Friday, May 20, 2011 - 10:00am
Could we have discovered the achilles heel of spamlords? A team of UCAL researchers seem to think so. Oh please, let them be right.
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Friday, March 18, 2011 - 3:15pm
Good news, haters of spam: Microsoft just took down the massive botnet known as Rustock, and with it, 39% of global spam. Holy moly.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 10:29am
Go figure, but a fellow named Igor A. Gusev who runs a website called SpamIt.com is also one of Russia's most heinous spam-enabling kingpins. After Russian authorities started cracking down on his operation, the volume of emails sent around the world dropped by one-fifth.
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 6:44am
That didn't take long. We're on day two of Apple's Ping and it's already showing the telltale signs of a social network being dirtied up. It doesn't take long for prospectors to spot a potential gold mine, and by "prospectors," of course, I mean no good dirty spammers.
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 5:09am
If you don't mind a little confusion when you refer to your inbox, this Computer Mailbox will help in advertising your allegiance to all things tech. Despite the gag concept, it's actually a pretty well-made product, with the PC-shaped exterior...
