Rise of .in URLs in Spam

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. This chart shows percentage of spam containing .in URLs: While there were few daily spikes last year, clearly there has been more activity in the last two months. Looking back at…

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Facebook partners with Websense to scan URLs for malware

Facebook has partnered with Web security gateway software company Websense. The two companies announced today that Websense’s technology will help to protect Facebook’s 800 million active users from links that lead to malware and malicious websites. The technology builds on Facebook’s existing systems for stopping users from clicking on links…

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