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Spammers Face Jail
News Two spammers could go to jail after an investigation by EarthLink found they were sending thousands of unsolicited messages from PeoplePC accounts. EarthLink, which acquired PeoplePC four years ago, has been aggressively pursuing spammers.
[October 4, 2006, 9:05]
Spammers Use Free Porn To Bypass Hotmail Protection
News Spammers are bypassing a security protection that is designed to stop automated bots from automatically opening Web mail accounts, by offering humans access to free porn. Free Web mail services such as Hotmail and Yahoo are often used by spammers...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
Spammers Use Your Cat's Name To Sell You Viagra
Talkback These people, the spammers and virus writers, should hung, drawn and quartered. No mercy
[June 23, 2004, 12:06]
Spammers 'using Bugs' To Find Active Email Addresses
News Many spammers are including illicit code in their unsolicited mail to help them detect active email addresses, a security firm warned on Tuesday. Web users have long been advised to ignore spam, rather than replying to it, so as not to attract more...
[April 14, 2004, 17:40]
Spammers Target IM Accounts
News In another trend that may provide new opportunities for IM spammers, the back-end differences that have so far served to distinguish email and instant messaging are steadily falling away. But IM spammers have found workarounds for at least some of...
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
Spammers Should Die !!!!!!!!
Forum Im of the mindset that spammers are scum, they hold us back from acheiveing things by wasting our time with annoyance. Recently Spammers have been targeting this site which is absurd, infact it shows how stupid they really are.
[January 3, 2008, 15:13]
Spammers Use Your Cat's Name To Sell You Viagra
News Spammers have started using spyware to steal personal information so they can customise the subject lines of unsolicited emails to increase their chances of being read. Research by email security firm MessageLabs has revealed that spammers are...
[June 22, 2004, 16:45]
Spammers Conscript Home PCs To Do Dirty Work
News If true, the finding could add momentum to the backlash against spammers. MessageLabs maintained that the latest outbreaks of computer viruses may have been deliberately caused by spammers. The programs are likely to have been specifically designed...
[June 27, 2003, 13:03]
TechNet Webcast: Phishers, Spammers And Scammers: Criminals Of The Internet (Level 200)
White Papers The presenter explains the underground economy associated with these threats and the co-operation of spammers and virus writers. The presenter helps to understand Phishers, spammers and scanners, and how to better secure the network from these...
[July 11, 2008, 1:20]
Spammers Launch MP3 Pump-and-dump Campaign
News Spammers have launched the first mass MP3-attached pump-and-dump spam campaign, which security experts say could be used to distribute malware. Ducklin said the spammers had "not quite got it yet" with this iteration of MP3 spam.
[October 22, 2007, 9:54]
Spammers Get Fussy As Zombie Army Grows
News Although Bobax is unlikely to spread very far because larger companies have already applied the relevant Microsoft patches, its behaviour shows that virus writers and professional spammers have taken control of more than enough computers to fulfil...
[May 21, 2004, 17:15]
Spammers Face Lawsuits And Jail
News By a voice vote, the Senate Commerce Committee approved the "Can-Spam Act," which would let federal regulators and Internet service providers sue spammers who use forged email headers, who do not let recipients unsubscribe, or who send bulk...
[June 20, 2003, 9:27]
Spammers Using Google Sites To Bypass Filters
News Spammers have added Google Sites to the arsenal of online tools used to get around junk-email filters, according to a study published on Tuesday by messaging security firm MessageLabs. Spammers had already been making use of Google Docs, Google...
[August 5, 2008, 15:03]
Spammers Slipping Ads Through Windows
News Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on Internet-connected computers. Spammers are blindly sending their advertisements by randomly picking a...
[October 18, 2002, 7:42]
Spammers Tap Into New Markets
News The change reflects an evolution in the kinds of spam that users are receiving, as filtering forces spammers onto pastures new, and success for certain products motivates the spammers to focus on areas where there are rich pickings.
[August 13, 2003, 11:35]
Spammers Hide Behind A Friendly Face
News Spammers are attempting to seem familiar "because so many people are getting suspicious about the email they get because they're getting flooded with spam. So how do spammers create such a realistic facade?
[April 15, 2002, 11:32]
Spammers Fool Outlook With A New Trick
News Spammers are inserting hidden words into their email messages to fool Microsoft Outlook's built-in anti-spam technology. As spam-filtering technologies become more common, spammers have altered the construction of their messages to avoid detection.
[April 2, 2004, 17:10]
Spammers Arm Junk Mail With Multiple Threats
News Opportunistic spammers are increasingly posting additional threats, such as links to malware, within the body of their unsolicited email messages, according to new findings by internet security company Marshal.
[July 5, 2007, 9:14]
Spammers Take Aim At HR Departments
News Human resources departments and recruitment agencies are being increasingly targeted by spammers, antivirus vendor MessageLabs said on Tuesday. This makes them an easier target for spammers, Sunner told ZDNet UK.
[April 4, 2006, 17:25]
Field Guide To Spam: Spammers’ Tricks Exposed
White Papers This seminar will feature examples taken from actual spam messages, including spammers' tricks - the latest methods that spammers use to try to avoid detection by spam filters and fooling and poisoning adaptive filters - why getting past an...
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