There is a report of a more serious (more serious than “usual”) flaw that has been discovered in Internet Explorer (IE). You can read about it by clicking on this link. “Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The [...]
JAMM DNSBL Blacklist Removed
February 8, 2009 By
We have received reports that the RBL (Real Time Blacklists) JAMM DNSBL has gone down. We have removed it from our database and no more alerts should be received. The JAMM DNSBL was a public data base which listed suspected sources of spam which has recently closed its doors. Most RBLS (Real Time Blacklists) when [...]
A Field Day for Financial Cyber-Scammers
February 4, 2009 By
We highly recommended this article to our Twitter friends and we wanted to recommend it to our Blog readers as well. It is from BusinessWeek and an excerpt is below: When rumors swirled in late September that regulators had brokered a deal for Citigroup (C) to buy Wachovia (WFC), cybercriminals capitalized on the chaos. An [...]
TQMCUBE Blacklist Removed
January 22, 2009 By
We have received reports that the RBL (Real Time Blacklists) TQMCUBE went down. We have removed it from our database and no more alerts should be received. The TQMCUBE was an open relay data base which listed open relays which has recently closed its doors. Most RBLS (Real Time Blacklists) when they wish to dissolve [...]
Spam Levels Expected to Increase, as well as Phishing Campaigns
January 9, 2009 By
Happy New Year! 2009 is expected to be a year of more spam challenges and new sophisticated spamming techniques from spammers. Now that the Presidential Election is over we can put the Election Spam to rest, but thanks to the economy, an increase in targeting the down and out, the tax-rebate-hopeful and the naive pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps [...]