Back-to-school sales, politics spur spam to new heights
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Spurred by back-to-school sales and politics, spam messages accounted for 82% of all the inbound e-mail processed during August, according to FrontBridge Technologies, an e-mail security firm.
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The promotion of penny stocks, for years a staple of Internet spam, has recently burst forth in splashy full-page ads in major daily newspapers.
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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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Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars âItâs payback time!
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The purchasing power of kids is a big part of why the back-to-school season has become such a huge marketing phenomenon.
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Spammers have turned to the use of PDF-based e-mail messages to try to slip under the security radar and get their messages through to unsuspecting recipients.
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Spam messages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese are on the rise, say e-mail filtering experts.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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'Tis the season for online scams, spam, and malware attacks. Here's what you need to know.
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Legitimate mortgage lenders inadvertently support--and get tangled in--spam traps.
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A [major spam outbreak] hit the Internet Wednesday causing the stock it was pumping to jump significantly in trading volume, according to communications security company IronPort.
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By Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 8--Parents might want to pick up the phone instead of e-mailing  Susie's teacher about that late homework.   A nationwide surge in holiday junk e-mail means many legitimate messages  to Kentucky schools are getting held up in cyberspace.
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For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the U.S.
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&quot;Many home users&#39; computers are sending out spam because they have had their broadband Internet connections exploited by remote hackers.
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As image spam declines, a new type of pest takes its place.
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U.S. families will shell out almost $564 for back-to-school merchandise this year as student demand for hot electronics and trendy footwear drives up the cost of returning to school, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
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August saw a 10 per cent drop in spam levels, according to email security company Messagelabs. The company said there was a sequential drop in spam with levels falling from 94.