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  • The spam that is hardest to block is often the most damaging

    This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. In a talk I gave at IRISSCON last year (the video of which you will find at the bottom of this post), I discussed how spam is a problem that has almost been solved (and certainly has been well…

  • Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed

    When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…

  • The spam that is hardest to block is often the most damaging

    This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. In a talk I gave at IRISSCON last year (the video of which you will find at the bottom of this post), I discussed how spam is a problem that has almost been solved (and certainly has been well…

  • Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed

    When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…

  • Significant rise in malicious spam and phishing

    Over one quarter of malicious emails contain eight-year-old malware. Email security firm eleven has reported a significant rise in both malicious emails and phishing emails in the first quarter of 2012. In its latest quarterly report, the company says that while spam levels stayed more or less constant, the volume of emails with malware attached…

  • Korea DDoS surge mired in hype and confusion

    Rows rumble on over sources and targets of botnet attacks. Last week’s gush of denial-of-service attacks has sparked considerable excitement and argument, with rumours of possible links to North Korean aggression leading to frenzied hype and ill-founded suggestions of the outbreak of cyberwar. The attacks targeted a range of servers, notably government and news websites…