It might seem rather harsh to say that junk mail tends to emerge from certain countries but a recent study has confirmed that this is indeed the case. The person who carried out the investigation is based in the Netherlands and he discovered that around half of the junk mail which is out and about on the internet comes from just 20 internet service providers. Some of the...
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Microsoft announced on Monday that it would offer a £155,000 ($250,000) reward for information that leads to the arrest of the creators and operators of the Rustock botnet spam operation. The creators of Rustock botnet, the mother of all spam bots, is based in Russia. It was reported to sent out around 30 billion spam emails per day, mostly for Viagra. They are also resposible...
Google’s new social networking service might be an effective way to take on the mighty Facebook, but it looks like it could allocate a larger budget to the project after a disk space error bombarded users with email notifications over the weekend. The spam messages that were sent to the users’ emails were the product of bugs in the Google+ code. It kicked in...