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Twitter-style short URL spamming skyrockets
News Criminals are trying to make it more difficult for users to know what they are clicking on.
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Google: Are spammers running out of new ideas?
News Spammers might be using old techniques, but that isn’t to say there aren’t new players looking to make money.
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Week in Numbers: Spam and pints
News Big numbers in IT this week included new handsets, lots of spam and a few pints.
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Nine out of 10 emails are spam
News A report says that 90 per cent of emails are spam, claiming that criminals are combining their attack techniques.
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Swine Flu: Pigs fly into our inboxes
News Swine Flu is no laughing matter but many spammers have started to trivialise the issue by clogging our inboxes.
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UK drops out of global spam dirty dozen
News The UK does not figure in latest quarterly spam report for the first time in two years, while the US continues to lead.
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Google's tries out CAPTCHAs using rotated images
News Google researchers reveal a new form of CAPTCHA which computers are finding difficult to hack.
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Energy from spam could power 2.4 million homes
News McAfee explores the environmental impact of the spam problem with climate change experts.
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Don’t forget the cost of spam, warns McAfee
News We've gotten used to having spam around, even though it can costs companies a great deal of cash.
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Valentine's Day is for cards, flowers and a lot of spam
News A flood of Valentine emails in your inbox on Saturday may make you feel really loved, but it may be more likely that you’re being scammed.
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Microsoft takes on spam-spewing botnet
News This month Microsoft’s malicious software tool targets the botnet Srizbi, but security vendor Marshal says it is not enough.
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Sophos hits back at ‘scaremongering’ accusations
News A chief executive has accused security companies such as Sophos and McAfee of purposely hyping up the IT security threat.
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