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- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulating
- Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulatingI see the Hyenas have come to feedon the scraps left by the Lions.The feeding frenzy has begun. By the way Dancho I didn't bother reading your article but did you mention whose operating system these opportunists are feeding on?'effected' ha ha, how...
- Tags: SECURITY, Conficker Infection Alert, spam campaign
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
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- Spryka ePostMailer 5.0.2.17 (Windows)
- E-mail marketing comes naturally when you use ePostMailer. E-mail marketing is increasingly used by companies from small to enterprise scale for attracting potential customers to their e-commerce websites. ePostMailer puts the right tools you need for e-mail marketing within easy reach. Spryka ePostMailer is all about giving you the personal...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Email Marketing, Spryka, ePostMailer, Spryka ePostMailer, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?
- With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Campaign, Cybercriminal, Search, Marketing Research, Strategy, Security, Marketing, Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Microsoft to fix Bing spam bug
- Microsoft announced that it is fixing a bug in Bing that previously allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is fixing a bug in Bing that previously allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links. ...
- Tags: Spammer, Webroot Software Inc., Spam Filter, Microsoft Corp., Security, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft, spam, Bing, Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2009-10-22
- News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- An ongoing spam campaign is once again attempting to impersonate Microsoft's security team -- the same campaign was first seen in April -- by mass mailing Conficker.B Infection Alerts (install.zip), which upon execution drop a sample of the Antivirus Pro 2010 scareware. Whereas the theme remains the...
- Tags: Infection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Internet, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Windows 7 puts Vista into perspective: Only a 'failure' in retrospect
- The fault lies with MS and Driver manufacturersWe don't criticize macs because they are a package deal, with a price premium to match so they generally work just fine. We don't call for witch hunts of Linux distro's because we expect to have problems and tweaks with Linux, plus it's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, COMPANIES, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Linux Distro, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Send Bulk Email Marketing using Outlook 4.0.2 (Windows)
- Send Bulk Email Marketing is a powerful and easy-to-use Microsoft Outlook Add-In for sending an e-mail message to a great number of recipients using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and 2003. The software will send each recipient an unique e-mail message without any other recipients' names and e-mail addresses. There is...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Message, Email Marketing, E-mail Address, ACCM Software, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- Customer Register 3.4.0 (Windows)
- Customer Register stores Contact details and allows you to find them based on selection criteria. You can also schedule up-coming tasks using the Calendar feature. With a group of Contacts found, you can easily create an email campaign to send a single message to each contact - no more hassles...
- Tags: Message, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Address, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?
- Kijiji?Never really looked at it but isn't it's goal to unseat Craigslist.RE: How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?"Who in the heck made craigslist the king of all classified ads?"Anyone would doesn't want to pay a single cent for a classified - that's who.Simple: It's free and...
- Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, classifieds
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic
- Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- Anticipating the logical peak of 9/11 related keywords on the 8th anniversary of the attacks, cybercriminals have hijacked the trending topic by occupying thousands of related keywords for the purpose of serving fake security software. None of the sites are currently marked as harmful by the SafeBrowsing...
- Tags: Campaign, Malware, 9/11 Commission, Keyword, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Researchers from MX Logic -- now part of McAfee -- have intercepted a new malware campaign spammed by the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet, that's using an 'IRS unreported income' notices in an attempt to trick the recipients into downloading a tax-statement.exe executable. The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet remains among the most...
- Tags: Income, Malware, Internal Revenue Service, Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- The most dangerous celebrities to search for in 2009
- Searching for which celebrity has the highest probability of tricking you into visiting a malware-friendly web site? Last year it was Brad Pitt, but according to this year's McAfee report "Riskiest Celebrities to Search on the Web", it's Jessica Biel related searches that have "one in five...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Digg, Malware, Keyword, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Search, Security, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming
- E-mail marketing software developer Campaign Monitor warned users today of a server compromise that took place during the weekend. The compromise allowed the attackers to gain access to customer accounts, which they abused by importing their own lists of harvested emails in order to launch spam campaigns...
- Tags: Monitor, Spammer, Spamming, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Servers, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Are Google's 'Caffeine' search results more like Bing's?
- no caffeine neededGoggle's search is best.Trying to emulate the inferior results from M$ bang, is not the way to go.Total Disagree...You give Linux a bad name, you really do. Google would not be spending millions of dollars to revamp their search engine if they really thought Bing was a non-issue...
- Tags: SEARCH, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., search result, Goggle, Google Inc., Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Fake Microsoft patch malware campaign makes a comeback
- During the last couple of hours, a fake Microsoft patch themed malware campaign was restarted by its botnet masters, once again spamming a non-existent Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721) as officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe detected as VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.FO. Some of the subjects used in...
- Tags: Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Phishing, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Office Suites, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
- For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on...
- Tags: Spammer, Translation Service, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloud
- The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloudOf course not. You would not want any of your funding pulled...Will you be this generous with Microsoft?When MS has security issues, it's always 'MS stinks." I hardly ever hear ZDNet writers claiming the user is at fault. ...
- Tags: Twitter, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., security, security issue
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
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