http://www.networkworld.com/topics/spam.html The latest spam and anti-spam news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070209-court-orders-spammers-to-pay.html A U.S. district court has ordered members of an alleged international spam ring to give up US$3.7 million that they made while sending out illegal e-mail messages pitching bogus weight-loss products and human growth hormone pills. Grant Gross 2009-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2009/062909lan2.html It didn't take long for spammers to learn their lesson. About seven months after the McColo shutdown took out their command-and-control operations, a similar shutdown last month was anticipated and routed around. Jeff Caruso 2009-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070109-fly-by-sms-death-threats-hold.html The federal government has issued a warning against fly-by criminals who are issuing SMS death threats to defraud victims. Darren Pauli 2009-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070109-backup-for.html Disaster recovery experts take note. One of the largest and most active botnets, US-based Cutwail, was able to recover in a few hours after the shutdown of its host ISP, Pricewert, an indication of how well spammers have adopted backup and recovery technology. Jack Loo 2009-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070109-google-spammers-regroup-after-isp.html Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages as they regain their capacity to send spam through hacked PCs, according to the latest statistics released by Google on Wednesday. Jeremy Kirk 2009-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070109-twitter-updates-make-photos-squashing.html The latest changes to Twitter are simple and unnoticeable at first, but they can make a world of difference for some users. Jared Newman 2009-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062909-michael-jacksons-death-spawns-malware.html As security researchers predicted last week, hackers have begun to use the death of pop star Michael Jackson to infect people's PCs with malware. Gregg Keizer 2009-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062909-better-business-endpoint-security.html I thought I would respond as a business owner to the BizFeed column published a few weeks ago about not running any endpoint protection. Certainly, you need something, and while there are numerous security suites from Symantec, McAfee, and the like that provide firewall and anti-virus, they aren't integrated programs: more a collection of software much the way Microsoft Office is a collection of word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. David Strom 2009-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062609-security-experts-visualize-botnets-with.html Not all botnets are organized in the same way. That's the conclusion of a report from Damballa which seeks to categorize the dominate structures. It attempts to explain why certain types of blocking and filtering will work against some botnets, and not for others. Robert Vamosi 2009-06-26T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062609-michael-jackson-death-spurs-spam.html Less than 24 hours after Michael Jackson's death, fraudsters are exploiting public interest with their attempts to spread spam and malware. Security researchers say they've observed hundreds of cases of malicious messages masquerading as information about Jackson's death. Some of them, they say, popped up within minutes of the news. Jr Raphael 2009-06-26T12:00:00-04:00