Tag Archives : spam

About 12% of spam worldwide from India and Brazil, the second and third places in the survey conducted by Sophos, a company specializing in security. The list is led by the United States, followed by India, considering the time the final quarter of last year. See the full list below: 1. USA – 18.83% 2. India – 6.88% 3. Brazil – 5.04% 4. [...]

Russia opened a case against a man for involvement in a large spam operation that has flooded the web with ads against impotence (about the drug Viagra), a Russian newspaper published today. The newspaper said the allegations were unprecedented in Russia, a major center for the spam, which is under pressure from its Western partners to crack down on [...]

The spam in Gmail is on the rise. Spammers are using fake accounts from Gmail to clog inboxes around the world, which makes the “gmail.com” domain name most used in such abuses, according to the latest quarterly report from Commtouch. Only 1% of email spam actually comes from real accounts from Gmail, and “This small percentage probably [...]

There are many link shortening services these days like Bit.ly, TinyURL and many more. It has been found that many have been using these services to shorten the urls and posting it on social networking sites like Twitter which would lead the users to malicious sites. Recently, a security research led by Zscaler Inc, a company that specializes in security [...]

Twitter revealed on Monday that officially reached 50 million tweets per day, excluding the count of spam messages made by robots. And that’s a record for the microblogging service. “The tweets increased by 1400% last year, amounting to 35 million messages daily. Today we have a total of 50 million tweets per day, equivalent to about 600 tweets [...]

As you read this text, billions of useless emails clog Internet traffic and filled mailboxes around the world. They make millions of Internet users waste valuable time deleting unwanted messages and delay legitimate communications. Boredom, reduced productivity, loss of time: it is spam, the scourge that reaches all countries, and growing a breakneck [...]

A study made by Pear Analytics indicated that 40,5% of the studied messages told “daily activities” cannot attract the Twitter community’s interest, something that the consultancy called “useless attempts” to denominate the category. In second place, there were messages through where users talk amongst themselves, as if they used [...]

There are only two drugs approved to treat the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly called swine flu. Only Relenza and Tamiflu are approved to cure the viral infection. Other medicines that are advertised as approved over Internet sites that sell online medications may either be counterfeit or a health risk. “Protect yourselves and your computer [...]

In 2008, the dissemination of harmful software such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and the like grew by 265% on a global scale. More than 60% of currently known threats were detected during the past year. Much more today than in the past, cyber criminals are in the Web business with the intent to make money. Illegally, of course. The practice of [...]

A study by McAfee entitled ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ reveals that the annual global energy used up by spam has reached a total of 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). All this power has been needed to transmit, process, and filter spam that has, in turn, reached a generation of 62 trillion spam emails swarming the earth [...]