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Is Yahoo’s $610 Million anti-spam win meaningless?

09

Dec

2011

For consumers, spam is not the big issue it once was. Improved email filtering technologies and preventative CAPTCHA tests deal with much of the unwanted inbox traffic. Even if the “You have won $100,000 in the Lottery, please send us your details to collect your prize” somehow gets through, it is easily tackled. The realisation […]

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Japanese parliament hit by cyber-attack

25

Oct

2011

According to local media reports, hackers were able to snoop upon emails and steal passwords from computers belonging to lawmakers at the Japanese parliament for over a month. A report in the Asahi Shimbun claims that PCs and servers were infected after a Trojan horse was emailed to a a Lower House member in July. […]

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Fake AV network steps up its game with rootkit

20

Aug

2011

This looks like it could be a new series of blog posts. The infamous redspacetube.com (80.91.176.192) shows yet another payload using a more sophisticated technique. I’ve been monitoring the situation closely and observed a change in today’s malware behaviour. The previous payload was the XP Home Security 2012 rogue which created a randomly named file […]

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