The Register - Security: Spam

Biting the hand that feeds IT

Yahoo! and! Adobe! sign! ad-packed! PDF! pact! - November 29, 2007

Acrobat Reader to display 'message from our sponsor' Despite my ma always saying if you knew your times tables as well as your adverts, people today still cant escape advertising and the problems set to get even worse. Yahoo! has signed up with Adobe to incorporate targeted adverts into PDF documents.
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Celebrity spam gang whips up a storm - November 28, 2007

Stealth botnet responsible for huge spam surge A copycat spam gang has launched an effort to compromise PCs that rivals the botnet created by the infamous Storm Worm Gang.
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Al Gore climate change site hacked - November 27, 2007

Penis pill outrage A blog on a site promoting Al Gore's climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.
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UK punters lose faith in phished brands - November 26, 2007

Collateral damage Email phishing attacks tarnish the reputations of targeted firms, according to a new UK survey. Two in five UK adults (42 per cent) quizzed feel that their trust in a brand would be "greatly reduced" if they received a phishing email purporting to represent it.
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Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters - November 6, 2007

Spammers feel lucky Advanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk mail business are getting into the act, Symantec reports.
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AOL spammer gets two years in the slammer - November 4, 2007

Spam scam sting yields results A New Jersey man has been jailed for more than two years after he was convicted of sending millions of junk mails to AOL members.
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Irish man rescued after falling for 419 scam - November 1, 2007

After being swindled, man traveled to Ghana to recover funds An Irish man who was kidnapped after falling for an email fraud scam was rescued when police raided a hotel in the capital of Ghana where he was being held captive.
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