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BOTMAGNIFIER: Locating Spambots on the Internet

BOTMAGNIFIER: Locating Spambots on the Internet

Unsolicited bulk email (spam) is used by cyber-criminals to lure users into... Read more

8 June, 2011

Tips for dealing with spam

Unsolicited email is an ever-increasing annoyance for UK companies, but there are some practical steps that can be taken to reduce its impact Read more

27 July, 2003 by Jim Zimmermann

Transatlantic anti-spam alliance mooted

...a united front can help to crack down on the problem of unsolicited bulk email. Although the initiative represents the latest in a string of... Read more

11 October, 2004 by Will Sturgeon
Using MDaemon AntiSpam for Spam Control

Using MDaemon AntiSpam for Spam Control

To help stop Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as spam, modern email servers must have... Read more

6 August, 2003

Anti-spam firms hit back at Gartner claims

Gartner's claim that the level of unsolicited bulk email is falling has been rejected by users and anti-spam... Read more

21 September, 2004 by Dan Ilet
On the Spam Campaign Trail

On the Spam Campaign Trail

Over the last decade, unsolicited bulk email, or spam, has transitioned from a minor nuisance to a... Read more

6 April, 2008

Email best practices to share with your users

...files with antivirus software before opening them. Spam is loosely defined as unsolicited bulk email and loosely correlates to the junk mail that turns up... Read more

3 April, 2007 by TechRepublic

Government rules out wider spam protection - for now

...mechanism can be abused. Legitimate businesses in the UK cannot anyway send unsolicited bulk email as it is banned by all the major ISPs in... Read more

7 April, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Spammers tout banned DVD technology

...of Hollywood studio films, from its popular line of software. But already unsolicited bulk email is showing up in inboxes telling consumers that if they... Read more

2 March, 2004 by John Borland

Network administrators told to secure servers

...about to begin. Some people who responded worried that the FTC's unsolicited bulk email resembled spam. "Sounds like a spam run," one person said... Read more

30 January, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Asian spammers 'hijack broadband PCs'

...an eye on customers who seem to be consuming too much bandwidth. Unsolicited bulk email probably makes up a third of the email traffic seen... Read more

21 October, 2003 by Staff

Yahoo to fool spammers with dummies

...account, but if the user notices lots of spam, Web parlance for unsolicited bulk email, he or she can delete the address. Yahoo also said... Read more

21 October, 2003 by Jim Hu

Information Commissioner 'low on power' for spam fight

...Monday, at the launch of its report into the growing problem of unsolicited bulk email, APIG urged the government to provide extra funds and to... Read more

8 October, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Spam stuck in legal time warp

...accomplished precisely nothing on spam. No federal law restricting the flow of unsolicited bulk email has ever been enacted, and no law will be enacted... Read more

30 September, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

US presidential hopeful spams voters

...campaign said Dean, the former Democratic governor of Vermont, remained opposed to unsolicited bulk email and blamed the spamming on two contractors who had promised... Read more

19 August, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

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