US cracks down on spam mountain
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John Ashcroft, the attorney General of the US, is expected to announce on Thursday dozens of lawsuits against alleged spammers following a low key campaign against the practise across the US.
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The United States is responsible for exporting 42.11 per cent of all spams globally, thus becoming the country where the most number of spams originate, according to a report by security solutions company Sophos.
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A trip to Spamtown USA to check out a museum celebrating the canned pork product reminds us how Spam made an impact on world cuisine long before its name became synonymous with unwanted e-mail. Michelle Delio reports from Austin, Minnesota.
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We're being inundated by spam.  How could community-based approaches help?
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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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A seemingly routine investigation into spam has unveiled a world-spanning network of spam.
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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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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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If you&#39;re looking for a country to blame for all that spam in your e-mail box, you don&#39;t have to look very far. The United States is by far the world&#39;s largest spam producing nation according to a study by
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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The US remains the world&#39;s leading producer of junk e-mail, according to security firm Sophos. The US is the source of 42 percent of spam, easily outstripping South Korea, which, with 13 percent
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The fight against spam is getting more serious as the net&#39;s big players impose conditions on bulk mail senders. From October, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast want those that send lots of messages
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The Blue Frog system crippled spam-advertised websites by deluging them with opt-out requests, until a retaliatory cyberattack killed it.  Now activists are redeploying the technology to send political messages that can't be ignored. By Ryan Singel.
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Authorities in the Netherlands have imposed their first fines for spam originating in that country. The Dutch government&#39;s telecommunications agency OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam, issued three
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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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America Online (AOL) has cut spam on its service for the first time in five years. AOL says it has slashed the annoying email advertisements in 2004 by 75 per cent.
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By Shyla Sangaran  THE rising use of networks of compromised machines, or botnets, to send out spam is becoming a major security headache for enterprises across the globe, including Malaysia.