January 14, 2010 - This post is made on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Anti-Spam Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services. Earlier today we saw a 419 or advance fee fraud scam claiming to be sent by Hassan Ali Abdul Mutallab, the brother of Umar Farouk Abdul (continue reading...) Read more
January 8, 2010 - Last December we saw a couple of malicious JavaScript strings being pasted into Web sites on compromised servers. The beginning of the scripts look like one of the following: <script>/*GNU GPL*/ try{window.onload = function(){var ～ <script>/*CODE1*/ try{window.onload = function(){var ～ We’ve now confirmed (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2010 - When I worked at a small business the IT guy also took care of the phone system, assembled bookcases if needed, and occasionally worked the front desk when the receptionist was on break. In a small business everyone wears many (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Globally, for the past month, spam accounts for roughly 75 percent of all email in circulation. And about 75 percent of that spam is sent from one of the (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Symantec Hosted Web Security Service blocks millions of web requests every day to protect employees from content that is either against company policy, or malicious. In a typical week (continue reading...) Read more
December 16, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services “Pump-and-dump” stock spamming is a technique that has been around for a long time now, where spammers attempt to artificially raise the price of a particular company’s shares. It (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Without a doubt, 2009 was the Year of the Botnet. As reported in the MessageLabs Intelligence Annual Report, by the end of 2009, 83.4 percent of spam (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services I never like to dwell on the past. But as I reflect more on what an eventful year 2009 has been, there are some highlights worth noting. I (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services A few weeks ago, when Symantec announced our 2010 Predictions, I stated in my accompanying blog post that what we’ve seen this year was ugly (highlight with (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2009 - The car accident involving Tiger Woods last night outside his home in Windemere, Florida has been generating a lot of heat as far as Web traffic and searches go. Since the news broke, the top web searches on Google has (continue reading...) Read more
November 20, 2009 - I had the honor recently of moderating a virtual roundtable discussion on the top Internet security trends from 2009 and what we expect to see in the security threat landscape in 2010. Funny thing about security predictions—you hope they won’t (continue reading...) Read more
November 18, 2009 - This week I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel with some of the best and the brightest among my Symantec colleagues to reflect on 2009’s threat landscape and what we anticipate for the year ahead. We concurred that (continue reading...) Read more