August 30, 2007

Ministry of Commerce Sends Spam Mail

Donga.com - The Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy sent e-mail promoting the second inter-Korean summit scheduled for October and criticizing the Grand National Party to tens of thousands people yesterday. The content of the email is not related to the …

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Move Over Spam: ‘Bacn’ Is the E-Mail Dish Du Jour

NPR News - “Bacn” (pronounced “bacon”) is e-mail you want to read — just not now. NPR.org , August 29, 2007 · First there was spam. Now there is bacn (pronounced “bacon”), the latest buzzword to infiltrate the Internet. What is bacn? According to the …

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Wave of text-message spam hits area cell users

KOMO-TV - SEATTLE — A large number of cellular phone customers received unwanted text messages over the weekend pitching a penny stock. It’s not an entirely new problem, but the volume of spam that got through over the last few days was larger than normal …

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PDF spam levels plummet

Network World Fusion - The unwanted e-mails with PDF files attached – usually pushing the recipient to purchase a penny stock that the spammer then dumps once the trading price goes up – comprise less than 1% of spam today, according to security vendor Sophos. PDF spam …

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News of the Weird

Minneapolis Star Tribune - … and Athens, Texas (in August), sponsored their own versions of Redneck Games, with events such as mud-pit belly-flopping, seed-spitting and making armpit music (Georgia), as well as (in Texas) “redneck horseshoes” (played with toilet seats), a Spam …

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‘YouTube’ email turns PCs into spam machines (Mail and Guardian)

A new email urging recipients to watch a video of themselves on YouTube actually directs them to a fake site that infects their computers and turns them into spam machines, security experts have warned.

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Storm Worm Spam Spoofs YouTube (PC World)

Latest spam blast invites recipients to see themselves in a video, but ‘YouTube’ link leads to malware.

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Ministry of Commerce Sends Spam Mail (donga.com)

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy sent e-mail promoting the second inter-Korean summit scheduled for October and criticizing the Grand National Party to tens of thousands people yesterday.

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Facebook Cracks Down on Developer Spam (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Three months after it opened its platform to outside developers, Facebook Inc. is taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in what the social networking company considers inappropriate actions.

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PDF spam levels plummet - ARNnet

PDF spam levels plummetARNnet, Australia - 2 hours ago7 at nearly 30 percent of all spam messages sent, PDF spam today is hardly registering on e-mail security vendors' spamometers. The unwanted e-mails with …Sophos: Scammers dropping PDF spam SC Magazine USPDF Spam Declines Sharply Dark ReadingPDF spam on the wane BCSMyADSL - VNUNet.comall 15 news articles

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