Known only by his family name “Park”, this 21-year-old has been notorious for sending literally trillions of spam email messages through his self-developed software. So, what is his punishment? Well, if him and his accomplice are found guilty, they are looking at three years in prison and a whopping 30 million….won, which is […]

Ahh… and you wonder where your tax dollars go. For the unfortunate citizens of Michigan, their tax dollars were assisting Nigerian Fraud Scams, thanks to the former treasurer of Alcona County. Talk about irony… people state that they hate spam with a passion, yet the people of Michigan are providing the spammers with fundingv(without […]

In past posts, I talked about how spam is only going to increase in everyone’s inbox, but what are the spammers doing that allow them to evade spam filters? Well, it can be summed up in one word: Images.
For the most part, your standard spam filter analyzes text in emails. If the text […]

Imagine this: you’re signed into your email account, you browse to a webpage, and before you know it, the webmaster stole all of the information in your email contacts list. Well, that is exactly what is happening with Gmail users. Just by adding a little piece of code, webmasters are able to steal […]

This baby is definitely on the loose. Already being sent to over 160 domains, this worm is heavily spamming the Internet. Just a fellow reminder: if you happen to stumble on an email with the subject “Happy New Year!”, don’t open it.

Verisign is warning of a new worm that travels via e-mail […]

I found this to be interesting, yet a little amusing at the same time. It seems to be that Christmas decreases the levels at which botnet (and their operators) operate. Could it be because these spammers have holiday cheer, or could it be because they forgot to get gifts for others and did […]

With all of the parts and clauses that make up the Can-Spam Act, it seemed like it was doing a good job at controlling spam, but not anymore. I think it would be safe to say that the spammers of the world are giving the Can-Spam Act the finger by dramatically increasing their spam […]

2006 was pretty depressive when it comes to the computer security realm. Records have been shattered in terms of the spread of spam and malware, and it will probably only get worse as time goes on. In looking back on 2006, all that really needs to be said is this;
if your computer is […]

92.6%…
According to the security group Postini, that is the amount of email that shows up in people’s inboxes on average.
73%…
This is the increase of spam volume in the past three months.
Unfortunately, in the game of spam, it seems as if the bad guys are winning, for they continuously are developing new techniques to get their […]

That can’t be good for a business reputation. It seems that a certain anti-spyware firm has been accused for aggressively using pop ups and spamming to promote their anti-spyware product. I just hope their aggressive marketing campaign has at least netted them $1 million in sales, because that’s how much they settled the […]