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.
Archive for November, 2008
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 – some reports are as high as 2/3rds or even 75% of all spam worldwide was associated with them.
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’ International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce and the Permanent Forum on International Pharmaceutical Crime were successful in raid on Pharmacies operated out of Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
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
