Spam
24 September 2011
I'm out of the office, so please read this spam BusinessWeek
If you're prone to mistyping email addresses, here's a new thing to worry about: you could be a target for spammers trying to sell you a dream vacation or a diet product by pretending to be one of your friends or colleagues.
23 September 2011
FBI takes over for Microsoft in spam-network takedown Seattle Post Intelligencer
In March, Microsoft filed suit and used the court system to take down the giant Rustock email-spamming network, employing U.S. Marshals to help seize hard drives and servers at Internet service providers in seven U.S. cities including Seattle. That disconnected most of the IP addresses that controlled the "botnet," largely shutting it down, and the servers were removed as evidence to be analyzed by Microsoft.
07 September 2011
Spamhaus award reduced from $11m to $3 OUT-LAW News
A UK anti-spam company that had previously been ordered to pay more than $11 million in damages for 'blacklisting' a US marketing company will only need to pay a nominal $3 amount following a US court ruling.
31 August 2011
New Canadian anti-spam law 'good news' for public Montreal Gazette
Businesses that rely on email for communicating with their customers will have to make major adjustments when the new anti-spam law comes into effect, probably this year.
20 August 2011
Surge in attachment spam a sign of desperation, say experts TechWorld
Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution industry under pressure, security experts have suggested.
18 August 2011
Report: Spam is at a two-year high Network World
Spam - particularly the kind with malicious attachments - is exploding, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just before the SpamIt operation folded its doors, a security firm says.
05 August 2011
'Spam king' Wallace indicted for Facebook spam CNET
Self-described spam king Sanford Wallace surrendered to the FBI today after being indicted on charges he broke into Facebook accounts to send 27 million spam e-mails on the social network.
29 July 2011
Blogs and forums taken over by spam, says study The Australian
New generation internet spam that happens on Web 2.0 platforms such as blogs, wikis and forums is becoming a growing problem, according to researchers.
12 July 2011
Beware, some Google 'invites' are really spam CNN
OK, Google , you're a bona fide Web sensation now. Which is to say, you've inspired your very own spam.
04 July 2011
Has the Internet Outgrown Spam? PC World
In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on the planet. But if he were starting out today, he'd find some other line of work.
29 June 2011
Spam, spam and slightly less spam Financial Times
At first this looks so promising. Volumes of spam are down nearly 70 per cent from last year according to a report from Symantec, the IT security company. In June, there were 39.2bn unsolicited, 'spam' messages in circulation each day, compared with 121.5bn a day in June 2010. This echoes findings earlier this month from rival McAfee, which suggested spam levels had halved in the last year.
17 June 2011
Spam is clogging Amazon's Kindle Reuters
Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging Amazon.com Inc.'s top-selling e-reader with material that is far from being book-worthy and threatening to undermine the company's entry into publishing.
14 June 2011
Illegal Spam Firms Run Like Legitimate Businesses eWeek
Spam operations are run like legal business enterprises and rely on banks' merchant services to function
01 June 2011
A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions ars technica
If you want to stop spam then going after the banks and payment processors that enable their lucrative trade may be your best bet, according to research performed by a team from the University of California-San Diego, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. After examining millions of spam e-mails and spam Web sites -- and making over 100 purchases from the sites advertised by the spammers -- the research team found that just three banks were used to clear more than 95 percent of spam funds.
29 May 2011
Editorial: Spammers and Their Bankers New York Times
In early 2004 Bill Gates claimed that "two years from now, spam will be solved." Today it amounts to 70 percent of all e-mail. Yet there may be a chance to cut it back.
27 May 2011
US, China cyber experts agree... on spam Financial Times
There has been an increasing amount of talk from high places, including the White House, about the urgent need for international cooperation on cybersecurity. But a proposal to be released tomorrow calling for specific US-China steps shows, more than anything, how far we have to go.
25 May 2011
Spammers create short URL systems to beat security TechWorld
Spammers have started setting up bogus URL shortening services to act as relay points for traffic generated by their emails, Symantec's MessageLabs division has reported in its May 2011 Intelligence Report.
23 May 2011
Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase Technology Review
What happens if you buy something advertised via spam? This graphic shows the flow of Internet traffic and money following a purchase of Viagra from a spam email.
20 May 2011
Study Sees Way to Win Spam New York Times
For years, a team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses has been looking deeply into the nature of spam, the billions of unwanted e-mail messages generated by networks of zombie computers controlled by the rogue programs called botnets. They even coined a term, "spamalytics," to describe their work.
17 May 2011
Facebook, spammers are in 'arms race' CNET
Within days of Facebook rolling out new security features designed to block spam, several new social-engineering attacks were spreading that somehow managed to get by the company's antispam defenses.
14 May 2011
Asia is now the spam capital of the world TechRadar
The world's worst purveyors of spam for the first quarter of 2011 have been released, with Asia now at the top of the spam pops piping out 35.1 per cent of the planet's junk email.
23 April 2011
UK spammers to be fined up to £500,000 ZDNet
Spammers will be fined up to £500,000 by the UK's privacy authority for distributing unwanted marketing materials under new rules due in late May.
20 April 2011
Spammers still mining Japan, NZ earthquake appeals: Symantec Computerworld
The charitable nature of Australians has been under threat, as spammers continue to hijack Japan and New Zealand disaster relief funds.
13 April 2011
Canada Passes Anti-Spam And Anti-Spyware Law Mondaq
Organizations that conduct business online should start preparing for Canada's new anti-spam and anti-spyware legislation, which was passed in mid-December and is expected to come into force later this year.1 As the Act is complex and the penalties for violating the new law can be severe, organizations should review and modify their online practices, where necessary, at an early opportunity.
08 April 2011
Spam, spam, spam: Twitter's arms race The Guardian
Biz Stone and Ev Williams discovered pretty quickly that Del Harvey was serious about the task they'd set her of putting a lid on Twitter's spam problem. Within a month of her joining in late 2008, she had suspended both of their accounts on the grounds that they seemed to be acting suspiciously ... like spam. Oh, and for good measure she also suspended the head of personnel and Jason Goldman, the head of products.
