The Mystery of Pump-and-Dump Spam
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Inbox brimming with penny stock recommendations? The deluge baffles execs at some of the companies touted so gracelessly. In Epicenter.
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Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars âItâs payback time!
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Your e-mail gets spammed, your instant messaging client gets spammed, your blog comments get spammed... and now your printer doesn't have to feel left out, because researcher Aaron Weaver has discovered how the sellers of pump-and-dump stocks and dubious chemical concoctions can get you there, too.
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Legitimate mortgage lenders inadvertently support--and get tangled in--spam traps.
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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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Shark Tank: Spam is heavy at this mortgage company, so a consultant is brought in to review six months of accumulated spam and set up an antispam appliance that should kill 98% of the junk. Everyone's happy. Then it goes live.
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The United States is in a league of its own when it comes to sending junk mail to e-mail users. Researchers at security software company Sophos found that 42 percent of all spam sent this year came from the
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SPAM has been one of the major turn offs for most web users. Checking emails have become a hassle when you cannot be sure the mail you received is from the actual sender!
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Get up-to-date information on handling misdirected bounces- those countless spam emails claiming your company's message couldn't be delivered, when you didn't even send one in the first place!
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Some spammers are getting their messages through using techniques designed to spot and stop them. A survey shows that spammers are the biggest users of a technique designed to find out if e-mail comes from the net address it says it does.
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SECURITY EXPERTS MessageLabs say that there is evidence that virus writers are working hand in hand with spammers.
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Five billion spam messages flooded the Internet on Wednesday in a realistic-looking pump-and-dump scam that had its intended effect of boosting trading volume for German-based Talktech Telemedia.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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Scammers are now using MP3 file attachments to pitch stocks in pump-and-dump schemes.
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Much of the trouble centered on phishing, a type of attack where fake Web pages are constructed to harvest log-in details, credit card numbers or other personal information. And, oh yes, spam is back.
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This paper discusses the use of NetFlow, a traffic profile monitoring technology available on many routers, for use in the early detection of worms, spammers, and other abnormal network activity in large enterprise networks and service providers.
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Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.