items tagged with Spam
Mobile call spammer slugged with $150k fine
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2007-07-23 01:16:34
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has imposed its largest penalty to date for breaches of the Spam Act, on DC Marketing Europe for repeated offences of 'missed call' marketing.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2007-07-23 01:16:34
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has imposed its largest penalty to date for breaches of the Spam Act, on DC Marketing Europe for repeated offences of 'missed call' marketing.
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iPhone bait in malware attack
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-07-02 01:45:28
Spam messages claiming the recipient has won an iPhone are being used to attract victims to a web site that tries to install a rootkit and spambot malware by exploiting ten ActiveX vulnerabilities.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-07-02 01:45:28
Spam messages claiming the recipient has won an iPhone are being used to attract victims to a web site that tries to install a rootkit and spambot malware by exploiting ten ActiveX vulnerabilities.
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PDFs: Potentially Dubious Files as spammers try new tack
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-06-28 21:05:12
Email and Internet content security provider Marshal says a new form of spam has emerged: spam messages contained in a PDF document sent as an email attachment.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-06-28 21:05:12
Email and Internet content security provider Marshal says a new form of spam has emerged: spam messages contained in a PDF document sent as an email attachment.
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Spammers dump Pump ‘n Dump spam
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-06-23 18:54:21
According to an email and Internet content security provider, stock “pump ‘n dump” spam has dropped significantly. Stock spam now represents 5% of all spam compared to 50% in February.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-06-23 18:54:21
According to an email and Internet content security provider, stock “pump ‘n dump” spam has dropped significantly. Stock spam now represents 5% of all spam compared to 50% in February.
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FBI nabs two more over botnets
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-06-14 22:26:34
Another two botherders have been charged or arrested as a result of the US Department of Justice and FBI's 'Operation Bot Roast' aimed at curbing the operations of people running botnets.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-06-14 22:26:34
Another two botherders have been charged or arrested as a result of the US Department of Justice and FBI's 'Operation Bot Roast' aimed at curbing the operations of people running botnets.
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Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-01 17:12:46
“Spam King” Robert Alan Solway might now be behind bars, but until capture was a very wealthy 20-something involved in the cyber world’s biggest annoyance: spam.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-01 17:12:46
“Spam King” Robert Alan Solway might now be behind bars, but until capture was a very wealthy 20-something involved in the cyber world’s biggest annoyance: spam.
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"Spam king" arrested, faces multiple charges
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-31 22:19:29
An alleged "spam king" said to be responsible for many millions of spam messages over several years has been arrested in the US.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-31 22:19:29
An alleged "spam king" said to be responsible for many millions of spam messages over several years has been arrested in the US.
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Pew spews spam stats, fewer people bothered
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2007-05-24 13:07:53
The amount of spam we receive is going up, but fewer people seem bothered by spam. Do we now just accept spam as just another fact of life?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2007-05-24 13:07:53
The amount of spam we receive is going up, but fewer people seem bothered by spam. Do we now just accept spam as just another fact of life?
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Spammers, phishers threatened by DKIM standard
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-05-24 01:14:12
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a proposal for authenticating the source of email messages, has received preliminary backing from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that determines the protocols used on the Internet.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-05-24 01:14:12
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a proposal for authenticating the source of email messages, has received preliminary backing from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that determines the protocols used on the Internet.
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Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-01 06:33:20
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-01 06:33:20
Hotmail users and email server admins, beware: you may be unknowingly caught in the crossfire of Microsoft's war on spam. Unintended casualties include legitimate emails from domains with well-established reputations, which are systematically blocked with absolutely no notice and little recourse.
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Billion dollar spam suit filed
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-04-26 19:14:20
Anti-spam campaign Project Honey Pot has filed a law suit seeking more than $US1 billion in statutory damages from spammers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-04-26 19:14:20
Anti-spam campaign Project Honey Pot has filed a law suit seeking more than $US1 billion in statutory damages from spammers.
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US heads hall of spam shame
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-04-12 06:49:56
The US relayed considerably more spam than other nations, with just under a fifth (19.8%) of the world's spam originating from US-based computers over the first quarter of 2007, according to a new report.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2007-04-12 06:49:56
The US relayed considerably more spam than other nations, with just under a fifth (19.8%) of the world's spam originating from US-based computers over the first quarter of 2007, according to a new report.
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Hackers use Britney photo spam as ANI exploit bait
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-04-04 23:20:01
Security vendor Sophos says hackers are using photos of Britney Spears to lure people to compromised websites that deliver an ANI animated cursor exploit to visitors.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-04-04 23:20:01
Security vendor Sophos says hackers are using photos of Britney Spears to lure people to compromised websites that deliver an ANI animated cursor exploit to visitors.
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Fortune 1000s host bots in the perimeter
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-29 05:38:48
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-29 05:38:48
Exclusive When it comes to bot-infested PCs that spew spam, most of us assume the owners are newbie users too naive or careless to follow basic security measures. Think again. There's a good chance that the penis enlargement email that just landed in your inbox is from a network maintained by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard or some other Fortune 1000 company.
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Junk web pages hinder search say Microsoft, UCD researchers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2007-03-26 04:04:29
Have you ever followed one of the top links from a search engine, only to find an ad-heavy page with little or no content relevant to your search? Researchers at Microsoft and the University of California Davis think they have figured out what's going on and how to beat the search-engine spammers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2007-03-26 04:04:29
Have you ever followed one of the top links from a search engine, only to find an ad-heavy page with little or no content relevant to your search? Researchers at Microsoft and the University of California Davis think they have figured out what's going on and how to beat the search-engine spammers.
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Symantec: online crims want the money, no longer fame
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-19 11:36:07
Symantec’s latest ‘Internet Security Threat Report’ is conducted every 6 months, and they’ve just released the newest 11th edition with the most up-to-date data, with some startling discoveries.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-19 11:36:07
Symantec’s latest ‘Internet Security Threat Report’ is conducted every 6 months, and they’ve just released the newest 11th edition with the most up-to-date data, with some startling discoveries.
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China displaces Britain as botnet epicentre
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-19 08:06:12
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-19 08:06:12
China has displaced Britain as the home of the greatest concentration of compromised (zombie) PCs.
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Mayhem for MySpace with Month of Bugs?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-18 13:58:53
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-18 13:58:53
Could a ‘whiny, attention-seeking ploy’ to show how bug-ridden MySpace is actually work to get News Corp to improve MySpace security and deliver the hackers worldwide infamy?
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Campaigner vows to "Make Spammers Pay!"
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-15 09:52:07
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-15 09:52:07
LONDON (Reuters) - An Internet consultant who won damages in a Scottish court after he received a single unwanted email has launched a campaign to help people tackle "spammers."
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Surf between the flags
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-14 02:15:43
Just as swimmers on Australian beaches are advised by lifeguards to swim between the flags, McAfee's SiteAdvisor service has warned web surfers that some virtual areas are safer than others.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-14 02:15:43
Just as swimmers on Australian beaches are advised by lifeguards to swim between the flags, McAfee's SiteAdvisor service has warned web surfers that some virtual areas are safer than others.
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