Anti-Georgia spammers continue cyberwar (TechWorld)
Looking to build botnet network. The poorly worded messages now make up close to five percent of the spam traffic measured by the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Spam Data Mine, according to Gary Warner, a director of computer research and forensics at the university. That's about a third of the volume of the CNN- and MSNBC-related spam that has been flooding inboxes this week, but ...
School Spreads 1.5m Spam Emails (Web Host Industry Review)
August 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hackers gaining access to the New Zealand's University of Otago staff member accounts used it to send out a reported 1.55 million spam emails in two-and-a-half days, in what is considered by commentators as an "old school" technique.
Roaring Penguin Software and N-able Technologies Forge Alliance to Allow Solution Provider to Monitor and Manage ... (CanadaIT.com)
6 August 2008 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Roaring Penguin Software Inc., makers of the acclaimed CanIt line of anti-spam solutions, today announced an alliance with N-able Technologies, a leading global supplier of remote monitoring and management software and specialized business support services for managed service providers (MSPs), which integrates their technologies and enables channel ...
Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet (Network World)
Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.
Anti-Georgia Spammers Building New Botnet (PC World)
Anti-Georgia spammers are trying to set up a malicious network of botnet computers.