Contemporary viruses are written to make money. They achieve this through extortion, information theft, and fraud. Threats that use extortion can be some of the most aggressive and, in some cases,
The e-mail spam panorama is definitely showing an interesting trend lately. If you follow the news you may have noticed that a drop in e-mail spam activity was reported in the last couple of months
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
The PlayStation 3 jailbreak genie is out of the bottle, but that isn’t stopping console-maker Sony from demanding a federal judge block a prolific hacker and others from detailing his hack.