A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, starting on 12th January 2007, made several anti spam sites like spamlinks.net, spam.abuse.net, worldwidespam.info and spamnation.info unreachable. Spamnation.info was unavailable, except a homepage with a statement about the DDoS attack,…
A computer virus dubbed “Storm Worm” was spreading on last Friday with the subject “230 dead as storm batters Europe” taking advantage of people’s curiosity over a devastating storm in Europe. Estimates indicate that 10.000…
Adicio.net, a Singapore based domain name registrar and management services provider, signs for the MX Lab email security services after a succesful trial period for one of the domains hosted by the company. “We’ve got…
A jury found the 45 years old American Jeffrey Brett Goodin from California guilty for phishing practices and he is facing 101 years jail. Goodin used phishing techniques to steal credit card numbers from AOL…
The Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Acrobat Reader is more dangerous than at first thought. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute JavaScript from the context of where the PDF is hosted. Any web…
MX Lab expected more image based spam masked as Christmas greetings but we noticed a slight decrease of blocked spam during the last 3 days of 2006 in our global statistics. We noticed however a…
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