© Kamal H. Colorado Bill Ritter signed in to law a bill making spam and violation of the can-spam ACT a crime under state law and allowing recipients to recover damages of up to $10 million if they...

© 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...

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...

© 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...

PCWorld is reporting that Chinese hackers appear to be preparing for an attack on CNN scheduled for April 19th. The attack is being spurred by the recent pro-tibet coverage in the media. A Chinese...

© 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...

© TheeErin SpamStopsHere, Inc., today launched a blog to inform and educate the public about security and spam issues. Ted Green at SpamStopsHere posted a very interesting blog post "Why is...

© NOTICIAS-TIC Kaspersky is forecasting a huge rise in malware by the end of the year. The security lab is expecting over 1 million malware signatures to be added to its database this year. In...

© dampeebe If you have Verizon DSL like I do, you've probably noticed a sharp increase in spam. The messages are the same old thing, purposely misspelled messages promoting online pharmacies,...

Here is a good video from Kaspersky Labs regarding malware and how to protect yourself from it. With malware threats continuing to grow, you just can't have too much information about them!......

If you are administrator you must have got spam from your own email address. How does this happen? How do you stop this? If you have Sender Policy Framework published, you can specify that you only...

I have been spammed several times over the past several weeks by a service called Naymz. Several people it seems have wanted me to "join their reputation network." Bah. Like I need another...

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...

© 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...

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...

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...

Backscatter is a problem that arises when an email server receives bounced messages that come from remote site to a non-local recipient. In simple terms non-delivery reports or delivery status...