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Coventry is UK's spam hotspot
The Midlands city of Coventry has been named the most spammed place in all of the UK.
Nine out of 10 emails are spam
A report says that 90 per cent of emails are spam, claiming that criminals are combining their attack techniques.
MySpace wins $234 million against spammers
The social networking website wins a massive court judgement against junk mailers, although it will have a hard task collecting the award.
Facebook spammer ordered to pay millions in damages
A US court sends out a message that criminal spammers will face huge penalties if caught.
Pharmacy spammers abuse Google’s good name
Spammers are manipulating Google's logo to make it look as though the search giant has accredited a supposed online pharmacy.
Researchers hijack Storm botnet for spam study
Californian researchers pretend to be spammers, discovering that it takes millions of email messages to get a sale, but botnets are still profitable.
Alton crowned Britain’s spam capital
The second most spammed town last year, Alton gets to the number one spot in 2009. But why are spammers ignoring Fareham?
UK tops list of Nigerian spam targets
A worldwide spam analysis experiment reveals that those spammers just can’t resist targeting British internet users with bogus deals and money...
Swine Flu: Pigs fly into our inboxes
Swine Flu is no laughing matter but many spammers have started to trivialise the issue by clogging our inboxes.
Attachment spam on the rise
Spammers increasingly turn to attachment spam as a means of avoiding detection by junk mail filters.
Spammers get business savvy
Security threats in January have increasingly focused on search engines, latest news, and seasonal trends to entrap unwary users, a new security...
First wave of MP3 spam targets unwary music fans
MP3 files posing as pop music clips show that spammers are trying new ways to lower people's guard
Waledac spammers fake ‘bomb blast’ news story
Malware authors use geolocation technology to make the attack more convincing and persuade users to click on malicious links.
Spammers using PDF to avoid detection
The first spam email with a PDF attachment was detected in early June, and now PDF spam is making up eight per cent of all junk mail.
Latest spam emails are 'almost foolproof'
Spammers are taking advantage of brand reputations to create spam that looks exactly like legitimate mail.
Wikipedia takes on spammers with new links policy
The online encyclopaedia attempts to cut down on link spamming by tagging external URLs so that search engines will ignore them.
Ukrainian heads up top ten spammer list
Anti-spam outfit names and shames world's most prolific spammers
Spammers charged for pump and dump scam
Stock scammers used spam to defraud investors of over a million dollars
Today in tech: Steve Jobs' email angst, Twitter stops the spammers
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