Read more spam stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1683/spam.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:22:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72896/spam-king-ordered-to-pay-facebook-711m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"Spam king" Sanford Wallace has been slapped with a $711 million judgment for spamming Facebook users. A California judge found that Wallace, who used phishing techniques to access Facebook accounts, violated a law against sending "false and misleading" marketing emails. The judge permanently banned Wallace from accessing Facebook and recommended...http://www.newser.com/story/72896/spam-king-ordered-to-pay-facebook-711m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 4:53:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70372/hackers-get-43-cents-for-every-hijacked-mac.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMac users, beware: the Russians are after you. A notorious network of spammers in the country pays hackers 43 cents for every Mac they infect with fake software, an investigator says. At a security conference in Switzerland, the researcher laid out a specific scheme to get Mac users to install...http://www.newser.com/story/70372/hackers-get-43-cents-for-every-hijacked-mac.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Sep 2009 13:44:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68398/hookers-are-turning-off-twitterers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPorn spam is becoming more prevalent on Twitter and the site needs to step up enforcement or risk losing plenty of users, writes Sarah Lacy in BusinessWeek . Prostitutes seem to have flocked to Twitter of late, Lacy writes, noting that her husband received 43 scantily clad "followers" in just 4...http://www.newser.com/story/68398/hookers-are-turning-off-twitterers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 6:27:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66306/twitters-meltdown-blame-the-russians.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSo why did Tweets fall silent for much of today? One leading theory traces the problem to the unlikeliest of places—the conflict between Russia and Georgia, CNET reports. It goes like this: A pro-Georgia blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and the other sites affected by today's slowdown attracted...http://www.newser.com/story/66306/twitters-meltdown-blame-the-russians.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 21:27:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62939/jackson-traffic-threatened-to-break-internet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe surge in Internet traffic yesterday as Michael Jackson fans searched for information about his death had a deep impact on the Web, Ars Technica reports. Sites as diverse as Twitter and the iTunes Store slowed to a crawl, but perhaps the most profound effect was on Google. The search...http://www.newser.com/story/62939/jackson-traffic-threatened-to-break-internet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Jun 2009 14:32:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61635/dont-get-tagged-by-this-site.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US’ third-largest social network is also the world’s most annoying website, Sean Gregory writes in Time . An e-mail about photos from an ex-boss lured him to Tagged, only to lead him through a confusing registration that spammed all his contacts with an informal note. “I don’t have a ‘smiley-face’-style...http://www.newser.com/story/61635/dont-get-tagged-by-this-site.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Jun 2009 14:58:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59383/12-museums-of-odd-things.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTrying to awake from the nightmare of history? Mental Floss' list of 12 "oddly specific" American museums may only give you bad dreams: The SPAM Museum: Complete with a wall of 5,000 SPAM tins and a scale plant where visitors can suit up in white coats and hardhats, the...http://www.newser.com/story/59383/12-museums-of-odd-things.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 18 May 2009 17:02:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59082/hackers-dupe-facebook-users.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHackers went Facebook-phishing yesterday, nabbing the passwords of an undisclosed number of users, Reuters reports. Facebook is working to restore the site and has blocked accounts hit in what it believes was a ploy to spread future spam. Hackers broke into accounts, sending users’ friends emails that contained links to...http://www.newser.com/story/59082/hackers-dupe-facebook-users.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 8:49:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57146/conficker-virus-comes-alive-attacks-pcs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWeeks after causing an April Fool's scare, the Conficker bug has come to life and used some personal computers to send out spam, Reuters reports. The computer virus, which has infected millions of PCs, downloaded the spam software onto a small percentage of them in recent weeks. One expert warns...http://www.newser.com/story/57146/conficker-virus-comes-alive-attacks-pcs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Apr 2009 18:45:00 CDT