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Summer, Sports, and SMS Spam in the UK 27 Aug 2013 | 05:14 am
Characterizing the top four most prevalent types this summer, shifty financial spam and scams continue to lead UK SMS spam reports. However, the number five spot in the UK, product promotion spam, has...
Buyer Beware: Traderush and Binary Option Scams 23 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
For the past few days we have seem a surge in spam advertising the traderush.com web site. This appears to be a binary option trading web site, but in fact it may be much worse than that. Binary opt...
Update on Hacked Web Servers 20 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Just when the plague of hacked web servers seemed to be dying down a little, we hear of a new exploit for Joomla. While we haven’t seen this exploit being used by spammers yet, it will likely turn up ...
Mobile Banking and the Threat of SMS Spam 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
A recent report from Pew claims that 51% of all US adults bank online, and 32% of all US adults use their phone for banking. These numbers are growing all the time. The days of waiting in line for a b...
University of Minnesota SMS Spam Reseach 13 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
We were interested to read last week of new research by PhD students at the University of Minnesota into detecting and filtering SMS spam. They detected SMS messages sent to phone numbers assigned for...
Hitting (DEF CON) 21 in Vegas 8 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Hitting 21 in Vegas meant a bit more than just blackjack this year. For some 15,000 people visiting Vegas this summer, card games were secondary to the 21st annual DEF CON at the Rio. Vegas also playe...
Black Hat: DDoS and Free Speech 2 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
One of those moments at Black Hat. Brian Krebs (left) had given a presentation on DDoS services, in which he criticized the DDoS protection service Cloudflare for providing DDoS protection to the web ...
Making the Punishment Fit the Crime 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; The FTC would do well to take a lesson from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado. Legal sa...
Cloudmark’s Q2 2013 Threat Report 24 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Today, Cloudmark has released its Q2 2013 Threat Report, covering recent messaging threats and trends during the past quarter. During the second quarter, fishy dieting offers and suspiciously free cru...
New SIM Card Vulnerability Opens Possibility for Surveillance and Fraud 23 Jul 2013 | 08:34 pm
Security researcher Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Germany recently announced a new vulnerability in older SIM cards. This allows a hacker to take over your phone to listen in on your phone...
