Spammers go down to Georgia (iTNews)
The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is showing that the war in Georgia is being used to evade spam filters.
Obama, Olympics spam popular as year-over-year volume grows (Ars Technica)
Last month, spammers used various techniques to stay ahead of the game for mass sending out spam. Reports from MessageLabs and Symantec detail some of the techniques used by spammers in July. Read More...
ACLU, Anti-Spam Laws, and the First Amendment (CircleID)
It's been interesting to watch the ACLU wrestle with anti-spam legislation. Their entire purpose is to work through the legal system to protect our civil rights, as defined in the First Amendment —which is why I've been a card-carrying member since before I was old enough to vote—so of course they're going to push back against any perceived abridgment of the right to free speech, including ...
Anti-Obama Bloggers Say They Were Silenced (The New York Sun)
Web loggers who are campaigning against Senator Obama's presidential run are accusing Google and Obama supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen. On Thursday, hours after publishing a post about an online petition demanding that Mr. Obama publicly produce his birth certificate, an associate professor of business administration at ...
McAfee Inc. Wins User Choice Award for Desktop, File Server, and Email Security (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
McAfee, Inc. today announced that its McAfee® Total Protection Service Advanced was named as a winner of the "2008 Community Choice Awards" in the Antispam Solution Business Category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro.