Malware

About 146,000 users of USAJobs.gov had their personal information compromised in recent attacks on Monster.com, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disclosed this week.

Monster.com is beefing up security measures in light of the recent data theft that exposed the personal information of at least 1.3 million users to hackers.

Research suggests that spammers didnt find the results they were looking for during recent PDF spam spikes, according to anti-virus vendor Sophos.

Its the economy, stupid. It worked for spammers now, and it will work for spammers in the future.

When the subject of email security is mentioned, the first thought that comes to mind is spam or more appropriately anti-spam.

Although email spam has long been around, it has only recently become increasingly widespread and advanced. One would think that with the ever-advancing technology, there would be a way to combat these annoying pieces of email bombarding our inboxes. But as computer technology becomes more sophisticated, so too does spam.

In the last six months, image-based spam has pushed its way to the forefront of spam technique discussions. Image-based spam is not new, but it is now wreaking havoc on the effectiveness of many anti-spam products.

The IT security pros who declared victory over spam surely are eating their words now that mass waves of unsolicited email have returned to inboxes.