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Virginia Court Confirms Spammer Conviction
TechWeb   Thursday, 07 September 2006
TechWeb - The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a noted spammer.
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Spammed Trojans Threaten Users
TechWeb   Friday, 01 September 2006
TechWeb - Spammed malwares are increasingly blasted out in high-volume, while dominating the current threat landscape.
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Spammers jump on latest MS Hole
InfoWorld   Monday, 21 August 2006
InfoWorld - Security companies were gearing up for war last week, after Microsoft released its August “Patch Tuesday” security fixes. And for all the hyperbole around one of those patches, MS06-040, it’s a wonder we aren’t all hunkered down, Terminator style, warming ourselves by the glowing embers of now-useless computers and trying to figure out how to keep the cyborgs at bay.
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AOL To Dig For Spammer's Gold
TechWeb   Monday, 21 August 2006
TechWeb - Online company plans to dig up yard of spammer's parents to collect millions of dollars it won in court.
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Botnet Eavesdropping: Inside the Mocbot (MS06-040) Attack
PC Magazine   Friday, 18 August 2006
PC Magazine - A well-known security researcher eavesdrops on a botnet linked to the recent MS06-040 Windows attack and confirms that for-profit spammers are winning the cat-and-mouse game against anti-virus scanners.
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AOL to hunt down spammer's gold
Reuters   Thursday, 17 August 2006
Reuters - AOL says a convicted spammer may have hidden half a million dollars in gold and platinum on his parents' property, and the company is going after it.
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AOL prepares to dig for gold _ literally
AP   Wednesday, 16 August 2006
AP - AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.
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5 Ways To Lock Up E-mail
TechWeb   Saturday, 12 August 2006
TechWeb - Malicious e-mail is on the rise with phishing campaigns, spam that plants Trojan horses, and all manner of ploys to infect users. We've set up five steps to locking e-mail against today's e-mail security landscape.
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U.S. Tops List of 'Dirty Dozen' Spam-Relaying Nations
NewsFactor   Wednesday, 26 July 2006
NewsFactor - For the first time in over two years, the United States failed to reduce the amount of spam, placing it at the top of the list of spam-relaying countries, according to a report released by security firm Sophos. Spammers in the U.S. are responsible for 23.2 percent of spam received by Sophos' global network of spam traps, up from 23.1 percent in the first quarter of 2006.
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U.S. Retains Spammy Nation Prize
TechWeb   Tuesday, 25 July 2006
TechWeb - The United States remains the world's leading spam-generating country, a U.K.-based security company says.
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Picture this: A sneakier kind of spam
USATODAY.com   Monday, 24 July 2006
USATODAY.com - A new strain of spam popping up in e-mail boxes is confounding consumers and corporate security officials. The spam contains images spouting everything from stock scams to Viagra, and its volume has more than doubled since April, according to analysis by anti-spam vendor IronPort Systems. Image-based spam accounts for 21% of all spam, compared with just 1% in late 2005, IronPort says.
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