Spam
Sanford Wallace, infamously known as the Facebook Spam King, has plead guilty to fraud and criminal contempt and will now face up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
It would appear that email spam is not as lucrative a business as it used to be.
Facebook has confirmed this weekend that their Instagram photo-sharing service was hit by a massive spam attack.
Last year, Facebook saw its Help Center community forum taken over by spam.
This week, it has happened again, leaving the forum completely overrun.
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Microsoft has confirmed this week that it suspects a former employee is behind the massive Kelihos botnet attacks.
The man, Russian citizen ......
Microsoft and federal law enforcement have jointly taken down the spam giant Rustock botnet, seizing computers, servers, and other equipment ......
The NYTimes has reported that spam email volume fell by as much as 57 percent in December after a number of infamous botnets went dark and have ......
