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How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
White Paper The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute their messages. Symantec State of Spam report shows... [29 Aug 2009]
Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News PC Tools said the death of Russian Business Network (RBN), a well-known malicious software distributor, has not slowed the country's production of malicious code. Russia is also known as a hotbed for junk email, known as... [21 Feb 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study Liddell said: "These emails looked like they were coming from this student, but they contained messages that she found offensive, including death threats. Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to... [11 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.07.05
Round-Up That was one silicon.com reader's response to news that the death of a spammer was being treated as murder after he was found dead in his Moscow apartment with serious head trauma. The Round-Up hates... [29 Jul 2005]
Russian spammer beaten to death
News Known spammer Vardan Kushnir has been found dead in his Moscow apartment, having apparently been beaten to death about the head. In July 2003, Russia's deputy communications minister, Andrei Korotkov, became so incensed... [26 Jul 2005]
Email costs business owners 1.5 hours a day
News However, the rumours of the death of email look to have been greatly exaggerated. Business owners from the Philippines, Hong Kong, India and the US are the most prolific emailers, spending two hours or more on average... [28 Feb 2005]
Spam plateaus - but worse times to come?
News The level of spam hitting users' inboxes has reached a plateau, showing little increase in recent months, leading some in the industry and the media to predict we may be on the verge of a meaningful decline in volumes of... [02 Feb 2005]
UK spammer 'WeaselBoy' arrested
News Macrae, from St Neots in Cambridgeshire, is the only UK resident on The SpamHaus Project's Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO). Effectively a 'who's who' of the spam world, it lists approximately... [01 Dec 2004]
Bin Laden 'suicide' virus recruits zombie army
News But, once the file is opened, it installs a Trojan horse that effectively recruits the infected machine into the author's zombie army, which can then be used to distribute spam or launch DDoS attacks. [26 Jul 2004]
Brightmail IPO promises profits from spam
News Despite predicting the 'death of spam' Salem is confident his company's success won't be putting them out of business - a suggestion levelled at many companies. Anti-spam vendor... [08 Apr 2004]
Ireland gets tough on spam
News Speaking at an EEMA conference in Dublin, entitled 'Spam - The Death of Email' Meade set out tough measures to crack down on unsolicited email and made clear his intention to enforce them, calling... [05 Dec 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.11.03
Round-Up It's not often that talk of anthrax, castration, death threats, shotguns and ice picks crops up in the silicon.com news room. However, the halcyon days returned this week as anthrax, death threats,... [28 Nov 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.03
Round-Up "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and spam. For example, when we ran our Spam Week special recently we sent an email announcing the launch. The... [22 Aug 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense
News Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Death by a million tracks Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Not so wonderful spam Rest assured, we are placing all his writing on this page, reachable by using... [10 Mar 2003]
Spam continues to drive users to distraction
News Spam will choke email to death, warns tech guru http://www.silicon.com/a54155 October saw an increase in the amount of unsolicited email being sent worldwide, as measured by anti-spam... [08 Nov 2002]
