Analyst Reports & Industry Surveys Articles

IRS spam rockets as tax deadline nears

Frank Washkuch Jr. February 13, 2008

Scammers are taking advantage of next month's income tax deadline by distributing phishing emails seeking end-users' personal information.
 

Cyberattackers may have personal information of MLSgear.com shoppers

Frank Washkuch Jr. February 11, 2008

The personal information of an unknown number of customers of Major League Soccer's (MLS) online clothing store may have been accessed by cyberattackers last year.
 

Adobe releases Reader, Acrobat patches

Jim Carr February 08, 2008

Adobe on Thursday released a "critical" update to its Acrobat and Adobe Reader applications that fixes a number of workflow issues and security vulnerabilities while improving stability.
 

Technology, media firms overconfident, unprepared for breaches: Deloitte survey

Jim Carr February 07, 2008

Media, technology and telecommunications industries are overconfident in their security postures and ill-prepared to handle breaches, according to a survey conducted by consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
 

Weight-loss spammer ordered to pay $2.5 million

Frank Washkuch Jr. February 05, 2008

A federal judge has ordered a purveyor of weight-loss and human-growth hormone-related products to pay more than $2.5 million for violations of the FTC Act and the CAN-SPAM Act.
 

Mega-D usurps Storm Worm as top spam botnet

Frank Washkuch Jr. February 04, 2008

Storm Worm is no longer the biggest spam-generating botnet on the block. Researchers in the U.K. say Mega-D, the latest contender for the spam menace crown, now is accounting for nearly one-third of all unwanted email.
 

RFID/Bluetooth: convenient threats

Frank Washkuch Jr. February 01, 2008

IT pros need to move fast as RFID and Bluetooth threats move from the drawing board to the real world.
 

Spammers plead guilty to "419" scams that netted $1.2 million

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 31, 2008

Three men pleaded guilty this week in New York to running get-rich-quick spam schemes - including a scam where one of the men claimed to have terminal throat cancer - targeting email users.
 

Mortgage spam spikes due to Federal Reserve rate cut

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 30, 2008

Spammers have taken advantage of the U.S. mortgage crisis to intensify the amount of financial junk mail sent to end-users.
 

Do-it-yourself phishing kit targets email, social networks

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 29, 2008

A do-it-yourself phishing kit is making it easy for amateur scammers to target users of popular social networking sites Orkut, MySpace and Facebook and webmail platforms like Yahoo and Hotmail, researchers said.