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[	December 28, 2009	]	Mega-D Botnet has been down

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began publishing his findings online. In November, he suddenly switched from defense to offense. And Mega-D - a powerful, resilient botnet that had forced 250,000 PCs to do its bidding - went down. ... »
[	November 16, 2009	]	Advanced Email Extractor can process pages with Jscript now!

A new version of Advanced Email Extractor v.3 (3.1.4991) has been released. The support of Jscript virtual machine has been added. The documents with Jscript protection are processed by AEE without additional changing filters using. ... »
[	November 2, 2009	]	How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession

Guest post to TechCrunch blog by Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzLocal, a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing in local search engine marketing for franchises and professional service firms via Google and Facebook. ... »
[	October 30, 2009	]	Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit

Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace. ... »
[	October 26, 2009	]	Advanced Email Extractor 3.1.4872

Advanced Email Extractor has been updated to v.3.1.4872 ... »
[	October 26, 2009	]	New Halloween-themed spam just the first fright

With Halloween nearing, users should be on alert for spam and other attacks exploiting the holiday, and experts expect social network websites to serve as a major vector this year ... »
[	October 16, 2009	]	New phones/faxes parser in AEE v.3

New version of Advanced Email Extractor contains modified Fax/Phones parser. ... »
[	October 14, 2009	]	Advanced Email Extractor 3.1.4844

Advanced Email Extractor has been updated to v.3.1.4844. ... »
[	October 7, 2009	]	Spam? People still happy to hand out e-mail addresses.

A new Harris Interactive survey shows that even in this spammy world we inhabit, the overwhelming majority of people still open their e-mail boxes for the right offers. ... »
[	October 6, 2009	]	More than 20,000 Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo passwords exposed

Some 20,000 Hotmail account holders' usernames and password have now been exposed on the Internet. Earlier today, the number was 10,000 Hotmail logins, all beginning with the letter "a" or "b." ... »