Massive Email Theft At Epsilon Can Harm Customers

This is some important information that everyone should know. Millions of customers of majors brands are being warned that they can be bombarded with spam emails after hackers stole important details of a huge database of many renowned companies.

Barclaycard, Citigroup, a subsidiary of Amazon are just a few of the big firms who are facing this dilemma after the hacking took place at Epsilon - an online marketing firm in Dallas, Texas on March 30th.

Others in the list include Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott hotel and Kroger supermarket chain stores. These companies are telling their customers to be ware and not to give any information to any emails.

Anyhow, as a result of this hacking, customers email addresses and names have been leaked. It is quite possible that they will spam mails or fake mails that will ask them for more important account information, bank account numbers, etc. Everyone should refrain from replying back to such emails.

Epsilon has given no details on how the hackers broke into their systems but it working with the law enforcing agencies to resolve the issue soon.

World's Biggest Spam Source Has Been Shut Down

Rustock - the world's biggest source of spam emails has been shut down after a series of raids by Microsoft and US Federal authorities.

Rustock botnet is an international network of virus infected computers. It has generated billions of daily spam emails promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut price impotence pills.

However, now Microsoft is quite successful in collapsing Rustock's operations. There was a court order that backed Microsoft in seizing the servers that were controlling almost a million Windows PCs.

The servers were rented from commercial internet hosting firms in the Mid West but they were not aware of Rustock's spam operations. These command and control servers used to issue instructions to infected home and business PCs globally.