Topic: Dermot Harnett

The economy remains the main topic spammers focus on to lure users into opening emails with malicious links.The economy remains the main topic spammers focus on to lure users into opening emails with malicious links, according to Symantec's March 2009 ...
Job-offer spam, a spammer standby, gets makeover for recessionA staple of the spammer's arsenal those come-ons for job offers is getting a makeover because of the recession as online identity thieves concoct clever new ways to sneak onto people's computers ...

Spammers Happy to Live in Interesting Times

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dermot Harnett, principal analyst, Antispam Engineering, Symantec. This month, there was an increase in image spam. At the end of 2006, image spam was one of the primary techniques. Fifty-two percent of all spam messages were image spam ...