Tag: aol
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AOL spam spreads ‘NotCompatible’ Android trojan
AOL responds by following Yahoo! in setting strict DMARC policy. This week, #AOLhacked has become a popular hashtag on Twitter : many AOL users are using it to complain that their email address had been sending spam to their contacts. Those who click the link in the emails – never a wise thing to do…
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US ISPs urged to snoop on traffic
NY Attorny General promotes deep packet inspection to AOL. ISPs in the US are coming under increasing pressure to impose deep probing of all their customers’ traffic, with the Attorney General of New York passing details of one system of deep packet inspection to major provider AOL . While the government’s intentions are to control…
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Free speech argument overturns AOL spammer conviction
Virginia court upholds notorious Jaynes’ right to express himself in bulk. Infamous AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes, convicted of a massive spamming campaign targeting AOL users in 2004, has had his conviction overturned in a Virginia Supreme Court judgement which essentially undermines the state’s local anti-spam laws in favour of free speech arguments. Jaynes was indicted…
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AOL quietly drops free-to-all AV offering
Gratis software now for members only, old users may be at risk. A month ago we reported on AOL ‘s switch of providers for its free anti-virus software offering, from the Kaspersky -powered Active Virus Shield to a special version of McAfee ‘s VirusScan . It now appears that the McAfee -based product is only…
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Phisher gets six years
Californian receives 70-month prison sentence, avoids 101 years behind bars. A Californian man, found guilty in January this year of operating a phishing scheme aimed at scamming thousands of AOL users, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison. 45-year-old Jeffrey Brett Goodin was found guilty of sending thousands of emails to AOL customers. The…
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Spammer enters guilty plea
Admits to having spammed 1.2 million AOL customers. A Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to having sent spam messages to over 1.2 million AOL customers in August 2005. According to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 26-year-old Adam Vitale and his co-defendant Todd Moeller were caught out after having entered into…