Heard Of Drive-by Hacking? Meet Drive-by Spamming
News The proliferation of insecure corporate wireless networks is fuelling the growth of drive-by spamming, a security expert warned on Thursday. What's more, many ISPs have no-spamming rules, which the drive-by spammer will be trying to avoid.
[September 5, 2002, 16:54]
E-Minister Takes First Steps Towards Free Wireless Internet
News Swedish group Elektrosmog says that one of its more pressing concerns is 'drive-by spamming', where people flood a public network with adverts. Douglas Alexander, minister for e-Commerce, has launched a consultation on the freeing-up of radio bands...
[October 22, 2001, 17:09]
Trojan Horse Maps Drive, Lifts Addresses
News The end result is a lengthy list of addresses tailor-made for bulk e-mail -- spamming. When the Chinese Net administrator complained to the Public Security Bureau about the danger of spamming by the creators of the Trojan horse, he says he was told...
[January 14, 1999, 15:38]
Government: Our Spam Laws Won't Be Enough
News It's very hard for these people to use their networks for spamming, because we block them. Unsurprisingly, Spamhaus's work has not been well-received by the spamming community. These guys have spent lots of money on their networks, and they're not...
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
First 'warspamming' Case Reaches Court
News If Tombros is convicted or pleads guilty then warspamming -- also known as drive-by spamming -- will move from being just a theoretical possibility to a genuine threat. A US citizen is thought to have become the first person to be accused of...
[September 7, 2004, 15:15]
Yahoo Goes For Google-like Look
News There's a fine line between spamming our users, saying 'here's a new search feature and here's another new search feature', and just exposing it to them. Yahoo has altered its home page to showcase specialised search features, in a bid to drive...
[November 4, 2003, 7:40]
MSN, Yahoo! And AOL Join To Fight Spam
News In this effort, the companies said they would develop better mechanisms for preserving electronic evidence related to spamming activity and cooperate with other Internet service providers to track down spammers.
[April 28, 2003, 14:23]
China Joins Anti-spam Alliance
Talkback A nation not supporting this essential drive may be targeted as a “safe harbour” for committing various offences including spamming. HARMONISATION OF LAW IS THE KEY The solution to the problems posed by the use of Information Technology is the...
[July 5, 2005, 9:39]
Web Casino Blacklisted For 'messageboard Spam'
News A statement from iGAMI said: "We discovered numerous instances of blog and forum spamming where domains owned and operated by Cassava Enterprises [888.com's parent] were being impermissibly promoted on unsuspecting Web sites.com declined to comment.
[May 5, 2006, 15:45]
Google Protects Its Search Results
News Such tools may use a variety of techniques, such as "link spamming" to improve rank placements and automated queries to judge the success of such campaigns. The software helps create "doorway pages" that can be used to stack Web pages with popular...
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
UK Law Smashes Consumer Spam
News Experts have warned that this could lead to the meltdown of the Internet as a communications medium, because it would effectively legitimise spamming. The new laws will also cover cookies, which are small files that are placed on a user's hard...
[September 18, 2003, 14:45]
Protect And Survive
Leader The latest Internet worm, uses social engineering, spamming, and a Trojan horse to take over the PCs of its victims and expand its network of zombie PCs. These changed public attitudes towards safety belts ("Clunk, click, every trip"), and drink...
[November 10, 2004, 11:13]
Real Estate Firm Adopts Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online To Drive Up-Sell Opportunities
White Papers New anti-spamming restrictions and an unstable system introduced costly errors, plus the system lacked vital features The Norris Group needed. At California-based real estate firm The Norris Group, ten years of customer history and order data were...
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
