Spam King Leo Kuvayev Jailed on Child Sex Charges
Undated photo of Leo Kuvayev, courtesy Spamhaus.org. A man known as one of the world’s top purveyors of junk e-mail has been imprisoned in Russia for allegedly molesting underage girls from a Moscow...
View ArticleMr. Waledac: The Peter North of Spamming
Microsoft on Monday named a Russian man as allegedly responsible for running the Kelihos botnet, a spam engine that infected an estimated 40,000 PCs. But closely held data seized from a huge spam...
View ArticleWho Says Email Is Eating at Postal Revenues?
Shadowy online businesses that sell knockoff prescription drugs through spam and other dodgy advertising practices have begun relying more heavily on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver prescription...
View ArticlePrivacy 101: Skype Leaks Your Location
The events of the past week reminded me of a privacy topic I’ve been meaning to revisit: That voice-over-IP telephony service Skype constantly exposes your Internet address to the entire world, and...
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