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Spammers ordered to pay MySpace 230 mln dlrs
"A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.Federal district court judge Audrey Collins issued a judgment against Sanford Wallace and...
Uh Oh, Here Comes The Cellphone Spam
Please. God. No."If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological... Let’s Talk Spammers: Consonant VirginiaB Usernames
This is an interesting post, a call for committed cyber-communication. Here is an excerpt:"Lately, there had been vicious spamming initiatives done here in iTalknews. They come in the form of a lot of consonant usernames with the same location, VirginiaB. The interests... Porn Spammers Get 5 Years
U.S. authorities are thankfully cracking down on spammers, the internet pest who annoy everyone, with recent arrest in the last 5 months."Two men who made a fortune sending out millions of pornographic spam emails... Spammers Hijack Youtube Tools... Makes Me Crabby
There's lots of spam on Youtube, this we all know. After a long day of flagging (carrots for the good stuff, big ol' stick for the spam), yours truly has been known to rock over to Youtube in search of amateur... Trojan Horse Uses Virginia Tragedy as Bait
"Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech as a gory lure to infect computers with malicious software, security experts noted Thursday.
While the video made by gunman Cho Seung-hui prior to the... SEC Smacks Down Stock Spammers
What surprises me about this is that people even buy stocks based on breathless spam messages. Then again, if people didn't respond, then spammers wouldn't spam."The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken action against alleged stock promoters and hackers thought to...Wikipedia Leads; Will Search Engines NoFollow?
"Wikipedia has announced that all of its outgoing hyperlinks will now include the rel=”nofollow” attribute, which instructs search engines to disregard the links. Search engines infer a page’s importance by seeing who links to it — pages that get many links,...Quick Fix for Gmail Flaw
Google has fixed a flaw that would have allowed Web sites to harvest e-mail addresses from Gmail contact lists.For an attack to work, a user would have to log into a Gmail account and then visit a Web site that incorporates specially designed JavaScript code. This could have...FTC levies fine against big-league spammers
The FTC said it has closed down a spam operation in California that sent millions of unwanted messages to online users across the country and fined the companies involved about $2.4 million. But based on the...Chinese malware coming to a computer near you
"The amount of malware coming from China rose 153% during the last six months of 2005 according to Symantec."
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