Mon, February 06, 2012 - Like Whack-a-Mole, new forms of digital spam pop up faster than security software can knock them down--and the problem is just getting worse. In fact, according to search engine newcomer Blekko, 1 million new spam pages are created every hour.

Mon, January 09, 2012 - Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

Mon, December 19, 2011 - IBM's annual predictions on how our lives will be changed by five technologies in the next five years.

Thu, December 08, 2011 - The Information Commissioner's Office has conducted one raid so far in connection with unsolicited messages

Wed, December 07, 2011 - The spam campaign promised people prizes from a non-existent Yahoo lottery in an effort to steal their information

Mon, November 21, 2011 - A cyber attack against an Illinois water utility illustrates the weaknesses in our SCADA networks

Wed, November 16, 2011 - IE8, IE9, Opera and Safari vulnerable to 'self-XSS' attacks that dupe users into pasting rogue JavaScript into browser address bar

Mon, November 14, 2011 - Don't look now, but spam and telemarketing calls have been reduced to the point of irrelevance. What happened?

Wed, November 02, 2011 - Researchers build network of social bots to test how many Facebook users befriend them

Tue, November 01, 2011 - New tool is capable of solving CAPTCHA tests on Wikipedia, eBay, CNN and others

Mon, October 03, 2011 - The goal is to protect users from clicking on links that take them to phishing and malware sites

Wed, September 21, 2011 - The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if they don't stop.

Fri, August 19, 2011 - Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution industry under pressure, security experts have suggested.

Wed, August 17, 2011 - Spam - particularly the kind with malicious attachments - is exploding, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just before the SpamIt operation folded its doors, a security firm says.