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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.
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Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam
November 14, 2003
Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warns.
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Think Computer
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Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server
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Microsoft Corp.
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MCI accused of harboring spammers
February 7, 2005
Telecommunications giant denies accusations by Spamhaus that it hosts a Web site distributing spamming tools.
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ISP wins $1 billion in spam suit
December 20, 2004
An Internet service provider filed suit against 300 spammers after its servers received up to 10 million spam e-mails a day in 2000.
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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.
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Comcast goofs in Russian spam blockade
March 3, 2004
Since Friday, Comcast subscribers have found themselves unable to send e-mail to Russian addresses thanks to an overactive spam filter.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Stopping spam at the source
August 23, 2004
New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work.
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Cisco Systems Inc.
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Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high
February 2, 2005
New spammer scheme uses ISPs to get around blacklists, leading one expert to predict "e-mail meltdown."
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Comcast takes hard line against spam
June 10, 2004
Blocking ports of suspect PCs draws criticism, but customers send 665 million e-mails daily.
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Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies
May 24, 2004
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how spammers are hijacking Comcast's network to transform subscriber PCs into spambots.
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Antispam methods aim to merge
October 24, 2003
A new group will try to settle the differences among competing methods of thwarting spam with a kind of caller ID for e-mail.
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IronPort to rate Web links in spam fight
January 24, 2006
Web reputation scoring added to catch more unwanted e-mail messages, including those with links to malicious Web sites.
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Brainier networking gear to the rescue
February 27, 2004
Smarter networking devices are helping network operators to better protect their resources from spammers, denial of service attackers and peer-to-peer bandwidth hogs.
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Cisco Systems Inc.
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Year in review: Spam can't be canned
January 2, 2004
Unwanted e-mail filled in-boxes by the billions in 2003, as legal and technical efforts to stop the scourge were ineffective.
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Microsoft Corp.
Police blotter: Mortgage 'spammers' sued by ISP
July 14, 2006
California Internet provider sues over mortgage spam, saying lenders violated Can-Spam Act, state laws.
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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.
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Six Apart Ltd.
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Spam may sprout viruses in home PCs
June 27, 2003
An e-mail security company says that junk e-mailers are making use of viruses to turn home computers into spam generators.
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MessageLabs Ltd.
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