Internet Security News

How Spam meat has survived spam e-mail and thrived

18 May 2012, 11:50 pm

At Hormel corporate headquarters in Austin, Minn., they call it "unwanted e-mail," never spam. It's been a sore subject ever since the mid-'90s, when chat-room users first flooded computer screens with the word "spam"...


How Spam Meat Has Survived Spam E-Mail

17 May 2012, 8:16 pm

At Hormel ( HRL ) corporate headquarters in Austin, Minn., they call it “unwanted e-mail,” never spam. It’s been a sore subject ever since the mid-’90s, when chat-room users first flooded computer screens with the word “spam” to blot out the comments of users they didn’t like.


Symantec research: Ukraine is seventh in world for spam

11 May 2012, 12:27 pm

In 2011 Ukraine climbed to seventh in terms of spam-zombies (computer networks spreading spam), Symantec's information security consultant for Russia and CIS member states, Oleksandr Suiazov, said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.


Warning out vs porn spam campaign

30 April 2012, 9:38 pm

A new porn spam campaign is making the rounds of the Internet, redirecting victims’ web browsers to hardcore porn websites, a computer security firm said Monday night.


Email Spam Slips As Social Networking Spawns New Security Threats

30 April 2012, 7:47 pm

Given the rise in popularity of social networking, this should come as no surprise: the percentage of email that is spam has dropped slightly, but junk marketing and malware spreading through social networking sites are on the rise. According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, which was released today, while the volume of malicious attacks is on the rise, spam is less of a factor ...


Botnet shutdowns cause big 2011 spam drop, Symantec finds

30 April 2012, 1:19 pm

Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago as 2006, Symantec has reported in its 2011 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR).


Botnet shutdowns cause big spam drop, Symantec finds

30 April 2012, 12:04 pm

Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago as 2006, Symantec has reported in its 2011 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR).


Religious Sites Carry More Malware Than Porn Sites, Security Firm Reports

30 April 2012, 10:36 am

The annual Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec also says malware threats to Android phones are up dramatically.


Annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Reveals 81 Percent Increase in Malicious Attacks

30 April 2012, 12:01 am

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Symantec Corp. today announced the findings of its Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 17 , which shows that while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20 percent, the number ...


India said top spam country in the world

23 April 2012, 6:34 pm

LONDON, April 23 (UPI) -- India now leads the world in junk e-mails, becoming the world's biggest source of Internet spam, a report by a British computer security company says.