It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]

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 drop by [...]

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 [...]

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 June.
Much [...]