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Web vigilantes launch attacks
News Internet vigilantes have launched a 48-hour bandwidth attack against spammers who defraud people online. The gang is attempting to recruit as many people as possible to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' bandwidth and report them to...
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
Spammer breaks into AOL search engine
News Search engines beware: Web spammers are becoming more sophisticated. But this time, Web spammers have found a savvier technique. Spammers copy a Web page and embed metatags into its source code with instructions for a search engine's robots to...
[June 20, 2002, 14:12]
A Distributed Content Independent Method for Spam Detection
White Papers Traditionally, spam was sent by single source mass mailers (spammers), making it relatively easy to screen out through the use of blacklists. Recently spammers started using botnets to send out the spam, rendering the blacklists ineffective.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Black Frog hops into spam battle
News Spammers beware -- avenging amphibians are once again rising against you. Blue Security waged a sort of do-it-yourself spamming campaign against the spammers. If all of these customers' systems responded, the spammers' systems would be overwhelmed.
[May 25, 2006, 10:25]
Australian law claims spam success
News The Spam Act 2003 has led to the closure of several major Australian-based spammers, the Australian communications Authority (ACA) claimed today. Acting ACA chairman Dr Bob Horton said that the thwarted spammers had reacted to an ACA warning in...
[July 22, 2004, 11:15]
Blog and social-networking spam increases
News Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs on Thursday.
[July 6, 2006, 14:20]
Business email may escape spam crackdown
News The government is considering exempting business email accounts from its forthcoming clampdown on unsolicited bulk email, a move that would give spammers the green light to continue bombarding UK workers with junk messages.
[July 2, 2003, 13:52]
Choking on spam
Talkback It'll require public records which black hat hackers and spammers can have a field day with. Great, that's exactly the kind of environment spammers and the like can exploit to the fullest. Implementing new protocols to stop the flow of spam will...
[February 3, 2005, 21:03]
Lycos denies attack on zombie army
Talkback I've had enough of spammers, and i say do so by whatever means. Somehow i have a feeling that spammers dont play nice. Well thiis may or may not be right, but i still think that lycos was justified in doing this.
[December 3, 2004, 23:43]
UK teen sentenced for Randex virus
News A British teenager has been sentenced for his part in writing and distributing the Randex worm which turned infected PCs into 'zombies', controlled by spammers and designed to send out vast quantities of unsolicited email.
[December 21, 2004, 12:15]
ISP awarded $1bn in spam lawsuit
News An Internet service provider in Iowa has been awarded more than $1bn in what is believed to be the largest lawsuit judgment ever against spammers. Robert Kramer, who owns CIS Internet Services, sued 300 spammers after his servers received up to 10...
[December 20, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft turns to Spamhaus for security help
Talkback Why is it working closely with the world's largest spammers? Isn't Spamhaus in the business to put spammers out of business? I find this quite ironic, since the FOUNDER of spamhaus has many times complained about Microsoft spamming.
[December 14, 2005, 1:26]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
News So-called "pump-and-dump" scams, where spammers send out false stock information to encourage people to buy shares, were found to both increase the traded volume and artificially boost the share price, said researchers from the Technische...
[June 30, 2006, 12:50]
Image Spam: The Latest Attack on the Enterprise Inbox
White Papers In keeping with their standard operating tactics, spammers are constantly creating new techniques either in response to, or in advance of, anti-spam software solutions. By combining years of industry-leading research with the power of Secure...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
Lycos anti-spam weapon melts away
Talkback it must be great to be 13 (or at least act it.all of these companies that present themselves to be "anti-spam" are against marching against spammers sure, they would be - it would put them out of business and stop them from ripping off people and...
[December 4, 2004, 3:52]
New Zealand to outlaw spam
Blog Next month the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act will take effect - meaning spammers in New Zealand can be prosecuted," said the article. The US CAN-SPAM act has been criticised for being too soft on spammers, especially due to the recipient...
[August 28, 2007, 17:18]
Spam-seeding viruses dominate August charts
News The number of new viruses released onto the Internet reached a 33-month high during August, but infections were dominated by old-timers that were used primarily to seed networks for spammers. So the spammers will blast out viruses to seed a network...
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
Food4Spam
Downloads This way you will help to pollute the spammers email-databases with adresses that do not work. Second it sports an easy way to hide your email adresses on webpages by encapsulating them in a JavaScript to make it harder for spammers to find.
[June 21, 2003, 8:00]
Senator tackles spam and RFID
News So Microsoft has talked openly about wanting to license spammers or wanting to create a postage-stamp concept. As a California legislator for the past 10 years, Bowen has drafted and introduced bills intended to tie spammers' hands and better...
[September 3, 2003, 15:10]
Antispam company seeks poetic justice
News Antispam company Habeas is suing bulk emailers, accusing them of using its poetry without permission in an unusual use of trademark law to clamp down on spammers. But the bigger tech guns are starting to get more serious about clamping down on...
[April 7, 2003, 11:21]
