Internet News
June 2, 2010
Despite organisations running days of action against online and other fraud, the loses experienced by the UK public are claimed to be running at a massive £3.5 billion per year!
The day of action took place on the 1st June and involved organisations from around the world including Australia, Canada, Holland, UK and the USA.
Its seems that the majority ...
Millions of pounds lost through online fraud
by David Allen
May 11, 2010
Businesses and IT managers should make sure they are deleting spam on a regular basis according to Rik Ferguson, a senior security technician with the security and software firm Trend Micro.
It is being suggested that users who see emails with the look and feel of spam should hit the delete button immediately and not even take the chance ...
Spam should be deleted
by David Allen
July 31, 2009
It has been found that ninety two per cent of all email is now Spam according to research carried out by the computer security firm McAfee, which has claimed that the growth of Spam in the past three months is cause for concern.
During the month of June, it was found that the highest amount of Spam ever seen ...
Ninety two per cent of all email is SPAM
by David Allen
May 8, 2009
Spam filters have done a great job in stopping lots of spam from getting into the computer user's inbox.
Most computer users have spam filters and although some spam may get through, a vast amount of spam is blocked.
Yet spammers are forever playing around with methods and security firm Symantec has discovered that they may have found a way ...
Empty emails bypass spam filters
by David Allen
April 29, 2009
The Home Office has been accused of working with the targeted advertising firm Phorm over whether its advertising solution was legal.
The Home Office totally denies that it has colluded with Phorm, but according to the Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesperson, Baroness Sue Miller, copies of emails have come to light showing that the Home Office offered advice ...
Government and Phorm in contact over legal issues
by David Allen
January 12, 2009
New security rules, which will mean that internet service providers have to keep details of all emails sent in the UK, are being hailed as a waste of cash and will probably clash with civil liberty rules too.
Currently ISPs keep copies of emails on a voluntary basis but these changes, which take place in March, will not only ...
New email law provokes complaints
by David Allen
January 9, 2009
Many taxpayers are receiving emails which look as if they come from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), at a time when they might expect to hear from HMRC, with the 31 January deadline for self assessment drawing closer.
These emails claim that those who are self employed or run a small business are due for a tax rebate, ...
Tax rebate email warning
by David Allen
November 13, 2008
As if losing all their savings when the Icelandic banks went into administration a few weeks ago was not bad enough, it seems that their internet service providers are blocking essential emails detailing how they can claim their savings back, because they are being seen as spam.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) are currently in negotiation with the ...
Icesave emails blocked
by David Allen
August 13, 2008
If anyone has checked their spam box recently they may have noticed that there have been some messages from CNN.
They carry the listing of CNN.com Top 10 Lists, and at one time there were around eleven million messages per hour.
These started last week and have continued over the weekend.
One concern is that the messages have appeared to ...
CNN spam attacks continue
by David Allen
August 5, 2008
With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing within a couple a days, there are concerns that so much information covering the event will cover the tracks of some very well planned malware attacks.
It is well known that when there is a major event happening the amount of malware, phishing and spam increases, and as the Olympics is an ...
Olympics increases malware threat
by David Allen
May 27, 2008
The anti spam software producer, Clearmymail has been doing a lot of research recently into who are the ISPs most targeted by spam, virus infected and phishing emails, not necessarily in that order, but all serious to the end user.
However many ISPs maintain that they take their customers' security very seriously, but spam is obviously still a serious ...
ISPs exposed in Top 10 Spam list
by David Allen
April 27, 2008
MessageLabs has reported that it has identified at least thirteen different Olympic themed attacks, using email to try and fool users into downloading trojans. With legitimate-sounding email subject titles such as "The Beijing 2008 Torch Relay" and "National Olympic Committee and Ticket Sales Agents", some attacks purport to be from the International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne Switzerland, however the reality ...
Malware targets Oympic emails
by Brian TurnerMessageLabs has reported that it has identified at least thirteen different Olympic themed attacks, using email to try and fool users into downloading trojans. With legitimate-sounding email subject titles such as "The Beijing 2008 Torch Relay" and "National Olympic Committee and Ticket Sales Agents", some attacks purport to be from the International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne Switzerland, however the reality ...
