Fraudsters take advantage of spelling mistakes and typing errors to set up false sites that may look similar to those the surfer intended to visit. But they can contain spyware, adware and malicious downloads instead. Last year's survey put Hong Kong...

Surveying 19 billion URLs visited by 30,000 end users from among the company's customer base, the top application turned out to be YouTube, which consumed an astounding 7.8 percent of all available bandwidth. Behind this came Facebook with 4.4 percent,...

One of the researchers, Dr Josh Mason of John Hopkins University, Baltimore, said the team wanted to broaden their understanding of how malicious code could be deployed, and highlight the need to design more efficient techniques for preventing this...

VB said that the results of the latest round of anti-spam tests showed that if vendors were to share data on blocked messages everyone would benefit. The company said that by combining the filters of five or more of the products on its latest test, a...

Websense Threatseeker cloud service will be used to peer behind the web content behind bit.ly links in real time, using behaviour-based tools and reputation data to detect URLs linked to spamvertised sites or phishing attacks. Sophos is also chipping...