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Google Buzz: Already Filling up with Spam

by Robert Quigley | 2:43 pm, February 15th

Just a week after its launch, Google Buzz is already being inundated with spam, web security outfit Websense reports.

After a mere two days, the company detected Buzzing spammers (or spamming Buzzers, take your pick): “in an indictment of how rapidly spammers are learning to abuse social networks, it took only two days before they started to hit Google Buzz.”

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Fire with Fire: Researchers Block Spam Using Spammy Botnets

by Robert Quigley | 8:54 am, January 25th

Just as former bank robbers are the best at stopping current bank robbers and venom can be thwarted by antivenom from the same snake, so, apparently, are the botnets that spew out billions of spam messages each day useful for stopping new spam in its tracks. Researchers at Berkeley’s International Science Institute have found that by capturing an infected bot and analyzing the template it uses to blast out its infernal payload, they can accurately predict and filter out the kinds of spam messages that botnets will send out — all without accidentally capturing legitimate e-mail.

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