Don Bailey and Mat Solnik from iSEC partners made a YouTube video showing the use of text messaging to hack into a Subaru Outback to unlock the door and start the engine. This was possible because systems like OnStar and Ford SYNC use text messaging to communicate with the car, via M2M (machine to machine) communication. [...]
Take a close look at the message below, and then continue reading: Is this message spam or not? It looks related to a well-known brand, and looks fairly innocuous–submit a survey, get a gift card. It does sound a bit too good to be true, and the mailing address for the unsubscribe link looks a [...]
A recent article from New Zealand indicates that Vodafone New Zealand also encourages their users to report SMS spam to 7726 (S-P-A-M). (See: http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/news/txt-for-trouble/1080298/) “Vodafone says if a customer does receive spam they should forward the message to 7726…” Vodafone also lets you know how to report your complaint to the New Zealand government’s Department of [...]
Thank you to all of you who participated in the Cloudmark DesktopOne- A Year Later Facebook Promotion! Out of all of the entries, we have randomly selected a winner. The lucky winner of the $150 Timbuk2 Gift Card is K. Lontrato of Clifton Park, NY. Congratulations! Just over a year ago, we launched Cloudmark DesktopOne [...]
Cloudmark provides spam and abuse filtering for email, text messaging and social networking traffic. So in addition to encouraging email senders to follow good email sending guidelines, we also want text message senders to follow good text message sending guidelines. Over on tatango, which is an SMS Marketing Blog, they have a good write up [...]
A recently posted twelve month timeline traces the emergence and exponential growth of malware targeting the Android mobile platform. The variety and rising sophistication of malware provided a number of “firsts” for the Android platform: Trojans capable of generating Premium Rate SMS messages to expensive short code services. Spy applications that track a user’s location, [...]
A recent infographic from Tatango caught my eye this week. Aside from the headline finding that 68% of the population is affected by text message spam (and only 60% eat breakfast!) around 1 in 8 Americans don’t have a text messaging plan and end up paying for the SMS spam they receive. Despite some pretty [...]
At Cloudmark, we make use of email feedback in numerous forms to help determine what mail is and isn’t spam. Some of that feedback comes in the form of spamtraps (sometimes also referred to as honeypots) and the way those spamtraps were created can vary, resulting in different issues for a sender to consider. Over [...]
Take a look at this message and see if you can tell if it came from PayPal or not? Fig 1. Fake Email from PayPal. This email is NOT from PayPal. It’s from a spammer, who wants you to go to your browser and open the “AccountValidation.html” page that he or she has attached. Why [...]
Today marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Cloudmark DesktopOne–a FREE, top-rated anti-spam product. Over the past year, nearly a million people in 160+ countries have downloaded it. To celebrate, Facebook visitors who become fans of the Cloudmark DesktopOne page can enter to win a $150 Timbuk2® Gift Card. Cloudmark DesktopOne has received [...]