Unsolicited email messages, or spam, are on track to make up the majority of traffic on the internet. Since people's filters will be based on their in-box, there will be slight differences, he said. And as email usage spreads beyond PCs, fighting...
The theory has been used to attack junk emailers who take over computer systems to deliver spam as well as data 'scrapers' who pull information such as product prices from websites. The court said its ruling is narrow and should not be applied...
The show was massively oversubscribed this year and the crowded exhibition floor was a sea of marketing messages. For 'one night only' Tony Hallett hands over control of his regular column to a guest writer - silicon.com's own Will Sturgeon...
Another revealing aspect of the study was the fact that more than 60 per cent of spam messages are generated by zombie computers, which are PCs that have been hijacked - sometimes without their owners knowing - through the use of viruses or other...
A Florida man has been ordered to pay $11.2bn for sending millions of spam messages through the network of a small US internet service provider (ISP). Spam is not just a nuisance for individual computer users who find their inboxes clogged up with...
Microsoft announced in 2005 that it would be using the money from the settlement to fuel further anti-spam operations. MySpace.com has filed a lawsuit against Scott Richter, the so-called 'Spam King' who allegedly sent out millions of unsolicited...