Tag Archives: Cyber Crime
Spam Gang Shut Down
The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels [...]
Full StoryMySpace Affecting our Teens
There are many ways to win a popularity contest and MySpace isn’t one of them. It’s a site mostly made up of teenagers that are in a race against other peers on who has the most friends, and who is the coolest. It could lead to bigger issues like sharing too much information or too [...]
Full StoryMalicious Email Spam on the Rise
The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this year, according to Sophos. The security firm said one in every 416 email messages received between July and September was spam compared to just one in every 3,333 emails between April and [...]
Full StoryRussian Hacker Gang at it Again!
What do they use? The Coreflood Trojan horse to infect massive numbers of PCs that gathers confidential information, including bank account numbers and passwords. The Russian hacker group is at it again using a Microsoft administration tool to steal passwords. This is not new as they have been doing this for years. A sampling of [...]
Full StoryComcast Moves Slowly Over Child Porn
Comcast has been in the media a lot lately over their lack of speed over censorship regarding child porn. I am starting to believe that the powers of Comcast maybe targeting children themselves, why else would they move so slow on an issue to protect our children? Last month most major internet service providers signed [...]
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