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- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Live Webcast: The Evolution of the Underground Spam Economy
- Internet spam is no longer a mere inconvenience; it's become a highly destructive phenomenon that can have catastrophic results for organizations. Spamming used to be a simple endeavor - any person could easily setup a spamming operation in their basement by purchasing an Internet connection. Their...
- Tags: Webcast, MessageLabs Ltd., Spamming, Internet Spam, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Webcasts 2008-04-29
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Spammer says state law is unconstitutional
- Spammer says state law is unconstitutionalDon't care what you're sellingYou have no more of a right to spam me for political reasons than to advertise pharmaceuticals. Spamming is akin to advertising by loudspeaker and is a public nuisance regardless of the subject matter. Hopefully, the VA Supreme Court...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, spammer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Police Blotter: Porn spammers' guilty verdict upheld
- Police Blotter: Porn spammers' guilty verdict upheldPorn spammers' guilty verdict upheldAll of the parties involved should be locked up for life and forced to watch Dr. Phil and Oprah reruns 24 hours per day.The $1.4 in profits that they generated should be given to the humanitarian organizations that are working...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, guilty verdict, Porn spammer, spammer, Police Blotter
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend
- This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, GFI Software Ltd., Spamming, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-08-10
- How to make millions from hacking
- How to make millions from hackingThe even simpler way....... is to buy penny stocks - lots and lots of them, send out 30 million emails that stock XXXX is on the rise. A surprising number of plebs buy the stock. Get a 5-10% rise and sell your shares, then wait...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Spam, Alex Rumptian, United, PC, spamming, hacking
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Transductive Link Spam Detection
- Web spam can significantly deteriorate the quality of search engines. Early web spamming techniques mainly manipulate page content. Since linkage information is widely used in web search, link-based spamming has also developed. So far, many techniques have been proposed to detect link spam. Those approaches are basically variants of link-based...
- Tags: Web, Graph, Association For Computing Machinery, Spamming, Channel Management, Productivity, Spam, Marketing, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-05-08
- MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'
- MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'First question.... why isn't this scum-bucket in jail??My impression is that he was ordered to surrender only the money he gained illegally. I saw nothing in there about punitive fines. That's not really much of a deterrent. We can commit crimes and...
- Tags: Spam, MySpace, Spam King, good name, spamming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Want to gripe at a spammer? Here's one you can call.
- Want to gripe at a spammer? Here's one you can call.no time to play gamejust put a "hit" on him and let get over with. Those sub-human scumbag does not deserve any sympathy from anybody. The sooner they get exterminate the better is it. 'They" cost billions of dollard to...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, e-mail, spammer, spamming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- E-Mail as Intellectual Property
- Email is now more important to companies than ever - sensitive information is committed to email both inside and outside of the organisation. However, growth in overall email volume, driven by more sophisticated spamming attacks, as well the need to filter out malware and to ensure content is suitable...
- Tags: Intellectual Property, Spamming, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-01-11
- Major spammer settles suit for $1 million
- Major spammer settles suit for $1 millionthis guy is full of itWould he have had a change of heart if he wasn't caught? Hell no!I can smell his bullsh** right through my computer screen.HA, HA, HAThe spammer has become an antispan activist!He must have taken a page from M$ book...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, spamming, Asia Ect
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- Spyware pusher shut down and fined $4 million
- Spyware pusher shut down and fined $4 millionyesYes, I made time to post about a story that's important to me because I was very involved in helping the CDT bring their complaint against Seismic Entertainment, which later led to the FTC complaint. I addressed toadlife's points the the talkbacks...
- Tags: Spam, Blogging, Viruses and worms, SocketShield, pusher, spamming, Spamford Wallace, spyware
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Sh@dow Player (exe)
- Fast Media Player that can play any type of music. I modified but Grav. Made it by scratch, and thanks to him, it's a great free media palyer that never lets you down. It's completely free and no spamming involved.
- Tags: Spamming, Spam, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Spam And Phishing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2006-05-04
- spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programs
- Spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programsThanks!Thanks for the heads-up, Suzi.Spywarequake and Malware wipe are both evil spyware/malware themselvesSpywarequake invaded over 30 of my clients computers and they have no phone number on their site and the software is difficult to remove. ZDNET should reprimand them and take...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spam, anti-spyware, SpywareQuake, malware, spamming, IRC
- Discussion threads 2006-04-22
- spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programs
- I got a spam this morning with a subject line of "yahoo send you postcard" from "postcard". Of course all the alarms went off in my head, but there was no attachment and I have a nice little freeware app called PocketKnife Peek that lets you preview an email in...
- Tags: malware, IRC server, postcard
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com
- While spammers make every effort to use diverse domains, in a sample of 256 mln messages, CommTouch found that some domains are being used significantly more than others. Leading the list are hotmail.com (4.7 mln), yahoo.com (4.2 mln), msn.com (2.1 mln), cisco.com (1.9 mln) and gmail.com (1.5 mln).
- Tags: domain
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthrough
- Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthroughInteresting, but.....How is a user supposed to know who he wants mail from in advance? There still has to be some kind of notification process in order for users to discover each other and/or share new email addresses right?sonofab!tch........thats...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., spamming, anti-spam, RSS, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2005-12-02
- U.K. spammer sentenced to 6 years
- U.K. spammer sentenced to 6 yearsPlease note:None of the crimes he was convicted of were spamming.Another ZDnet FRAUD!Extremely deceptive headline!Such is the fate of all ZDNet stories...Of course, we all know that now. But, they are very clever with the title of these articles; if they take the facts...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, Fraudulent Trading, spammer
- Discussion threads 2005-11-17
- Blog spamming
- For those sleazy creepos who post comments to security blogs about 1. Payday 2. People search 3. Obsessive compulsive disorder 4. Quick.loan-boat.com 5. Herpes simplex Please read this news item and think long and hard about your chosen path...
- Tags: Blog, Spamming, Spam, Blogging, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2005-07-25
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