Tagged: DDOS

Worm Aims to Disarm Spam Fighters 0

Worm Aims to Disarm Spam Fighters

(Wired) LONDON — Anti-spam organizations are the target of a new Internet worm outbreak that tries to knock them offline with a crippling data barrage, computer security experts said on Tuesday. Virus experts believe...

Latest email virus blamed on spammers 0

Latest email virus blamed on spammers

(New Scientist) The latest variant of a six-month old virus called Mimail appears to be being used as a double-pronged spammer’s tool, says a victim of the attack, the anti-spam company Spamhaus. The virus...