March 10, 2010

Links Roundup

• Fighting Bots Is Everybody's Business
• Trust And Safety
• Anonymous Whois List
• Twitter Has Spammers, Too
• Spamhaus: Microsoft's botnet cull had little effect
• RSA 2010: Researchers dissect ZeuS botnet blueprint
  Build your own botnet for $2500
• Intelligence Slideshow: Spam Rules the World
• A very young industry
• Spamming Botnets - Strategies welcome
• Is Online Anonymity a Bad Thing?
• U.S. pinpoints code writer behind Google attack: report
• CONSUMER ADVOCATE SUED BY SUBJECT OF BAD REVIEW CASE IMPACTS ALL BLOGGERS
• SILICON ALLEY INSIDER: WARNING: GOOGLE BUZZ HAS A HUGE PRIVACY FLAW

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January 20, 2010

Links Roundup

• ISPs could cut spam easily, says expert
  NL and TR have seen drops in the number of botnetted PCs? Really?
• Comcast and e360 settle lawsuit
• Settlement in Comcast v. e360Insight
• How is this a win for Comcast?
• Virus attack hits Vista machines, cripples university network
• How could I not? I am the hoopiest frood that ever lived.
• Security architects fear savvy botnet attacks, IPv6 security issues
• Why 2010 Could Be A Bad Year For 'Worst-Practice' Marketers
• An "apples to apples" comparison of the top providers of email marketing software.
• The Devil’s Dictionary, InfoSec Edition
• China pays Web users to find porn amid crackdown
• Do you know where your towel is?
• GOODMAIL AND iCONTACT PARTNER TO OPTIMIZE EMAIL MARKETING CAMPAIGNS

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January 18, 2010

Links Roundup

• Whoa, dude! Whoa!
  HIL AR I OUS (more here.)
• Key ministry officials asked not to use Blackberry for emails
• MSNBOT must die!
• McAfee: Attackers on U.S. firms exploited new IE hole
• Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
• I was a Doctor at an online pharmacy. I did not graduate High School. AMAA
• Easiest Prediction Ever: Spam Will Suck in 2010
• Targeted Attacks Against Google
• Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire
• Lethic botnet knocked out by security researchers
• F-Secure's Exploit Shield blocks the "Aurora" exploit
• AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error
• Microsoft confirms IE zero-day behind Google attack
• U.S. to rebuke Chinese government over Google incident

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December 17, 2009

Links Roundup

• Benchmarking: 'Average' Is The New Bottom
• Fire up the ROFLCopter!
• 7 Things You MUST Know About Goodmail’s New CertifiedDomain Whitelist
• Conficker Again in the News
• Baking With Spam!
• GOODMAIL PUBLISHES EMAIL INDUSTRY’S FIRST DOMAIN-BASED WHITELIST WITH CERTIFIEDDOMAIN SERVICE
• IT'S A RACKET!
• Our 1 Billionth Spam Message
• The BIG RED SHINY Button
• 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
• Not How It Works
• SURBL Announces New Experimental Blacklist
• AOL Postmaster: check your IP's reputation
• Zeus crimeware using Amazon's EC2 as command and control server
• The coming changes
• Webmasters targeted in cPanel look-alike phish
  Well, that explains a lot
• Did you catch that?
• Barry Speaks: We won’t shut-up and eat your spam
• GEORGE BILBREY IN MEDIAPOST: THE MYTHS (AND TRUTH) ABOUT DOMAIN REPUTATION
• When is transactional mail not transactional anymore?
• Mapping the Mal Web: McAfee’s 3rd Annual Report
• Court orders spam network to pay $15.2M
• How I helped nail the 'manhood' spammer
• The hard truth about email
• Why not to contact Barry
• Hong Kong man, three others jailed for spam scheme
• Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season
• THE BIG MONEY: GOOGLE DOES NON-EVIL THING: BANS WHITE TEETH, FLAT STOMACHS
• AOL's Nightmare Before Christmas guest post - Anna Laments
• Private registration no defense for spammers
• Investors Punish Online Scam Trafficker with $15 Million
• The coming Gold Rush with Domain-Based Reputation

