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| 30 years of Spam - and we ain't finished yet
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| Spam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).
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May 1, 2008 |
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| Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap
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| Life can be tough when you're one of the globe's biggest email providers. Just ask Hotmail. Users get upset enough when come-ons for Viagra slip through the cracks of the Microsoft-owned service. But there's just as much hell to pay when its war on spam snuffs out legitimate emails.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Antispam Team Targets Transactions
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| KnujOn and its volunteer helpers says it has shut more than 50,000 Web sites that use unwanted messages to lure traffic.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Easy spam-blocking with TMDA
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| incent Danen explains how the Tagged Message Delivery Agent works to knock out spam with managed blacklists and whitelists.
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| Facebook Cracks Down on Developer Spam
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| Facebook is now taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in "inappropriate actions".
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Fraud Infests E-cards
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| Scammers are using fake electronic greetings to lure recipients to malicious sites.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| FTC Stops Diet Spam
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| A judge has halted the e-mail operation of a firm selling purported weight-loss and anti-aging products.
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August 26, 2007 |
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| Hackers debut spam and virus sandwich
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| Hackers have combined spam and malware together in a single email threat.
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April 26, 2007 |
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| Is Your Firm Following Antispam Laws?
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| Antispam laws are aimed at those junky penny-stock, porn and prescription drug come-ons that snarl your in-box -- but they apply to legitimate firms, too.
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October 3, 2007 |
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| McAfee Spam Experiment Sheds Little New Light on Spam-demic
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| The test asked 50 people from ten countries to defy common sense and for 30 days surf the Web on a computer with no anti-spam software. Participants were encouraged "to go where most Internet users would not dare" in an effort to see what would happen. Guess what, they were spammed.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Buys Security Firm
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| Komoku technology will be incorporated into Forefront and Windows Live OneCare.
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March 22, 2008 |
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| New Spam Attack Delivers MP3 Attachments Pitching Stocks
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| Stock tip spammers have a new ploy to dupe you into listening to their pitches. According to Web security firm MessageLabs spammers are tricking people into opening e-mail MP3 attachments promising music from Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Britney Spears. Instead of receiving a song, spam recipients are hearing audio stock pitches.
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October 18, 2007 |
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| Notorious spammer pleads guilty to tax evasion and fraud
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| Notorious spammer Robert Soloway faces an extended spell behind bars after pleading guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges last Friday.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Spam experiment overloads inboxes
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| Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Spam King to pay $6 million to MySpace
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| Last Saturday, an arbitrator ordered Scott Richter, the president of online advertising and direct marketing firm Media Breakaway, to pay a stiff penalty to MySpace, including $1.2 million in legal fees.
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June 17, 2008 |
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| Spam on Your Printer From the Web
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| By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Web pages can launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim's network.
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January 9, 2008 |
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| Spammers crack Gmail Captcha
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| Spammers, fresh from the success of cracking the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, have broken the equivalent system at Gmail.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| Spammers debut FDF spam
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| Spammers have begun experimenting with a new file format as part of their ongoing quest to slip their tiresome messages past junk mail filters.
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August 13, 2007 |
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| Spammers Hit YouTube's E-Mail Servers
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| YouTube's servers are being used to send massive quantities of unsolicited e-mail, according to security firm Marshal.
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October 5, 2007 |
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| Tax evasion count gives new weight to spamming conviction
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| How does law enforcement solve the problem of holding spammers accountable, when federal anti-spam laws are still in their formative stages? In the case of a Colorado man, the answer was to leverage some help from the IRS.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| Two Spammers Face Over Five Years
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| Two men behind a spam ring that sent millions of pornographic mails are the first to be convicted under new federal spam laws, the Justice Department said.
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October 17, 2007 |
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| US Court Halts Adult Site's E-mail Operation
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| A U.S. judge has ordered the halt to an e-mail campaign by the operators of adult Web sites after complaints by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice that the e-mail messages violated an antispam law.
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May 6, 2008 |
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| Weight-Loss, Anti-Aging Spammer Shut Down
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| A Las Vegas company has been fined $2.6 million and ordered to stop sending spam, making false claims.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| Wi-Fi spam man avoids can
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| A US man who sent out pornographic spam while driving around Venice, California, has escaped imprisonment for his misdeeds.
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August 1, 2007 |
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