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. Currently forbidden by UK law, such projects have proved popular abroad and have even proved valuable in...
[October 22, 2001, 17:09]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online - The Norris Group Case Study
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...
[August 10, 2009, 13:50]
Trojan horse maps drive, lifts addresses
News 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: "Usually they pay more attention to cases with clear evidence and damage.
[January 14, 1999, 15:38]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News Unsurprisingly, Spamhaus's work has not been well-received by the spamming community. It's very hard for these people to use their networks for spamming, because we block them. 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. This would help them to overcome the blacklisting carried out by anti-spam...
[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. The solution to the problems posed by the use of Information Technology is the uniform application of “harmonised...
[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. Convergence and integration are usually hyped by technologists as part of the great leap...
[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]
