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Here’s a look at the top spam headlines for March: Commercial Spam Filters Getting Worse, Not Better: http://www.infoworld.com/t/anti-spam/report-spam-filters-are-getting-worse-189250 Canadian Businesses Worried About Anti-Spam Legislation: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/21/anti-spam-legislation-worries-businesses FCC Posts Voluntary Code of Conduct for ISPs In Bid to Fight Spam Spewing Botnets: …

Spring is in the air! You can tell, without need of a calendar, that old man Winter has wheezed out his last stale breath of frigid air. The ground begins to thaw and grass, the guiltless victim of months of …

The March 2012 report from Virus Bulletin doesn’t speak to highly of commercial spam filters. After a test of different email filtering solutions available for corporate users, the test director, Martijn Grooten had this to say: “This is a worrying …

  A new spam campaign is using fake DHL tracking notifications to deliver malware. The emails inform the recipient of a shipment that’s on the way to them and to check the attachment for details. In this zip file, there are two …

Nowadays, just about every organization that uses email has some sort of spam filtering solution in place. If they didn’t, their employees would be under an avalanche of junk mail promoting anything from pharmaceuticals to the promises of instant millions. …

As proof there is no honor among thieves (or hackers), the database of a message board that at one time was the uber-exclusive home of spammers and cybercriminals was turned over to a few security researchers. This came as the result …

If one is to believe the CRTC, then it appears that the much-ballyhooed Canadian Anti  Spam Law is about to become reality after two long years of controversy and debate.

  GoDaddy.com, a popular and controversial domain registrar, has over a quarter of a million spam domains on a group of servers called SPAM-AND-ABUSE.com. This domain is non-resolving so the sites who have had their name servers pointed to it are …

  It started out as nothing particularly new. An Indian spammer sent out a email blast to thousands of people. It was written in a foreign language and was promoting an Indian website. It wound up in the inboxes of people …

We (‘we’ meaning everybody) often speak about spam email as if it represents some demonic presence levied upon the world like a curse spawned in a Greek tragedy. Often, we tend to forget that not every spammer is a bearded, …