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Email Spam News

• Google sees new spam players on the horizon
  

  A new crop of spam providers is set to emerge, according to security researchers at Google.

  
  
  
• Jackson's death brings out spam, scams
  

  Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden high demand for information.

  
  
  
• International trio unites to fight spam Jul 05, 2004
  

  The 'Memorandum of Understanding' aims to deal with spam in a number of ways. International solutions and strengthening capabilities will be developed to trace and convict spammers; and cross border enforcement against spammers will take effect.

  
  
  
• Virus Bulletin names top spam blockers
  

  Security magazine Virus Bulletin has issued the results of a new test for spam blocking software.

  
  
  
• When it Comes to Spam, Everything Old is New Again
  

  Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 1, 2009 9:13 AM / << Prior Post Google released some interesting data about the volume and types of attacks its spam detection software identified over the last quarter.

  
  
  
• Microsoft unleashes five service packs for its enterprise security wares
  

  In the past week, Microsoft has launched service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.

  
  
  
• Idaho hospital wishes MJ virus would beat it
  

  An Idaho hospital wishes that a virus that arrived on a Michael Jackson-related spam e-mail would just beat it.

  
  
  
• Beyonce Partners With Show Your Helping Hand(TM) Campaign to Help Fight Hunger in America
  

  WHO: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Beyonce Houston community leader, Pastor Rudy of St.

  
  
  
• SPAMfighter Launches New Anti-Spam Protection for Mozilla Thunderbird Users
  

  COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, July 03, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SPAMfighter, the company backed by the world's largest spam fighting community, today announces that its award-winning anti-spam software now supports open source e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. As part of its overall mission to eradicate spam, SPAMfighter is now extending its leading ...

  
  
  
• Holiday Travel Gets Mixed Reviews
  

  Most people report seeing heavier than expected traffic. PRINCETON- -- A decline in holiday traffic may make your fourth of July trip a little easier.

  
  
  
• Michael Jackson "secret songs" e-mail poison, says Sophos
  

  An e-mail claiming to contain a link to "secret songs and photos" of Michael Jackson is one of the latest malware spam attacks to exploit the singer's death, says security firm Sophos.

  
  
  
• not a Safe Haven
  

  Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.