Study shows organizations blast spam without knowing it By Cara Garretson , Network World, 06/20/07 Everyone knows how big a problem receiving spam has become for many companies, but another growing problem is … via Network World NetFlash
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Internet authorities in China have published a blacklist of more than 100,000 web addresses which have been used to send spam. via Vnunet
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are jointlyholding a meeting of high-level experts to identify key trends and to address the new technological and policy challenges in the digital content delivery environment. To view the ITU/EBU conference via […]
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Career scofflaws The Pirate Bay have just launched a new service called BayImg, which promises free, uncensored image hosting for any ‘legal’ image. This has certain implications for spam.
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“We are definitely going to be seeing a lot more of this type of spam”

Spam volumes jumped 8 percent today thanks to a major spam outbreak that filled inboxes with a professional-looking .PDF attachment touting the stock of a German-based company. via PC World
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John Graham-Cumming, author of Bayesian spam filter POPFile, points me to a neat tool he’s created which will turn an email address into an image that may spare you some spam from bots scouring web pages for email addresses: This…
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“In the long term, it will be digital entertainment.”

Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee Inc.’s AVERT labs said Tuesday. via PC World
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I recently came across a copy ofa ruling in thebizarre case of MySpace vs. theglobe.com.Theglobe.com was the ultimate dot.com bubblecompany. It started up here in Ithaca, and went public at the peak of dot.comhysteria with one of the the greatest one-day price runups ever.Since then they boughtand sold a variety of busineses, none of which ever made any money,including the Voiceglo VoIP service which appears to be what the spam waspromoting.See more …
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Received spam today from an email address I gave to eCost. It was mainsleaze in that it advertised an AMD product and was technically CAN-SPAM compliant. The “remove” link points back to a company called ifc12.com which is an alias for worldata.com.

Goodbye eCost; I’m never doing business with you again.
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A botnet is a collection of compromised computers under the remote command and control of a criminal “botherder.” Most owners of the compromised computers are unknowing and unwitting victims. via Kawebspy.kawebspynet.com
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