New Drive-By Spam Infects Those Who Open Email — No Attachment Needed

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Attackers have developed a new way to infect your PC through email -- without forcing you to click on an attachment. According to researchers at eleven, a German security firm, the new drive-by spam automatically downloads malware when am email is opened in the email client. The user doesn't have ...

Bit.ly boosts malware protection

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

For the security-conscious, those shortened URLs on Twitter can be unnerving. After all, where is that shortened URL really taking you? This summer, security vendors documented how spammers and phishers were exploiting URL shortening services to try to trick users into visiting sketchy sites. On Monday, one URL shortening service ...

Facebook Password Spam Conceals Malware Attack

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Researchers at several security firms have tied the Bredolab Trojan to a spam campaign targeting Facebook users.The malware is being blasted out by spammers in e-mails claiming to come from “The Facebook Team." Inside the e-mails is a message that the recipient's Facebook password has been changed. In order to ...

Use scr.im to get less spam

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails.Don't share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email ...

SonicWALL Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails ...