Although numerous security vendors have testified to a decrease in image spam in recent months, that hasn’t stopped spammers from tweaking their methodologies. In recent weeks, spammers have taken advantage of online photo-hosting services, such as Imageshack and Flickr, to host their images in a technique researchers at MX Logic said this week that they donât expect to last long.
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Hundreds of workers at Cornwall’s Eden Project are at risk of exposure to identity fraud following the theft of a company laptop containing their personal details. The computer was snatched from the car of an employee of the payroll services company Moorepay, which deals with the wages of the environmental complex. The laptop is believed to contain 500 employeesâ names, addresses, bank details, national insurance and phone numbers, and pay rates.
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Yahoo patched two vulnerabilities in Messenger’s ActiveX control, which were disclosed by a hacker offering proof-of-concept exploit code earlier this week. The web giant encouraged Messenger users to download version 8.1.0.410 from its website. “The Yahoo Messenger team recently learned of a buffer overflow security issue in ActiveX control. Upon learning of this issue, we began working toward a resolution and implemented a fix to Yahoo Messengerâs software download,” read a statement released today by company spokesman Terrell Karlsten. “We are encouraging all Yahoo Messenger users to download the latest version available at messenger.yahoo.com.”
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Google has the worst privacy record of all the major internet companies, according to a new study. The research, conducted by the campaigning group Privacy International, found that the online giant had a âhostile approach to privacyâ and a comprehensive view to consumer surveillance. The six-month investigation, which assessed and ranked the internet service firms by how they handle personal data, showed Google does not consider visited IP addresses as personal information and does not believe that it collects sensitive data.
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Hackers have spread child pornography by infecting online message boards, experts claim. The legitimate websites have been hijacked by cybercriminals who are exploiting the forums to promote graphic child abuse content. The affected sites contain posts that attempt to entice the readers to various child pornography websites, according to experts at Sophos. The majority of pages are on legitimate web pages and one is even on a site designed for children. The posts are all found on message boards within these sites and contain offensive words and hidden links to the illegal sites, the anti-virus software company said.
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Spammers have launched a new attack that could jeopardise the security of SMEs, new figures show.
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housands of Tiscali customers are demanding answers after hackers broke through the internet service provider’s security to send spam causing the email service to collapse.
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