Spam filters used by some of the most popular email providers are failing to prevent junkmail attacks, with one service offering as low as two per cent protection. A study by US-based eTesting labs trialled 15 email providers over ten consecutive...
A spam email that takes users to a fake Microsoft Windows update website and then infects their machine is spreading fast, according to anti-virus experts. It is the typical activity of someone sending mass spam Trojans.
Malicious spammers have hit Cambridgeshire police with a denial of service attack by threatening recipients of the email to charge their credit cards unless they call a 'customer service' number that is actually the main switchboard number for the...
Stephen Newton has opened the virtual doors of his spam museum, where he aims to preserve the messages pushing porn, pills and other nonsense that are sent to him via unsolicited email. Newton, from Manchester, has posted his email addresses on his...
Spam surge emanating from the Far East This is a real problem for my user base and even the spam filter specialists are finding it hard to keep up. Email - the root of your work stress? Well worth implementing email training to educate users.
An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. Email security company Email Systems said it detected a global outbreak of MP3 spam from late evening on 17 October...