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Search Engine Link Spam: Risks, Threats, Solution
White Paper Ingenious spammers never stop creating new tricks to get their spam and its dangerous URL links past traditional defenses. Finally, you'll learn how MessageLabs delivers a proven, cost-effective solution to search engine link spam, and how... [23 Jul 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The Spamhaus Project has been collecting information on known professional spam operations for years and its weekly top 10 most-wanted list of most prolific spammers is dominated by spam gangs from Russia and eastern Europe. [10 Dec 2007]
Phishers jump on the iPhone bandwagon
News As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in US stores, spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won an iPhone of their own. [03 Jul 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Much of the remaining image-based spam is being delivered as a link rather than attachment and many spammers have retreated to traditional text-based messages, the company said. Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software... [22 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up Spamhaus said on its website: "As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organisation to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the... [22 Sep 2006]
Microsoft to clean up web spam
News Spammers soil the web with countless links to their spam fronts in order to gain a higher ranking in search engines. Yi-Min Wang, principal researcher at Microsoft, said in an interview: "By cleaning up web search, hopefully we can discourage... [14 Jul 2006]
MIT hosts spam pow-wow
News It is also one year since the implementation of Can-Spam, the federal law that sets email marketing standards and makes it less complicated for law enforcement to go after John Doe spammers. The idea is that spammers and legitimate marketers alike... [29 Mar 2006]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Spammers appear to have found a new target of choice for 2006 - bombarding internet message boards with unprecedented ferocity. Many of the actual sites link through to more than one established poker site. [11 Jan 2006]
How URL Spam Filtering Beats Bayesian/Heuristics Hands Down
White Paper The evolution and sophistication of spam and spammers has sparked much debate as to which spam filtering methods are the most accurate. This whitepaper addresses issues and problems associated with Bayesian and Heuristic filtering solutions and... [25 Oct 2005]
Spammers exploit Iran nuclear crisis
News As Iran is threatening to resume uranium-converting operations at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, spammers are taking advantage of the situation with another bogus junk email campaign. The emails, which link to Trojan spreading websites, are... [10 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: How to catch a spammer
Comment One reader evidently got the impression that I was thinking of murdering spammers. But I do find that legal or simple practical mechanisms are entirely inadequate when it comes to link spamming. In a recent column, I wrote of my frustration at link... [09 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Death to spammers?
Comment Spammers are no longer an undifferentiated group, and wiki sites attract the 'link spammers'. Now the temptation that comes my way is that when the link spammers mess up my wiki, they leave a record of the IP address from which they operated. [02 Aug 2005]
Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Comment In other words they are not taking steps to ensure that their servers cannot be used for malicious purposes and are in fact aiding the hackers/spammers of this world. One of our UK competitors is using 'BIW' as a keyword to prompt the appearance of... [27 Apr 2005]
MyDoom: The virus that changed the world
News The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised crime. And the link has certainly proven effective. It's been exactly one year since the launch of the MyDoom virus that dominated many... [26 Jan 2005]
ISP nets $1bn in spam case
News An internet service provider in Iowa has been awarded more than $1bn in what is believed to be the largest lawsuit judgment ever against spammers. Robert Kramer, who owns CIS Internet Services, sued 300 spammers after his servers received up to 10... [20 Dec 2004]
