As I began writing this article, I received 6 junk e-mail items. No, I don’t need any medication thank you! Oh the joy. There are spam filtering solutions already out there, but the problem persists, unsolicited e-mail just never seems to end. The latest company to declare war on spam is BullGuard, who has today [...]

If regular filters can’t stop spam from taking over your inbox, computer science graduate student David Erickson has got your back with Default Off Email (DOEmail), which Erickson developed in tandem with Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Nick McKeown. DOEmail is a free anti-spam tool that is similar to a buddy list [...]

The spam wars rage on. For every technique the spammers come up with, a defense is built pushing the spammers into new techniques in an alarmingly rapid game of cat-and-mouse playing out on the Internet every day. The latest volley from the bad guys? Audio spam. In October, the spammers tried using MP3 audio files [...]

Cybercrime is going upscale. Criminals are not just putting together bigger botnets–more than a million computers in some cases–they are also adopting the principles of modern marketing to get their products onto your users’ computers. This has implications that will be coming soon to thousands of mailboxes near you. At the center of all this [...]

McAfee Inc. has announced the general availability of McAfee GroupShield 7 for Lotus Domino and McAfee GroupShield 7 for Microsoft Exchange. The new versions include a number of enhancements designed to provide greater threat protection, while making management easier than before. If an email server is not secured, viruses, worms and other malware can use [...]

Engate Technology Corporation has announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence. “Engate has demonstrated a commitment to product innovation and customer support by helping their customers and partners reduce IT costs and improve [...]

Ron Paul is not a botmaster. Security researchers have shut down a network of computers responsible for sending out nearly 200 million spam messages supporting the U.S. presidential candidate last month, and after analyzing the server’s software, it’s clear that there is no such thing as a Ron Paul botnet, according to Joe Stewart, a [...]

To file in the Department of Unsolved Mysteries: Some auto-dialing service is calling apparently random people up in the middle of the night and spamming them with recorded 2008 presidential campaign speeches from both parties. 

Global spam volumes have doubled in the past year, showing a shift away from selling products towards spreading malware, according to new research. The 2008 Internet Security Trends Report from IronPort Systems estimates that 98 per cent of all email traffic is now spam. 

Some malware authors have even gone so far as to include the phrases "no worm, no virus" in the e-card’s text, as if such an assurance made the message safe. ‘Tis the season to be wary. Sadly, malware authors are quick to seize on current events to cloak their social engineering attacks — which typically [...]