Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...

Spam hit an all-time high this year, with more unwanted messages pouring in from a smorgasbord of countries, thanks in part to globalization. Such are the findings of a recent and comprehensive report ...

URL shorteners have become a popular tool for spammers to hide their spam sites, but now there's a spam gang with at least 80 public URL-shortening service websites open for anyone to use. Researchers ...

Red Earth Software announced Wednesday that its Policy Patrol 3.5 is the first commercial anti-spam add-on for Microsoft Exchange to support new Spam URL Realtime Block Lists (SURBL). Unlike Realtime ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Symantec has released the July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report which contains the usual interesting and relevant facts regarding trends in spam and malware. Of particular interest in this report, ...

A clever spam campaign is underway that pretends to be a WebEx meeting invite and uses a Cisco open redirect that pushes a Remote Access Trojan to the recipient. Using open redirects add legitimacy to ...

So, why is a shortened URL in a spam email so much of a threat? Well, as MessageLabs warns, the website in the URL you’re directed to may not, in fact, be what you think it is, and may just be a trick ...

Symantec’s October Intelligence Report, released Tuesday, shows spammers increasingly embedding shortened URLs in e-mails in an attempt to lure people to malicious Web sites. “It’s ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a tweet about the URL Removal Tool and why it wasn’t working how it was expected to. The question was in the context of a site that was hacked and generated Japanese ...

The newest e-mail irritation is less threatening, thanks to URLs that can't be spoofed … but it can still clog your systems Many people have heard of image spam as a new type of spam that’s hard to ...