“Valentine’s Day brings excitement for celebrating love and affection between dear ones. Spammers are  gearing up for  Valentine’s Day with several offers like product spam, gift cards, personalised cards, and financial spam. Symantec has been  observing Valentine’s...”

“Many countries are going through turbulent times due to natural disasters. In fact, emotions do run high when disasters strike—people are moved and understandably want to share in helping affected victims by donating to relief funds. The most recent natural disaster that Australia, Brazil, and...”

“In this blog about spam volume, we discussed the virtual shutdown of three botnets including Rustock that caused the global spam volume to plummet around Christmas day. MessageLabs has indicated in their blog that those botnets have restarted, although they are sending less volume than pre-shutdown...”

“The monthly State of Spam & Phishing report has been tracking the decline of overall spam in recent months. The chart below shows the global spam volume dropping significantly since August. An even more significant drop was observed during the Christmas holiday. The chart below shows the global...”

“Posted on behalf of Martin Lee, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services Information security is all about maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. At this time of year, no information security asset is more important than Santa’s ‘naughty or...”