Information Protection and Security

The infamous Koobface worm, known for infecting Facebook users, is expanding its reach in social media. New Koobface variants are sending out Twitter spam when an infected user logs on to Twitter. Now Twitter has begun suspending the accounts of users sending such spam.
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A US software writer has pleaded guilty to developing a botnet-based spamming tool used by notorious spammer Alan Ralsky.
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Five individuals pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Detroit for their roles in an international spam operation that sent billions of emails to tout Chinese "penny" stocks and used a botnet capable of evading spam detection. 
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Computer users often dismiss Internet security best practices because they find them inconvenient, or because they think the rules don't apply to them. Many cling to the misguided belief that because they don't bank or shop online, that bad guys won't target them. 
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Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.'s MessageLabs Intelligence unit.

A clever and simple Twitter search is allowing spammers to use Twitter to harvest e-mail addresses from the service for them.
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Industrious spammers are taking advantage of recent news reports and public concern about the swine flu to scam people with yet another wave of clever attacks. 
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Social networking’s security holes scare many businesses — and apparently for good reason. A recent survey found that half of businesses are staying away from social-networking technology because of security concerns, according to CIO magazine .
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Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned Wednesday.
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