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Not sure about all that technical speak, review our Glossary of related IT terms. |
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| 2005 - McAfee Virus Info Library. |
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More than 100,000 threats exist today. The McAfee AVERT Virus Information Library has detailed information on where viruses come from, how they infect your system, and how to remove them. |
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Spam -- during February, IBM Security Intelligence Services found that 1 in every 1.3 (or 76.0 per cent) emails was identified and intercepted as spam, and 1 in every 46.1 (or 2.2 per cent) emails was stopped for carrying a virus, trojan or other malicious content.
Malware outbreaks -- in February, a new variant of MyDoom and a new strain of malware -- Poxdar -- appeared. MyDoom spreads via email, while Poxdar seeks to exploit a number of Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities. |
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18-08-06 National Bank NetBank Phishing Scam
Watch out for the latest National Bank phising scam. Click here to see what it looks like
10-12-05 Commonwealth NetBank Phishing Scam
Watch out for the latest Commonwealth Bank phising scam. Click here to see what it looks like
25-09-05 Visa Phishing Scam
We are still seeing a lot of phishing scams. The lastest is a Visa card verification scam, please Click here to see what it looks like
24-06-05 Symantec Antispam Center
Spam, the email equivalent of junk mail, continues to overload inboxes of both home and corporate users. Internet users worldwide are seeing unprecedented volumes of spam hitting their email accounts and are faced with the challenge of cleaning up the clutter
Learn more recent News and Features On Spam
10-06-05 ANZ Bank Targeted By Phishing Scam
A phishing scam targeting the ANZ Bank this morning is using a common trick of hosting the files used for the scam on what appears to be a legitimate website.
The files are located on the site miltonhealthcentre.com and while the link, which traps user information, is hosted on a sub-directory of this site, other links within the email go to the real ANZ site.
Learn more about ANZ Scam
08-06-05 Trojan Espionage Becoming More Advanced
A group of Israeli programmers have received $A40, 910 a month for each computer they commandeered.
At least 19 business executives and private investigators in Israel and London were arrested last week for allegedly using sophisticated software to infiltrate competitors' computers, including two mobile phone providers and Israel's main satellite television company.
Gadi Evron, an Israeli Government Internet Security manager, said “industrial espionage of this sort is becoming more common globally the use of Trojans to take over other computers had grown exponentially. The practice had developed from a game for computer addicted kids to a sophisticated fraud orchestrated by organised crime.
Most people don't even know they are infected, unlike when viruses are demonstrated; in the real world people will usually have no clue when a Trojan has infiltrated their computer” he said.
Police expect the investigation to widen.
Click here to learn more about Trojen Espionage
22-05-05 Deluge of Sober Virus German Spams
The new variant of the Sober mass-mailing virus continues to be number one spam variant for the second week. The spams come mostly in German, most containing links to politically themed web sites. The mailwall rules are automatically being updated in response to this spam. Any customers that received seapage of any of these German mail messages are advise to alert us immediately or forward your email to antispam@mailwall.com.au for our immediately analysis.
Click here to learn more about this Virus OutBreak
13-05-05 New Worm Virus threat is Eliminated by MailWall
In recent times a new Worm or Trojan Horse Virus has been infecting networks on a grand scale. The virus attaches itself to emails and has a '.zip' file extension and has been spreading by using Messaging Application Program Interface (MAPI) capable e-mail programs on Windows-based computers. To combat this rapidly immerging threat the MailWall system can identify these file emails by their signature and filter them out completely. Our clients are unaware of the Virus outbreak and there has been no impact on their networks because of it.
Click here to learn more about this Virus OutBreak
Over 2500 phishing sites active
A total of 2625 active phishing sites were reported in February, the Anti Phishing Working Group has reported, making for an average monthly growth rate of 26 percent since last July.
In its latest report, the group said nine more brands had been hijacked by phishing activity in February. This brings to 149 the number of brands that have been reported to be hijacked since the APWG began tracking phishing activity in November 2003.
A total of 13,141 new, unique phishing emails was reported to the group, an increase of 2 percent over January. The number of wesbites supporting these emails rose slightly from 2578 to 2625, an increase of 1.8 percent..........
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Jeremy Jaynes Gets 9 Years for Spamming
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, North Carolina, a prolific spammer who operated using the alias 'Gaven Stubberfield' and was listed by Spamhaus' ROKSO database as being the 8th most prolific spammer in the world, has been convicted of spamming using deceptive routing information to hide the source. A Virginia court recommended Jaynes spend nine years in prison for sending hundreds of thousands of unwanted e-mail messages..........
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U.S. Spam King Arrested, Indicted by Grand Jury
Virginia authorities, who claim their new spam law is the "toughest in the nation," said a grand jury indicted Jaynes on charges of falsification of information to prevent recipients from identifying or contacting the sender. Jaynes is facing as many as 20 years in prison.......
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Australian Convicted of Nigerian Fraud emails, 5 years
Australia’s own Nigerian letterconman, Nick Marinellis, 39, has pleaded guilty after spending six months in custody since his arrest. Yet similar frauds roll on. This writer has received three unsolicited email offers since mid-April, each promising fast enrichment........
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Spam from the Prime Minister
WHEN John Howard spammed, he spammed the wrong man. The Prime Minister also exploited a loophole in his own government's anti-spam laws.
As coincidence would have it, one of Mr Howard's rival candidates in his Sydney seat of Bennelong is the founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk E-mails.
Just for good measure, independent Troy Rollo is also the executive director of the International Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail........
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First Spammer Convicted in the U.S.A
Nicholas Tombros has the dubious double honor of being the first spammer convicted under federal law ... and the first convicted "war spammer" in U.S. history.
"War spammers"--in case you haven't heard the term--are a pernicious combination of "war drivers" and "spammers."
What does that mean? War drivers are people who drive around neighborhoods and office parks with laptops looking for open or unprotected wireless access points to the Internet. War spammers not only electronically hijack the web connections they find, but also use them to send unsolicited e-mails.......
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