http://goldsteinreport.com/ RSS feed for the Spam category. en-au Sat, 11 May 2013 19:21:27 +1000 Copyright: Goldstein Report 2005-2006 http://goldsteinreport.com/page?id=rss 120 http://goldsteinreport.com/images/site/rsslogo2.jpg http://goldsteinreport.com/ http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20251 Spammers revived some old scams during the first three months of the year to wrap their tentacles around unsuspecting netizens, according to junk mail fighters. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20251 Sat, 11 May 2013 19:20:41 +1000 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20243 "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." The first spam message, sent in 1971, was very much of its time. It was born when Peter Bos, an engineer at MIT, used his privileges as a system administrator to urge a thousand fellow engineers -- including some at the Pentagon -- to oppose the Vietnam War. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20243 Fri, 10 May 2013 11:53:45 +1000 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20016 A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20016 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:30:10 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20003 After a lull of several months spammers stepped up their activity in February. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the proportion of spam in email traffic grew by nearly 13 percentage points and aver-aged 71% for the month, higher than the average for January and the last three months of 2012. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=20003 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:29:51 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19994 It might be heresy for some to say this, but not all bacon is welcome. Especially when we are talking bacn rather than bacon. One is all the not-quite-junk mail messages that land in your inbox and the other is the tasty stuff that sits happily alongside sausages, fried bread and the other cast members of the full English breakfast. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19994 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:47:28 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19970 About 50% of all junk mail on the net emerges from just 20 internet service providers, a study has found. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19970 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:42:06 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19805 German email security provider Eleven announced on Wednesday it has released the Eleven Email Security Report February 2013, which signals the United States' return to being the highest total spam volume in the world. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19805 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:29:01 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19670 Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19670 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:48:15 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19661 Spam email is on the wane. And no one on God's green Earth is going to miss it. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19661 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:35:43 +1100 Spam http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19651 Last week, National Public Radio aired a story on my Pharma Wars series, which chronicles an epic battle between men who ran two competing cybercrime empires that used spam to pimp online pharmacy sites. As I was working with the NPR reporter on the story, I was struck by how much spam has decreased over the past couple of years. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19651 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:42:18 +1100 Spam