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Lawsuits attack New York spamming ring
News In conjunction with New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer's office, the software giant filed several lawsuits against a New York-based spamming ring allegedly responsible for sending billions of illegal and deceptive email messages.
[December 19, 2003, 10:25]
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]
UK ISPs threaten action over spamming tools
Talkback I hope "shunning" MCI means that UK ISPs will put MCI's entire IP space on a do-not-route list, and that ISPs throughout the E.U. United States, Canada, and Japan will follow suit. It would be nice to see how long MCI will maintain its pink...
[February 11, 2005, 17:02]
Spamming tool goes on the run
Talkback I agree -- don't forget to mention the presence of spam zombies on their networks, which the ISPs can easily find using senderbase.org, but don't clean up very quickly.http://pages.infinit.net/filmore/educateYourISP.htm
[February 28, 2005, 20:22]
Spamming tool goes on the run
Talkback This is pathetic. Why is it that all these ISPs talk big about how they're going to work together to help stop spam but they take months and months, if they take action at all, to refuse service to a known spam scumbag like Send-Safe?
[March 1, 2005, 10:00]
UK ISPs threaten action over spamming tools
News Send Safe's product clearly provides features that are designed to make spamming easier. LINX warns, though, that software designed to assist spamming makes a major and harmful contribution to the prevalence of spam.
[February 11, 2005, 11:45]
Data Protection law may outlaw spamming
News Discussions are currently underway at the European Commission and the Department of Trade and Industry about whether unsolicited e-mails can be controlled under the Telecommunications Directive -- a supplement to Data Protection Act -- which...
[October 26, 1998, 17:17]
Lawsuits attack New York spamming ring
Talkback Re: "The federal government is also getting tough on spam. On Tuesday, President Bush signed the first national anti-spam bill into law, outlawing some forms of spam and setting jail time and multimillion-dollar fines for violators.
[December 19, 2003, 14:44]
UK ISPs threaten action over spamming tools
Talkback MCI/UUNet have for too long thumbed their noses at the internet community, not only by hosting Send-Safe, but by enriching themselves at the community's expense by ignoring complaints of abuse and harbouring any spammer who writes a cheque.
[February 11, 2005, 17:26]
Harris Interactive drops spamming lawsuit
News And now there are none. Major polling firm Harris Interactive has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft, Qwest Communications International, America Online and other ISPs it accused of unfairly blocking its email.
[September 13, 2000, 18:06]
Spamming tool goes on the run
News A service that helped spammers to send junk emails over the Internet was on the run on Monday after US telecoms giant MCI bowed to mounting pressure and stopped hosting it late last week. Send-Safe.com moved to Lycos' Tripod network over the...
[February 28, 2005, 16:30]
Big fine handed down for mobile spamming
News A company that sent large numbers of unsolicited text messages to mobile phone users telling them they had won a mystery prize worth £500 has been fined £50,000 by the premium rate services regulator.
[August 29, 2002, 14:32]
An Effective Defense Against Email Spam Laundering
White Papers Laundering email spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in underground email spam industry. The facility of breaking spam laundering and deterring spamming...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft turns to Spamhaus for security help
Talkback I find this quite ironic, since the FOUNDER of spamhaus has many times complained about Microsoft spamming. They're pissing everyone off and yet still spamming it. Why is it working closely with the world's largest spammers?
[December 14, 2005, 1:26]
New Zealand to outlaw spam
Blog New Zealand is to pass a law to make spamming illegal, according to NZ news site TV3. In Europe the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive is supposed to have been enacted right across the board, but countries have enacted the Directive...
[August 28, 2007, 17:18]
MCI denies harbouring spammers
News US Internet service provider MCI has denied having any involvement with spammers, following the removal of Send-Safe.com -- which offers spamming services -- from its network. MCI also works with the appropriate law enforcement agencies to enforce...
[March 1, 2005, 11:35]
Warning over e-card spam scam
News An e-card outfit has been accused of using a dubious social engineering trick to lure users into spamming all the contacts in their Outlook address book. Integralis said that since this spamming tactic has been employed once and is proving to be...
[October 25, 2002, 16:59]
Transductive Link Spam Detection
White Papers Early web spamming techniques mainly manipulate page content. Since linkage information is widely used in web search, link-based spamming has also developed. Web spam can significantly deteriorate the quality of search engines.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
'Wardriver' first to be convicted under US anti-spam law
News A Southern California man pleaded guilty to spamming people through unprotected hot spots, the first-ever conviction under the Can-Spam Act, and a case that again raises concerns about the risks of open-access Wi-Fi service.
[October 1, 2004, 9:35]
Spam vigilante faces jail
News A Californian computer programmer has been arrested on charges of threatening employees of a company that he claims has been spamming him with adverts offering penis enlargement. Booher isn't the first to act on his 'spam rage' -- a Russian...
[November 24, 2003, 16:25]
