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Spammers often collect email addresses from customer lists, chatrooms, email chain letters, forums, newsgroups, websites, and viruses. Current email accounts that are receiving spam have connections to prior chain mails, forums, and newsgroups. Spam or junk email is almost always unsolicited and unwanted.

There has been chattering the past few days about unknown rogue software available for download on the Internet that lets you view private Facebook profiles. I can assure you that this new software called FacebookAgent is old news wagging a new wrapper. This is not just another scam! This rogue application also [...]

Proper use of English could get a virus past security
Hackers could evade most existing antivirus protection by hiding malicious code within ordinary text, according to security researchers.
One of the most common ways of hijacking other people’s computers is to use “code-injection” attacks, in which malicious computer code is delivered to and then run on [...]

The butterfly effect: “Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.”
In the realm of Internet security, webmasters (hosting service providers) are pivotal in reducing the impact of compromised/malware-laden websites.  Once a compromised site becomes known to a webmaster (or hosting [...]

The dark side of the Internet is darker than it has ever been at any point in history .  Economic downturns tend to breed new tactics, and cybercriminal organizations now have the knowledge, tools, and capability to directly impact global financial systems.  Everyone needs to become part of a Solid Internet Security Solution by [...]