Archive for August, 2008

CNN Spam Now Links to Malware in Article Anchor Text

CNN spam messages are still arriving at a quick pace, and I’ve received a number of them today, most recently about 10 minutes ago. They’ve changed again, and the title of the supposed article in the alert now has a link to the malware. Previously, the article titles linked to a legitimate CNN article describing [...]


CNN Spam Contains Mostly Legitimate Links

Some information about the spoofed CNN spam from August 2008


Pointless Security Can Have a Long-Term Negative Impact

Implement security controls only when they provide value. This post shows an example of what can happen when value cannot be demonstrated.