SPAMMER IN THE SLAMMER
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A CONMAN who made Â£13.8million with spam emails offering non-existent money-making schemes has been jailed for nine years. Dubbed a &quot;modern day snake oil salesman&quot;, Jeremy Jaynes ripped off thousands of internet customers.
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A promotion for the tools blog Toolmonger.com gives an audience a chance to watch a shack get hacked to pieces.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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Knocked back The UK's biggest spammer, convicted on a variety of charges ranging from fraud and blackmail to making threats to kill and sentenced to six years imprisonment, has failed in an appeal court bid to quash two of his convictions.â¦
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For years, spam haters have relied on junk-mail filters and Internet blacklists, but some are saying it's time for a change in tactics.
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Criminals deploy zombies herded into netwoks of a few hundred to more than half a million compromised PCs. Uses vary from the simply annoying (spam attacks) to the unsavory and criminal.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided some perspective for anyone who thinks they are getting too much spam. &quot;There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world.
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The vendor adds to its growing list of spam lawsuits one aimed at a service provider that hosts spammers. By Thomas Claburn. Cheapbulletproof.
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Another day, another filter-evading tactic from the spammer. This time, they're pitching their woo in the form of e-mail stationery "backgrounds," which aren't generally scanned by filtering tools. Experts say the trend is rising.
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Spammer Convicted to Nine Years in Prison  Yesterday the first two spammers ever were convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial ...
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Gareth Heyes has posted about a new plugin he's created , spam protection for his WordPress blog  - SpamBam.   The latest plugin uses my PHP/JS randomisation techniques to create a key and protect against spam. I've took this bold move to see what affect it has and if the blog spammers will get round it because it no longer uses javascript cookies.   His plugin includes features including a lack of cookie use, delay on spammers (slows spam scripts) and doesn't use CAPTCHAs. You can also check out this section on Gareth's blog for the latest on the plugin.
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Opt-out button in spam used to run exploit
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Arbitration is part of the next wave of security measures, and can be effective against spammers who illegally harvest email addresses from a honeypot on your website.
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&quot;It&#39;s not going to work,&quot; said Laura Atkins, President of the SpamCon Foundation. &quot;Spammers will start putting in garbage URLs, and most of those will belong to innocent bystanders.
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Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business.