Aug 20 2007

Instant Messenger: making business friendlier but less secure

Instant messaging (IM) has its origins in low-level, John-to-Judy communications. John can’t do his assignment. He dashes off a five-word message to Judy who punts him the right answer.

Aug 13 2007

Spam evolution: April – June 2007

Spammers are continuing to experiment with new ways of delivering graphics files to users. These include PDF attachments which contain spam

Aug 07 2007

Malware Evolution: April - June 2007

This quarterly report may be the most unusual of all of our previous quarterly reports. The events that took place during the first six months of 2007 have shown us that the direction in which threats are evolving is from social engineering to the increased usage of a variety of vulnerabilities to penetrate the system

Aug 06 2007

Spam Report: June 2007

The spam situation is currently stable. Spam accounts for 70% - 80% of all email traffic. The monthly low was recorded on June 6 at 69.9%, and the monthly high was 78.4% on June 29

Aug 01 2007

Online Scanner Top Twenty for July 2007

After a short break, Trojan Dialers are again at the top of the rankings based on the results of our July online scanner activity

Aug 01 2007

Virus Top Twenty for July 2007

The activity of the botnet that was created in May via the Agent.bqs Trojan was only reaching its “design capacity” in June; by July it was in full swing