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Report: Scammers shift from spam to social media

...Scammers and spammers have changed tack and are now moving to social media to look... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Michael Lee

UK spammers to be fined up to £500,000

...Spammers will be fined up to £500,000 by the UK's privacy... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Hotmail puts a block on flimsy passwords

...123456', 'ilovecats' and 'gogiants', in an attempt to make it harder for spammers to hijack users' email accounts. People who sign up for the web... Read more

15 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Travelodge investigates customer data breach

...Hotel chain Travelodge is investigating how spammers obtained customer email addresses. Hotel chain Travelodge is investigating how spammers obtained... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook locked in 'arms race' with spammers

...spreading that managed to get by the company's antispam defences. The spammers have modified their handiwork so it will get past Facebook's scam... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Spammers try to dupe LinkedIn users in Zeus attack

...users in a concerted spam attack, according to Cisco security company IronPort. Spammers began a campaign on Monday morning, Cisco senior security researcher Henry Stern... Read more

28 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Facebook fixes hole that let in spam

Facebook has closed a hole that was being used by spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends. Just clicking... Read more

8 September, 2010 by Elinor Mills

McAfee: Spam in retreat in UK

...the increase in spear phishing, or more targeted attacks. In years past, spammers sent their payloads to a slew of random addresses, hoping to ensnare... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Lance Whitney

Facebook flooded with porn spam

...with the page. Self-XSS is a variation on the theme, where spammers trick victims into copying and pasting malicious code into their own browser... Read more

16 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft turns Rustock botnet case over to FBI

...giant has long worked with law enforcement to track down and eliminate spammers, botnets and other malicious code creators. But when it has helped take... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jay Greene

Microsoft hits back over Google's search result claims

...fraud". He then compared Google's efforts to the methods used by spammers to create fraudulent search result pages. For more on this ZDNet UK... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Twitter researchers step up fight against spam

A research firm in the US has been studying the work of malware writers and scam artists on Twitter, which remains a relatively new area for spam Read more

18 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

I, Spammer (Or: How Google Made Me Evil

Like the red light in the cockpit or the 2am phone call, that out-of-hours IM from a workmate comes with its very own... Read more

29 October, 2010
An Empirical Study of Behavioral Characteristics of <endeca_term>Spammers</endeca_term>: Findings and Implications

An Empirical Study of Behavioral Characteristics of Spammers: Findings and Implications

...paper, the authors present a detailed study of the behavioral characteristics of spammers based on a two month email trace collected at a large US... Read more

1 April, 2011
Understanding the Network Level Behavior of <endeca_term>Spammers</endeca_term>

Understanding the Network Level Behavior of Spammers

This paper studies the network-level behavior of spammers, including: IP address ranges that send the most spam, common spamming modes... Read more

1 January, 2011

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Jack Schofield

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JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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