Hydra-headed 'Storm' attack starts

Web-based attack poses as greeting card, tries three exploits June 28, 2007 -- A new round of greeting-card spam that draws users to visit attack sites relies on a sophisticated multipronged, multiexploit ... via Computerworld - Original Story

FBI: Don't Open Emails

According to an advisory today, the Department of Justice has recently become aware of fraudulent spam e-mail messages claiming to be from the Department of Justice, or DOJ. via News Max - Original Story

US porn spammers guilty as charged

Two men who ran a spam operation to promote pornographic websites had the book thrown at them today. via Channel Register - Original Story

Bogus E-Mail, FTC Warning Consumers

"This country has a long tradition of open court proceedings, and we're pleased that as we present our case to the Court of Appeals, the millions of affected AT&T customers will be able to see our arguments and evidence and judge for themselves." Consumers, including corporate and banking executives, appear to be targets of a bogus e-mail supposedly sent by the Federal Trade Commission but actually sent by third parties hoping to install spyware on ... via Technology News Daily - Original Story

Re: 3D Mailbox

"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world" Robert Savage is a software inventor with all his heart, producing many awe-inspiring and highly original results. via Google Blogoscoped - Original Story

FBI Pulls Plug on Several Botnet Hackers

"You've got to do the same types of things with your computers." More than 1 million computers _ possibly yours, too _ are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.But the FBI has pulled the plug on several botnet hackers, or zombies. One man was charged this week in a scheme that froze computer systems at Chicago-area hospitals in 2006 and delayed medical services. Read more - Original Story

SMX Notes - SEO, Meet SMM

"Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about a brand forever." Ready to get more out of social media? The leaders in social media marketing dish on how to get in on the action-everything from why to where to how. via Marketing Pilgrim - Original Story

Making the Most of Apple Mail

At first glance, Mail seems to be a simple e-mail client, but there is quite a lot of power beneath its Spartan exterior. via InformIT - Original Story

New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper

"It's going to be yet another update that will have to be made to the filtering programs in order to be effective in blocking this new methodology." A new type of image spam found this week is able to bypass many filters by presenting a message as wallpaper within an e-mail, according to the vendor Secure Computing. via Network World NetFlash - Original Story

NY man pleads guilty to spamming AOL subscribers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Monday to sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.Adam Vitale, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to breaking anti-spam laws. He was caught making a deal with a government informant that sent spam e-mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the product's profits, prosecutors said.According to prosecutors, Vitale and another man, Todd Moeller, defeated AOL's filter system by using several different computer servers to relay the e-mails and changed the e-mail header information to ensure the spam e-mails could not be traced back to them. Read more - Original Story

Fast Forward's Help File

"The spammer community has gotten pretty sophisticated" Q Some of the spam I get doesn't seem to advertise anything at all -- it's just meaningless strings of letters. via Washington Post - Original Story

Putting spam back in the can

"I wanted to let you know about a service called Project Honey Pot " Junk email wasn't on the radar. But it didn't take long for advertisers to realise the Net was a great new promo vehicle. via P2pnet.net - Original Story

printer version

A new Lyris deliverability report shows content isn't a major reason ISP spam filters deliver your messages to your recipients' junk folders or block them outright. via Clickz - Original Story

Tech, digital music searches are riskiest

"We've seen some incremental steps in the right direction" Search terms related to technology and digital music are most likely to return Internet sites with spyware, adware and spam associated with them, a new study finds. via Star Tribune - Original Story

Spam King Just A Criminal Joker

"Our investigators dubbed him the 'Spam King' because he is responsible for millions of spam e-mails ." Spam King Indicted on Multiple Counts of Fraud, ID Theft May 31, 2007, By Gina M. Scott On May 30, 2007 Robert Alan Soloway, one of the most persistent professional spammers, was arrested after being indicted ... via Legal Search Engine Blog - Original Story