by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sunbelt Software’s E-mail Security scored a Spam Catch (SC) rate of 98.77 percent in Virus Bulletin’s VBSpam tests. The testing uses VB’s live email stream as well as a spam test set provided by Project Honey Pot. The tests measure false positive...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Patrick Jordan found this one. Some questionable sites associated with the Winigard family of rogue security products pulls it from this location, which appears to belong to a graphic designer in Canada.It’s funny and here’s waaaay too much truth...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Early this afternoon Microsoft released an out-of-band security bulletin patching the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The fix has been at the top of the news since the vulnerabilities it treats are believed to have led to the compromise of Google and about...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report that says 95 percent of all email is now spam. The report was based on surveying last year of email traffic by about 100 service providers in 30 countries.ENISA Executive Director Dr....
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Privacy advocate and researcher Ben Edelman has found that Upromise savings, a service that collects commissions from participating merchants for its members’ college savings accounts, scrapes personal information, including credit card numbers, from transactions and...
