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
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