A spambot publicly dumped 711 million email addresses and a number of passwords, according to a blog post by security researcher Troy Hunt. Mr. Hunt hypothesized the number of real people whose ...

The spambot, known only as ‘Onliner’, was discovered when Paris-based security expert ‘Benkow’ found an open web server containing a staggering number of email addresses, passwords and email servers.

For those who have ever wondered how spam still manages to be delivered in the age of Gmail and serious spam filtering, a staggering discovery by a security researcher has uncovered a spambot that had ...

Your computer could be busy right now making money for someone else. But that’s not the worst thing that spambots do. For security pros, spambots are known enemies. For the uninitiated, they are ...

No one likes spam. And no one should! Which is why the reported uptick in AIM spammers—thanks again for pulling support, Aol—be so frustrating. But it doesn’t ...