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Security adviser: Cyberthreats keep growing

November 22, 2006 Howard Schmidt, former security adviser to the White House, warns of upcoming threats to businesses and the Net itself. TAGS: Howard Schmidt, cyberthreats, information technology manager, threat, colleague, identity theft, attack, spam, DNS, PDA, security, PC

U.S. leads the dirty dozen spammers

December 24, 2004 A big slice of the global spam sent this year had its origins in the United States, security researchers say. TAGS: Sophos Plc., spam, CAN-SPAM Act, spammer, Graham Cluley, South Korea, U.S., researcher, broadband, virus, security, PC

Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high

February 2, 2005 New spammer scheme uses ISPs to get around blacklists, leading one expert to predict "e-mail meltdown." TAGS: Internet Service Provider, blacklist, zombie, spam, Spamhaus, MessageLabs Ltd., spammer, e-mail server, anti-spam, trojan horse, server, e-mail, broadband, malware, U.S., PC

'Tis the season to send spam

November 20, 2006 The volume of junk e-mail is spiking--just as consumers gear up for holiday shopping. TAGS: antispam company, Ironport Systems Inc., spammer, spam, MessageLabs Ltd., anti-spam, holiday, season, Turkey, expert, Yahoo! Inc., message, e-mail, PC

Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs

August 22, 2006 Malicious code that exploits a recent Windows hole is leading to growth in the number of hijacked PCs, CipherTrust says. TAGS: CipherTrust Inc., zombie, spam, worm, PC, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Does your PC have a good rep? To send e-mail, it better

July 26, 2006 Most computers that send e-mail are bad Netizens, say firms using new "reputation-based" scoring to filter client e-mails. TAGS: e-mail security, reputation, spam, e-mail, IP address, IP, PC

Microsoft takes on spam zombies

October 27, 2005 Campaign against junk e-mail is expanded to target criminals who hijack PCs to send spam messages. TAGS: zombie, spamming, junk e-mail, spam, service provider, Microsoft Corp., Internet Service Provider, PC

'Storm worm' exploits YouTube

October 10, 2007 Spammers may have changed tactics, targeting a familiar Web site rather than PCs for the purpose of spreading the trojan. TAGS: YouTube, Graham Cluley, spammer, spam filtering, bot, spam, trojan horse, Google Inc., function, security, e-mail, video, PC

Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference

January 22, 2007 At a hush-hush security confab on Microsoft's campus this week, there'll be tough talk on beating botnets and keeping cybercrooks at bay. TAGS: phishing, conference, expert, spam, threat, event, bot, security, trojan horse, Microsoft Corp., PC

Sophos promises to sniff out zombie systems

July 15, 2005 Service aims to tell subscribers if their network is home to compromised PCs being used to send spam. TAGS: Sophos Plc., subscriber, spam, IP, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, security, PC

Experts: Zombies ousting viruses

May 25, 2005 Attackers are drafting bot armies of up to 10,000 machines rather than creating global epidemics like Blaster, security experts say. TAGS: Kaspersky Lab, antivirus company, malicious software, epidemic, distributed denial of service, tactic, antivirus, Blaster worm, trojan horse, spam, radar, author, virus, PC, e-mail

Spam may sprout viruses in home PCs

June 27, 2003 An e-mail security company says that junk e-mailers are making use of viruses to turn home computers into spam generators. TAGS: MessageLabs Ltd., relay, Sobig, e-mail security company, correlation, e-mail security, home PC, Networks Associates Technology Inc., spam, security company, spammer, virus, variant, analysis, e-mail, server

Sober.Q spreads hate messages in German, English

May 16, 2005 Distribution method of new worm may mean that Sober authors have remote control over thousands of PCs. TAGS: MX Logic Inc., variant, author, spam, worm, message, virus, e-mail, PC

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