Tag: Email

In 2010, emails – often using popular topics – have re-emerged as a key medium for spreading files and delivering Trojans as attachments following an upsurge last year.

The Storm Botnet, responsible for the majority of spam email on the internet is now resorting to using URL shortening services made popular by Twitter such bit.ly and tinyurl.com to bypass spam filters.

Businesses that use Apple’s iPhone are warned they might encounter trouble with their exchange servers once updating their iPhone’s to the latest iOS4.0 operating system.

As I was clearing out my junk folder yet again yesterday, it got me thinking – is email marketing dead already?

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G is being used as a lure for online scammers, with free iPhone 4G links being spammed out via email and Twitter.

Australian retailers are ahead of the curve in using email marketing to engage with customers, but most aren’t optimising it as well as their US counterparts, a Silverpop study has found.

On this day 10 years ago, the LoveBug virus, a mass-mailing worm infected 45 million computer users when the virus multiplied overnight from 1 in every 1000 emails to 1 in 28.

Spam email, when analysed by sender location, more targeted attacks actually originated in China (28.2 percent), Romania (21.1 percent) and United States (13.8 percent).

In March the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was 90.7 percent globally (1 in 1.10 emails), an increase of 1.5 percentage points since February. In Australia spam emails represented 90.1 percent of the total.

Xobni, known for their Microsoft Outlook add-in to help people manage their email and relationships, today announced Xobni Mobile for the BlackBerry platform.