When Ken Pugh, a computer consultant, returned to his home office in Durham, N.C., this summer after spending three weeks hiking the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut and New Hampshire, he discovered a ...
Somewhere within the daily barrage of unwanted commercial e-mail messages--aka spam--that anyone with an e-mail account must endure, lies the material for an eloquent and witty rhyme of a Seussian ...
In an attempt to crack down on unsolicited commercial e-mail, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is asking residents of the Golden State to send him samples of the illegal spam clogging their ...
For anyone with an e-mail address, “spam” is a four-letter word that cannot be ignored. Since last year, the average amount of spam, unsolicited commercial e-mail delivered to consumers, has doubled, ...
Anyone cleaning out a bulging e-mail in box probably has wished for a law regulating spam, the unsolicited electronic messages that promise instant weight loss, overnight riches and triple-X pictures.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it had sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail filters that ...
Our segment on "spam" begins with Jason Catlett, head of Junkbusters Corporation, which is a privacy advocacy firm. He talks about how spam works, how it makes its way around the world and why it's ...
The recent upsurge in spam is forcing enterprise managers to treat it as a serious threat rather than simply an annoyance. While viruses seem to be well under control by enterprise IT departments, ...
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2003) — The recent explosion of email spam is beginning to take its toll on the Internet world. A new nationwide survey shows that 25% of America’s email users say they are ...