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Democratic attorney general candidate Jeff Harris said Thursday that he wants to expand the state's no-call list and crack down on e-mail spammers.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.

CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work.

A casual glance at my spam folder today shows nearly 850 bulk messages sitting there.

Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013.

Bahamians are the latest target for thebahamasweekly.com spammers. Most Bahamians have unsophisticated anti-spam protection, and thebahamasweekly.com spammers have shifted their tactics to take advantage of ...

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Q.I have been receiving an enormous number of Nigerian scam e-mails. They're being directed to my spam file, but they've become so rampant that I wish to formally complain to an appropriate group for intervention. I don't know who to turn to. Is there a federal agency that deals with this?

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three fre email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...

My laptop is now running so unbelievably slow that I'm sure something nasty is running on it. It's also crashing a lot recently. I'm running Avast, Zonealarm, Spybot S&D and Spyware Terminator, so it's reasonably well protected, but I still think some nasty little thing has got through.