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Mobile Spam Problem in UK 7 May 08, 23:55 ET A large proportion of UK mobile phone users are victims of mobile spam, according to a March 2008 YouGov-Cloudmark study. Two-thirds of mobile users ... more Fed Rate Cut History – as Predictable as Spam in Your Inbox 7 May 08, 22:41 ET By Susan Walker Spam emails and Fed rate cuts are quite different things – the one annoying and unnecessary; the other usually quite welcome and necessary. ... more Maxis offers anti-spam service for cellphones 7 May 08, 19:33 ET By M. KRISHNAMOORTHY KUALA LUMPUR: Maxis subscribers plagued by unsolicited SMS and spam now have a weapon to fight back. A new service to its more than 10 ... more Fed Rate-Cut History – as Predictable as Spam in Your Inbox 7 May 08, 18:08 ET By Susan Walker Spam emails and Fed rate cuts are quite different things – the one annoying and unnecessary; the other usually quite welcome and necessary. ... more Spammy Twitter accounts to get the virtual guillotine 7 May 08, 18:05 ET Twitter used to just "freeze" accounts found to be spam, but a new strategy will actually delete those accounts after notifying the owner. more Yahoo e-mail accounts compromised for spammers' use 7 May 08, 17:06 ET Security firm suggests that Yahoo Captcha was defeated as authenticated spam floods the Internet. more Happy birthday spam, but no returns please 7 May 08, 15:16 ET Cracked: Spammers have succeeded in cracking CAPTCHA that was designed to keep automated spam out. Not all anniversaries are the occasion for celebration: ... more LetsHost Announces the Launch of its Anti Spam Solution That Picks ... 7 May 08, 13:43 ET Dublin, Ireland (FV Newswire) - LetsHost announces the launch of its Anti Spam solution that picks up from where the standard score based anti-spam ... more FTC Halts Illegal Spam Operation 7 May 08, 13:21 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 Black Hats, White Hats, Crackers and Bots 7 May 08, 13:09 ET One of the other web sites I subscribe to is Stratfor . It's a global intelligence website and doesn't really have much to do with spam. But I like politics so I read it. They have some articles which you can get for free, but the better stuff you have to pay for. About two weeks ago, they ran a three-part series on Cyberwarfare. The first article was the title of this post, which you can ... more Blondie and Spam - 30 year Annoversaries 7 May 08, 13:06 ET Isn't this ironic...on the 30th birthday of the dreaded email spam comes news that Blondie's classic 'Parallel Lines' album will be reissued as a special ... more Spam more creative, better targeted 7 May 08, 12:57 ET By William Jackson Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and ... more UNITED STATES: FTC Halts Illegal Spam Operation; Adult Site ... 7 May 08, 11:00 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 Spam & Hackers Staying One Step Ahead of Password Thieves 7 May 08, 10:31 ET By Etan Horowitz Since most people need passwords to secure lots of important information, remembering more than one or two long passwords is difficult. ... more Adult Site Violated CAN-SPAM Act 7 May 08, 08:04 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 A reason not to celebrate: Spam turns 30 7 May 08, 07:03 ET Happy birthday spam. Saturday marks the 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered. And while junk mail only really started picking up with ... more Happy 30th birthday, spam. 7 May 08, 05:33 ET Spam, we've had our ups and downs, well mainly downs, but still, I'm sorry that I missed your 30th birthday. I would've sent you some "libido rapido" pills ... more Sex site told to lay off saucy emails 7 May 08, 05:01 ET Adult service spanked by CAN-SPAM. A US judge has ordered the halt to an email campaign by the operators of adult websites after complaints by the FTC and Department of Justice that the email messages violated an anti-spam law. more Right Click Acquires Cutting-Edge Virus and Spam Filtering Software 7 May 08, 03:12 ET (PRWEB) May 7, 2008 -- Right Click, an Irvine based provider of IT solutions for small to medium sized companies, has announced its acquisition of ... more Phishing grows as NDR spam tapers off 7 May 08, 03:02 ET Phishing spam is on the rise, according to Symantec. According to Symantec's report State of Spam May 2008, which examines spam trends from April, ... more Students Spam State Capitol To Keep Ax From Falling 7 May 08, 01:44 ET SAN JOSE -- Without taking a single step, thousands of California college and university students and faculty members "virtually" marched on Governor ... more

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