A survey of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found that whilst 97% have anti-spam solutions, half felt that they were not dealing effectively with the growing problem of image-based spam.
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A researcher has identified a case of a company uploading bulk advertisements to Google Maps, claiming a local presence in multiple areas.
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Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come byNotorious spammer Christopher “Rizler” Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday.Original post by Dougal and plugin by Elliott Back
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The New Yorker on Spam [9:25 am] A little history, and some scary statistics: Damn Spam [] “The amount of harm done by any of the cited - unfair’ things the net has been used for is clearly very small,” the … via Furdlog
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Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come by

Notorious spammer Christopher “Rizler” Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday.
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Drug spammer Christopher William Smith, also known as “Rizler” was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his illegal online drug-selling business. The long sentence was partly in response to Smith’s flagrant defiance of judicial orders, and the death threats he made against a witness.

These details, and many more, are covered in today’s Mineapolis Star Tribune.
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A few more tidbits from the front-lines in the war against spam.
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Secure your damn WiFi

The U.K. Register and other sources are covering the case of Nicholas Tombros who was convicted of hijacking WiFi connections in order to send porn spam. His method was to drive around the Venice, California area looking for open wireless internet connections, logging on, and sending spam through the network connections of unsuspecting home owners.

The sentence is little more than a slap on the wrist he was given a $10,000 fine and sentenced to six months of home detention. No word on how much he made from the porn spam, but if it was more than $10,000, and it probably was, this is a joke of a sentence.
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Posted by TommyCarlier // Tue, Jul 31, 2007 7:34 AM Our company is about to release a product we’ve been working on for more than 3 years, and we’re running into this annoying problem. via MSBuild RSS Feeds
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced the process he will use to fill three new judgeships on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. via HometownSource
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A Marina del Rey man believed to be the first to plead guilty or be convicted at trial under a federal anti-spam law passed four years ago was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention. via KNBC
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“It’s something of a mystery as to why it has taken three years for Tombros to be sentenced. And compared to other convicted spammers, he seems to have gotten away relatively unscathed”

A California man who pled guilty to going war driving — seeking out unprotected wireless access points — to send out pornographic spam won’t be going to jail. via InformationWeek
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The guys at rustylime describe how they are using a honey pot form fields to detect spam bots.This method is interesting, since the false positive rate will be close to zero - any decent browser will not show the ‘honey pot’ fields and a human won’t be able to enter information there accidentally. The false […]
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced the process he will use to fill three new judgeships on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. via HometownSource
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Posted by TommyCarlier // Tue, Jul 31, 2007 7:34 AM Our company is about to release a product we’ve been working on for more than 3 years, and we’re running into this annoying problem. via MSBuild RSS Feeds
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A Marina del Rey man believed to be the first to plead guilty or be convicted at trial under a federal anti-spam law passed four years ago was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention. via KNBC
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Our friends over at SpamShield have come up with a really nifty use for Google maps - they have created a spam map - they call it “Spam World” - which maps where all the spam is coming from - around the world - in real time (well, updated every fifteen minutes).
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