South Korean programmers arrested for spam blast
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Authorities nab two men suspected of having unleashed 1.6 billion unsolicited e-mails and then profiting from the responses.
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A Seattle man was arrested Wednesday morning for illegal spamming activities.
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A COMPUTER whizz responsible for millions of junk emails worldwide is facing decades in prison after being arrested.   Robert Soloway, 27, is accused of using "zombie" computers to send out up to 20 million unwanted adverts a fortnight.
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'We are just a factory producing ammunition' Interview In June 2006, three Russian programmers started testing a collection of PHP scripts and exploit code to automate the compromise of computers that visit malicious websites.â¦
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South Korean prosecutors indicted Kim Seung Yun, the chairman of an industrial company, the Hanwha Group, on six charges in connection with what the authorities say was a revenge attack on employees of a bar in Seoul. Prosecutors charged Mr. Kim and a bodyguard, both arrested on May 11, with confinement and causing bodily harm with a weapon, the Seoul Central District Prosecutorsâ Office said. A Hanwha Group spokesman, Ju Cheol Beom, declined to comment.
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By Kyung M. Song and Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times  May 31--With the arrest Wednesday of a Seattle man accused of sending out tens of millions of spam e-mails, federal prosecutors say that computer users across the globe should see a significant drop in spam messages.
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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
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By Byron Acohido  SEATTLE -- The arrest of notorious spammer Robert Alan Soloway, 27, on criminal charges for continuing to spread junk e-mail raised cheers in the tech security community.    But Soloway's arrest Wednesday in Seattle won't slow down the tidal wave of spam.
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US authorities said yesterday computer users everywhere could notice a decrease in junk email after the arrest of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers.
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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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A new MessageLabs report says more than 86% of the E-mail it sampled in June was spam--and nearly one in 10 contained a virus.
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A man has been arrested in connection with the sending of more than 30 letter bombs to addresses across England.
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US law enforcers have arrested dozens in a crackdown on &quot;spam&quot; e-mail, identity theft and other fraudulent online activity, a person involved in the investigation says.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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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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Police investigating a bomb attack at the Indonesian Embassy have arrested a man at an Internet cafe from where an e-mail was sent claiming responsibility, judicial officials said Monday.
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Dutch authorities have issued their first fines for spam originating in the country.