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Soloway reveals motivations

Convicted spammer gives interview before going behind bars.

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Does the punishment fit the crime?

'Once bitten does not, it seems, make twice shy for spammers.’ Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin.

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Malware teaching considered harmful?

Richard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology)

Richard Ford and William Allen, both teachers of malware courses at Florida Institute of Technology, present their views on the teaching of virus writing as part of security courses.

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All your MP3s are belong to us

Christoph Alme and his colleagues walk through the complete attack process of the Win32.ASF-Hijacker.A trojan, which has two different sets of victims: those affected by the trojan itself and those affected by media files altered by the trojan.

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McAfee sued for web warnings

Disgruntled website owners call SiteAdvisor labelling into question.

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Prophet and loss

Peter Ferrie begins a series of analyses of viruses contained in the long-delayed (and probably last of its kind) EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

Paul Baccas summarises the good, the bad and the ugly within Jakobsson and Ramzan's 'Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses'.

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The problem of backscatter – part 1

Terry Zink (Microsoft)

Backscatter is one of the hot issues in the world of spam filtering. So what exactly is backscatter? Why does it occur? How do we stop it? And why can’t we do a better job of filtering it? Terry Zink explains all.

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Alphabetti spamgetti

Spam levels shown to depend (partly) on starting letter of email addresses.

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Prison sentence for phisher

Phisher goes down for seven years; youngster involved in scam escapes jail.

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