Posts Tagged ‘spam’
IN THE HEADLINES: Could Facebook Be the Next Front in the Spam Wars
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● March 8, 2011
Spam now accounts for nearly 80% of all email sent every day, according to Symantec’s State of Spam report. And not only is spam laden with all kinds of nasties, from phishing and fake pharmacies to scams and malware, this deluge also clogs networks and costs billions of dollars every day to manage. On any [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: McAfee Threat Report Paints Another Grim Picture
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 16, 2011
Security firm McAfee recently released its fourth quarter threat report, and it seems to confirm the same threats and trends most security observers are reporting. McAfee says it uncovered 20 million new pieces of malware in 2010, or an average of 55,000 new malware threats every day. That number seems to tally with a similar [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Could You Be Spamming Yourself?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 9, 2010
Security researchers recently discovered that more than 40% of the world’s spam is being churned out by just one culprit. The culprit is called the Rustock botnet, and may consist of millions of compromised computers, all press-ganged together to churn out an estimated 46 billion spam emails every single day. What’s more troubling, most of [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Are Consumers THAT WORRIED about Online Security?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 26, 2010
The Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego recently announced the findings of a study it conducted into how worried consumers are about the security of online transactions. Here are some of their findings: 87% of respondents expressed significant concern about having their credit card information stolen or having merchants lose personal and financial information [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #007 — Concerns with Small Businesses
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 17, 2010
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Neal O’Farrell, a nationally recognized [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #005 — Threats Facing Consumers Online
Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● December 9, 2009
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Jerry Thompson, co-founder of White Sky Inc. White [...]
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