The service, called Spamdetector, was developed by UCSB researchers.
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The company sent spam to Australian subscribers who had opted out of receiving promotions.
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The offering promises 100 percent uptime and no email-based viruses.
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Anthony Digati threatened to send millions of spam e-mails and social networking messages unless he was paid almost $200,000.
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Many experts question whether Microsoft's action will have any impact on spam levels.
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A McAfee report examines the top threats of Q4 2009.
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A recent phishing attack resulted in the theft of 250,000 carbon permits.
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Trend Micro researchers have already spotted Valentine's Day spam campaigns in the wild.
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The attacks exploit a Firefox vulnerability to cause chaos on IRC networks.
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The latest release changes the way the spam filter's rules are updated.
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Symantec security researchers say .cn spam has dropped significantly since a ban was imposed on individual .cn registrations.
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Cornel Ionut Tonita could face up to five years in prison.
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Russia overtook the U.S. and China as the world's leading source of cyber attacks according to Akamai Technologies' "State of the Internet" report for the third quarter of 2009.
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The action is a result of collaborative effort between Neustar and ISPs.
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McAfee on Monday released its latest spam report including the list of the Top 25 men and women found in spam subject lines in 2009.
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The spam filter includes a rule defining any year past 2009 as "grossly in the future."
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Spammers are now using Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces hosting environment to promote fraud sites.
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A New Zealand-based spammer has been fined $210,000 for sending more than 100,000 unsolicited spam e-mails.
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A SophosLabs researcher warns that Canadian online pharmacy spammers have begun embedding audio clips in their messages.
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The project has released a series of stats from the project, which has now been running for five years.
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