Some Internet users who seek bids Animals making their purchases online during this Christmas, they can become victims if they spam with unsolicited offers "too good to be true." To avoid this situation BSA publishes the results of a recent study conducted by Forrester Data on the impact of spam, and also announces a decalogue with tips for making purchases and safe navigation. (more...)
E-mail users inundated with unsolicited messages, or spam, have reasons to expect Microsoft to develop better tools to tackle the problem: Bill Gates is suffering more than anyone. (more...)
China is the second country in the world that ’spam’ ( ’spam’) generates, just behind the U.S., reported the local press. According to the Internet Society of China, 180, 400 blocked addresses by the International Organization Against Junk Mail last November had a Chinese server. Read the rest of this entry »
The world’s largest provider of Internet access, America Online, a subsidiary of Time Warner, said Monday that junk e-mail, known as’ spam ‘, fell more than 75 percent this year, based on its internal member reports. Read the rest of this entry »
The Dutch agency surveillance of telecommunications and mail (OPTA) has imposed fines of up to 42,500 euros against several individuals and small businesses to send spam. Read the rest of this entry »
VOIP uses the infrastructure of Internet-based protocol TCP/IP-, to transmit voice, without the use of conventional lines to establish the calls, making prices much lower than those of traditional telephony. Given its advantages, Bruce Schneier, renowned security researcher has drawn attention to the possibility that Internet telephony will become the new target of spammers. Read the rest of this entry »
ESTOs are among the findings of a report from the company Sophos, which reveals that among the 25 words that are included, all in English, nearly 40 percent are related to health, of which more than half are brands of drugs, mainly erectile dysfunction ( “Cialis” or “Viagra”). Read the rest of this entry »
The Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) has imposed so far this year their first four penalties for offenses arising from the sending of unsolicited commercial emails, known as’ spam ‘, as reported today in the Senate, its director, Jose Luis Pinar.
yes, it inherited from the sanctioning powers on spam last year as a result of the General Telecommunications Law, the AEPD has done research on 97 ’spam’, which led to the initiation of infringement proceedings 14 laws. Read the rest of this entry »
Spain is the fifth largest issuer of spam (junk emails) World of Europe and second, to generate 2.74 percent of the messages, according to data compiled by antivirus firm Sophos during the first quarter. United States retained first place in the world ranking, with 35.7 percent, but followed increasingly closely by South Korea, which emits one in four spam, compared to 13.4 percent in the quarter above. Read the rest of this entry »
“The spam has been a major problem throughout the world, not only in these two continents (Europe and USA),” Majoras said to reporters on a visit to Europe.
“Recently the ISPs seem to think that now comes under ’spam’ to the electronic mailboxes of consumers. These are the first good news I have heard about the ’spam’ – if true – since I started,” said . Read the rest of this entry »
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