The Google team is introducing new Gmail security updates that include warnings to keep your email safer. These warnings are…
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Dating site pays hacker for 20 million stolen email addresses
Topface, a Russian dating site pays hacker for 20 million stolen email addresses. This was done to prevent him from…
Kaspersky Lab: spam volume 2013 drops to two-thirds of total email volume
The people over at Kaspersky Lab have written a post about the changes in spam volume 2013, compared to 2012.…
Spamhaus hit by DDoS attack, not executed by Anonymous
Spamhaus, the well-known anti-spam DNS blacklist service, has been hit by a severe DDoS attack over the weekend. Users have…
To prevent phishing scams, banks are collecting special TLD domains
Scammers will have a harder time trying to do phishing: banks are picking up new type top level domain names…
Yahoo Mail hacked: quite some users hit, XSS exploit used by hacker
The Next Web reports that over the course of the weekend, people started reporting they had their Yahoo Mail hacked.…
US Senate votes to extend FISA Amendments Act for five years
The FISA Amendments Act, which has been in effect since 2008, has been extended for another five years by a…
Botnet pushing out 18% of all spam taken offline
A botnet known as ‘Grum‘, responsible for sending out 18% of all spam has been taken offline by Atif Mushtaq…
Return Path launches ISP anti-phishing program with AOL,Yahoo and others
Return Path, the email marketing certification and reputation monitoring company, has launched a new ISPs anti-phishing program together with a…
Google, Yahoo sued for preemptive reading of email to serve ads
Google and Yahoo have been sued in the state of California for intercepting emails and serving ads based on keywords…