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November 12, 2009

Links Roundup

• Massive OS X Update Fixes Dozens of Vulnerabilities
• Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet
• “6 reasons to fire your ESP”? Seriously!?
• ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH TAGGED.COM OVER DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES
• Kaspersky Labs introduces Mac security package
• Why would anybody phish for XBOX accounts?
• Cisco Tries Its Hand at Hosted E-mail
• Apple ships 50+ security updates
• THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: FRAMED FOR CHILD PORN BY A PC VIRUS
• Computer theft suit bites feds for $751K
• ARS TECHNICA: 30 YEARS OF FAILURE: THE USERNAME/PASSWORD COMBINATION
• JOHN R. LEVINE IN CIRCLEID: HOW DO YOU DO SECURE BANK TRANSACTIONS ON THE INTERNET?
• Major Spambot Killed
• Word to the Wise: I need IP addresses to avoid throttling
• I’m Looking Through You
• 4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack
• New Chart: Email Spending Sped Up as the Economy Slowed
• Another Good Reason To Authenticate Your Domain
• E-mail 'biggest' security risk, Microsoft says
  Oh, the irony
• A year later: A look back at McColo
• INDUSTRY ALERT: COX has a new Postmaster Page
• Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
• New Sting Operation Snags 18 Nigerian Spammers
• Email's Antisocial Sin
• Ask Al: What are filters checking?
• Cloud Computing Confusion: New Statistics about IT and Security in the Cloud, Related Web Seminars

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November 4, 2009

Links Roundup

• New York Invests $3 Million In Federal Funds To Protect Computers Against Cyber Attacks
• WORD TO THE WISE: SENDERS NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
• EXACTTARGET: REAL EMAIL THREAT #3: LAX PERMISSION
• Breaking: SORBS bought by GFI (with confirmation!
• Electronic Health Records: Privacy Issues Remain
• DAGGLE: HOW LINK SPAMMERS KILLED MY WIFE’S WEB SITE
• ONLYONCE: WHY I JOINED THE DMA BOARD, AND WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF ME IN THAT ROLE
• Feds: Bank workers helped theft ring steal $1.3 million
• KILL ALL HUMANS: EVERYONE’S NETWORK LEAKS
• Barry Don't Play That
• Bank phone phishing scam grows
• Be Alert to Scams and Avoid Falling Victim to Fraud or Identity Theft
• Maine Recommends Repeal of Controversial Privacy Law
• The Fight Goes On
• Ask Al: Bad things happening?
• CLICKZ: E-MAIL MARKETERS TRIP UP ON QUALITY CONTROL
• TECHLAW: OBSCENITY IN E-MAIL MESSAGES JUDGED BY NATIONAL COMMUNITY STANDARDS
• A Deluge is Underway; is Email Waterproof?
• Future of deliverability: 4. The role of certification
• PC WORLD: UK POLICE SMOOTH OVER RIFT WITH INTERNET REGISTRY
• TIDBITS OPINION: WHY EMAIL REMAINS THE KING OF INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
• Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit
• Former CEO of YouSendIt Charged with Denial of Service of Attack
• What Windows Autorun Has Wrought
• The legitimate email marketer
• Arizona Supreme Court rules electronic data is public
  Well, metadata, anyway
• SPAMHAUS BLOG: SOME GOOD NEWS FROM DOWNUNDER
• Latest Ad Scammers: Faux Agency Execs
• Real Email Threat #3: Lax Permission
• Filters are stupid
• WASHINGTON POST SECURITY FIX: UPTICK IN 'MONEY MULE' SCAMS
• JART ARMIN IN INTERNET EVOLUTION: TERROR ATTACKS NOW FUNDED MOSTLY BY ONLINE FRAUD
• WORD TO THE WISE: I NEED IP ADDRESSES FOR REPUTATION
• Dutch Attacker Hijacked iPhones, Demanded Ransom
• SORBS acquired by GFi Software for $451k
• Do consumers hate email append?
• Use Private Domain Registration and Go to Jail?
  Woo-hoo!

