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Report: Scammers shift from spam to social media

...threat report. The report (PDF) found that although the overall level of spam on the internet has declined significantly, spammers are taking to social media... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Michael Lee
Hotspot Shield 2.53

Hotspot Shield 2.53

...protects against 3.5 million malware threats, including infected websites, phishing and spam sites. Browse the Internet privately and anonymously. Hotspot Shield does all of... Read more

10 May, 2012

HP taps F5 for help with application-specific networks

...gets transported across the network." HP estimates that the technology could cut spam by 70 percent across Microsoft Exchange 2010 networks; free up 40 percent... Read more

8 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

...Spam king' surrenders to face Facebook charges

...Self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace surrendered to the FBI on Thursday after being indicted... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Steven Musil

McAfee: Spam in retreat in UK

...Spam hit its lowest level in years in the final quarter of 2011... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Lance Whitney

McAfee moves to plug spam email hole

...for Total Protection anti-malware service that scammers were using to distribute spam, the company said on Wednesday. The problem came to light after McAfee... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

McAfee software linked to spam email scam

...appears to be allowing computers to serve as open proxies for sending spam, the company told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News on Tuesday... Read more

18 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Yahoo apologises for blocking anti-Wall Street emails

...Wall Street demonstrations over the weekend. The company said that an external spam filter had blocked the messages but maintained that it was inadvertent. It... Read more

21 September, 2011 by Charles Cooper

Global spam email down after Rustock takedown

...Global spam mail volumes have been reduced by about a third following the takedown... Read more

1 April, 2011 by Tyler Thia

Microsoft takes down Rustock spam botnet

...Rustock, purveyor of more email spam than any other network in the world, was felled last week by... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Jay Greene

Twitter researchers step up fight against spam

...Researchers have turned their attention to combating spam on Twitter, which is a relatively new frontier for scam artists and... Read more

18 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Google adds email authentication to fight spam

...rest assured that the messages are really from them and are not spam. Google is fighting spam with better authentication for outgoing email . Photo credit... Read more

7 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Spam drops sharply over Christmas

...The amount of spam being pumped out by networks of compromised computers dropped sharply over the... Read more

6 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Rustock botnet responsible for 39 percent of all spam

...Botnets are now responsible for sending 95 percent of all spam, up from 84 percent in April, and almost half of that spam... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
<endeca_term>Spam</endeca_term> Filter ISP 4.2.4.851

Spam Filter ISP 4.2.4.851

...in realtime, and will block IPs that have sent excessive amounts of spam to multiple locations in the world in the spam of the previous... Read more

6 January, 2012

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