31 July 2006
More than 95% of e-mail is ‘junk’
More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms. Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating on hijacked home computers. E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the com
28 July 2006
Tech 2 Blog :: PayPal, eBay victimized by Email Phishing :: July :: 2006
Users of PayPal and eBay are the main target of more than 75 percent of all email phising, revealed a recent research by information technology security firm Sophos. Phising emails point recipients to a bogus website which look like the real PayPal or the eBay site. By misdirecting the users to the forged website, the fraudsters steal usernames
27 July 2006
Spammers use images to avoid spam filters
Security software firm Sophos has published an updated version of its "dirty dozen" list of spam relaying countries. Among the main trends during the second quarter are image files that are used by spammers to dodge spam filters and a potential roadblock for the U.S. to reduce the amount of spam messages.
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