MillerSmiles is cited in the popular “Windows Vista for Dummies”
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Researcher finds major phishing flaw in Yahoo network
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That’s one of the problems we usually confronted to. To resolve this matter very easily, do not publicly publish or announce your email addresses in websites you visit. via NowPublic
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One of the rocket scientists over at Spam Central has plumbed new depths in the search for novel ways to deliver their stock spam. They’ve started sending Excel spreadsheets … compressed as zip archives. The documents promote EXMT.PK and are stylistically similar to other Excel spams promoting the same company’s stock on the Frankfurt exchange (sent only to German addresses, we’ve only seen examples of these in backscatter).Aside from the fact that zip attachments are ‘delete on sight’ for 99.99% of the anti-spam and anti-virus solutions out there, I really can’t see anything wrong with this idea at all.
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This week’s WSJ.com column (subscription only, I’m afraid) is aboutwhat I call The Hole — the absence of decent devicesin terms of size, weight and functionality between the smartphone and the notebook. To me it’s not just about cramming everything…
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At a conference I have been attendingI was asked to explain to PR folk there what journalists want. Apparently, by the time my session came around, the PR folk had been put off by several previous journalists who had presumably…
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Okay, I know that spammers aren’t really going to read this, but legitimate webmasters can promote their blogs on social networks like MyBlogLog, too. via Marketing Pilgrim
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In March, I reported that Sanford Wallace was being sued by MySpace for what else spamming.

Today, the U.K. Register reports that the judge has banned Sanford Wallace and his agents from accessing MySpace in any way. No mention is made in the Register article of any damages has Wallace effectively gotten away with it?

Interesting point brought up in the article: Even after he was sued, Wallace sent another 110,000 messages from 76,200 hijacked accounts.
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“Even under defendant’s more restrictive interpretation, however, messages sent through MySpace.com fall within the definition of ‘electronic mail message’ sent to an ‘electronic mail address,’”

Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims … via The Register
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Security vendor BitDefender has reported that the number of spam messages with PDF attachments dropped recently.Having just checked our traps and found large numbers of PDF spams advertising SREA.OB (again) and SZSN.OB (again), I can’t help wondering if BitDefender is connected to the same Internet that we are.
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See Spamsuite for the various documents. In short, search warrants are being issued on various properties associated with Robert Soloway in pursuit of the cash he withdrew from various bank accounts.

Among the places searched were a public storage unit in Washington, property in Minnesota,

Items to be seized include big piles of cash, business records, any correspondance about his businesses, phone books and telephone records, computers and disks, two rolex watches

Interestingly enough, the search also turned up 76 men’s coats, jackets and shirts, 27 pairs of shoes, 24 pairs of sunglasses and other retail items.
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Flooded site with a million messagesSanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims Wallace flooded MySpace with more than 1m come-ons related to gambling-related sites.Original post by Dougal and […]
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Flooded site with a million messages

Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims Wallace flooded MySpace with more than 1m come-ons related to gambling-related sites.
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