Over the Internet, it’s getting harder and harder to tell. Some of the common tests used by Web sites to distinguish between legitimate flesh-and-blood visitors and malicious human-mimicking computers recently appear to have been...

Verizon Wireless took a strong action against the telemarketers who masterminded an unsolicited and illegal telemarketing campaign to Verizon Wireless customers over its network. In the lawsuit filed against the unidentified spammers,...

Email Systems recently reported that spammers, always one step ahead, are evading filters by making use of encrypted attachments, as a result attachment spam seems to have increased in the past few months. The method is based upon the fact that...

The ostensibly never-ending creativeness and passionate attempt of spammers is as commendable as it is a waste of talent. As soon as spam filter purveyors get the hang of putting a stop to image-based spam, the spammers come across a...

Recently a US $1b lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., which is said to be opening up an innovative front to combat spam. Not only the spammers, but those who gather e-mail addresses for spammers, have also been brought...

Following the detection of spammers hacking into legal sites to sell their goods, Sophos has forewarned Web users to tighten their belts against the malicious Spam campaigns, which advertise drug-peddling Internet pharmacies but in fact land users...

Recently thirty-five companies were put off by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from doing trade in securities. The move was taken in reaction to the alleged stock promotion via Spam email campaigns. The trading deferments were...

The origin of most junk mails is from infected PCs, which are distantly controlled by the spammers, thus, whenever it is found out that machines of a business are sending out spam, it is a matter of concern and deeply embarrassing, which need to...

Virus, spyware and spam analysis company, Experts at SophosLabs has detected a new scam, which makes use of forwarded chain letters to commit thefts of email addresses. The spammed email campaign discovered by Sophos disguises as a research project...

Sophos, the worldwide IT security firm, claimed to have discovered the latest tactic being made use by spammers who are drawn in money-spinning “pump-and-dump” stock spam campaigns. The main targets of these criminals are the...