Last month MySpace won the largest anti-spam payout ever made totalling US$234 million. Now the social network can add another US$6 million to their haul.This latest judgement is against Scott Ritcher based on spam he sent to users on MySpace back in August 2006. The lawsuit was started in January 2007 and went into arbitration [...]

Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message.
Gary Theurk, an employee at Digital Equipment Company, sent a message on Arpanet to hundreds of fellow users on 1 May 1978.

Vital business emails are going astray, intercepted and quarantined by YahooXtra’s spam filters without the knowledge of the sender or the receiver.
Wellington-based Graphic Dimensions, which provides IT support and services to architectural design companies, has had problems sending email to xtra.co.nz addresses since the beginning of February.
Email from the company, which is also an Xtra [...]

Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals.
According to the company’s Intelligence Report for February, 4.6 percent of spam originates from webmail-based services, notably Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. While Yahoo still [...]

I’ve had my iPhone for months now and, until about two weeks ago, I was secretly unhappy with how it handled my email. You see, I get lots of email. Lots and lots, as a matter of fact, and it comes into twelve different accounts. I used to use Apple’s Mail to manage it on [...]

Over the weekend, pornographic images and videos began appearing on Google Groups pages, along with infectious malware.
"These pages push other porn pages for profit," said Alex Eckelberry, CEO of security company Sunbelt Software, in a blog post. "While not all of the redirects go to malware sites, we did observe some redirects to a site [...]

With all the press on spam and illicit emails; with all the concern over how to fix the problem; with all the money that companies have thrown at the issue of uncontrollable email spam without effect, it took a successful precious metals dealer named John Halloran to finally bring to market an effective solution that [...]

Taragana Inc, announced the launch of Comment Guard Pro, a third generation comment spam protection
software for WordPressâ„¢ blogs which uses expert system with pluggable rules to accurately classify
comments.

According to police in Arlington Heights, Ill., residents are being warned about spam e-mails demanding money and threatening those who do not comply with death.
Police said the scam e-mails, which first started showing up about eight months ago, told recipients they were being watched, and that they had to send $15,000 or $20,000, depending on [...]

A handful of botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of spam, according to web security experts.
Marshal’s TRACE team, which monitors spam, phishing and virus activity around the world, has identified the six botnets that it says are sending the bulk of spam.
Botnets are virtual networks of private computers that are secretly controlled and used [...]