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Antispam group rejects e-mail payment plan

February 7, 2006 Spamhaus says the e-mail charges planned by Yahoo and AOL will erode our freedom to communicate. TAGS: anti-spam, Spamhaus, America Online Inc., freedom, Yahoo! Inc., spam, Time Warner Inc., agency, payment, e-mail

Spammer settles suit for $1 million

June 5, 2006 Man accused of sending up to 25 million e-mails per day settles lawsuit with Microsoft and the state of Texas. TAGS: spammer, anti-spam, Texas, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Microsoft allies with antispam group

March 14, 2006 Outlook, Exchange and Hotmail added to services under the umbrella of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. TAGS: anti-spam, phishing, MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook

Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer

May 18, 2006 Eran Reshef, who asked people to bury spammers simply by replying to spam e-mails, falls victim to mass online attack. TAGS: spammer, anti-spam, denial of service, attack, security, server, e-mail

Barracuda Networks profiles spam

April 17, 2007 Profiling e-mail as it's received by antispam appliances is Barracuda Networks' latest technique to combat junk e-mail. TAGS: Barracuda Networks, anti-spam, junk e-mail, sender, e-mail, message

Black Frog leaps into fight against spam

May 25, 2006 Okopipi project aims to continue antispam campaign launched by now-defunct Blue Frog effort, which suffered a DOS attack. TAGS: Wiki, anti-spam, denial of service, spammer, project, fight, spam, security, server, e-mail

Virginia court upholds antispam law

September 6, 2006 Court denies convicted spammer's appeal, rejects argument that the state law is unconstitutional. TAGS: antispam law, anti-spam, appeal, Virginia, America Online Inc., U.S., e-mail

Spam: Made in Taiwan?

June 9, 2006 Junk e-mail rose in May, most of it served up from Taiwan--and the death of Blue Frog was a factor, CipherTrust says. TAGS: CipherTrust Inc., zombie, Taiwan, anti-spam, spam, spammer, China, U.S., message, security, e-mail

Symantec revamps mail security tool

April 17, 2006 New version of software for e-mail gateways will mark final result of the melding of Brightmail and Symantec technologies. TAGS: Brightmail Inc., e-mail gateway, Symantec Corp., e-mail security, security tool, Sun Solaris, anti-spam, SMTP, e-mail, security, Microsoft Windows

China plans spam crackdown

February 22, 2006 World's second-worst offender as source of spam will introduce measures to curb the problem--but critics say they don't go far enough. TAGS: China, spam, anti-spam, junk e-mail, Sophos Plc., London, Internet Service Provider

Proofpoint debuts e-mail reputation service

April 30, 2007 Dynamic Reputation is the latest entry into a field of next-generation e-mail security programs that assess senders' reliability. TAGS: Proofpoint Inc., e-mail security, anti-spam, e-mail

Promising antispam technique gets nod

May 23, 2007 Internet Engineering Task Force approves a technique designed to put junk e-mailers out of business forever. TAGS: DomainKeys, PayPal, anti-spam, digital signature, signature, phishing, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail server, message, SD card, e-mail, server

Police blotter: Antispam activist fights lawsuit

January 19, 2007 In this week's installment, the Osirusoft list defends suit brought by a firm claiming it was erroneously included. TAGS: Police Blotter, junk e-mail, anti-spam, activist, content provider, spam, provider, filter, section, server, e-mail

Court sides with alleged 'vacation' spammer

November 28, 2006 Precedent-setting decision says travel agency that sent repeated cruise-vacation e-mails is protected by federal Can-Spam Act. TAGS: CAN-SPAM Act, anti-spam, Oklahoma, law, spammer, spam, professor, domain name, e-mail, CEO

Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes

May 4, 2006 DDoS attack on antispam campaigner redirected to blog-hosting firm Six Apart, forcing it offline, security firm says. TAGS: Six Apart Ltd., distributed denial of service, blog, anti-spam, LiveJournal, TypePad, blog posting, spammer, attack, traffic, spam, security, server

Exterminating the nuisance of spam

November 15, 2006 Suresh Ramasubramanian oversees the development of junk e-mail countermeasures for tens of millions of Internet users. TAGS: developing country, spam, videocast, anti-spam, junk e-mail, U.N., mailing list, effect, training, Internet Service Provider, Adobe PDF

Barracuda glitch leaves customers incommunicado

June 13, 2006 An update problem temporarily halts e-mail traffic for most of the spam firewall company's customers. TAGS: Barracuda Networks, firewall company, virus definition, anti-spam, virus, e-mail, antivirus

Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam service

June 7, 2007 Service will certify legit e-mail from businesses by marking it with a blue ribbon. On board are Comcast, Verizon and others. TAGS: Time Warner Inc., spam filter, anti-spam, Internet Service Provider, Verizon Communications, U.S., Comcast Corp., phishing, e-mail

MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'

March 27, 2007 Lawsuit alleges that Sanford Wallace launched a phishing scam in October to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. TAGS: MySpace, phishing, News Corp., anti-spam, California

'Tis the season to send spam

November 20, 2006 The volume of junk e-mail is spiking--just as consumers gear up for holiday shopping. TAGS: antispam company, spammer, Ironport Systems Inc., spam, MessageLabs Ltd., anti-spam, holiday, season, Turkey, expert, Yahoo! Inc., message, e-mail, PC
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