The Washington Post gets a big win. After 4 months of tracking the spammers on McColo, thier Security Fix blog took down the biggest spammer network in the world.
Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible for facilitating more than 75 percent of [...]
Symantec is really doing great things in the last year. This will help prevent spyware and other malware to be sure.
Symantec will soon introduce a “reputation-based” software-rating technology that it has claimed can accurately differentiate malicious malware from legitimate programs.
“Reputation-based security is the latest and greatest technology in malware detection,” said Basant Rajan, chief technology [...]
This has actually been around for years but the USA Today just learned about it.
‘Backscatter spam’ gums up many e-mail inboxes
SAN FRANCISCO — E-mail users worldwide are being buried in a blizzard of bounced messages caused by spammers.
Dubbed “backscatter spam,” this latest fad is clogging e-mail accounts and slowing victims’ inboxes to a crawl. Up [...]