Vendor claims ZDNet being “exploited” to send spam, forgets definition of exploit

A security vendor has claimed that ZDNet is being “exploited” by Google Docs in order to send spam. Let’s pick apart this exploitation claim and try to figure out what the spammers are really doing.

In a recent blog post, anti-spam vendor Commtouch claims that ZDNet is being exploited in order to spend spam. [...]

Fake Obama News Sites Abound

Earlier this week, we blogged about the range of Web threats that would take advantage of Barack Obama’s inauguration on the 20th. We mentioned fake news as a possible social engineering ploy and cybercriminals did not disappoint. They were a little early in fact: Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson discovered bogus websites [...]