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White Paper Almost 60% - to 70% of Spam is related to Porn. This white paper provides information about Spam, losses caused by Spam, how Spam works and suggests key features that a good Anti-Spam software should have. [12 Mar 2008]
Aussie taxes to fund 'free' porn blocks
News The minister's press release announcing the free porn-filters talked up a "comprehensive national community education campaign" designed to "ensure that all Australian families are aware of the benefits of regulating... [21 Jun 2006]
Ripa encryption keys clause to get the go-ahead?
News The police can say 'we think he's a terrorist' or 'we think he's trading in kiddie porn', and the suspect can say, 'no, they're love letters, sorry, I've lost the key'. Under current anti-terrorism... [18 May 2006]
Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge
News The Bush administration argues that criminal sanctions in the 1998 law - which has been placed on hold by the courts - are more effective ways to shield children than anti-porn-filtering software. The... [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: UK soft on spam
Leader Unsurprisingly, this is having little effect and spammers continue to rake in the cash from Viagra, porn and fraudulent mortgage emails. As a result, Spamhaus, one of the world's most active anti-spam... [11 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Death to spammers?
Comment Their automated bots look for wiki sites and insert large numbers of links, usually to gaming or porn sites. The very thing legislators are outlawing - denial of service attacks - could be the only tool we have in... [02 Aug 2005]
Spyware, adware infects BitTorrent downloads
News In other examples, music files and porn videos came bundled with adware or spyware, Boyd said. Alex Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt Software, a maker of anti-spyware software, said: "This is one of the... [17 Jun 2005]
One of world's top spammers jailed for nine years
News The circuit judge in Loudon County, Virginia upheld the nine year sentence recommended by the court when Jaynes was initially convicted last November under a recent Virginia anti-spam law, which limits the quantity of... [11 Apr 2005]
Spam plateaus - but worse times to come?
News Malicious phishing scams, spyware, Trojans and viruses are all playing a far greater role in the tactics of the spammers now whereas previously it was porn and adverts for Viagra. But any celebration is misguided and... [02 Feb 2005]
Spam born in the USA - and much is porn
News Traditionally messages selling cheap software, mortgage deals or prescription drugs are more common than porn spam, though a rise in the levels of the latter occurred last summer as well. This indicates spammers are... [17 Aug 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment Why aren't ISPs forced to filter spam and porn by law instead of charging extra to carry out this task? Pete Wheatfill asks: "I would like to know why ISPs aren't forced to filter spam and porn by law... [05 Aug 2004]
Analysis: What Europe (still) doesn't get about tech
Comment In 1998, Germany convicted a CompuServe executive on child porn charges merely because illegal material flowed through the company's network. Anti-business regulations Declan McCullagh, from... [23 Jun 2004]
Porn spam is dead
News According to statistics from mail-filtering company Clearswift, the percentage of all spam flogging porn has dropped to just five - financial spam picked up the slack with a 27 per cent rise since June 2003. [26 May 2004]
Fake-software junk mail - a spam investigator's insight
News Spammers have grown tired of peddling porn and vending Viagra. The latest crop of spam hitting inboxes worldwide at the moment is selling software. Not kosher copies, of course, but pirated versions of popular packages -... [25 May 2004]
Spammers turn to free porn to beat Hotmail security
News By offering free porn, spammers are using internet surfers to bypass a security protection designed to stop bot software from automatically opening web mail accounts. Visitors to the porn site are asked... [07 May 2004]
