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Main Page  »  Spam
View Article  Top Spammer Arrested
Several news organizations are reporting the arrest of Robert Alan Soloway, allegedly one of the top ten spammers in the world.
View Article  Pew Study on SPAM
Since we all deal with spam, I thought everyone might be interested in the Pew Research Report on SPAM. This is a 12 page PDF file which require Adobe Acrobat Reader or a plugin for Acrobat in your browser.
View Article  New Anti-Spam Technology
News.com reports on "DomainKeys Identified Mail" a new technology that several large companies such as Cisco and Yahoo are promoting as a way to stop spam.
View Article  Postini Reports Large Increase in Spam/Web Borne Attacks
Postini, the spam and virus filtering service used by MCN, recently reported a large increase in spam and virus attacks.
"Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions for email, instant messaging and the web, today announced that in April a series of significant email virus attacks, designed to expand botnet networks, contributed to a continued rise in global spam levels. For the month of April, more than 93% of all email traffic was spam and viruses."