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New Storm tactic: Medical spam sites
01.29.2008 - 1:37 PM
Websense Security Labs Threatseeker technology has revealed that the Storm worm has changed spamming tactics. Spam sent by infected host...
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01.25.2008 - 1:37 PM
What's in a domain parking?
Wikipedia defines this practice as "an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on."
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Google services increasingly used in SPAM runs
01.23.2008 - 1:37 PM
Welcome to SPAM 2.0.
Websense Security Labs has been constantly monitoring the recent spammer tactics that use Google services for spamming purposes. Through the last two months we have seen increases in these services being utilized, the collected data is from our Threatseeker detection capabilities within a combination of our On Demand Services (ODS) service and our web classification.
In these spammer tactics, which first started during...
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01.22.2008 - 1:37 PM
As another year comes to close, let's look back at the lessons we have learned and extrapolate what we can expect to see this year. As the philosopher George Santayana would say, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
ThreatSeeker Technology Q3-Q4 2007 Results*
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Previous Posts
January 2008
| 01.29.2008 | New Storm tactic: Medical spam sites » |
| 01.25.2008 | Parking Page Poker Face » |
| 01.23.2008 | Google services increasingly used in SPAM runs » |
| 01.22.2008 | Second half of 2007 in review » |
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