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by Sue Walsh on April 25, 2008
© Mzelle Biscotte Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, was at at the recent Web 2.0 Expo offering some tips to help users who manage websites fight back against spam. "Spammers are...
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by Sue Walsh on April 24, 2008
May 3rd will mark spam's 30th anniversary. It was on that day in 1978 that a marketing rep at a computer firm called DEC emailed an invite to every single West Coast user on the Arpanet, the...
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by Sue Walsh on April 19, 2008
© Lasse HavelundPopular social networking site Reunion.com has been outed as a spammer. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the site dupes people into joining by sending an email...
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by Sue Walsh on April 17, 2008
© staryprd In case you weren't sure if the amount of junk mail on the net is increasing, a new study from Sophos confirms it. According to the study, 92.3% of all email sent during the first...
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There's an article on Techdirt about how a spammer was convicted for violating Virgina's Anti-Spamming Law. Jeremy Jaynes, the spammer in question, tried to get the conviction overturned...
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by Sue Walsh on April 05, 2008
© freezelight McAfee is conducting a massive experiment that involves volunteers using new laptops to respond to every single piece of spam they receive, sign up for competitions, make purchases...
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by Sue Walsh on April 04, 2008
The U.S. Army entered the spam business recently when it sent out bogus emails to thousands of servicemen to test how susceptible they were to phishing attacks. The emails claimed to be from the Army...
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by Sue Walsh on April 04, 2008
Security vendor Softscan has released its March spam statistics. It found that spam accounted for 96.63% of all email in March, but noticed a sudden 45% drop at the end of the month: "Although...
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by Sue Walsh on March 29, 2008
That's what some folks are saying about Microsoft's new partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook. Calling it a new commitment to openness and data portability, the...
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by Sue Walsh on March 28, 2008
How is the war on spam looking from your inbox? I still get a dozen or so spams a day, mostly those annoying Nigerian scams and there many variations. How about you? IGotSpam?! wants to know! Take a...
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BBC is reporting that China is investigating a spam attack where 200 million mobile phone users through china have received unwanted text message from advertisers. China mobile has blocked text...
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by Sue Walsh on March 15, 2008
"Spam King" Robert Soloway pled guilty in a Seattle court to felony mail fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail, and failing to file a tax return in 2005. He was set to go on trial...
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by Sue Walsh on March 13, 2008
The New York Times is reporting that previous studies from various Internet security firms claiming spammers have devised a program capable of cracking Google's CAPTCHA system may be off the mark....
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by Sue Walsh on March 11, 2008
In a recent report, Google's Postini team is warning enterprises to be on alert for socially generated spam and virus attacks. The report found that while threats to enterprise messaging security...
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by Sue Walsh on March 07, 2008
An adult website has agreed to pay $413,000 to settle charges it allowed its affiliates to send porn spam to unsuspecting recipients. Arizona based Cyberheat was accused by the FTC of exposing...
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by Sue Walsh on March 01, 2008
The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the country's first felony conviction for spamming, ruling that spamming is not considered protected speech. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C was convicted under...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
We're counting down the top 10 spamming countries in the world and award one nation with the dubious honor of being miles ahead of the competition in relaying SPAM. This is our interpretation of...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
Researchers with Marshal's TRACE team have identified the top 6 botnets in terms of each's share of the world's total spam production: Srizbi, 40 percent of spam Rustock, 21 percent...
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by Sue Walsh on February 19, 2008
ComputerWeekly is reporting that a man in Tokyo, Japan has been arrested for allegedly sending over 2 million spam messages. Authorities say he bought 600,000 email addresses for about $900US and made...
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by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
Websense Security Labs is reporting that spammers have found away around Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA system and are using bots to create thousands of accounts to spam with. Since the Microsoft...
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by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop sending spam promoting it's weight-loss and anti-aging products. The judge also fined Sili Neutraceuticals nearly $6.2 million dollars for...
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by Sue Walsh on February 02, 2008
A new botnet is on the scene, and it's overtaken the Storm worm's. Called Mega-D, it is currently responsible for 32% of all spam mails sent, 11% more than the Storm Worm botnet at its peak...
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