Botnet pushing out 18% of all spam taken offline
A botnet known as ‘Grum‘, responsible for sending out 18% of all spam has been taken offline by Atif Mushtaq from the malware intelligence lab called FireEye. After Cutwail and Lethic, it was the third...
View ArticleUS Senate votes to extend FISA Amendments Act for five years
The FISA Amendments Act, which has been in effect since 2008, has been extended for another five years by a US Senate vote. The vote turned out to be 72 to 23 to extend the FISA Amendments Act for five...
View ArticleYahoo Mail hacked: quite some users hit, XSS exploit used by hacker
The Next Web reports that over the course of the weekend, people started reporting they had their Yahoo Mail hacked. Apparently, when clicking a malicious link in an email, and a user’s details are...
View ArticleTo prevent phishing scams, banks are collecting special TLD domains
Scammers will have a harder time trying to do phishing: banks are picking up new type top level domain names (TLD) to prevent attacks. In the land of email, phishing scams are a common sight: your bank...
View ArticleSpamhaus hit by DDoS attack, not executed by Anonymous
Spamhaus, the well-known anti-spam DNS blacklist service, has been hit by a severe DDoS attack over the weekend. Users have been informed by Spamhaus of certain services like their website and email...
View ArticleKaspersky Lab: spam volume 2013 drops to two-thirds of total email volume
The people over at Kaspersky Lab have written a post about the changes in spam volume 2013, compared to 2012. Compared to the previous year, the volume is down to 69.6%, dropping 2,5% compared to 2012....
View ArticleDating site pays hacker for 20 million stolen email addresses
Topface, a Russian dating site pays hacker for 20 million stolen email addresses. This was done to prevent him from selling or leaking those 20 million email addresses. The sum paid was undisclosed by...
View ArticleGmail security updates with SPF, DKIM warnings
The Google team is introducing new Gmail security updates that include warnings to keep your email safer. These warnings are meant to notify you as an email user that the email sender is not...
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Google, Yahoo sued for preemptive reading of email to serve ads
Google and Yahoo have been sued in the state of California for intercepting emails and serving ads based on keywords in those emails before they’ve reached the inbox of the intented recipients. Such is...
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Return Path launches ISP anti-phishing program with AOL,Yahoo and others
Return Path, the email marketing certification and reputation monitoring company, has launched a new ISPs anti-phishing program together with a group of large companies in the industry. Those companies...
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Botnet pushing out 18% of all spam taken offline
A botnet known as ‘Grum‘, responsible for sending out 18% of all spam has been taken offline by Atif Mushtaq from the malware intelligence lab called FireEye. After Cutwail and Lethic, it was the third...
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