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Google's hosted applications are always a favourite for spammers, and now Google Sites, a free hosting service, is moving to centre stage. Security firm Sophos has launched a Spam Pledge to mark the 30th anniversary of junk email, urging users to help stamp out the scourge of spam. Anti-spam firm MXSweep has reported that MP3-based pump-and-dump spam now accounts for up to 10 percent of all spam sent.. Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.
Spammers have developed automated techniques to create fake pages on Google's Blogger service that are used to hawk typical junk mail merchandise. Though worldwide spam levels are still diminished in the wake of the McColo hosting-company shutdown, it may only be a matter of time before they come roaring back. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. Spammers are increasingly turning to hosted services to ship out their junk mail, the latest threat report from MessageLabs revealed. Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today.. A list of the five most spammed people in Britain, found one person received 44,000 unwanted emails a day. Happy birthday, spam. Saturday marked 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered. MySpace has won its legal challenge against two individuals who bombarded its members with spam.. 96.63 per cent of all email scanned. Emails promising PlayStations and copies of game contain malware. Thousands of chief executives in the United States were targeted Monday by a new round of phishing emails that claim to contain a subpoena ordering recipients to testify in court. Cybercriminals are playing off the interest in celebrity gossip by sending email that promises erotic pictures of stars such as Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears but are instead sending a trojan, Panda Security researchers have found. The RSA Conference continues to strengthen its hold as the industry's most important gathering for IT security pros. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading on three thinly-traded stocks that the agency said were being touted in spam and YouTube campaigns. Robert Alan Soloway, the so-called "spam king," pleaded guilty on Friday after prosecutors charged him with using botnets to deliver millions of unwanted junk mail messages to victims across the world. Spam — spearheaded by a Storm Worm-related spike in malicious e-card messages — has driven the level of junk messages to more than eight in 10 emails.