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Spam overwhelms email messages

This is a story on the BBC website on a just-published Microsoft security report, which states that more than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted. Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional

Free worm and virus support

I blogged about the Conficker worm ( WORM attack: is your PC secure? ) at the end of January - hopefully everyone who doesn't have automatic updates configured on their PCs will have downloaded the patch now. There are still rumblings in the press though,

Beware new tax return phishing scam

A news story on the Small Business Centre this morning has flagged a new scam targetting those who haven't yet filed their tax returns (end of this month btw). Self employed people and small business owners have been warned of a new phishing scam targeted

Malware higher than ever

The number of malicious programs found online has reached an unprecedented high, say security firms ( more ). Security software testing organisation AV Test reported that it saw 5.49 million unique samples of malicious software in 2007 - five times more
 
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