Sanford Wallace ordered to pay for Facebook spam
Facebook has won a lawsuit filed against Sanford Wallace for spamming on their network.
The courts have awarded damages worth 711 million dollars.
Wallace is popularly known as the Spam King and Spamford due to his company’s profile.
He also now faces criminal charges and a possible jail [...]
China take steps to control mobile sms spam
Chinese media has announced that the government has taken some steps to control mobile SMS spam problem in the country.
They are planning to put a limit on number of SMS messages a number can send.
China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom have all signed on an agreement [...]
Symantec: 90% of email is spam now
Security Company Symantec has revealed in a report that as much as 90% of emails on corporate networks were spam last month.
This is an increase of around 5% compared to the previous month.
This is however not a surprising finding as spam could easily count for between 85-95% emails [...]
McAfee: SPAM is environmentally unfriendly
Security applications developer McAfee has revealed in their latest report that SPAM messages are not just nuisance they are also environmentally unfriendly.
The company said in their new report titled ‘Carbon Footprint of E-mail Spam Report’ that a single spam message results in 0.3 grams of carbon dioxide being released into [...]
Virginia Supreme Court rules in favor of spammer
Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s anti-spam laws are in fact unconstitutional as they violate free-speech protections of the First Amendment.
This is a major victory for spammers like Jeremy Jaynes who would benefit from this ruling.
Jeremy Jaynes in fact has his conviction reversed. He is one [...]
Signal Spam: France trying to cut down SPAM mails
The French government has announced a new project which has been designed to help cutting down SPAM Mails.
They are funding development of this new project named Signal Spam which would enable the web users to alert their ISPs when they get SPAM mails from their networks.
This software [...]
Marshal: YouTube servers being used to send spam mail
Security firm Marshal has said in a report that Google owned video sharing service YouTube is being used to send spam mails. These mails are being delivered through YouTube servers.
Bradley Anstis, Marshal’s director of product management spoke on their research findings: “YouTube users have a facility where [...]
Adobe states that user has no risk from PDF attachment spam mails
There is new kind of spam mail hitting the user’s inbox around the world. These new spam mails come with PDF file attachments containing the spammer’s message.
However, Adobe has said that the users have no reasons to worry from these new kind of mails [...]
PineApp survey highlights growing threat from image based spam
50% of organisations not coping with image-based spam
24 July 2007: A survey by PineApp of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found that whilst 97% have anti-spam solutions, half of the respondents complained that they were not dealing effectively with the growing problem [...]
FBI sources say spam related prosecutions expected to increase
FBI special agent J. Keith Mularski said in a statement that they have around 70 active investigations into spam-related crimes.
And the number is expected to increase in the future as the industry works with the government agencies to decrease the mess spam has become for the [...]
