Spam News From Around The Web
These are some Spam related articles that caught my attention recently. Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It (via Yahoo News) – Google thought one of its own blogs was a spam blog so turned it over to someone else. Oops. Google does usually send a notification but they say the bloggers “overlooked” it. [...]
Google Getting Into Malware Detection
Malware distribution has been moving to the web and now Google is moving into the anti-malware business. The question is: Are they looking to get into it as a business or are they getting into it to protect their business? In early May Google published their Ghost in the Browser(pdf) report. The headlines from the [...]
30 Days of Bots
We had 30 days of Windows vulnerabilities, 30 days of Apple vulnerabilities and now we have "30 days of bots". Support Intelligence, a security firm, has said they will "out" Fortune 1000 companies that have spam bots on their internal networks in what they call "30 Days of Bots". They’ve mentioned companies such as 3M, [...]
U.S. Top Spam Producer
Tech.Blorge is reporting on a Sophos study that has the U.S. firmly on top of the spam producers list. The good news is although still topping the list, output is down. The UK dropped out of the top 10 (to #13). According to the study the US sends 19.8% of the spam with #2 China [...]
News Report: Microsoft OneCare Flunks Virus Test
Beta News is reporting that Microsoft acknowledged that their Microsoft Onecare product flunked the Anti-virus tests given by the Virus Bulletin in February. From the article… “We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests,” the Microsoft spokesperson told us, “and, [...]