From Spam To Lacrosse, A Day for The Books
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New laws aimed at prosecuting big-time Internet spammers, helping small businesses and elevating lacrosse to the status of "state team sport" will become effective today in Maryland.
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It&#39;s called &quot;spim,&quot; and it&#39;s the instant-messaging equivalent of spam--a shotgun blast of unwanted advertisements via instant-messaging tools or chat rooms.
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds.
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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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I think I know how spammers are going to enter the Twitter world. It'll come in the form of replies, which basically function like email. You can direct a message with a url to anyone as long as you know their username. Here's a screen shot that illustrates spam being sent to a hypothetical user. I didn't send it of course.  Another problem, the destination of the url is likely masked through the use of a shortener so the user could be clicking through to some really nasty place, with no way of knowing in advance that's where they're going. (Such messages probably wouldn't alert you in advance that they're about meds or poker or sex.) The press and bloggers will run stories saying "Spam Comes to Twitter" and they'll be right, even though it won't be the main part of Twitter. Users will expect the company to do something about it, but I don't see what they can do other than eliminate the feature. Users will certainly want the ability to completely opt-out of replies.
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To curb spam, users will be charged for accessing their e-mail via Outlook.
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Russian teens fingered as likely suspects A recent upsurge in Storm Worm activity was accompanied by a spike in spam levels 48 hours later, according to an analysis by managed security services firm MessageLabs.â¦
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It&#39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida&#39;s major internet businesses: spamming.
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These armies of zombie PCs are used by cybercriminals for sending spam. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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After years of being deluged with ever-increasing loads of spam, Internet users are starting to turn to instant-messaging applications instead of e-mail.
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Back-to-school sales and political pitches helped spur latest barrage of spam.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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Enterprise security products that once focused solely on spam are broadening scope to tackle messaging issues, compliance violations, phishing scams, and viruses.
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We can now glimpse what had once seemed unattainable: stopping the exorbitant flow of spam at its very source.
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Software kits make it easy for novice hackers to earn a living by sending out malware-laden spam.
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Researchers this week reported a spam run that tried to trick users into downloading a Trojan horse posing as a video of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Services try different approaches to sender authentication to halt spam.