Reduce Your Spam with a Disposable E-mail Address
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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
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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Spammers continue to take advantage of anything ‘newsworthy’ or ‘sensational’ like the recent US Presidential election
Microsoft ‘Out-of-Band’ Security Update (MS08-067) To Be Exploited By Spammers
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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.
Warezov Rises From The Ashes
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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.
How To Stop a Spammer – Go After His Bank Account!
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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 …
