Archive for December, 2008
Continue Reading December 23rd, 2008
Lance Atkinson, a prolific spammer since 2005 as part of ‘HerbalKing’ the
‘#1 worst spam gang of 2007, 2008′ according to the Spamhaus ROSKO list has been fined only $92,715 AUS (about $63,400 USD) by authorities because, according to Justice Christine French of the High Court in Christchurch, of the co-operation and candor of Lance in the early stages of the investigation.
Continue Reading December 17th, 2008
The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into law in the USA in December of 2003 or some 5 years ago. What is the track record of that law? Has it been effective in stopping all spam?
Continue Reading December 12th, 2008
Why leave the door open to a hacker after hours. Using a schedule to block this feature is like pulling down the security bars you see in the mall. Using this same feature you could restrict inbound e-mail to reasonable hours.
Continue Reading December 12th, 2008
Every year at the holidays we see an upsurge of ‘postcard ware’ based malware. They look like a e-card from a loved one so you are enticed to open them up and while some do display a pretty picture or a play a nice tune in the background they are infecting your pc.
Continue Reading December 8th, 2008
Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength.
Continue Reading December 8th, 2008
Once in a while – say every 6 months – why not get a second opinion on if your computer is infected with something that your existing anti-virus product may have missed? It is also handy to have a list like this just in case you do notice something wrong with your computer (slowdown or unexpected pop-ups or error messages) and your existing up to date AV solution doesn’t set off the warning sirens.
Continue Reading December 8th, 2008
With both the holiday and the economic down turn just around the corner it is tempting to ‘work from home’ and ‘make big cash’ but most of these offers send via e-mail are for money mules working for organized crime.
Continue Reading December 2nd, 2008
The DSBL list which was used by some anti-spam systems to block open relay and proxy servers that could be used by spammers to forward spam has been taken off-line.
Continue Reading December 1st, 2008
Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.
