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FTC Settles With 'Gift Card' Text Message Spammers
2013-09-18 21:36:19| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Affiliate marketing company Rentbro, Inc., and its two principals have settled Federal Trade Commission charges for sending more than 42.5 million spam text messages.
New security scheme tracks text spammers in hours
2013-08-09 14:15:44| InfoWorld: Top News
A new way to track the source of spam text messages can detect culprits within two hours, helping reduce the illicit traffic that can clog cell towers and disconnect legitimate calls, researchers say. Called Greystar, the scheme invokes the use of phone numbers assigned to laptops, tablets and the like, which don't typically receive any SMS messages, according to the research to be presented at the 22nd Usenix Security conference next week.
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Belarus net infested with spammers
2013-07-24 01:03:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Almost 30% of all the net addresses in Belarus are being blocked by anti-spam firms because of the amount of junk mail passing through them, says a new study
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Spammers show they give a fig about Instagram, launch fruit-based attack
2013-06-29 23:05:02| CNET News.com
The photo-sharing network gets hit by an unusually colorful spam attack, as pictures of fruit flood users' streams. [Read more]
Spam catchers catching spammers better
2013-05-31 17:56:05| InfoWorld: Top News
A year ago, the state of the spam-catching art was in dire straits.