Zombie computers are those machines that are hacked by spammers with the help of computer virus so that they may be used as a host to send out thousands of spam messages. A study conducted by McAfee earlier this year showed that USA, Brazil and India are among the leading nations when it comes to [...]

China, Romania and United States make up for more than two-thirds of malware-laden spam emails sent in March. According to a report by Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, close to 14.9% of malware intercepted in March were new and did not have a precedence. The report studies the percentage of email that is spam, contain virus or [...]

Have you ever opened a spam email? According to a study by Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, people not only click on spam, but are also likely to forward them. Men and women under 35 are most likely to do so. 50% of users under 35 years have clicked open a spam email 13% of these [...]

China and USA are among the countries with the most number of zombie computers. So where do all spam actually originate from? Here are the top ten spam producing nations (as of Q4 ’09) according to a study conducted by McAfee and the share of total spam 1. USA : 15.6% 2. Brazil : 11.2% [...]

China has taken over from United States as the country that has the most number of hacked computers – machines that are made to act like zombies to send out spam email or attack websites. Here is the list of the top ten countries in terms of the number of hacked computers (as of Q4 [...]

Enterprise customers in Asia-Pacific are soon realizing the importance of security on their infrastructure and the sale of security software is expected to grow in double digits through 2010. Here are some numbers predicted by market research firm, IDC Sale of Secure content and threat management applications (SCTM) in 2010 : $1.13 billion (18.4% growth) [...]

Pharma related spams are apparently the ones with the highest spam conversion ratio as a recent report by Commtouch Labs shows that over 80% of all spam mails are pharma related. Here is the most common spam topics according to their study 1. Pharmacy : 81% 2. Replica : 5.4% 3. Enhancers : 2.3% 4. [...]

The number of reported cases of hacking and phishing of .com and .in sites hosted in India seem to be on the rise. Here are some pointers on the growing trend of security issues among Indian websites. Number of website defacements in Jan-Oct ’08 : 4,596 Number of website defacements in Jan-Oct ’09 : 5,239 [...]

USA used to be the Spam capital of the world, until recently. A recent CISCO report has now relegated it to the second position. More spams originated from Brazil in 2009 than from US which is now at number 2. USA Spams in 2008 : 8.3 trillion Spams in 2009 : 6.6 trillion (20.3% fall) [...]

A recent study was made by AVComparitives to study the performance of more than 16 popular anti-virus software in removing malware and leftovers. The software were graded as poor, average, good, very good. Here is how the different anti-virus software performed (The results are displayed for their performance against removing malware and leftovers separated by [...]