Empornium.us, the world's largest adult-material tracker, has been blocked by Google and Firefox today. Currently those who search Google for Empornium are met with a warning under the URL: "This site may harm your computer". If they choose ignoring the warning and clicking the link on IE, the site main page will load but then anti-virus software may periodically show virus/malware warning messages. Users using Firefox 3 to access the site URL also meet a "Reported Attack Site" warning as the ...

Like the evil force in "Lord of The Rings" famous story, spam which was once defeated now has gathered its strength and is on the rise again! Two weeks ago when the command center of spam called McColo, a Web-hosting company that ran sites for several chief spammers, was forced to shut down the world had enjoyed a short moment of victorious air seeing spam sent over the Internet down to 80%. There were lucky days when many people on Earth ...

Chris Evans, Google's Information Security Engineer and Tech Lead, has rejected the Gmail vulnerability rumored widely that would cause domain thieves recently. After investigation, it is found that the cause was a rather simple phishing scheme that fooled domain's owners to visit fake websites such as "google-hosts.com" and collected usernames/passwords of Gmail accounts. After gaining the user credentials, the attacker set up mail filters specifically designed to forward messages from web domain providers and consequently gain the controls of the domains. There ...

Facebook has won $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez, a Canadian man who floods the popular online social network with millions of explicit spam messages. It is reported that Guerbuez fooled Facebook's users to provide him with their credentials either by phishing to gain login information or acquiring it from third parties. After gaining access to user's personal profiles, he used software to automatically send out more than 4 million messages advertising many "spammy" products, including marijuana and male enhancement ones. Max ...