Acai Berry is one of all those BULLSHIT “drugs” as heeled to gullible people who want to lose weight. On Sophos, did I read that spammers have hacked into many Twitter users and used their account to send advertising for a store that sells Acai Berry.

To use social networking as Twitter and Facebook to send spam has become very popular because it works so much better than e-mail. When you send messages from the chopped accounts it looks as if it comes from someone you know or follow, and that increase the credibility. It means that more clicks through and shop.

And, yes, people actually buy the products that spammers advertise. It works, unfortunately. If it had not done that we had not had any problems with spam…

How spammers have managed to hack the accounts appears to be uncertain. Presumably, it could be so simple that it has tested well-known password, and hit right here and there. This proves again the importance of having a good password.

The original post about Twitter-spam is available at Sophos.

Viagra, lottery and miracle pill for weight loss. Do you think this fantastic offer in your spam basket is more than usual? It is true – the last days of spam traffic has actually beat all records.

On Tuesday was it sends over 250 billion spam messages. It is 50 billion more than the previous peak measured. An average day in April was just over 140 billion messages a day, according to Cisco IronPort, which maps out the global spam traffic. Cisco IronPort produces security products for web and email.

- It can be simplified comparing spam traffic on the Internet with the weather. Sometime it is bad weather, but right now the storm, “says Stefan Grinneby, head of Sitic, a unit of network security department at PTS.

It is about botnet, network of computers that have been taken over, is activated. Your computer can fall into a botnet by clicking on a link in a spam message. Then, software can seamlessly be downloaded to your computer and it becomes “hijacked”.

These networks are not always activated. But when they are activated so suddenly sent it a mass e-mails simultaneously. Say that 10 000 computers as part of a network, and they all send 1 000 e-mails each one day. Then it will be very many emails, “says Grinneby.

In October, could the judiciary catch the organization behind the bot-network McColo, and it shut down. There was a drastic decline in the spammer. But now have networks bandits catch up.

Other network has improved its structure and become much better. We believe that growth will continue to do this, fears Henrik Davidsson, Nordic Manager at Cisco IronPort.

How protect you your computer:

Never open a spam message. There has been that computers are infected only by a mail opened. Throw it away.

Never click on links or open attachments in an email. That is how your computer is infected.

Get firewall and antivirus software. Update them continuously.

Do you Notice that your computer is behaving strangely – it going slow or sending things on the Internet – leave it for service.

You discover that your information such as account information, spread on the net – block card.