| Pump'n'Dump spam botnets: new rootkit-enabled malware
Here's a quick overview of the latest happenings in the world of stock-kiting botnet malware. In case you've been living in a cave for months, stock-kiting spam (AKA pump'n'dump spam) is a huge part of most people's inbound spam right now. Most of it's being sent by botnets (networks of malware-infected PCs). The key news is a nasty new derivative in the CME-711 family of Trojan Horses (AKA Trojan.Peacomm, TROJ_SMALL.EDW, Small.DAM, Downloader-BAI, Troj/Dorf-Fam). It uses a simple-yet-effective social engineering technique to fool unwary recipients into opening an executable. It promises video of Saddam Hussein, European storms, Chinese missiles, or other breaking news, designed to make people put their critical faculties to one side (assuming they had any in the first place ;-).
Keep your spam filter up to date for effective email security
It's pretty unlikely that employees wished this holiday season for even more email and spam messages to be waiting for them in their inboxes each morning. However, the reality is that organizations - across all industries - have experienced a dramatic increase in inbound email over the past calendar year, much of which is spam, and inbound email volumes will likely continue to increase at a rapid pace during 2007. .
Protect yourself from ID theft
CHARLOTTE -- There's a way for you to protect yourself from fraud and identity theft while improving your credit card score at the same time. The Better Business Bureau says it's much easier than you might think. From email and spam to phone calls from telemarketers and junk mail, they can all be summed up with one word - annoying. "Spam is a bother, a phone call is a bother, said Tom Bartholomy, President of the Better Business Bureau in Charlotte. .
How Spam Works Posted By : Matt Garrett -
Spam involves sending unsolicited e-mail to many people, and is a very common practice today. It is not unusual for the average person to have 30% of his or her e-mail as spam, and there is a huge demand for new techniques to block spam including the existing methods, such as spam blockers, spam filters and the creation of e-mail whitelists. The most unfortunate aspect of how spam works is that it is quite simple. A spammer needs only collect a large number of web addresse.. .
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