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McAfee Spam Experiment Sheds Little New Light on Spam-demic

mcafee-spam-experiment.jpgYou don't have to be a member of Mensa to predict if you go around asking for spam you'll get it. But that's exactly what security firm McAfee did with its Spam Experiment conducted in April. The test asked 50 people from ten countries to defy common sense and for 30 days surf the Web on a computer with no anti-spam software. Participants were encouraged "to go where most Internet users would not dare" in an effort to see what would happen. Guess what, they were spammed.

Spam experiment overloads inboxes

Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee.

Breaking Down Blog Spam Malware

Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog has probably seen blog spam- comments made on blog posts which have little or nothing to do with the actual blog post, but contain links to spam-related web sites. I have spam filters in place, so I rarely even see the blog spam posts. They are an annoyance, and I simply delete them in periodic batches. However, Jesper did stop to look at the spam and noticed that a new breed was becoming prevalent. The new breed, rather than just leading to some annoying spam site, are actually malware attacks. For a complete breakdown of the threat, and Jesper's dissection and analysis, check out Anatomy of a Malware Scam.

Spam on the rise; spammers turn to new avenues

Spam is on the increase again, and Sophos' latest spam trends report shows that only one in 28 e-mails can be considered legitimate. The rest are like the Vikings in that classic Monty Python skit: Spam, spam, spam.

McAfee Proves Link Between Spam and Cybercrime

McAfee, Inc. Experiment Reveals the Growing Psychological Nature of Spam -- McAfee S.P.A.M. Experiment Proves Link Between Spam and Cybercrime

What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

bednarz writes "For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She told her story to Network World."

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google who today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Cutts Talks Spam While Obama Supporters Flag Blogspot Blogs

Matt Cutts is addressing the ever-present topic of spam again, only this time it's on the Official Google Blog. Cutts wrote about coming across spam links in the search results. He says this doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to, thanks to Google's anti-spam metrics.

Security Bites 106: McAfee plays with spam

McAfee released on Tuesday the results of a monthlong spam experiment. The security company provided 50 people worldwide with a clean laptop armed only with antivirus protection (no anti-spam protection) and a brand new domain for e-mail. McAfee then asked them to surf the Net and blog about their experiences.

Where Has All My Spam Gone?

An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive all my personal email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real. Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much stopped. My volume of mail has plummeted to less than 100 a day, and as far as I can tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list subscriptions I'm expecting, and every time I ask someone to send me a test message, it gets through. My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox, and that they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message tagged by SpamAssassin.

McAfee's Great Spam Experiment, Unplugged

Many spam messages sent to participants in the study were phishing emails or contained malware or links to malware-ridden sites

Amazing, But True: FTC Doesn't Want To Rush Into National Privacy Standards

While there are plenty of gov't agencies that seem to rush into any chance to add more regulations that grant them more power, the FTC has a history of being quite reasonable and quite conservative about these things. You may recall that years ago, the FTC was against the idea of CAN-SPAM because it would effectively legalize plenty of spam, with one FTC commissioner noting that spam should be anything that you don't like -- and legislating against that is next to impossible. Specifically, he was worried (correctly, it appears) that in allowing lawmakers to define spam, it has merely opened up more possibilities for spamming.

Spam gets sophisticated, says McAfee

Spam is evolving and utilising more languages and cultural nuances as it becomes more difficult to detect and the most popular spam subject remained financial offers, including pre-approved loans and credit cards.

Spam Still a Problem; Finance Tops Spammers Favorite Topics

Without spam protection, the average web user can expect to get 70 spam messages each day, according to a survey by McAfee, the BBC reports (via MarketingVOX).

UK is a spam and phishing hotspot

Anti-spam firm calls for collaborative action to stem a fast-growing tide of spam and phishing attacks it has found originated and aimed at UK users.

Soloway case reveals big business behind spam

Testimony during the sentencing hearing for the so-called spam king offered an inside look at the big business of spam.

McAfee's Mountain Of Spam

(06-30) 20:28 PDT -- Internet users in the United States receive more spam than those in any other country. Spammers are shifting toward more-sophisticated e-mail campaigns. And no wired country is immune to the ubiquitous Nigerian scam spam.

NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff prepares the 3D Space experiment inside Columbus - Image

NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff prepares the 3D Space experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory. The Mental Representation of Spatial Cues During Space Flight (3D Space) experiment looks at the perception and localization of objects in the environment and their influence on spatial orientation and reliable performance of motor tasks in microgravity.

McAfee study takes surfers to depths of spam

(06-30) 20:28 PDT -- Internet users in the United States receive more spam than those in any other country. Spammers are shifting toward more-sophisticated e-mail campaigns. And no wired country is immune to the ubiquitous Nigerian scam spam.

LETA, Leading Russian Security Vendor, Integrates Mailshell For Spam And Phishing Protection

Moscow and San Francisco (PRWEB) July 7, 2008 -- LETA, a leading provider of security software throughout Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, announced its integration of Mailshell's anti-spam engine, including the LiveFeed real-time reputation data service, into its enterprise security software and appliances. LETA selected Mailshell after extensive technical evaluation and will use Mailshell's engine to replace SpamAssassin. LETA's customers will join more than 6,000 enterprises and more than 15 million consumers who rely on 'Powered by Mailshell' filters for email reputation, spam filtering and phishing detection.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/05/08 -- MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 5, 2008 -- MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

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