: 2008-11-11
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Beware of Presidential Malware
As the United States celebrates, or for about 46% of the population-mourns, the election of Barack Obama and the world continues its keen interest in this particular race, malware developers are in full attack mode trying to capitalize on a patriotic meme.
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Date: 2008-11-06
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