Day: May 5, 2006

Feds shutter spyware ring – CNET News.com

Feds shutter spyware ring | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up its first major spyware lawsuit with a $4 million judgment against spam king-turned-spyware master Sanford Wallace. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered Wallace and his company, Smartbot.net, to give up $4,089,500 in ill-gotten gains, the agency said Thursday. “We got what we believe is a judgment for the full amount of disgorgement–the amount of money we believe he took in through the unfair distribution of spyware,” Rick

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Backer of ISP snooping slams industry – CNET News.com

Backer of ISP snooping slams industry | CNET News.com For more info click on above link update WASHINGTON–Congress’ leading proponent of forcing Internet service providers to retain records about their users’ activities lashed out at the industry on Wednesday, saying such a federal law will be a “very minor burden” to bear. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, said at a House of Representatives hearing that new laws were necessary to thwart child pornographers and other Internet predators. Investigations into illicit behavior have been hampered because data may be routinely deleted in the normal course of business,

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Yahoo sued over alleged pay-per-click fraud – CNET News.com

Yahoo sued over alleged pay-per-click fraud | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A lawsuit filed this week alleges that Yahoo is charging advertisers for “premium” ads that are displayed on illegal sites that show spyware pop-up ads and typosquatter sites that appear when a surfer misspells a Web address. Instead of the “highly targeted” sites the ads are supposed to appear on, the ads end up on low-quality sites that show random ads and little or no bona fide content, according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in New Jersey federal court.

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Antispam list gets spammed – CNET News.com

Antispam list gets spammed | CNET News.com For more info click on above link They may’ve signed up for the service to stay free of unsolicited e-mail, but people in Blue Security’s “Do Not Intrude Registry” are getting spammed, the company said Wednesday. What’s more, a spammer is attempting to intimidate the Blue Security customers by sending them threatening messages, according to the Israeli company, which launched its spam-fighting service in July last year. “It had to happen. We’re amazed it’s taken so long,” said Richi Jennings, an analyst at Ferris Research.

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