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Ars Technica
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Antispam community sites that help combat phishing scams and spam are being targeted with denial of service attacks by malware botnets presumably operated by spammers. The trend was reported last week by antispam site SpamNation.
SpamNation believes th..
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BBC News
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A man nicknamed the "spam king" for allegedly sending out millions of junk e-mails has been arrested in the US.
Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, after being indicted on charges of mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering...
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Information Week
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Spam volume soared another 35% in November, an e-mail security vendor said Thursday, and the month saw spam tactics that reduced the efficiency of traditional anti-spam filters...
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New York Times
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Hearing from a lot of new friends lately? You know, the ones that write “It’s me, Esmeralda,” and tip you off to an obscure stock that is “poised to explode” or a great deal on prescription drugs...
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Los Angeles Times
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Spam is now being served in audio form.
The latest in unwanted electronic communication is an MP3 file that began landing in in-boxes around the world last week. It features a spooky, synthesized Darth Vader-sounding female voice touting the over-the-c..
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BBC News
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A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers preserve old books and manuscripts.
Many websites use an automated test to tell computers and humans apart when signing up to an account or logging in.
The test consists of typing..
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Reuters
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A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Monday to sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
Adam Vitale, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan t..
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FOX News
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Junk e-mail continued to hit mailboxes around the world Thursday, despite the arrest a day earlier of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers.
Even if Robert Alan Soloway is ultimately convicted and his operations shuttered, spam e..
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Washington Post
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From his 17th-floor Seattle apartment overlooking Puget Sound, Robert A. Soloway allegedly ran an illicit network of computers around the world, secretly commandeering the machines of thousands of unsuspecting bystanders. Prosecutors say Internet users wh..
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BBC News
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A tool that could help in the battle against spam and phishing attacks has received industry approval.
The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) system is a method of validating the identity of the sender of an e-mail.
Spammers hide their identity by us..
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Los Angeles Times
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MySpace.com sued Sanford Wallace, who became known as the King of Spam in the 1990s, for setting up dummy profiles to direct MySpace users to websites such as Real-vegas-sins.com.
Wallace created 11,000 fake profiles using automated software programs i..
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Information Week
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Legitimate e-mail now constitutes a rounding error when compared with spam, thanks to a standing army of more than a million zombie PCs waging war on in-boxes worldwide on any given day...
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MSNBC
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If you feel like your inbox is suddenly overrun with spam again, you are right...
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eWeek
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The recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers...
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IT World Canada
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The U.S. topped the dirty dozen spam list for 2006, contributing 21 per cent to the worldwide level of spam...
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eWeek
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The recent surge in spam volume is due to the assertiveness of botnets and an increase in the sophistication of their spamming efforts...
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ABC News
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Your e-mail gets clogged with spam. Your conventional mail overflows with fliers, free offers and envelopes labeled "Dated Material! Open Immediately!"..
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