If you’ve ever received a spam email, or more likely, a few thousand, you will have seen a common thread among all of them. According to research from MessageLabs Intelligence, certain patterns in word usage can be identified in the chaos.
AVG (AU/NZ), the distributor for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today unveiled the results of an AVG Technologies’ research study which shows that — contrary to popular opinion — most malicious web sites are hosted on US servers and not in other countries like China.
Google’s top search terms are under attack from cybercriminals. In the last seven days, more than 284 top search terms have been attacked by more than 6600 malicious URLs according to SonicWALL data. The threat team has found up to nine of the top 20 Google search terms are under attack at any one time. […]
Using social networks? Then make sure you don’t make the same mistake as British MP Ed Miliband, who had his twitter account hijacked and his reputation tarnished. While the tweets from the hackers to MP Ed Miliband’s account were merely embarrassing, Lloyd Borrett, the Marketing Manager at AVG (AU/NZ), says it is worth considering the […]
Australians lost over $70 million to online fraud in 2009, with that figure just the tip of the iceberg reports the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. “Scams continue to make up a large proportion of total complaints that the ACCC receives and more than 20,000 scam reports were made to the ACCC in 2009 – […]
Microsoft has successfully taken legal action to shut down the control structure of the network behind the Waledac botnet that is responsible for 1.5 billion spam emails daily. In the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, a federal judge granted Microsoft’s request against 273 domain names believed to be hubs for control of the Waledac […]
Nine out of ten office workers confess they have read other print jobs left at the printer while another 70% of office workers complained that they have had a print job go missing from the printer. These revelations have come out of research into Australian office printing commissioned by Canon this month revealing a general […]
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