Tag archive: Mark Sunner

The Storm botnet, which at its height commanded around two million compromised computers, has dwindled to just around 100,000 machines during April, according to a report from Message Labs. They credit the use of malware removal tools for the change, and point to a 57% reduction in spam mail distributed by the botnet during the month as evidence.   However, it’s not all good news. Message Labs discovered more than 1,200 new sites… Read More

If you want to know what makes the iPhone tick, thank the hackers who’ve been working tirelessly to discover its secrets. DVD Jon has already posted a workaround to the AT&T activation, which means the device can work – just not as a phone.   But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Far more important are two more discoveries by others, the root password for the phone and the password for the mobile user account.… Read More

The legislation, introduced into the UK in December 2003, seeks to ban emails sent from a business to an individual without their permission. However this rule does not apply to any unsolicited emails sent from outside the EU. MessageLabs' research shows that, in January 2004, 76.4% of spam emails to UK addresses originated from computers in the USA. This figure is likely to rise to 79.3% by March this year. This means the vast… Read More

MessageLabs is offering a free webinar entitled “The week the email security landscape shifted” on Wednesday February 11. “The last week of January 2004 proved to be one of the busiest and most challenging in the world of email security. Whether the impact of the numerous virus outbreaks that occurred is the blueprint for things to come remains to be seen. What we can be sure of is that if multiple viruses continue to be… Read More

British security firm MessageLabs is reporting that this week's “Mydoom” worm has become the fastest spreading virus ever. MessageLabs, reports it has intercepted more than 1.2 million copies of the new mass-mailer worm known as W32/Mydoom.A-mm and is seeing a peak infection rate of 1 in 12 emails. MessageLabs has issued a high-level alert for businesses. The worm was first intercepted by MessageLabs on January… Read More