Fortune 100 Companies' PCs Spewing Spam

Frighteningly, machines maintained by big technocentric firms have been pwned (as it were): these machines are dancing to the spam tune under the very noses of some of tech's biggest sellers. Practically, it's worrisome because such machines would store far more contacts than...

'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders

I've been wondering about the large number of stock tip emails that have been hitting my email account. Turns out it is the work of a group of Rooskie underworld bastids running an unbelievably sophisticated bot-net hacking scam. Ryan Naraine at eWeek has the scoop."The...