Topic - spam

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General news, Media, Internet

Facebook's New Friend: Worms

The leading social-networking site is battling an army of spam attacks caused by the Koobface worm.
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Security, Media, Communications, Internet

Feds Tackle Mobile Spam

Despite lessons learned online, mobile spam is a growing problem and the government is having problems fixing liability.
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Internet

SEC Cracks Down on Ticker Spam

Federal regulators suspend trading of stocks touted in unsolicited emails.
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Internet

Spam 2006: Zombies, MySpace, AOL

Year in Review: 2006 was the year of spamming dangerously and zombies in your home.
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Security

Hacker Academy Launched

School wants to train people how to think like hackers to protect businesses.
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Internet

Anti-Spam Group Could Lose Site

Spamhaus, which maintains a blacklist of spammers, could lose its domain name in a dispute with a company it has accused of spamming.
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Computers, Security, Internet

Home Is Where the Hackers Are

Unleashing new tactics, attackers increasingly target home users’ personal data.
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Security, Internet

Yahoo Adds Symantec Security

As U.S. is named the leading spammer, Symantec says it will protect Yahoo users.
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Internet

Beating the Spam Filters

Startups find profit in getting bulk messages delivered.
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Security, Internet

Spammers Shut Antispam Firm

Blue Security closes its antispam arm after a spam attack.
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Security, Internet

Spammers Bait Users with Porn

Users are more likely to respond to emails hawking pornographic information, say experts.
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General news, Internet

FTC Busts California Spam Gang

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission levies a $2.4 million penalty against big-time California spammers.
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Communications, Internet

Spam’s New Target: VoIP

  Beware of the new scourge that won’t go away.
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Internet

China: Farewell, Spam!

The nation wants to say goodbye to unwanted email messages.
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Internet

Yahoo, AOL Email Move Blasted

Anti-spam specialists say Yahoo and AOL's plan to charge businesses for sending commercial email is ‘dead on arrival.’
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Internet

AOL, Yahoo to Charge for Email

Net providers want businesses to pay to guarantee email delivery to their members.
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General news, Security

Q&A: Bot-Buster Merrick Furst

The associate dean at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing says botnets are today’s top security threat.
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Internet

Spam Plagues Blogs

Ten to 20 percent of blogs are “splogs,” making real-time blog search a difficult task.
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Security

Top Security Trends for 2006

Security threats will become more sophisticated in 2006, keeping security startups and their customers on their toes.
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General news, Communications

Verizon Sues Over Mobile Spam

The wireless giant charges a Florida travel company for allegedly sending spam to nearly 100,000 mobile customers.
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