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October 20, 2009

Links Roundup

• Security boss calls for end to net anonymity
• DARKREADING: SECURITY SOFTWARE'S NEW FORM FACTOR: FREE
• Why do we need an opt-in spam law?
• Future of deliverability: 2. The role of authentication
• BRONTO: FINALLY, A STEP TOWARDS PERMISSION-BASED B2B EMAIL MARKETING
• Google Voice mails exposed for all to see and hear
• PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach
• Another Day, Another 419 Scam
• Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk
• Mobile Email Marketing: Stats for Thought
• EU signs up new cyber-security boss
• Spamhaus targets snowshoe spam
• Zipped Malware Attachments in Spam: Here comes Conflicker!
• Laptop Theft Nets Data On 800,000 Doctors
• I Support Opt-In Legislation for Canada
• Canada's Anti-spam Bill C-27 Electronic Commerce Protection Act - Where does it stand?
• Amazon EC2 email blocked by antispam group Spamhaus
• ChoicePoint Breach Exposed 13,750 Consumer Records
• Schwarzenegger negs update to California breach law
• E-Banking on a Locked Down PC, Part II
• Debit card breach is traced to Cheers Liquor Mart
• RED PILL EMAIL: MOVEON FROM BAD EMAIL PRACTICES

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October 15, 2009

Links Roundup

• Mozilla: Firefox Users, Check Your Plug-ins
• Trojan Turns Smash & Grab Into Grab & Smash
• Finland makes broadband access a legal right
• FOOD FOR NAUGHT: WHY EVERYTHING IS BETTER THAN EMAIL
• Online Banking Fraud Soars in Britain
• Zombie Blacklists: Life Goes On
• Spamfighter.com are Spammers
• Take Back the Net - Secure Your Computer and Sport the Grey Ribbon!
• Adobe Plugs 29 Critical Reader, Acrobat Holes
• Microsoft Issues Record Number of Security Updates
• Status of rbl.cluecentral.net: DEAD
• Dear Derek Powazek: SEO is a Legitimate Profession
• Twitter Adds a Report Spam Option
• An Unwelcome Afterlife for a Long-Dead Blacklist
• Conservatives oppose making exceptions to anti-spam bill
• MEDIAPOST: FIGURING OUT SOCIAL MEDIA? THE ANSWER IS NOT ADVERTISING
• The HTML coding standards and dilemmas or why is this so complicated? Part 3
• Feds accused of going soft on spam
• Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details -- now in Webmaster Tools Labs!
• DARK READING: BOTNETS BEHIND MOST MODERN MALWARE INFECTIONS
• Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD
• E-Banking on a Locked Down (Non-Microsoft) PC
• Scams cost Australia $1 billion
• ITNEWS.COM.AU: DON'T USE WINDOWS FOR INTERNET BANKING
• Cyber-crime unit too late for 'gullible' pair who gave away $1m
• Status of blackholes.us: DEAD
• Auth Don't Fix That!
• MIME and Auto-Detect
• Comcast Trials Browser Alerts for Bot-Infected Customer PCs
• HELP NET SECURITY: WEBMAIL PHISHING ATTACK ONLY THE BEGINNING
• TECHLAW: BUSINESS MODELS THAT REQUIRE RESTRICTIVE CONSUMER CONTRACTS FOR SUCCESS
• Phishing Scam Spooked FBI Director Off E-Banking
• CRAPHAMMER: THE MYTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING
• YAHOO! MAIL BLOG: STAY SAFE ONLINE
• The FBI's Biggest Domestic Phishing Bust Ever
• FBI arrests dozens for 'phishing' ID theft scheme
• Worst of the Worst
• 'Phishing' raids in US and Egypt
• JART ARMIN ON INTERNET EVOLUTION: DOMAIN REGISTRARS MUST TAKE CHARGE OF ABUSE PREVENTION
• AL IVERSON'S SPAM RESOURCE: A MESSAGE FROM ME...BUT NOT!
• Too Much Contact
• Forged PayPal certificate fools IE, Chrome and Safari
• Please unsubscribe…
• EMAIL SERVICE GUIDE: HOW TO RECALL AN EMAIL USING OUTLOOK
• Spamfighting Spam?
• Only 4% of corporate IT users stick to password rules, finds study
• 'Robin Hood' botnet siphoning Google traffic

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October 6, 2009

Links Roundup

Oh, and we got Slashdotted for this article offering up some analysis of what the new Spamhaus CSS subset of the SBL will mean for ESPs.

