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 [...]

Websense has acquired Defensio
Web security service provider Websense has announced that they are acquiring Defensio.
Defensio is one of the few challengers of Akismet which provides blog spam protection services.
The financial aspects of this deal have not been revealed.
Websense said in its statement that they would now integrate Defensio into its ThreatSeeker Network.
They [...]

AT&T being criticized for American Idol related text spam
AT&T is a sponsor of the popular television show American Idol.
The US based telecom giant is being criticized on how they SMSed a large number of their subscribers to watch the season premiere of “American Idol” which debuted earlier this week.
AT&T claims that they only targeted the [...]

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 [...]

China to target mobile phone spammers
Chinese authorities have said that they are now investigating into the growing trend of mobile spamming.
Liu Yue, deputy head of the State Council’s Office for Rectifying Malpractice said in a statement: “We urge parties concerned to beef up self-scrutiny to correct their wrongdoing, which is profit-seeking in defiance of public [...]

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 [...]