Scamwatch round-up – Xero, Office 365, Xerox and eBay
ARN provides a weekly wrap of the phishing scams, malware attacks and security breaches impacting organisations across Australia.
"spam" news, interviews, and features
News about spam
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TPG coughs up $360k after spam breach
TPG Internet has been forced to pay $360,000 to the ACMA for breaching the Spam Act 2003.
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Malware-loaded scam email origin shifts again
Aussie inboxes are once again being hit by dodgy, malware-laden emails purporting to be from energy company, Origin.
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Fake of Origin strikes again in new email scam
Energy company impersonated by cyber crooks for second time in a month
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NSW hit by Roads & Maritime Services email scam
NSW residents hit by a new email scam masked as a direct email from the State’s Roads & Maritime Services department.
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When it comes to spam, IBM's SoftLayer is the host with the most
IBM may be the fastest-growing vendor in the worldwide security software market, but it's also the owner of the world's largest source of spam.
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Google, Yahoo tighten spam filtering
Google and Yahoo are expanding their use of a successful system used to detect spam.
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In Pictures: Top 10 botnet targets in the US and worldwide
Level 3’s research report analyses botnet activity around the world
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Atmail partners Spamhaus to guard 45 million inboxes
Australian email provider Atmail has partnered with global spam monitoring and spam blocking service, Spamhaus, to protect customers.
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Bitdefender warns Australians of “Wolf of Wall Street” penny stock scam
Bitdefender’s Antispam Lab has identified a <i>Wolf of Wall Street</i>-styled scam in which millions of penny stock spam emails have been dispersed through Australian inboxes from several thousand unique IP addresses.
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Ronaldo and Messi lead McAfee’s red card malware team
Searching for football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be risky, according to McAfee.
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Antivirus is not dead: Bitdefender
Symantec recently declared “antivirus is dead” but Bitdefender disagrees with the claim.
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Report: Phishing scams increasingly using mobile apps to bait victims
When it comes down to it, spam and phishing scams rely primarily on exploiting trust. If the attacker can find a way to make the message appear to be from a known source, the odds that a user will take the bait are much higher. This has led to malware infections that access your contacts and send out infected emails on your behalf to everyone you know, and those same basic techniques have been adapted for instant messaging, social networks, and even SMS text messaging. According to a new report from Kaspersky Lab, Mobile apps are the new frontier.
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US wins 'Spampionship' with spam-spewing zombified army
The US is officially the world’s capital for spam-spewing zombified computers after taking top spot on the 2013 Dirty Dozen Spampionship league table.
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McAfee Labs pinpoints four Q3 threats areas
Security vendor McAfee’s research arm, McAfee Labs, has identified growth across four threat trends in the third instalment of its quarterly reports for 2013, including Android-based malware, signed malware, spam, and virtual currencies.