• Spamhaus rolls out anti-snowshoe filters
• SPAM WARS: MEDZ SPAMMER ABUSING READER'S DIGEST
• DARK READING: FACTORING MALWARE INTO YOUR WEB APPLICATION DESIGN
• MoD 'How to stop leaks' guide leaks
• Facebook Privacy Stalking 2.0 - Paul Fenwick
• Trove of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online
• Hackers and Scalper Pounce on Google Wave Invites
• Engagement: The New Frontier In Deliverability?
• Officials: Cyber gang likely siphoned district’s money
• Zeus Trojan Infiltrates Bank Security Firm
• The Growing Threat to Business Banking Online
• The secret to dealing with ISPs
• Payload spam volume rockets to new heights
• Spam growth surpasses 'Storm' virus
• Botnets responsible for majority of spam, says Symantec
• Spamhaus Blog - Announcing the Spamhaus CSS
• After a Few Months' Rest, SQL Web Attack Spreads Anew
• Technology Review: Researchers Hijack a Drive-By Botnet
• Spamhaus rolls out anti-snowshoe filters (Word to the Wise)
• Click Forensics Discovers Click Fraud Surge from New Sophisticated ...
• Botnet of Zombie Linux Servers Distributes Malware - SPAMfighter
• 'Hati-Hati' Spam Virus Still Active, DST Warns
• Rockford stays one step ahead in spam protection and disaster recovery
• Evaluating the ASA Botnet filter | NetworkWorld.com Community
• [TUT]How to jack a botnet
• Invasion of the Botnets: The Secret Is Out! : The Spartan Opinion
• Fashion Review Noise, Noise, Noise. Then a Moment of Silence.
• Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam
• .:[ Layered Security ]:.: Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An ...
• IntelliBriefs: Africa - home of the world's largest cyber pandemic
• Zombie computers going to take over the world
• Phony Facebook profiles spreading fake anti-virus malware
• LiveSide and link spam
• Canadian anti-spam bill far from a done deal
• Spam gets meatier as attached files grow
• Proofpoint MLX: Machine Learning to Beat Spam Today & Tomorrow
• FBI: Beware of spam from social networking sites
• Researchers Hijack Mebroot Botnet, Study Drive-By Downloads ...
• Payload Spam Skyrocketing Again
• Tweetbot Begin Spamming Twitter
• Norton 360 v3.5.2.11 Standard Edition NTR 2010 + TrialReset 2010 ...
• Researchers Hijack Mebroot Botnet, Study Drive-By Downloads
• Asprox Rearing its SQL Injection Head Again ? The Day Before Zero
• Scientists Mebroot botnet infiltrated ? IT - Chuiko | Information ...

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October 2, 2009

Links Roundup

• We had some bugs, and it hurt us.
• Solving the XSS problem by signing <SCRIPT> tags
• Dutch ISPs Sign Anti-Botnet Treaty
• WARNING: Facebook Worm Spreading via News Feed
• CBL: HOW NOT TO USE A DNSBL
• Inmate hacker locks down jail computers
• WASHINGTON POST SECURITY FIX: CYBER GANGS HIT HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
• Banks oppose computer crime law proposal
• How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
• ZOMBIE ATTACK Disaster Preparedness Simulation Exercise #5 (DR5) (PDF)
• Internet crooks 'used virus to raid computer users' online bank accounts'
• IRA WINKLER ON INTERNET EVOLUTION: US SHARES BLAME FOR CYBERCRIME ELSEWHERE
• JOHN GRAHAM-CUMMING: SPAM AND GOOGLE WAVE
• Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
• THE DAILY BEAST: TWITTER'S GANGSTER SPAM TRAP
• WASHINGTON POST SECURITY FIX: STRESS TESTING MICROSOFT'S FREE ANTI-VIRUS OFFERING
• Former UMaine student hacker sentenced to jail
• Announcing the Spamhaus CSS
  Hope they change the name if they promote it to SBL/PBL level
• Google Destroyed Missent Bank Info Email Unopened... As More Legal Questions Are Raised
• SPAMNATION: "OPT-OUT" IS NOT A "POLICY"

