By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Gartner: Cloud security growth to overtake on-premise by 2015 – Gartner believes that over the next three years, the cyber security market will change significantly. The analysts believe that 10% of enterprise security capabil...
A recent report has revealed that government contractors have been the victims of a series of phishing attacks. The attacks, which were first detected in 2009 and haven’t let up, pump outspam that turns out to be fake invites to industry relevant conferences and contain links to PDF files....
The Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Standards and Technology are looking to beat back the kudzu of spam generators, distributed denial of service zombies, and other botnets, and they want your cooperation—on a totally voluntary basis, of course. After a long and escalatin...
vie eWeek.com Global spam volumes have been declining since March, but Commtouch researchers reported a massive spam outbreak that flooded user in-boxes this week. The latest spam outbreak is the largest operation seen by researchers since the end of March, Avi Turiel, director of product marketing ...
via Help Net Security Various government agencies and high ranking government officials have been the target of previous spam attacks. In their attempts to lure victims, criminals continue to explore new avenues to obtain their goal. A new version of the spam e-mail uses the names of FBI officials a...
via ITPro The Rustock botnet is now less than half the size it was in March, thanks to the Microsoft led takedown in that month. The giant spamming botnet was dealt a serious blow when Operation b107 severed the connection between Rustock’s command and control structure and hundreds of thousan...
via Extreme Tech According to a report just published by Symantec, the global volume of spam has dropped by as much as 90% over the past year – from as many as 225 billion messages per day to as few as 25 billion. While part of the drop-off has to do with a shift in […]...
via IT World May 24, 2011, 4:27 PM – Microsoft investigators uncovered a cache of more than 400,000 email addresses on one hard drive it seized in March when it led an organized takedown of the Rustock botnet, according to court documents. In a status report submitted Monday to a federal judge...