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1 hr ago | MELODIKA.net

Beyonce Partners With Show Your Helping Hand(TM) Campaign to Help Fight Hunger in America

WHO: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Beyonce Houston community leader, Pastor Rudy of St.

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Related Topix: Houston, TX, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Sheila Jackson-Lee

5 hrs ago | Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

SPAMfighter Launches New Anti-Spam Protection for Mozilla Thunderbird Users

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, July 03, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SPAMfighter, the company backed by the world's largest spam fighting community, today announces that its award-winning anti-spam software now supports open source e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. As part of its overall mission to eradicate spam, SPAMfighter is now extending its leading ...

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Related Topix: World News, Denmark, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology

9 hrs ago | WVNS-TV Ghent

Holiday Travel Gets Mixed Reviews

Most people report seeing heavier than expected traffic. PRINCETON- -- A decline in holiday traffic may make your fourth of July trip a little easier.

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Related Topix: West Virginia

14 hrs ago | Computer Weekly

Michael Jackson "secret songs" e-mail poison, says Sophos

An e-mail claiming to contain a link to "secret songs and photos" of Michael Jackson is one of the latest malware spam attacks to exploit the singer's death, says security firm Sophos.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computer Security, Software, Spyware

18 hrs ago | Canada.com

not a Safe Haven

Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Computer Security, Science / Technology

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jackson hackers hijack Sydney radio website

Tim Little behind the mic for his weekly dance music radio show. Asher Moses July 2, 2009 - 10:40AM A Sydney radio show has been caught up in a global Michael Jackson spam storm, after its website was hijacked in a bid to infect users with malware.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computer Security, Internet

CIO Today

Celebrity Deaths Drive Spam, with Jackson Pervasive

The deaths of Michael Jackson and other celebrities is driving a flood of spam, malware and other scams.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Computer Security, Science / Technology, Software

Federal Trade Commission

Court Orders Spammers to Give Up $3.7 Million

A U.S. district court has ordered key players in an international spam ring to give up $3.7 million that they made by sending out illegal e-mail messages pitching bogus hoodia weight-loss products and a "human growth hormone" pill they claimed reversed the aging process.

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Adotas

Email spam in June worst since 2007

MessageLabs Intelligence released its numbers for June, and it's amazing any gets an email or link with getting spammed or running into malware.

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GHacks

Trap Spammers with Project Honey Pot

Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

American Chronicle

FTC Shuts Down Internet Provider Specializing in Kiddie Porn, Fraud & Spam

The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that a federal judge shut down a rogue ISP , that knowingly participated in a wide array of illegal activity.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology, Spyware, Prison, Opinion

PC World

Google: Spammers Regroup After ISP Takedowns

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.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Computers

CNET News.com

Botnets lead the way for spam

Spam made up 90.4 percent of all e-mail traffic in June, with botnets accounting for the vast majority of those unsolicited messages, according to a new report from Symantec's MessageLabs.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Spyware, Emerging Technology

Customer Interaction Solutions

EmailWire Press Release Services Shows 'How to Defend Against New Botnet Attacks'

Houston, TX i 1 2 Learn how to uncover and protect against new botnets with a free white paper download of i 1 2How to Defend Against New Botnet Attacks:i 1 2 http://groupweb.tradepub.com/free/w_sym47/ According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008.

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Related Topix: Computer Security, Startups, Symantec, Science / Technology, Software, Non-Profit, Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Search Engines

The Age

Alarm over 'life or death' SMS alert

The communications regulator has sounded the alarm after receiving a number of complaints from Australians who received SMS messages containing death threats.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

WOWK

Gallia Sheriff Investigating Shooting

The Gallia County Sheriff's Department is investigating a shooting that happened Saturday night in Centenary on State Route 141.

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Marco Eagle

2009 Spammy Jammy

The 16th Annual Spammy Jammy was held Saturday, June 28, in Goodland. E-mail this gallery to a friend Spammy Jammy attendee Samantha Hernandez, 10, properly attired in pajamas, photographs an entry in the Spam sculpture contest early in the festivities.

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People's Daily Online

Security firms warn of Michael Jackson spam messages

Computer security firms are warning users to be vigilant about spam messages capitalizing the sudden death of U.S. pop star Michael Jackson.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Computer Security, Science / Technology, Software, Computers

NY Daily News

Online scammers capitalize on Jackson's death

While some fans mourn Jackson's sudden death, other have chosen to profit through internet scams.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson

Ars Technica

Report: botnets sent over 80% of all June spam

There's a ton of spam on the Internet - we all are painfully aware of this already.

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