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  • US porn spammers convicted

    Two found guilty of CAN-SPAM breaches. A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona, has found two men guilty of two charges of violating the US CAN-SPAM regulations, as well as other charges including fraud and money laundering. The two men, Californian Jeffrey Kilbride and Arizona citizen James Shaffer, both 41, are thought to have started their…

  • Spanish mobile malware suspect arrested

    28-year-old charged with Cabir/Commwarrior crimes. An unnamed man has been arrested in Valencia, Spain, on suspicion of creating and spreading 20 variants of the Cabir and CommWarrior mobile phone viruses. In a groundbreaking case for the Spanish authorities, the man was arrested on Saturday after a seven-month investigation. It is thought his malware affected more…

  • Symantec presenter spotted using KAV

    Another update embarrassment as rival software pops up. After the recent damaging false positive incident in China, which has led Symantec to offer free software to those hit by the machine-crashing fault, another update-related issue has caused a rather less serious embarrassment to the company. A presenter showing off the details of a new Symantec…

  • 100,000 new phishing sites set up in 7 days

    IBM sees huge rise in kit-build scam sites. Phishing watchers at IBM ‘s X-Force research team have recorded an enormous burst of phishing activity in the last seven days, with over 114,000 new sites appearing in the week from 11 – 18 June. The vast majority of the new sites appear to have been created…

  • UK users ignoring security issues

    Surveys find public in the dark and careless about sensitive data. Several surveys out this week have shown the UK public is failing to take basic security precautions to protect themselves online. A study by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has shown a sloppy attitude to password use, while another poll commissioned by…

  • Latest VB100 announced

    Products for 64-bit Windows Vista to be tested. VB has issued a call for submissions for the latest VB100 comparative review, with products for the 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Vista to be tried out under VB’s strict testing protocols. The deadline set for submissions is July 3rd, with testsets and test platforms frozen on…

  • China steps up fight against spammers

    Blacklist aims to reduce massive spamming levels. Chinese web organisation the Internet Society of China (ISC) has announced the setting up of a central anti-spam blacklist, to allow service providers and filtering software to block known senders of spam. The list already contains 100,000 known-bad IP addresses, mostly gathered via reports from members of the…

  • Mpack packs punch in Italy

    10,000 sites carrying exploits in large-scale attack. Sophisticated remote-exploit attack kit ‘Mpack’ has been spotted in use in increasingly large numbers throughout Europe, with Italy by far the most seriously affected, in an attack of almost unprecedented scale and virulence. First spotted over the weekend, the number of compromised sites carrying the malicious attacks has…

  • Phisher gets six years

    Californian receives 70-month prison sentence, avoids 101 years behind bars. A Californian man, found guilty in January this year of operating a phishing scheme aimed at scamming thousands of AOL users, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison. 45-year-old Jeffrey Brett Goodin was found guilty of sending thousands of emails to AOL customers. The…

  • FBI serves up Operation Bot Roast

    Investigations identify more than 1 million victim IP addresses. The FBI has announced the results of an ongoing initiative, dubbed ‘Operation Bot Roast’, which is aimed at disrupting botnet activities and raising public awareness of botnets. According to the FBI’s press release , investigations have identified more than one million victim IP addresses, the owners…

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