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security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 26, 2008
Little likelihood of recovery but perhaps judgment will scare off spammers. by Richard Koman
Also tagged: security, spam, facebook, spam and phishing, cyberthreats, richard koman
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 24, 2008
Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a …
Also tagged: security, spam, marketing, social networking, e mail, facebook, judgement, online communications, spam and phishing, advertising and promotion, cyberthreats, adam o donnell, e mail world
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 14, 2008
Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion …
Also tagged: security, spam, eastern europe, spam and phishing, cyberthreats, richard koman
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 14, 2008
Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is "good thing", this event is not an end of spam, nor is it …
Also tagged: security, spam, shutdown, spam and phishing, cyberthreats, adam o donnell
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 12, 2008
To understand spammers, you have to spam. That's what University of California researchers at Berkeley and San Diego did earlier this year. And what they found is that is takes a hell of a lot of spam to make some …
Also tagged: security, spam, phishing, researcher, spam and phishing, cyberthreats, richard koman
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 31, 2008
The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we've already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the …
Also tagged: security, spam, marketing, social networking, social networking site, bebo, online communications, spam and phishing, advertising and promotion, dancho danchev
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 9, 2008
How much is spam worth? In the case of a couple who sent millions of spams to a small ISP, $236 million. That's the judgment a federal judge in Iowa levied against the husband-and-wife spamming team of Henry Perez and …
Also tagged: security, spam, e mail, judgment, online communications, spam and phishing, cyberthreats, richard koman, cis internet services
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 16, 2008
The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The …
Also tagged: security, spam, e mail, virginia, anti spam, online communications, spam and phishing, u s supreme court, viruses and worms, richard koman
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 14, 2008
The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment. The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is …
Also tagged: security, spam, e mail, virginia, anti spam, online communications, spam and phishing, u s supreme court, viruses and worms, richard koman
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 9, 2008
If you have a social networking account, you are aware that spam has moved to that media. Each social network is scrambling to deploy technologies and policies to prevent spam from becoming as endemic their platforms …
Also tagged: security, spam, networking, marketing, social networking, network, online communications, spam and phishing, advertising and promotion, cyberthreats, adam o donnell