Spam can be so frustrating that it’s often easy to forget that spammers, just like every other denizen of the Interwebs, need a place to…
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Spamfoolery: Stupid is as Stupid Does Edition
In this edition of Spamfoolery, we uncover the all-seeing eye of Sauron to take a sobering look at the state of intelligent thought in the…
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How can you not love Australia? The Land Down Under should be renamed the Land that Rocks, and it’s not just because Aussies gave us…
View More Aussies Rock! GraysOnline Takes Massive Hit for Maleficent MissivesSpam Campaign Targets QuickBooks Users
Spam campaigns based on tax-related issues are nothing new. In fact, there’s a long tradition (relative to the lifespan of the Internet) of phishing and…
View More Spam Campaign Targets QuickBooks UsersSpampaigning: Not Your Father’s Spam
Does anyone else miss the good old days? You know: the days when a spam message was an email that started out “My Dear…” As…
View More Spampaigning: Not Your Father’s SpamCanadians Speak Out: We Don’t Want Your Spam
Considering what a pain in the posterior this thing called spam truly is, it doesn’t seem particularly newsworthy to write an article reporting that a…
View More Canadians Speak Out: We Don’t Want Your SpamGoogle, Microsoft Researchers: Spam Worth $20 Billion
Email spam has plagued all of us for some time now, but we’re helpless to do much about it. We instinctively know that it has…
View More Google, Microsoft Researchers: Spam Worth $20 BillionSpam on the Rise, Constitutes More than 70% of Emails: Kaspersky
And who says there’s no love for spam? Well, for starters, I do. And it’s a cinch that everyone who’s been on the receiving end…
View More Spam on the Rise, Constitutes More than 70% of Emails: KasperskyBigger is Better: Why Your Pocket is Filled with Spammy Goodness
In the good ol’ days, our most worrisome concerns when it came to technology were OSes that didn’t do much, fiddling with Winsock while trying…
View More Bigger is Better: Why Your Pocket is Filled with Spammy GoodnessIf I Was a Spammer…
My Dear, In all your humble awareness, this is best understood by also playing the song If I Had a Million Dollars by the Barenaked…
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