Posted Tuesday December 26, 2006, 7:38 am, Over one day old
PC World - Spam volumes are rising, and this new breed of junk mail is taking on an entirely new form.
Read Net Watchdog: Seemingly Unstoppable Spam
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Posted Friday December 22, 2006, 7:38 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - The volume of spam surged in November to an average of 85 billion messages a day during two periods, IronPort says.
Read Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November
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Posted Thursday December 21, 2006, 7:38 am, Over one day old
PC Magazine - The holiday season brings festive parties, family gatheringsand a deluge of spam. Unsolicited messages, or spam, which account for nine out of 10 e-mails, fill up the inboxes of computer users more than ever at this time of year, experts say.
Read Spam: An Unwelcome Part of Season's Greetings
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Posted Wednesday December 20, 2006, 7:38 am, Over one day old
Reuters - The holiday season brings festive
parties, family gatherings -- and a deluge of spam. Unsolicited
messages, or spam, which account for nine out of 10 e-mails,
fill up the inboxes of computer users more than ever at this
time of year, experts say.
Read Season's greetings: it's spam for the holidays
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Posted Wednesday December 20, 2006, 7:38 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - The junk mail touts Windows Vista Ultimate for sale at a $319 discount, says Sophos.
Read Vista Spam Trolls For Suckers
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Posted Saturday December 16, 2006, 7:37 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - If a control server is shut down, the spammer can easily update the rest of the bots with the location of a new server as long as he controls at least one bot in the net.
Read Sturdier Botnets Mean More Spam In 2007
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Posted Saturday December 9, 2006, 7:37 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - We may be seeing desperation moves on the part of spammers to get their messages through improved defenses, if only by overloading anti-spam protections.
Read Spam 2.0 Tactics Will Boomerang, Symantec Predicts
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Posted Friday December 8, 2006, 7:37 am, Over one day old
The Motley Fool - Skim through the pile of junk mail that arrives at your door daily and you may see some interesting things. On one day this week, I got two pieces of mail expressing completely opposite views about credit cards.
Read The Credit Card Paradox
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Posted Friday December 8, 2006, 7:37 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - A huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major jump in the use of both image- and document-based spam have caused the volume of spam to increase 143% this year.
Read Spam Soars, Expect Worse In 2007
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Posted Thursday December 7, 2006, 7:37 am, Over one day old
AFP - Most Internet users already know it: spam is on the rise again as the senders of unwanted e-mail advertisements find new ways to circumvent filtering systems.
Read Spam is back with a vengeance as filters lose effectiveness
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