Posted Thursday July 13, 2006, 5:59 am, Over one day old
PC Magazine - Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine and blog comment spammers.
Read Microsoft Research Automates Hunt for Search Engine Spam
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Posted Monday July 10, 2006, 5:59 am, Over one day old
NewsFactor - A growing number of spammers are using mobile text messaging, blogs, instant messaging, and social-networking sites to deliver their unsolicited sales pitches, a new report has found.
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Posted Friday July 7, 2006, 7:13 am, Over one day old
AFP - Hong Kong's government has proposed wide-ranging laws to crack down on unwanted spam emails, with fines of up to a million dollars (128,000 US dollars) for offenders.
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Posted Wednesday July 5, 2006, 6:20 am, Over one day old
Investor's Business Daily - Phillip Hallam-Baker is a first responder to an identity crisis.
Read Accountability Adds Up As Anti-Spam Tactic
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Posted Wednesday June 28, 2006, 6:12 am, Over one day old
AP - Spammers are increasingly sneaking their messages past e-mail filters by sending their pitches as images rather than text, spam experts say.
Read Spammers turn to images to fool filters
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Posted Wednesday June 28, 2006, 6:12 am, Over one day old
PC World - Junk images are being used to trick e-mail filters, security vendors say.
Read Spammers Find Pictures Better Than Words
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Posted Sunday June 11, 2006, 5:28 am, Over one day old
AFP - A college student who led a massive spam e-mail operation has been fined more than 10 million dollars, the Texas attorney general said.
Read Texas spammer fined 10 million dollars
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Posted Friday June 9, 2006, 5:27 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - CipherTrust spotted the increase in zombies by deploying a honeypot network that, although susceptible to exploit, could not be forced to actually send spam.
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