Archive for the ‘Spam’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs.
What's TypePad AntiSpam?
A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.
The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
How many e-mails do you get every day that offers to sell you medicine without prescription, and at a fraction of their real cost? How many offers do you get to buy pirate software at one-tenth of their catalog prices? Do you find your inbox so full of unwanted, unsolicited ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
While theater goers are flocking to performances of Monty Python's musical comedy "Spamalot" as it tours across America, "a lot of spam" within e-mail inboxes is proving to be no laughing matter for Air Force and government employees. Spam is unsolicited and generally undesired bulk e-mail messages. Senders use spam ...
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