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coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting.

Zordak writes "US patent 6,631,400 claims a method of making sure enough people get your spam.

techmuse writes "Lexus has announced plans to send targeted messages to buyers of its cars based on the buyer's zip code and vehicle type.

designperfection9 writes "A new study by Cisco Systems Inc.

ESCquire writes "Apparently, the Washington Post Blog 'Security Fix' managed to shut down McColo, a US-based hosting provider facilitating more than 75 percent of global spam.

AcidAUS writes "Last week's bust of the largest spam operation in the world has had no measurable impact on global spam volumes.

Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton summarizes his essay by saying "Spammers really do lie more often under oath than other parties in court (surprise).

Ezhenito noted some research pointing out the (maybe) surprising bit of research that 6 botnets are responsible for 85 percent of the world's spam.

An anonymous reader writes "Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly.

The Google Watchdog blog is reporting that "Spam and virus sites infesting the Google SERPs in several categories" and speculates, ...Google's own index has been hacked.

ancientribe writes "Researchers have discovered the Storm Trojan nestled in hundreds of blog sites in Google's Blogger network, according to an article in Dark Reading.

jetkins writes "In an email to subscribers, DynDNS announced that they will no longer deliver locally generated non-delivery reports (NDRs) from any MailHop systems.

Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton is back with a story about fighting censorship with spam.

jcatcw writes "On Thursday released a new set of global statistics pointing out the biggest spam relaying countries in the world.

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