A key source of fresh e-mail addresses used by spammers is harvesters – those individuals that scour Web sites, newsgroups and e-mail servers for good e-mail addresses. These addresses, in turn, are ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts --Antispam activists last week vowed to get tough with purveyors of penis pills and get-rich-quick schemes, who continue to dodge sophisticated e-mail filters and break laws ...

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Unspam Technologies, a company that consults with government agencies and private companies, and with users in 100 countries, filed suit today seeking the identity of those who have harvested millions ...

Project Honey Pot, a non-profit grassroots community of IT professionals set up in 2004 to capture and analyze malicious traffic, just captured its one billionth spam message. It is marking the ...

An anti-spam organization that collected millions of spam messages sent to fake email addresses seeded on volunteers' websites and blogs filed a lawsuit against every spammer who harvested those ...

A $1 billion lawsuit filed today promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam: It targets not just spammers, but — for the first time — also those responsible for harvesting e-mail ...