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FTC Halts Adult Web Spam Sending Spam 6 May 08, 21:08 ET WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have halted the illegal conduct of an adult Web site that sent spam with false or ... more Spam Turns the Big 3-0 6 May 08, 19:13 ET Spam is charging into its fourth decade, and looking mighty good for its age. Here's to three decades of the spam as it has gone from an annoyance to a versatile social engineering tool for the cyber underworld. more Clark Customs: Smuggled 'Spam' came from Subic 6 May 08, 17:58 ET By Reynaldo G. Navales CLARK FREEPORT -- The district collector of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at Clark Port has denied any involvement of his office in the ... more Feds Tackle Mobile Spam 6 May 08, 17:43 ET by Cassimir Medford Speakers at a US Federal Trade Commission hearing on Tuesday said it is difficult to pin liability for the worsening problem of text ... more Yahoo Partners With McAfee To Make Search More Secure 6 May 08, 14:54 ET The collaboration covers Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam. more Spam a billion dollar industry that won’t die 6 May 08, 14:44 ET Spam is no longer confined to email messages and is now moving into emerging technologies like mobile phones. May 7, 2008: Turn to your neighbour and say ... more Ultimate Aim of Web Schemes is Spam 6 May 08, 14:43 ET Some of the common tests used by Web sites to distinguish between flesh-and-blood visitors and malicious human-mimicking computers appear to have been ... more Test Center April Spam Report: 'Headline' Phishing Still Strong 6 May 08, 13:58 ET The Test Center's analysis for April shows phishing attacks are still a strong threat, and are coming from a variety of geographies posing potential problems for U.S. corporate networks. more Colorado Has a New Spam Law 6 May 08, 13:41 ET The governor of Colorado recently signed a new anti-spam law [PDF] into effect. Since CAN SPAM draws a tight line around what states can do, this law is mostly interesting for the way that it pushes as firmly against that line as it can. Other observers have already done a legal analysis of the way it's worded to avoid being tossed out as the Oklahoma law was in Mummagraphics, and to make it ... more Spam Turns 30 6 May 08, 13:40 ET Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever. That commercial message, sent on 3 May 1978, drew a swift and negative reaction. More... more Happy birthday spam 6 May 08, 13:37 ET The first reported mass email was sent to 350 people on May 3rd 1978 by Gary Thuerk to advertise a new system his company was pioneering. ... more FTC Halts Illegal Spam Operation; Adult Site Violated CAN-SPAM Act 6 May 08, 13:12 ET The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have halted the illegal conduct of an adult Web site that sent spam with false or misleading header ... more Nigerian Spam Has Its Day in the Indecision Sun 6 May 08, 11:02 ET First we must solicit your confidence in this issue. This is by virtue as being utterly confidential and "top secret". We are SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, ... more Anniversary: 30 years ago, the first 'spam' was emailed 6 May 08, 09:17 ET by Geoff Williams May 6th 2008 @ 9:00AM We're talking email, and not Spam, the food product. Anyway, I looked at quite a few articles that ran on the day of ... more Security firms 'celebrate' 30 years of spam 6 May 08, 06:09 ET Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message. Gary Theurk, an employee at ... more Spam filters become lore 6 May 08, 06:06 ET By Teresa F. Lindeman Every Sunday morning, Susan Edwards sits down with her cup of coffee and opens the file of suspicious e-mails that her spam filter has ... more Educator takes part in e-mail spam study 6 May 08, 04:56 ET BY MEHRNOOSH TORBATNEJAD Most Internet users avoid spam like, well, you know, but a Queens schoolteacher has been furiously clicking on every pop-up and ... more Ultimate Aim of Schemes is Spam / More Computers Are Cracking Code ... 6 May 08, 04:40 ET Some of the common tests used by Web sites to distinguish between flesh-and-blood visitors and malicious human-mimicking computers appear to have been ... more When ghosts spam 6 May 08, 00:36 ET Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. It's reported that as much as 97 per cent of ... more

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