Suw Charman-Anderson reports. Spam, in email or on blogs (as content or comment), riles almost everyone; but Captchas - those little text puzzles that ask you to decode distorted numbers, letters or words - are at best annoying...
Festive season likely to prove a fertile hunting ground for internet criminals once again. The IT security vendor community came out in force today to warn consumers and corporate web surfers that internet criminals are likely...
Free service showcases 750 technology specialists to the education sector and welcomes a growing range of manufacturers into the UK's largest independent buyer's resource. Conjungo, the UK's largest independent technology...
Dec 01, 2008 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Better protection against spam had been developed. Captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computer and Humans Apart) were invented by Luis von Ahn, of Carnegie...
Websense Security Labs has discovered that malware authors are using Xmas themes this year, as a social engineering tactic, in an effort to gain control over compromised machines. This campaign uses email messages in the form...
Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor Google's social-networking website Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense. According to an alert from the security firm, the hoax message, which has been received by a...
Christmas-themed malware attacks are doing the rounds security firm Websense has warned. The messages display an animated Christmas scene and appear to come from postcards.org, but instead link to a malicious file called...
Awareness and understanding of new-age security threats, especially in the Web 2.0 world is a must BANGALORE, INDIA: Today, enterprises across verticals are relying on the Internet as a key platform to run their businesses....
Of the 103 million messages Websense processes a day, three in every 50 were from phishing sites, which amounted to a month-on-month increase of 240 per cent, or 83 per cent of all email. It also noted that 90.5 per cent of...
Google's social-networking website Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense. According to an alert from the security firm, the hoax message, which has been received by a number of Orkut users and is...