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InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks? |
InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends. |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
4 Steps: Eliminate Spam Before your inbox gets hit one more time, read up on our four steps to eliminate spam. |
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam. |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch? |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild. |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication. |
InternetNews January 26, 2011 |
Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam. |
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2004 |
Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server. |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number. |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer |
Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers? |
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that. |
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S. |
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring |
Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail. |
InternetNews July 8, 2009 David Needle |
Short URLs, Big Trouble? Security firm MessageLabs says the bad guys are exploiting a popular resource. |
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages. |
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark |
AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users. |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston |
Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs. |
PC World June 2005 Andrew Brandt |
How Spam Slips Past Your Defenses Beware of slimy spam strategies. |
InternetNews July 20, 2009 |
Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right. |
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2004 The spam ratio only grew by 1 percentage point, but the economic damage from malware was staggering. |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January. |
InternetNews April 15, 2010 |
Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet. |
InternetNews June 18, 2010 |
Microsoft Suing Hotmail Spammers Software giant goes to court to take down the orchestrators of what it describes as the "largest ever" spam attacks on its Windows Live Hotmail service. |
InternetNews April 1, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye Right now carriers are doing the anti-spam lifting but things could change. |
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings. |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight. |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz |
The Spam Stoppers If you don't have a spam filter or you're having trouble running the one you do have, you might consider outsourcing the task. |
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters. |
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark |
ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study. |
CIO November 15, 2002 Meridith Levinson |
Seething over Spam New tools and legislation can help--but nothing can stop it all |
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs Spamhaus Project blasts ISP over hosting policy. MCI counters that it's not in the business of censoring Internet content. |
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Volunteers For Spam Security vendor McAfee hires 50 volunteers to be spammed as much as they can manage, and then have them blog about it. |
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan |
Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy. |
InternetNews May 14, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2004 The spam volume is rising, e-mail trust is eroding, and viruses are rampant, but Internet users are sending more legitimate messages and CAN-SPAM is making a positive impact. |
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
More Unwanted Messages Since CAN-SPAM While Pew Internet & American Life Project found that e-mail users have seen an increase in spam, the survey reports a decrease in pornographic messages. |
InternetNews July 15, 2009 |
Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2003 Greg R. Notess |
The UCE (Spam) War and Its Impact on E-Mail The Internet's killer application is not Web browsers. It is e-mail. This essential foundation of the Internet is under attack. |
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month. |
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Tim Gray |
AOL Winning Its Spam Battle? The ISP said its spam numbers are dropping and staying that course. |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down. |
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller |
Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort. |
Inc. June 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
The Best Spam Fighters Six ways to protect your E-mail. |
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands. |
InternetNews September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour. |