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Symantec’s monthly spam report for the month of April 2008 shows that while spam may have reached its 30 th birthday at the start of May, there’s no sign of volumes of unwanted mail slowing down.
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The parasitic botnet Srizbi spams an estimated 60 billion daily, security researchers say.
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Ann Smarty goes through the conflicts of reporting competitors as spamming Google search results. Yes, this is a topic we covered many times here, including: Reporting Spam: Is It Ethical How Can I Report Spam to Google? Google Spam Reporting Working Does Google Investigate Spam Reports? Quick Spam Reporting Tool In any event, the related Sphinn thread has discussion on …
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KUALA LUMPUR : Maxis subscribers plagued by unsolicited SMS and spam now have a weapon to fight back.
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Spam is charging into its fourth decade, and looking mighty good for its age. Here’s to three decades of the spam as it has gone from an annoyance to a versatile social engineering tool for the cyber underworld.
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The governor of Colorado recently signed a new anti-spam law [PDF] into effect. Since CAN SPAM draws a tight line around what states can do, this law is mostly interesting for the way that it pushes as firmly against that line as it can. Other observers have already done a legal analysis of the way it’s worded to avoid being tossed out as the Oklahoma law was in Mummagraphics, and to make it …
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Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever. That commercial message, sent on 3 May 1978, drew a swift and negative reaction. More…
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Every Sunday morning, Susan Edwards sits down with her cup of coffee and opens the file of suspicious e-mails that her spam filter has thoughtfully set aside.
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Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message. Gary Theurk, an employee at Digital Equipment Company, sent a message on Arpanet to hundreds of fellow users on 1 May 1978.
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Most Internet users avoid spam like, well, you know, but a Queens schoolteacher has been furiously clicking on every pop-up and responding to all shady offers to get rich quick - all for the sake of a novel experiment.
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