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September 28, 2009

Links Roundup

• Demon ebill blunder exposes thousands of passwords
• Privacy policy isn't enough anymore
• Court to scammer: Give up your house or go to jail
• Maine Firm Sues Bank After $588,000 Cyber Heist
• Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites
  In other words, security oriented default configurations have failed to keep up with the times
• UPDATE: 'Hoisted' ATM found
• Drudge, Other Sites Flooded With Malicious Ads
• There are now 184 million registered domain names and counting
  I wonder how many of them are just "burner" domains registered by spammers?
• Rocky Mountain Bank WTF
• What do you mean my tracking is phishing?
• NEW YORK TIMES: U.P.S. TO BEGIN TESTING DIRECT MARKETING SERVICE
• FAST COMPANY: TWITTER'S INVESTORS MISSED THE CLUETRAIN - HERE'S WHY
• RETURN PATH: DELIVERABILITY EMERGENCIES FROM THE ISP SIDE OF THE DESK
• OFFICE OF THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER: THERE ARE OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS WITH PRIVACY CONCERNS
• LARRY DOWNES: THE PERSISTENT MYTHS OF IDENTITY THEFT
• Package Delivery Failure Spam Mails Still Prevalent
• Penis pill spam: The hard figures
• Number of spam e-mails sent for every one that receives a response ...
• Idaho: The Unlikely Spam Capital
• Spam o' the morning to you!
• IRS Scam Now World's Biggest E-mail Virus Problem
• Alton crowned Britain's spam capital
• Spud State Is Most Slammed With Spam
• Study Shows 9 Percent of Enterprise Machines Are Bot Infected ...
• Global Cyber News Bits, September 25, 2009 from CommunityDNS ...
• Beware the Tiny, Unknown Botnet
• Priveon Labs Security Blog - ASA 8.2 Dynamic Botnet Filtering
• Study Shows 9 Percent of Enterprise Machines Are Bot Infected ...
• Botnets KILL PPC and CPM Advertising Slowly | BlogAdMonkey.com
• Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux ...
• Welcom to Idaho, the spam state
• Symantec spam rankings: Illinois down to No. 5 on list of most ...
• America's 10 most wanted botnets - Network World
• adfox: Canadian Pharmacy A long time running pharmacy spam ...
• Experts link flood of 'Canadian Pharmacy' spam to Russian botnet ...
• Malicious New Botnet Found in 50 of Fortune 100
• Triangle Plating: 22 Sep 2009 After all, you should escort nearly ...
• Experts link flood of 'Canadian Pharmacy' spam to Russian botnet ...
• Do you know the us's spam capital?
• South Dakota defeats Southeastern Louisiana 44-13
• Fighting Botnets with Doc Savage
• events: Canadian Pharmacy A long time running pharmacy spam ...

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September 22, 2009

Links Roundup

• That's How You Know
• Brute-force attacks target two-year hole in Yahoo! Mail
• What's in store at the ISPs 2009-2010
• The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing (Hardcover)
• Facebook break leads to burglary suspect
• Microsoft sues over malicious online ads
• Private Jet-Set Network Hacked
• IETF forges botnet clean-up standard
  Love the subhead
• Team Cymru Renews Partnership with Microsoft for Malware Intelligence (PDF)

