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Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive 9 May 08, 20:37 ET Taber Lightfoot demanded Verizon reimburse her for charges related to unwanted incoming text messages on her cellphone. By LAURA M. HOLSON If you thought ... more Cell Phone Executives Worry About New Spam Problem 9 May 08, 18:11 ET If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Some industry executives, along with consumer groups and security experts, are concerned that unwanted messages will be an even greater headache on phones. more Turning Spam Into Entertainment 9 May 08, 17:10 ET I can think of far more entertaining things to do with my time than cleaning the spam out of my inbox. Thankfully I don't get a ton of spam, ... more Spam Is Migrating to the Cellphone 9 May 08, 17:03 ET If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. more Spam's Birthday, the Bionic Dolphin, and More 9 May 08, 13:47 ET You can stop Uwe Boll, learn how to slipstream SP1 into a Vista install DVD, and celebrate the birthday of spam--and more. more Srizbi grows into world's largest botnet 9 May 08, 13:05 ET Storm made to feel small. The prodigious Srizbi botnet has continued to grow and now accounts for up to 50 percent of the spam being filtered by one security company. more Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka" 9 May 08, 11:10 ET INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has sucessfully created a proof of concept exploiting the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. Taking advantage of the way Gmail forwards messages, the team was able to send 4000 messages in a short period of time from a single account... more Backscatter Spam Spreading, Bouncemail Battle Heats Up 9 May 08, 11:04 ET Have you been backscatter or bounceback spammed yet? No? Be patient -- if your e-mail address has ever been published on the Web, the odds may be against ... more Spam & Hackers Hackers' Posts on Epilepsy Forum Cause Migraines ... 9 May 08, 10:19 ET By Jordan Robertson "I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline -- they don't ... more Spam & Hackers Web Site Flap Prompts Alaska Democrat To Give Up ... 9 May 08, 10:19 ET By Dan Joling The disputed Web sites contained variations of rival candidate Ethan Berkowitz's name but were not associated with the candidate's campaign. ... more Recent Original Stories 9 May 08, 09:58 ET " This tutorial will show you how to setup greylisting with Postgrey and Postfix on Debian. Greylisting will not replace spam filtering software like SpamAssassin but it will serve as a powerful first hurdle for spam thus reducing the amount of spam entering the system at all." more BBC in international spam shock scandal 9 May 08, 08:27 ET Last week saw the plausible 30th anniversary of the creation of email spam, an event marked by the arrival in journos' inboxes of large numbers of ... more Send Spam with the mailman 9 May 08, 07:22 ET HIBBING — Area postal carriers will adopt a football mentality as they stage a “blitz against hunger” Saturday, May 10, during the 16th annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive. more Spam is 30-years-old and growing stronger 9 May 08, 06:01 ET by Nestor E. Arellano Although the motivation may be the same there's now very little to relate today's spammers to the original daddy of unsolicited e-mail ... more Hungry girls unite! 9 May 08, 05:03 ET If most of what you find in your in-box is considered spam, then think of a Hungry Girl e-newsletter as a chocolate rice cake topped with fresh strawberries and fat-free whipped cream: light, but satisfying. more Spam's Birthday, the Bionic Dolphin, and More 9 May 08, 00:23 ET Installing Service Pack 1 on multiple systems is a nuisance, and buying a new copy just to have SP1 integrated is too much money if you've already invested ... more

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