Spam Stories for 2010

Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming 64
The Significant Decline of Spam 263
Spammers Finally Under the Legal Gun? 204
Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info 295
Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers 124
Over 40% of New Mechanical Turk Jobs Involve Spam 56
Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? 108
A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man 233
Hackers Blamed For MessageLabs Spam Blunder 44
Bredolab Botnet Taken Down 187
Spammers 'Gearing Up' Botnets For Holiday Rush 30
Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs 162
Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion 379
One Man's Fight Against Forum Spam 245
Attack Targets LinkedIn Users With Fake Contact Requests 122
Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm 221
Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data 128
Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls 63
Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network 85
Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet 129
Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam 250
ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack 251
Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World 186
Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains 147
When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies 234
Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K 378
420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone 71
China Drops In Domain Registrations From #2 To #4 38
FTC Bombs Massive Robocall Operation 154
Russian Anti-Spam Advisor Accused of Spamming 69
Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups 157
The US Continues Its Reign As King of Spam 118
Computer Competency Test For Non-IT Hires? 369
Several Link-Spam Architectures Revealed 38
Escalating Gmail/Spamming Attacks 139
Google Says Spam Volumes On the Rise 187
Spamming a Judge Is Contempt of Court 280
Millions Continue To Click On Spam 210
1st Trial Under California Spam Law Slams Spammer 126
Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot 77
Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains 97
Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day 211
Spam Hits Google Buzz Already 135
Interview With a Convicted 419 Scammer 184
Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery 353
By Latest Count, 95% of Email Is Spam 198
Court Rules WHOIS Privacy Illegal For Spammers 169
Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs 135
Fake "Bill Gates" Message Dupes Top Tools 117
Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up 178
SpamAssassin 2010 Bug 115

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