Archive for October, 2008
Continue Reading October 27th, 2008
The recent release of the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 – Critical Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644) is predicted to be used by spammers shortly. Microsoft went to the extreme measure of releasing this patch ‘out-of-band’ because in their words ‘the vulnerability is potentially wormable’ which brings to mind the ‘Blaster’ worm of August 2003 or the Sasser worm of 2004.
Continue Reading October 16th, 2008
Well that didn’t take long … Less than a day after the announcement that there was a downward trend in spam because of the arrest and freezing of the accounts of Shane Atkinson, his brother Lance Atkinson and Roland Smits we get word that a botnet than was dormant for 9 month is now waking up.
Continue Reading October 16th, 2008
The US Federal Trade Commission along with their counterparts in New Zealand and Australia have finally made a dent in the spam volume. As reported by the The Register and IT Brief, a two month investigation involving international cooperation has resulted in the laying of charges against Shane Atkinson …
Continue Reading October 8th, 2008
The spammers are always quick to take advantage of any news story or trend and the latest is a great example as the following news article shows.
Continue Reading October 6th, 2008
No I don’t mean that Google and Microsoft have started to spam people though I do certainly get a lot of messages from both of them.