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September 15, 2009

Links Roundup

• Woman Wires $4K Abroad In Facebook Scam
• The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture
• Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
• AL IVERSON'S SPAM RESOURCE: YOU CAN'T BUY AN EXISTING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Malware
• DNSSEC Secures Another Domain(.edu by 2010)
• Man Pleads Guilty in Wal-Mart Card Phishing Scheme
• Tien Truong Nguyen pleads Guilty
• AOL Changes Course, Allows All Users To Opt Out Of Ads In Email
• RP Hosting New Tucows FBL
• Cyber security Tsar needed to lift Australia's defences?
• Pivotal Veracity Unveils New Product: MIQ
• How to ruin your email marketing program – Part 1
• Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts worth millions
• Good Advice for Senders
• Mail.com not handled by Outblaze anymore?
• Spammers Use Non Delivery Reports To Reach Inboxes
• Twitter Gives Spam Apps a Thumbs Down, Ads a 'Maybe'
• Which Free Email Provider Has the Best Spam Filter
• Spammers Hijack KFS Account
• Straight to the Spam Folder: Astonishing E-Mail Messages You'll ...
• Linux webserver botnet pushes malware
• Dynamic DNS and Botnet of Zombie Web Servers | Unmask Parasites. Blog.
• search engine marketing: Security firms discover botnet on Twitter
• Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
• Information Security at Notre Dame: The IRS wants my computer too?!
• Fox Gets Sued For Texting Movie Spam
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• Espion Finds Smarter Way To Fight Spam
• In Depth: How to secure your TCP/IP ports - Technology, iPhone ...
• First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered | Linux Plus
• Abuse Of Google Search Could Help Regulate Botnets
• Dictionary Attacker Hacker Spam Botnet 95.133.165.60 - Forum ...
• Pakistan Times: Experts link flood of 'Canadian Pharmacy' spam to ...
• 6 things you should know about botnet attacks
• Dave Bakke: Retiree's 'good life' includes Spam, lizards, cold baths
• Austalian government launches website to educate real estate ...
• 2006 Archive Cialis Poker Spam Viagra
• Slashdot Linux Story | First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered
• The First Linux Botnet? | Linux Plus
• Linux Today The First Linux Botnet
• Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial - Linux webserver botnet pushes ...
• Snippits and Snappits: ZIONISM'S NEW FRONTIER ~ CYBERSPACE
• First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered (Slashdot)
• My Spam analysis for Sept 7 - 13, 2009 | Wiz's Computer and ...
• First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered
• Spam messages spoof newsletter templates to avoid email filters
• PandaLabs: Non-Delivery Report Email Spam Rises 2000%
• Twitter Adds Ad/Spam Clause to ToS
• New Facebook Application Creating Massive Volumes Of Photo Spam
• Spammers turn to socnets to proliferate porn spam
• How registrars tackle domain name abuse
• Russia, US remain top two generators of spam -study
• The IA Professional's Toolkit Part 3
• Introducing the New Vmail from the University of Virginia and Google
• Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups
• Have They Really Uncovered a Linux Web Server Botnet? - Security Watch
• Domain-name abuse proliferates; rogue registrars turn a blind eye
• Botnet of Linux Servers with Dynamic IP Discovered | Linux Plus
• Linux botnet of zombie web servers | ShareConnector
• Botnet commands spread by Google Groups
• Google Groups as botnet command and control
• Botnet discovered on Linux servers
• Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups ...
• Botnet C&C Server Hosted on Google Groups
• Domain-name abuse proliferates; rogue registrars turn a blind eye
• Linux botnet of zombie web servers
• No more Linux security bragging: botnet discovery worry

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August 28, 2009

Links Roundup

• MX Logic® Threat Forecast & Report
• Investigations on a Cybercrime Hub in Estonia
• DARKREADING: MOST INSIDER LEAKS HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
• Are ads coming to a CAPTCHA near you?
  That ought to inspire a few Bill Hicks moments...
• Blocking specific domains?
• Is Apple Opening a Can of Worms?
• Sleazy opt-in email tactics from otherwise reputable organizations
• Google: Malware Sites on the Upswing
• Unchain the Office Computers! Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want.
  Yeah, that ought to help. Anything's better than !%@$! MSIE
• Apache.org hack
• Guest Post: Email and the White House
  Jaren Angerbauer guests at the newly redesigned SpamResource
• Relief From the Robo-Calls Is Coming
• Bernankes Fall Victim to Identity Theft
  Or, as someone pointed out on a list I'm on, what we used to call "check fraud"
• DHS' Cyber Storm III to test Obama's national cyber response plan
• New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
  Using WAP/TKIP? Don't.
• Blogger Buzz Blog Is Trying To Communicate With Us
• Three Most Active Botnets Spewing 21 Billion Spam Daily
• Wired takes on Craigslist founder, who promptly walks into a door
• Firm agrees to put away spam
• Short URL Spam a Big Threat in August
• Jessica Biel Searches Deemed Most Dangerous
• MessageLabs spots resilient new breed of botnets
• When the Internet breaks, who ya gonna call? | csmonitor.com
• myDigitechnician: NEW NET Issues List for 25 Aug 2009
• Snarkmarket: Perfect for the Botnet Master or Drug Dealer in Your Life
• Short URL Spam a Big Threat in August - News: Everything-e
• New 'Get a Mac' ads level virus accusations at pcs
• Botmaster: It's All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots ...
• Google Could Be Used to Control Botnets
• Botnet traffic bounds back 90% with 48 hours of ISP shutdown
• Are Carmaker Sites Using Hybrids (Ineptly) As Spam Bait?
• Twitter Hack Initiates Spam & Rogueware Campaigns
• