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Symantec's MessageLabs division warns that more and more spammers are using shortened URLs to cover to evade spam filters.

Associate Director, Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection Bureau Thursday, August 26, 2004; 3:00 PM U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major crackdown on e-mail scammers this week.

July 8, 2009, 06:36 AM - Spam levels are climbing again, as spammers ramp up efforts to clog inboxes and lure e-mail users into giving up personal or financial information.

Intego's Personal Antispam X5 10.5.2 is a solid anti-spam program, as long as you're using Mail or Entourage .

ALEX MCCUAIG This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The teenaged woman charged in the Labour Day killing of Sharmake Warsame and beating of Abdiraham Kerow in Brooks pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser charge but still received a three-year sentence.

I'll tell you a little secret: I love spam. No, not that icky meat-like stuff in a can.

Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And now, cell phones are getting spam.

The word 'Spam' originated as a canned meat product from the Hormel Company. It was introduced in 1937, but it became a commercial success during World War II, when canned meat was a necessity for the soldiers.

The number of botnets and of computers controlled by them in China has fallen in recent years, though the country remains a top host for the networks of compromised computers, according to the government and independent researchers.

Q. I've heard of spam before, but recently someone on the radio mentioned something called v-spam. Do you know what that is, Mr.

Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers.

An individual pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for his role in creating and marketing software designed and used to send bulk commercial e-mails, known as "spam," in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan ...

Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90% of e-mail. And now, cellphones are getting spam.

I got my first SMS spam message last week and it infuriated me. The mortgage-related text message was more than just a nuisance, like e-mail spam is.

NEW YORK - New York's attorney general charged Thursday that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide _ by sending e-mails that raided their private accounts.

Over the weekend, a handful of U.S. government Web sites came under a denial of service attack, in which huge amounts of data are thrown at a server in an attempt to overwhelm it.

Short URLs, Big Trouble? Security firm says the bad guys are exploiting a popular resource.

A computer virus is a dangerous program containing a destructive payload that is designed to ensure its own survival by copying itself into other programs throughout an infected computer, and to make copies of itself in order to infect other computers that can be accessed through that computer's network connection, or through portable media.

Internet users witnessed yet another wave of spam, worms, viruses and other online attacks in 2004, and experts predict the online world will grow even more dangerous in 2005.

A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty in a Detroit federal courtroom in a scam involving bulk commercial e-mails called spam.