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Study: Spammers scourge to inbox and environment

Technology / Internet

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly.





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A typical email screen shows a proliferation of unsolicited emails known as spam

Image spam grows to 20 percent of spam

Technology / Internet

created Jul 24, 2006 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

E-mail spam that relies on images to make it difficult to filter now encompasses 21 percent of all spam, said IronPort Systems, a San Bruno, Calif., company.


Two US senators introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text messages on mobile devices

US senators seek to squash spam

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text ...


Firm develops way to fight pictoral spam

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created May 17, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Israeli e-mail security company Comtouch unveiled Tuesday new technology designed to target spam that consists only of pictures.


Researchers enhance spam call filtering

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT are developing a new system for filtering spam calls in a flexible way. Spam calls (junk calls or Spam for Internet Telephony, SPIT) are unwanted calls often ...


Court won't revive Va. anti-spam law

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created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Supreme Court will not consider reinstating Virginia's anti-spam law, among the nation's toughest in banning unsolicited e-mails.


The number of text messages that a mobile user in S.Korea can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.


High spam levels choke business broadband

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created Jul 18, 2006 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Businesses experiencing long delays in receiving and sending e-mail messages may have an unexpected culprit to blame: spam.


Web marketer ordered to pay Facebook $711M damages

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.


Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a hit scored in the battle against spam

Spam down but 'zombie' armies growing: McAfee

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a major hit scored in the battle against spam email, according to software security firm McAfee.


Accused spam scammer pleads guilty in Detroit

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Michigan man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices.



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