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Spam: Not that Innocent Any More (Newsmaker of the Week)

With one in six consumers admitting they click on spam, Michael O’Reirdan, chairman of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) explains why consumers should consider spam as more than just a nuisance and prevent their computers from becoming bots.

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Spam Works. But Only Because You Click It.

The good news, MAAWG reports, is that 48 percent of respondents said they'd never opened one of those pitches to make a gajillion dollars from home or buy a new spouse from a former Soviet republic.

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Spam: Still A Shopper’s Paradise

All right, listen up people: We have a problem. I thought we'd resolved this during our talk last year, but it turns out some people out there are still using spam e-mail as their personal shopping mall.
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Secret war on web crooks revealed

Three times a year, senior technical officers from companies such as Google, Yahoo, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon meet to discuss ways of stopping the internet from being swamped by rising levels of spam, viruses and hacking attacks by organised criminals.
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Security Group Converges to Fight Internet Abuse

As cybercrime continues to proliferate on the Internet, one industry security group is hoping its work will help stem the tide of spam and scams.

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Time Running out for Companies to Take IPv6 Seriously

Interesting parallels can be drawn between the drive to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and efforts to confront the global warming crisis. Hopefully, the updated Internet addressing plan, which the technical community has pushed with mixed results for a decade, will gain traction in the same way that the green movement has during the past couple of years.

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