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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about spam.
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- Spam - Archive
- Articles and resources about spam.
Added: 5 December 2005
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- Spam - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to spam in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- Spam - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to spams within the United Kingdom.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Spam Legislation affecting Government in Australia
- Government resources about spam legislation relating to government agencies and departments in Australia.
Added: 6 December 2005
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- Spam Act mixed success: ACMA
- $22.25 million in spam fines in last financial year, by Tim Lohman. Computerworld, 2 December, 2010. "The Spam Act 2003 has proved successful in combating the proliferation of unwanted emails in Australia but has limited benefit for combating international spam, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)..."
Added: 2 December 2010;
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- 100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered
- E-mail users are receiving an increasing number of bounceback spam, known as backscatter, and security experts say this kind of spam is growing, by Robert McMillan (IDG News Service). Computerworld, 5 May 2008. "... Spammers like to put fake information in their e-mail messages in order to sneak them past e-mail filters. Because e-mail filters now just delete messages that come from nonexistent domains, the spammers like to make their messages look like they come from real e-mail addresses. That means, if your e-mail address has been published on the Web somewhere, you're a prime candidate for backscattering..."
Added: 5 May 2008;
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- Spam hit takes out state office
- by Patrick Gray. The Age, October 23, 2007. "A deluge of spam crippled the NSW Department of Commerce's computer network two weeks ago, effectively severing its connection to the internet for at least two days..."
Added: 23 October 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May and June 2007
- By Enid Burns, The ClickZ Network, July 31, 2007. "Through an Italian police investigation, the Guardia di Finanza uncovered and apprehended 18 Italian citizens and eight foreign nationals from Eastern Europe running phishing campaigns targeting Internet users of Poste Italiane's home-banking services..."
Added: 1 August 2007;
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- Computer Users More Savvy About E-mail Spam
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, May 25, 2007. "Computer users receive more spam than they did two years ago, but are finding ways to cope with the clutter. A research report released by Pew Internet & the American Life Project found that 71 percent of e-mail users deploy filters to weed out unwanted messages..."
Added: 30 May 2007;
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- Spam 2007: The volume of spam is growing in Americans' personal and workplace email accounts, but email users are less bothered by it.
- by Deborah Fallows. Pew Internet and American Life, Memo, 23 May 2007. "37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago..."
Added: 28 May 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2007
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, May 22, 2007. "Sophos identified a worm known as SB/Badbunny-A, which attacks Windows, MacOS, and Linux users by dropping a bad OpenOffice Draw file on the desk. When executed, the worm propagates through different means on each operating system..."
Added: 24 May 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2007
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, April 27, 2007. "Total spam has increased 222 percent since November 2005 with 125 percent of the spike occurring in the last six months, according to data from Postini. Spammer objectives, over time, shifted from distributing self-propagating Internet worm viruses to creating botnets (define), which in turn disseminate more spam, with the goal of converting additional botnets..."
Added: 2 May 2007;
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- Spam volume to exceed legitimate emails in 2007
- Research firm IDC has released results of a new study which forecasts that 2007 will see the volume of spam email overtake legitimate person-to-person email messages, by Helen Leggatt. BizReport, April 12, 2007. "The message to marketers is to develop communication strategies that utilise a variety of channels, such as VoIP and instant messaging..."
Added: 13 April 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, February 2007
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, March 29, 2007. "Advertising is found to be the leading category for URLs containing malicious code, 80 percent of which are hosted in the U.S., according to the "Web Security Trends Report: Q1 2007" released by Finjan..."
Added: 29 March 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, January 2007
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, February 28, 2007. "Courts are quick to come down on spammers using cellular networks to distribute spam. Verizon Wireless won a permanent injunction and default judgment against Specialized Programming and Marketing LLC and its owner, Charles Henderson. The two parties are required to pay damages in excess of $200,000 for the 100,000 unsolicited text messages sent to Verizon customers offering a prize vacation..."
Added: 1 March 2007;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, November 2006
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, December 27, 2006. "This holiday season, spammers are increasing their efforts faster than online spending is growing. The Malware Research Center, a part of PC Tools Solftware, estimates a 41 percent increase in spy- and malware this season, compared to an estimated 25 percent increase in online shopping..."
Added: 3 January 2007;
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- Vic councils can spam with network device
- Probability filtering reduces false positives, by Darren Pauli. Computerworld, 12 December 2006. "Hobsons Bay City Council in southern Victoria has deployed two Ironport C100 e-mail security appliances to assist the IT department to meet its SLAs by reducing mail routing times..."
Added: 18 December 2006;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, October 2006
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, November 29, 2006. "Anti-spam companies identified a pattern where spammers jump to new TLDs (define) after using existing ones for a matter of hours. McAfee Avert Labs noticed spammers registering for domains on small islands with their own TLDs. Domains are registered at such islands as Tokelau (.tk); Isle of Man (.im); and Sao Tome and Principe (.st) and used for as little as one hour..."
Added: 30 November 2006;
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- The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, September 2006
- By Enid Burns. Clickz, October 19, 2006. "Hormel applied for a Europe-wide trademark for rights to the word 'spam.' The luncheon mean company wants to block the word's use in reference to unwanted e-mail. The trademark application was denied by the Office of Harmonization of the International Market..."
Added: 20 October 2006;
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This category last updated: 21 February 2006
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