Blog Detail
Allspammedup
http://www.allspammedup.com
Blog on anti spam for small business, anti phishing and email security
- Added on: Nov 12th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: crushit
- Listed in: Internet
- Tags: spam email security anti spam anti phishing spam news email business security
Recent Posts
New Spam Campaign Targets Social Security Numbers
The University of Alabama’s Spam Data Mine has discovered a new malicious spam campaign that is designed to steal social security numbers as well. The messages are made to look like an alert from the Social Security Administration and have subjec...
Virus variant turns iPhone into zombie
Worm turns ugly for iPhone. The first smartphone malware began innocently enough. A Dutch cracker discovers a way to penetrate modified, or “jailbroken,” iPhones using their default root password “alpine.” “You want to p...
New Spam Promises Macbook, Delivers Malware
A new wave of malicious spam makes promises of a free MacBook Air but delivers malware instead. The spam messages were only recently detected and arrived with the subject line “Congratulations!” The body of the message reads “Congratulations!...
5 Tips to Protect Yourself From Spam Scams (That Don’t Quite Work)
NBC Chicago published a list of 5 tips for people to protect themselves from scam emails. Although they mean well, and the tips are a step in the right direction, they are far too simple to be really effective at stopping spam. Let’s take a loo...
Spammer Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Alan Ralsky, dubbed the “Godfather of Spam” has been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a federal judge. Ralsky was convicted of conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud, violating the CAN-SPAM Act, wire fraud, and money laundering. He was the ri...
New Spam Campaign Targets Unemployed;Exploits Twitter
Security experts have issued a warning about a new spam campaign that targets the unemployed and financially troubled and exploits Twitter to do it. The spam, being sent by the Donbot botnet, hawks “get rich quick” and work at home scams designe...
