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Happy birthday, spam! On what 35 years of spam has gotten us
May 3, 2013
Thirty five years ago today, Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email. We mark the anniversary by trying to track down a spammer ourselves.
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Spam wars clog the Internet
Mar 28, 2013
If you found your Internet surfing coming up slow in recent days, it's possibly because of one of the biggest cyberattacks experts have ever seen.
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Call me a spammer? I'll attack the Internet
Mar 27, 2013
Why a site that rents space to just about anyone is attacking vulnerabilities in the basic architecture of the Internet.
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Worldwide Internet slows after massive spammer cyberattack
Mar 27, 2013
Internet users around the world have been noticing sluggish responses from even sophisticated computer systems such as Netflix after what's being called the 'world's largest cyberattack.'
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Online world anxious over new U.N. regulations
Dec 3, 2012
Heavy hitters in the online world worry that U.N. regulation could stifle the Internet's future.
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The surprising economics of spam
Aug 13, 2012
A look at the screwy economic model of that pesky inbox filler.
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Spam texts, and how to avoid them
May 15, 2012
Millions of spam texts are sent each day. Here's what to do when you get one.
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Spamming the 2012 election; tablets for bonobos!
Apr 2, 2012
Web security firm Impermium is charting the role of social media spam in the 2012 race for president. And researchers in Iowa are about to find out what happens when you give apes tablet computers. (Planet of the Apes, anyone?)
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Big email companies and online bankers fight phishing
Jan 30, 2012
Tech companies Google, Yahoo, Microsoft are teaming up with financial institutions to launch a project to stem the tide of email phishing or malicious spam offers flooding inboxes and destroying trust in email.
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