Tag Archives: Spam

Jan
10

Global spam levels witness a resurgence

Last week, security firm Symantec noted a large and continued drop in spam levels since Christmas. Spam levels were at 75 billion messages a day worldwide at the start of December,.. more
Jan
06

Spam levels dropped at Christmas

Global spam levels have plummeted over the last couple of weeks, according to one security firm. Symantec has been keeping a close watch on spam levels, which dropped like turkeys over.. more
Dec
16

Gawker hack prompts widespread password changes

The hack at Gawker Media earlier this week, which exposed some 1.3 million user names, emails and passwords, has caused quite a stir. While the passwords were encrypted, a good deal.. more
Nov
23

m00p hacker jailed for 18 months

Last month Matthew Anderson, a key player in the “m00p” cyber-criminal ring, pleaded guilty to causing unauthorised modification to the content of computers. He’d used literally millions of spam mails to infect computers with malware written to slip under the radar of anti-virus products. He.. more
Oct
26

Reputable retail sites spam customers

Online shopping is set to rise over Christmas and most people believe they will be safe if they stick to shopping on sites with well-known names. However, this isn’t the case, according to spam monitoring firm Spam Ratings, which reports that 10 per cent of.. more
Oct
25

Scottish spam malware cyber-criminal pleads guilty

A Scottish man who was apparently a key player in a cyber-criminal ring that went under the name of “m00p” has pleaded guilty to causing unauthorised modification to the content of computers at Southwark Crown Court in London on Friday. His arrest was the culmination.. more
Oct
24

10% of UK websites guilty of spamming visitors

Research conducted by the Spam Ratings site has shown that one in ten UK websites hit their visitors with “dangerous and malicious” spam. The study took place over the course of a year and involved monitoring some 10,000 websites and 150,000 emails. The volume of.. more
Aug
25

UK moves up to fourth in world spam league

The UK is on its way up in the world, but unfortunately, the particular global league which we’re leaping and bounding up is the one that measures a nation’s spam output. These were the findings of anti-virus experts Symantec in the company’s just published MessageLabs.. more
Aug
25

Symantec reports increase in UK spam

The latest report from Symantec Hosted Services lists the UK as one of the top four countries in terms of the highest volume of spam sent from infected PCs. Spam sent from the UK almost doubled in August according to Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence report, to.. more
Jul
15

UK races up the spam charts

The amount of spam coming from the UK is increasing, with the country moving up the league table of spammers which is kept by security firm Sophos. The USA is top of the chart for April to June 2010, with 15.2% of spam originating from.. more