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1 million zombies

FBI announced that according to their count it's now more than a million PC computers that have been infected by viruses or Trojan horses that turned them into zombies (PCs that are kept ready to execute commands sent from the other side of the world by a spammer or a hacker).

11 year of jail for SPAM

Adam Vitale, American, 26 years old, has been dragged in front of the Judge by AOL for spamming 1.2 million of the AOL subscribers against the CAN-SPAM Act. He could be sentenced to 11 years of government-paid housing in September.

Source: The Register.

King of SPAM arrested

Robert Alan Soloway, 27, has been arrested in Seattle. Owner of Newport Internet Marketing Corporation, between 2003 and 2007, he offered services helping spammers activities like mail servers deliberately hiding the origin of email messages. Soloway often presented himself as « the King of SPAM ».

Source: The Register.

Signal-Spam, French initiative against SPAM

Extending the 2002 « boîte à spams » (SPAM mailbox) operation from the French CNIL, Signal-Spam has just been created to collect SPAM messages, analyze them, and organize legal action against their authors.

Signal-Spam.
Commission Informatique et Libertés (CNIL).

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