Rustock Botnet Responsible for 40 Percent of Spam
More than 40 percent of the world’s spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle,
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URL Shortening Services Used in SPAM
Spammers know that if they include a direct link to their site that their spam messages will not go through so they use URL shortening services to redirect you to their site if you click on the link in the spam message.
FTC Permanently Shuts Down Notorious Rogue I.S.P.
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a district court judge has permanently shut down a rogue Internet Service Provider (3FN) that recruited, hosted, and actively participated in the distribution of spam, spyware, child pornography, and other malicious and illegal content.
Millions Continue to Click on Spam
Consumers Don’t Relate Bot Infections to Risky Behavior As Millions Continue to Click on Spam
Which botnet sends the most spam, P 3
In part 1 of my series, I looked at which botnet sends the most spam, by total number of messages sent at the recipient level and not the envelope level. In part 2, I looked at which one sends the most spam by total amount of bytes that they emit.
Spam filtering forces 90 year old magazine to change its name
We all know how tricky it can be to stay ahead of spammers, and their “always-evolving” methods. I know that our CudaMail.com specialists are constantly adapting and tweaking rules and filters to stay ahead.
Here’s a story from the Register about how modern spam filtering has forced a long-time Canadian publication to have to change it’s name. It’s a good thing that Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewalls are easy to tweak and adjust!
Spam filters stuff Canadian Beaver
Venerable magazine to adopt less suggestive title
By Lester Haines
Posted on theRegister.co.uk 13th January 2010 14:41 GMT
Publisher Deborah Morrison explained to AFP: “The Beaver was an impediment online. Several readers asked us to change the title because their spam filters at home or at work were blocking it. I’ve even had emails bounce back because I had inadvertently typed the term in the heading."
She added: “Nearly a century ago, it probably seemed the perfect name for a magazine about the fur trade and Canada’s northwest frontier. There was only one interpretation for the word then. But you’re likely to find a lot of [porn] sites now if you search for the title of our history magazine online.”
The 90-year-old title will, after the Feb/March issue, be known as Canada’s History.
Other Beavers of note which can be found online are the newspaper of the London School of Economics Students’ Union, a Toronto restaurant offering a range of tongue-tingling delights and a film starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. ®
The original story from TheRegister.
Project Honey Pot Statistics – 1 Billionth Spam Message
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message.
Postini Delivery Problems Vex Users
Users of email security and archiving service Postini were frustrated last week when the service began experiencing significant delivery problems.
US-CERT: Waledac Trojan Horse Spam Campaign Circulating
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to bogus terror attacks in the recipient’s local area.
MS09-002 exploit in the wild
The Internet Storm Center is reporting that several AV vendors have confirmed that the recently patch IE 7 vulnerability (MS-09-002 Uninitialized Memory Corruption) has been reverse engineered by the malware writers (so quickly!)
