I need a solution
I have what I think is a very strange situation. This email is coming from my work computer, but my issue is with my home computer.
I purchased/renewed my ...
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst
Spammers can be quite creative
Spammers will try anything to get their spam past your filters and into your inbox. We've seen many tricks involving random text hidden in the ...
Posted on behalf of Jo Hurcombe and Manoj Venugopalan, Malware Analysts, Symantec Hosted Services
As many of us already heard the great news about Bredolab Malware that been shut down by Dutch authorities.
“On October 25th 2010, the High ...
A recent survey conducted by digital magazine services provider Texterity and BPA Worldwide found that four out of five readers of business-to-business publications use digital publications to help them do their jobs better, and 54 percent turn to them ...
By Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
In the September MLI report we discussed that it is important for IT managers and HR managers to understand that there will always be a subset of employees that are likely to try ...
On behalf of Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
Recently it has been widely reported that global spam volumes have decreased, especially on Sunday 3rd October 2010, when spam levels dropped to their lowest for some ...
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services
HMRC, the UK's tax collecting agency, recently announced that six million people in the country have paid the wrong amount of tax and stated that it ...
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst
Today there has been a lot of traffic on Twitter related to a very recently discovered Javascript exploit. It took advantage of the way Twitter handled Javascript in updates. Most of ...
Posted on behalf of Bhaskar Krishnappa, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
This month, the security world has witnessed two major threats that occurred around the same time. The first one was the mass mailer worm “ Here You Have ” ( ...
An e-mail storm is a sudden spike of email traffic, often caused by malware (like the recent "Here You Have" virus) and users on large distribution lists replying to all. These storms are not just inconveniences – they pose a challenge to email ...