One of the world’s most active spam botnets — Grum — was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security ...

According to San Francisco-based Ferris Research's newest report, spam's cost is primarily in lost worker time as employees filter spam, deal with false positives, and query corporate help desks for ...

We recently conducted a survey on international attitudes toward spam and presented the results at a meeting of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy. Our survey and analysis focused on ...

Last year, advertisers watched the progression of the CAN-SPAM Act with mild interest, only to discover to their surprise that much of the compliance burden and exposure now fell on them. And also ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - A couple hours south of the Twin Cities you'll come across the city of Austin, which some also refer to as "The City of Spam." "We have those visitors where this is their ...

This week on Security Levity… spam laws around the world. Many of us know about the U.S. federal law regulating spam, known as the CAN-SPAM Act (or at least we think we do). But what about the laws ...

Hell hath no fury like a woman spammed – take, for example, Susan Gunn, better known in Internet newsgroups as Shiksaa, the queen of all spam fighters. And hell hath spawned few more odious characters ...

Spam -- the canned meat and not Internet junk mail -- has inspired much devotion and derision since its creation in 1937. Google “Spam” and “meat,” and there are hundreds of websites discussing the ...

It's been 12 months since spam really burst into the public consciousness. Before then it had certainly been a well-publicized problem, but often only with the more tech-savvy while the wider public ...

The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries -- dubbed the "Dirty Dozen". The US ...