Brilliant! Wallpaper designs that incorporate the subject lines from spam email messages… finally spam becomes useful.
A quick glance at the spam mailbox always provides fresh inspiration: bizarre subjects guides us in the quest for the definitive answer to fundamental humans’ problems. But the crisis is striking and we must recycle. So, instead of sweeping spam [...]

97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted according to recent figures, and the deluge is largely due to crime syndicates who have changed their modus operandi, and technologies that now allow billions of messages to be dispatched quickly and easily, says a Microsoft spokesman.
Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said [...]

The people setting up alumni groups on Facebook may not be who you think they are. That is, they may not be students of the university or college in question. In fact they may not have even set foot on the campus.
Why would someone do this though? So there’s a ready made audience for the [...]

While email systems make a breeze of distributing spam messages en masse, the medium has another not so apparent benefit, it makes being deceptive or untruthful far easier, something not so simple to accomplish in face-to-face, or even in handwritten, communications.
Experts have long known that it is easier to lie in writing than in real [...]

“Spam isn’t a technical problem, it’s a social one.” John Levine on why there is little point in devising a more secure alternative to the SMTP email standard.
The reason that e-mail is uniquely useful is that you can exchange mail with people you don’t already know. The reason that spam exists is that you can [...]

So far Twitter has been relatively free of spam. Sure there’s a few “bots” following large numbers of members (and hoping their following will be reciprocated) but otherwise spam hasn’t been too big an issue.
That could change though should more determined types exploit the “reply spam” option though.
The defence against spam followers is not [...]

With the increasing usage of IP telephony, and phones calls made via internet connections, Spam Over Internet Telephony, or SPIT, could become a far bigger problem than email spam.
Spit is particularly annoying because a call is more intrusive than a spam email. What’s more, spam filters don’t block spit since the content of a call [...]

One of Australia’s largest retail banks, NAB has taken to leaving spam comments on blogs as part of a targeted promotion for a new product, according to an article published at Crikey today.
The bank apparently thought they’d “give it a try” as “blogs are a public forum”, and believed that blog moderators would delete any [...]

The Internet’s Space Shortage
So much for the notion that there is “unlimited space on the internet”…
The problem, says Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer for the non-profit Internet Society, is simple math: the Internet Protocol addresses that are assigned to differentiate networks and individual computers at the edges of the Internet have 32 digits, allowing [...]

E-mail inventor: I didn’t foresee spam
Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, or the “Send Message Program” as it was originally named, laments the rise of spam in what is an otherwise fascinating article on the history of email.
One problem he had with the first e-mail program was finding a way to separate the person to [...]