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- Spyware pusher shut down and fined $4 million
- Just released by the FTC -- Sanford Wallace nicknamed Spamford for his history of spamming and his company Smartbot.net have been ordered to shut down operations and give up $4,089,500 of their ill-gotten gains. Wallace's partner, Walt Rines, nicknamed Picklejar by some, was ordered to give up $227,000 in ill-gotten...
- Tags: Walt Rines
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- Old dog, new tricks? Or, same story, different lawsuit?
- Is the Federal Trade Commission getting an extreme makeover? Perhaps the FTC should be called the FSC -- The Federal Spyware/Spam Commission. The FTC has been grabbing spyware and anti-spam headlines as of late in its pursuit of spammers and spyammers. In today's news, the FTC has filed a...
- Tags: FTC, Sanford Wallace
- Blog posts 2004-10-12
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- Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m
- Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...
- Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- How MySpace brought down a spammer
- How MySpace brought down a spammerWhere's the prison time?Such an abuse deserves much more than a slap on the wrist... It's truly unbelievable that there are not strict laws punishing such low lifes and preventing them from other abuses at say other sites???Where is the win?I know several people that...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, MySpace, spam, Internet Service Provider, server, spammer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Malaysia awards medals to pirate-DVD nabbing dogs
- Malaysia awards medals to pirate-DVD nabbing dogsEscalation, now DVD pirates will probably develop new compoundsthat don't smell like DVDs, maybe smells like the vet or maybe something that makes all other things smell like DVDs.Good for the dogsDogs are amazing animals!By the way, its one thing to rip a DVD...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Pirated DVD, DVD, pirate-DVD, piracy
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Feds shutter spyware ring
- Feds shutter spyware ringIt's a start!!I was glad to see some real results in the war against spam. I get well over 200 spams per day in my inbox, despite filtering and anti-spam software. Although it's a minor inconvenience (I have real friends and customers white-listed), it is a strain...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spam, spammer, Pharmamaster, spyware, Blue Frog
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- CDT to crack the whip on spyware/adware
- According to an article on News.com, the Center for Democracy & Technology CDT is planning to file two complaints on Monday with the FTC against multiple adware/spyware pushers. The complaints were described as "extensive" and include a number of "deceptive and unfair trade practices" allegations against the targets. A...
- Tags: FTC, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Blog posts 2006-01-21
- Google in the garden of good and evil
- Google in the garden of good and evilGood and evil almost always depend on perspective.Thanks for the well-written article. The intersection where the continuums of good/evil and self-serving/public-serving cross is a dimly lit one, albeit interesting. Judging where something falls on these continui almost always comes down to...
- Tags: UNIX, SECURITY, Google Inc., continuum, BSD
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- Spyware tricks part II: follow the money trail
- Yesterday I wrote about my experience with spyware installations and noted that spyware pushers are using more devious methods to foist their software on users and making it increasingly difficult to remove. I asked what is spyware about. The answer: money. Let's examine the money trail. Ben...
- Tags: spyware
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- Catfight in the spyware corral
- Catfight in the spyware corralLOL ... code of ethics :P"According to Stiennon, Webroot co-founded Coast in 2003 to help establish industry-binding guidelines defining spyware and a code of ethics surrounding the distribution of desktop software."Sorry, but you can't regulate scum .. just go ask Sanford Wallace, ok? Anyway, these companies...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Policies and procedures, spyware people, spyware, primary use
- Discussion threads 2005-02-08
- Spyware opponents win another battle
- Spyware opponents win another battleIs this being spearheaded by Republicans?If so, I would imagine there's probably some loophole that allows big businesses to continue producing spyware, even if it's outlawed for everyone else.Good..but where's the jail sentence? I want these bastards to suffer as much as they've made countless...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Web site development, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware, Wallace, Web site
- Discussion threads 2004-10-25
- Antispyware vendors come under fire
- Antispyware vendors come under fireduhyou can't trust anyone that uses untrustworthy means to sell you something, that means anyoneI have had spam with subject lines like re: sorry i could not get back to you soonerlike I would ever buy anything from anyone that dishonestAdAware and SpyBotAre free, seem completely...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, SpyBot, Evidence Eliminator, C-drive, subject line, anti-spyware, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-02-11
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