Brian S. Kabateck: The most that aggrieved advertisers can expect from settling with Google is about a half a cent for every dollar lost to click fraud....

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I usually report about 1 Google AdSense violation (splog) per day. And everytime I report one, Google sends me an automated email Hello, Thank you for your feedback regarding the quality of this...

Bruce Schneier: California was the first state to pass a law requiring companies that keep personal data to disclose when that data is lost or stolen. Since then, many states have followed suit. Now...

Ryan Naraine: The software maker admits to withholding details on security vulnerabilities to protect customers from bad guys, but critics say that policy increases the risk for everyone....

Elinor Mills: The Click Fraud Index shows that the overall, industry-wide average click fraud rate is 13.7 percent. The click fraud rate at top-tier search engines such as Google and Yahoo is even...

Shane Keats: On March 23, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer sued Gratis Internet for allegedly selling its users' personal information in violation of its own privacy policies. Gratis,...

Jacksonville Business Journal: After nearly three years of litigation, an Orange County Circuit Court Judge on Tuesday issued a record $112,500 judgment against Sports Authority Florida for calling...

Tired of getting email spam all day? The nice thing about fax spam is you can only get one at a time. Turns out, if you leave a fax number on your domain registration, then you will get fax spam.......

Hormel foods has a position statement on the use of their trademarked term SPAM. We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of the word...

Mark Russinovich created a utility called PsExec that allows you to run programs as a limited user. A little work and you'll be running both Internet Explorer and Outlook in a mode that would...

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft Research has released a new tool to help pinpoint large-scale typo-squatters that are known to be gaming pay-per-click domain parking services....

Ryan Singel: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been on a crusade against spammers and spyware companies, but it's a wonder anyone actually knows about it. I called yesterday asking to...

Engineers at Google (including Matt Cutts) have modified a McDonalds toy to detect SPAM. They are currently tracking a large amount of SPAM in the San Diego area.......

SecurityFocus: Researchers at Harvard University and UC Berkeley have published a document explaining why phishing works on general users. This paper provides the first empirical evidence about which...

Suzi Turner: The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) announced its second workshop today, to be held in Ottawa on May 16. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=807&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog......

Jimmy Danniels interviews an x-employee of renown Adware producer, 180solutions. I personally had no idea how much criticism was out there until I discovered Google alerts and turned them on. It was...

Last October and January, I wrote pieces on the state of the splogosphere, that is the ability of our blog infrastructure to handle SPAM, SPAM blogs, blog comment SPAM and spings. In these pieces, I...