Share of spam email traffic rises by 2.2% in April21 May 2012

US is the second biggest distributor of junk mail in the monthThe share of spam in email traffic was up by 2.2% in April compared to 77.2% averaged in March, according to findings from Kaspersky Labs latest report on spammer activity.In April, some m...

McAfee says Pinterest scammers are getting automated17 May 2012

Weve known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.According to McAfee, hackers have created entire toolkits that make i...

Symantec: Attacks On the Rise, But Spam and Botnets Down2 May 2012

This is the time of year when multiple security vendors publish their respective full-year 2011 security research reports. Today, Symantec released Volume 17 of its Internet Security Threat Report, which shows trends that mirror similar reports relea...

Spam Texts: 4.5 Billion Messages a Year and Counting2 May 2012

Text message spam promising free iPads or cash rewards may be obnoxious and unwanted, but they also carry a greater danger: clicking on texts can install malware that collects personal data from your phone.Theyre also booming faster than any other se...

Spam texts hit 4.5 billion, raising consumer ire30 Apr 2012

Gillian Brockell got so fed up with unsolicited text messages on her mobile phone in early April that in a fit of frustration she called the sender back - 20 times.I dont even get that much junk mail in my Gmail account, said Brockell, a 31-year-old ...