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Middle East Cyberconflict Could Spread, Says FBI
News Growing conflict between Israeli and pro-Palestine computer hackers is in danger of spiralling out of control, the FBI has warned, leading to further email flooding and denial of service attacks. To compound the situation, hacking groups on both...
[October 31, 2000, 13:29]
California Software Labs: Email Security
White Papers It causes denial of service at the network level, by flooding bandwidth and overloading email hosts. Unsolicited bulk email (‘Spam’) is one of the most prevalent threats to network integrity on the public Internet.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Spam Blocking Traps Legitimate Email
News Road Runner's tactics underscore the efforts among Internet service providers (ISPs) to slow the tide of spam and malicious software code from flooding their systems and their subscribers' inboxes. AOL Time Warner's Road Runner cable-modem service...
[August 22, 2003, 9:05]
SpamHaus Targeted By Child-porn Email Attack
News Spammers.dupe people into harassing anti-spam organisations such as Spamhaus by flooding us with complaints. Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus is the victim of a devious spam email doing the rounds, which makes it a target of floods of angry emails.
[December 2, 2003, 16:15]
Latest Bagle Masquerades As Quote
News A prolific new variant of the mass-mailing Bagle worm began flooding email accounts Monday with bogus price quotes. Bagle.AQ started spreading on Monday morning and quickly began bombarding some corporate email systems with thousands of infected...
[August 10, 2004, 8:35]
Spammers 'hit Schools With DoS Attacks'
News Schools, colleges and universities are being increasingly targeted by spammers flooding their systems with junk mail and launching denial-of-service attacks, according to one security firm this week. Email Systems, which provides content filtering...
[January 10, 2005, 14:15]
Online Crooks Exploit WTC Disaster
News Grieving people are flooding the Internet for solace and solidarity after Tuesday's terrorist attacks, but consumer advocates warn they may also find scams and spam online. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and the SpamCon...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
'P' Is For Spam?
News In effect, spam depreciates the value of email by flooding it with an enormous volume of pornographic and get-rich-quick solicitations. The flaw affected a Trend Micro product designed to filter content, block unsolicited commercial email, and...
[May 23, 2003, 16:19]
Porn Spammers Ignore New Labelling Rule
News Spammers flooding the Internet with pornographic solicitations apparently are not abiding by a new federal rule that took effect last week. Not only did illegal sexually-explicit spam fail to slow down after the regulations took effect on 19 May...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
UK Laws May Help Spammers Look Legit
News At both events, experts have said that legislation alone will not combat the growing tide of junk mail that is flooding the Internet -- technology, they say, holds the key. The UK government's anti-spam crackdown is likely to fail at tackling the...
[July 4, 2003, 11:30]
E-tailers Risk Breaking New Law
News Anti-spam specialist Brightmail claims the UK government has failed to protect consumers from the mass of spam flooding inboxes every day. The regulations set strict rules for UK businesses who advertise or sell goods via a Web site, mobile phone...
[August 21, 2002, 13:32]
SCO Offers Reward For MyDoom Author
News The program instructs infected PCs to send data to SCO's Web server from 1 February to 12 February, essentially flooding the Web site and making it inaccessible. Also known as Novarg and Mimail.R, MyDoom spread quickly across the Internet on Monday...
[January 28, 2004, 7:35]
Viruses: Back With A Vengeance In 2004
News But now spammers can infect computers worldwide with viruses that will send hundreds of thousands of active email addresses back to the spammer within hours, then turn around and start flooding those addresses with spam.
[January 5, 2004, 10:10]
Lawsuits Attack New York Spamming Ring
News In June, Microsoft filed 15 lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom against spammers, claiming that they were responsible for flooding its MSN Internet service with more than 2bn unsolicited email messages.
[December 19, 2003, 10:25]
Code Mishmash Drives MSBlast
News Starting on Saturday, every computer infected with MSBlast is expected to start flooding Microsoft's Windows Update service with legitimate-looking connection requests. However, finding the authors of email viruses and worms is extremely difficult...
[August 13, 2003, 8:39]
AOL Says Access Restored To Microsoft Sites
News This re-routed high amounts of data to a smaller-bandwidth connection, essentially flooding the pipe and causing inaccessibility for many AOL and Microsoft users. I believe that the peering link that AOL had with Level 3 was solely used for MSN...
[September 4, 2003, 9:20]
MyDoom's Spread Sparks Antivirus Critique
News The attack, which effectively shuts down a site by flooding it with a deluge of information, is hard to stop, said Blake Stowell, a spokesman for SCO. MyDoom spread through email a week ago, infecting a new computer every time an unwary user opened...
[February 3, 2004, 7:20]
An Overview Of Spam Handling Techniques
White Papers Flooding the Internet with many copies of the same email message is known as spamming. While spammers can send thousands or even millions of spam emails at negligible cost, the recipient pays a considerable price for receiving this unwanted mail.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Comdex Heats Up Spam-cooking Tools
News Dozens of companies at the computing trade show are showing software, services and hardware designed to stem the tide of junk flooding email accounts. Microsoft started the action Monday, with chairman Bill Gates announcing plans for Intelligent...
[November 19, 2003, 9:10]
US Treasury Breaks Privacy Promise
News As news of the proposed regulations circulated around malt-beverage aficionados online, word-of-mouth took over and comments started flooding in to nprm@ttb.gov. The US Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 email addresses on the Web...
[January 9, 2004, 8:50]
