An anonymous spammer took credit on Friday for taking part in a campaign by hundreds of junk e-mailers to disable the websites of antispam firm Blue Security and affiliated internet companies. In a ...
“Ed,” a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in $10,000 to $15,000 a week, storing the money ...
Google's Gmail spam filters may block the bulk of spam from hitting your inbox, but according to one researcher it won't filter spam from a spoofed @gmail.com address. No one likes spam and for the ...
Joe Stewart was poring over the complex computer code of a widespread new virus named “SoBig,” wondering what it was really designed to do. Then it hit him. This was not your typical attention-getting ...
Last week, the Daily Dot taught you how to spot a Pinterest spammer. Now that same spammer has spotted us. After he read our article about his process of spamming Pinterest through thousands of bot ...
The Federal Communications Commission is trying its best to reign in the growing problem of robocall spam. Now, the regulatory agency has issued its biggest fine ever against Miami-based robocall ...
A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack. Blue ...