Archive for November, 2008

Reduce Your Spam with a Disposable E-mail Address

Continue Reading Add comment November 28th, 2008

Some sites that you go to want you to register and provide a valid e-mail address to send you your password or a signup verification link.

McColo Hands Off Botnets to the Russians

Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008

Brief respite from spam could be over as McColo hands off Command and Control of Botnets to a Russian network.

Dilbert – Our Spam Filter Has Become Self Aware?

Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008

Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?

Study shows how spammers cash in

Continue Reading Add comment November 18th, 2008

Here’s an interesting article on the BBC News website that shows that spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send.

McColo – Why Would They Host Spammers?

Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008

The recent big news is about the Washington Post being involved in the shutting down of a Co-Location hosting provider (McColo Corp.- AS26780) that has as customers some of the biggest spammers on the Internet

Operation Pangea – Pharmacies taken offline in 9 countries

Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008

Drug Administration and 6 other organizations under the direction of World Health Organizations

United States Presidential Election Email Attack

Continue Reading Add comment November 6th, 2008

Spammers continue to take advantage of anything ‘newsworthy’ or ‘sensational’ like the recent US Presidential election


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Shaun Sturby, MCSE Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security
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