Stories on spam.
Sanford
Wallace finally had a big corporation come after him — Newscorp. In May of
2008, he was hit with a $230 million dollar fine for spamming MySpace. He
should have held out a few more months and then asked the government for a
bailout. On a similar note, Seattle Spammer Robert Soloway was convicted on
three charges and faces up to 27 years in prison.
Spammers spoofing news
organizations is nothing new, and spoofing in general is a technique almost as
old as spam itself. However, in August of this year, spammers released a new
outbreak of spam that looked exactly like a CNN breaking news report. What set
this one apart was how legitimate it looked and the size of the spam outbreak.
The payload led users to get their computers infected with malware; the
spammers did their homework on this one.
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