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SPAM IN THE NEWS


While email communications have become as vital to companies as their telephone systems, the amount of junk email or spam has reached crisis proportions. Researchers now estimate that volume of spam is now larger than legitimate emails messages, reaching 70% of all email traffic.  It's not doubt that SPAM and VIRUS ATTACKS have become part of our everyday life. 

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Network World on Spam
last updated: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:32:31 GMT
 2008-07-23T00:00:00Z Researcher warns of unpatched iPhone bugs
Security vulnerabilities in the iPhone's e-mail application and Safari Web browser can be used by phishers to dupe users into visiting malicious sites or by spammers to flood the phone's inbox with junk mail, a researcher warned Wednesday.
 2008-07-23T00:00:00Z Aiming to make data-breach research easier
The monstrous data breaches involving millions of records make all the headlines — TJX, AOL, the Veterans Administration. However, it's those whoppers combined with the rat-a-tat-tat of seemingly daily divulgences involving lesser-known entities and fewer victims that add up to a costly and so-far-uncontrolled societal headache.
 2008-07-19T00:00:00Z DNS flaw discoverer says more permanent fixes will be needed
The security researcher who recently discovered a heretofore unknown flaw in the Internet's core Domain Name System (DNS) protocol warned IT managers on Thursday to expect more security fixes aimed at mitigating the issue over the coming months.

 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.
 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z How CAPTCHA got trashed
CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work.

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Email Spam News
last updated: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:32:32 GMT
 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:43:49 GMT "Spam King" Gets 47-Month Jail Sentence

Robert Alan Soloway, dubbed the "Spam King" by investigators, was sentenced Tuesday to 47 months in prison on a variety of charges.

 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:19:07 GMT Post.Office mail server compatible with Leopard

Tenon Intersystems has announced the release of Post.Office 3.8.4, an update to its mail server for Mac OS X. Post.Office costs $349 for a 100 mailbox/10 list system; updates for current users are free.

 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:21:16 GMT 1 'spam king' gets 4 years; another escapes

There seems to be a lot of spam royalty out there: A Seattle man known as the "spam king" was sentenced to prison Tuesday, while federal officials said someone else with the same criminal nickname escaped from ...

 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:52:45 GMT Researcher warns of unpatched iPhone bugs

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 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:35:31 GMT Phishing Attack Uses Vegas Theme

Internet intelligence firm Envisional has warned online banking customers about a new Vegas-themed phishing fraud that dupes them into revealing credit card information through fraudulent emails.


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