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RSS spammerAnti-spam measures fail business test
News Real-time black listing, a reputation-based system that collects feedback from users to manage a black list of known spammer IP addresses and domains, was also found to be dissatisfying for businesses, with only 24 per cent saying they were "very... [20 Jul 2007]
Verizon bests mobile spammer
News Verizon Wireless said it has won a permanent injunction against a company it accused of sending text message spam, a significant step in keeping the unsolicited messages off mobile phones. In the judgment, Specialized Programming and Marketing and... [27 Feb 2007]
Charity Begins At... Your Mail Program
White Paper A number of anti-spam techniques are instances of the general technique of asking the sender of e-mail to make a small expenditure - of money or another resource - to demonstrate that it is not a spammer. [08 Dec 2006]
Photos: Cambridge boffins showcase tech of tomorrow
Photo Adverts and promos sent direct to your mobile might seem like a spammer's dream but Cambridge group OnMyMobile want to make sure consumers keep control of what they receive with opt-out services. Funded by East of England Development Agency, the St... [13 Nov 2006]
Anti-spam champion slapped with $11.7m damages
News Posting a note that e360insignt was inaccurately labelled as a spammer would be a lie, Spamhaus said. If a spammer gets listed, less spam gets through and their revenue is related to the amount of spam that gets read," Drako said. [15 Sep 2006]
US court upholds anti-spam law
News At the time of his arrest, Jaynes was regarded as the eighth-worst spammer by spam watchdog Spamhaus, the statement added. The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state anti-spam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction of the first person in the... [07 Sep 2006]
China fines its first spammer £331
News The Chinese government has fined a company 5,000 yuan renminbi (£331) for sending out spam. It is the first time the Chinese government has penalised a company for sending junk email since an anti-spam regulation came into force in March. [22 Aug 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.08.06
Round-Up AOL, working on a hunch which might generously be called outlandish, has won the right to dig up the garden belonging to the parents of a convicted spammer, so convinced is it that there is buried treasure there. [18 Aug 2006]
AOL after spammer's buried gold
News After threatening to get tough on serial junk emailers three years ago, AOL intends to show its conviction has not wavered by digging up the garden belonging to the parents of a convicted spammer — in pursuit of buried gold and platinum. [16 Aug 2006]
Spammers dust off their botnet passports
News Dave Marcus, security research manager at McAfee, said more dispersed botnets increase the spammer's ability to use one network for a campaign and then let it "go quiet", not giving the authorities or security community any hint as to where... [26 Jul 2006]
Microsoft to clean up web spam
News Because if the spam doesn't show up in any search engine result the spammer will not receive traffic. Researchers at Microsoft have developed a tool to scrub search engines of major websites that pollute search results and ultimately help clean the... [14 Jul 2006]
Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?
Comment From Shannon's perspective, the stories are information but to the spammer they are simply a device to evade anti-spam measures. Martin Brampton debunks the idea that we live in an information society - and even if we did, he says, it wouldn't... [20 Jun 2006]
Major spammer pays $1m settlement
News A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million emails per day has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft and the State of Texas. At the peak of his spamming activity, the 24-year-old Texas resident was listed as the world's fourth most... [05 Jun 2006]
Spammer claims scalp in antispam cyber war
News The DoS attack, which used thousands of commandeered computers to overload the sites' servers with traffic, is believed to have originated with one Russia-based spammer, the spokeswoman said. The brazen show of power by the spammer is reflective of... [18 May 2006]
US still worst spam offender
News Just this week the Australian Communications and Media Authority made its first successful prosecution using the country's anti-spam laws when a Perth-based spammer was found guilty of illegally sending more than 56 million spam emails in a year. [20 Apr 2006]
