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by Sue Walsh on November 03, 2007
Presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign was hit with a scandal last week when several security researchers discovered a spam attack earlier this week that allegedly sent spam messages...
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by Sue Walsh on November 02, 2007
According to a report on Reuters, a New Jersey man was sentenced to 27 months in prison for spamming more than a million AOL subscribers. 28 year old Todd Moeller was caught making a deal with a...
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by Sue Walsh on November 01, 2007
PDF spam is back and this time it's more than just a nuisance. According to researchers at several security vendors, a new attack was launched last week, sending tens of thousands of spam messages...
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by Sue Walsh on October 30, 2007
Mail-Filters.com, a company that offers OEM anti-spam products, released a report today that found spammers are escalating their usage of redirection tactics to get around spam filters. Users who...
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by Sue Walsh on October 27, 2007
When you get a spam message you probably think it came from some far away country. Russia perhaps, or maybe China. With the CAN-SPAM act many people assume spammers here in the U.S. don't have a...
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by Sue Walsh on October 24, 2007
A serious security hole has been found in Adobe's Reader and Acrobat programs. The hole allows an attacker to execute a code within either program that allows them to take over the users computer....
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by Sue Walsh on October 20, 2007
Spammers continue to find new and increasingly annoying ways to get their ads to us. First there was ordinary old email spam, then instant message spam, chat room spam bots, text message spam, and now...
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by Sue Walsh on October 20, 2007
According to a report by Commtouch, global spam levels hit an all time high of 95% of all emails sent during the third quarter of this year. Image spam has decreased in favor of new types of spam like...
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by Sue Walsh on October 18, 2007
In what appears to be the newest way to deliver spam, stock tip spammers have begun distributing MP3's that trick users in downloading what they think are tracks from artists like Elvis, Britney...
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by Sue Walsh on October 13, 2007
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against several individuals in an attempt to Block Spam touting weight loss and anti aging remedies. The suit alleges that Bruce Parker and Lisa...
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by Sue Walsh on October 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Two men have been sentenced to more than five years in prison for organizing and running an international pornographic spamming business that grossed...
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by Sue Walsh on October 08, 2007
Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter's website was hacked last week. Duncan is a Republican Congressman from California, and last week visitors to his website were greeted by anti-iraq war images...
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by Sue Walsh on October 07, 2007
Last week the US General Services Administration, which oversees government websites, shut down California's domain name after a hacker was able to reroute incoming traffic to cal.gov sites to a...
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by Sue Walsh on October 06, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ - Taking aim at the bot and zombie malware that turns unsuspecting user's computers into dangerous spam and identity theft networks, MAAWG has issued the first...
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by Sue Walsh on October 06, 2007
Spammers have taken over YouTube's "Invite Your Friends" feature and are using it to send out large amounts of spam. The messages look like they are coming from...
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by Sue Walsh on October 01, 2007
According to Information Week, 4 out out 5 infected spam messages last month were sent by hackers promising nude pics of actress Angelina Jolie. Unsuspecting users who fell for the spam got themselves...
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Creative Weblogging is happy to announce we found a great blog editor to take over this blog. Thank you to all who applied. Soon you will find some great content over here, so make sure you stop by...
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Creative Weblogging is currently looking for a blog editor to write for this blog - 5 posts a week for a compensation of $112.50 a month. Applicants should have a minimum of 30 days consecutive...
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by Ivy on May 31, 2007
Glorious news to all of us sick from spam flood: MSNBC reports that Robert Alan Soloway was arrested and accused of being a filthy spammer: "A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count...
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by Ivy on May 30, 2007
...what is coming up next? Security experts noticed that image spam is making less and less of the overall amount of spam, so it seems that the reign of image spam is soon to be over. SC Magazine...
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It all started with search, than Gmail, along came Google Earth. Now you can meet people on Orkut, share your internet diary via Blogger, cheer yourself up with YouTube. You can't really surf the...
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by Ivy on May 09, 2007
Maybe I'm the one being weird, but finding prostitutes in online directories have never been my field of interest. I'd much rather play America's Army, but, that's me. Obviously,...
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by Ivy on April 27, 2007
Mark Sullivan from PCWorld blog tells us that Unspam's Honey Pot project has managed to collect enough data to file a 1 billion $ lawsuit against spammers: "Unspam and its customers have been...
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by Ivy on April 25, 2007
Reading InfoWorld's Ed Foster today I had a feeling I was doing my term papers on George Orwell's 1984 again. And I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that the US is trying to pass...
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