In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:51:07 +0000
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> SEC goes after stock spammers, hackers
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> | The SEC action to freeze the assets is the third filed in as many
> | months involving market manipulation schemes conducted through
> | online account intrusions. In the past the SEC has also taken
> | action against individuals who allegedly broke into financial
> | news Web sites or news release services.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | "When spam clogs our mailboxes, it's annoying. When it rips
> | off investors, it's illegal and destructive," SEC Chairman
> | Christopher Cox said in a statement.
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> http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6165804.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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> With about 100 billion SPAM per day, everything is possible.
>
Except maybe actually moving mountains. :-) In any event,
spam can't do much, except clog one's inbox. (It could
sap one's bank account if one has to pay for incoming
email's bandwidth, I suppose, and one might get them for
attempting to sucker potential investers. But it doesn't
rip them off directly.)
>
> Related:
>
> Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
Ick.
>
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> | "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
> | botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
> | of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
> | harness more than a million computers around the world and use
> | them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
> | change."
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> http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
> http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
>
>
> Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
>
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> | Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
> | 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
> | the BBC reports.
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>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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