The recent big news is about the Washington Post being involved in the shutting down of a Co-Location hosting provider (McColo Corp.- AS26780) that has as customers some of the biggest spammers on the Internet – some reports are as high as 2/3rds or even 75% of all spam worldwide was associated with them.
The spammers are always quick to take advantage of any news story or trend and the latest is a great example as the following news article shows.
No I don’t mean that Google and Microsoft have started to spam people though I do certainly get a lot of messages from both of them.
The IT world can at some points be a little dull when marketing their services but here are some IT security companies that are using humorous videos to get their marketing message across.
An interesting article that analyzed spam sent to both real and fake e-mail addresses over an 8 week period which shows that e-mail accounts that start with some letters get more spam than others. (Aardvarks vs. Zebra in the article).
Dutch police have notified people whose computers were infected with malware that made them part of a botnet comprising more than 100,000 PCs. People were redirected to a web page containing directions on disabling the malware and a link to an online virus scanner.
In the Internet Age online videos are becoming more and more prevalent as they are easily distributed and are often more effective at getting a point across then forcing the visitor to read a bunch of text.
With this in mind Watchguard released some nice video tutorials about network security that are entertaining and have some excellent ideas worth showing your average user.
With the 4 year prison term for Robert Soloway and the Murder/Suicide of Eddie Davidson still fresh in our minds comes the following alert from the US-Cert warning us that the subject of the FBI looking at Facebook is being used to spread a new variation of the Storm Worm.
US-CERT is warning everyone that Spammers and Hackers are at it again with the “Storm Worm” using news of a fictitious US war with Iran to get you to open their email.
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Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security |
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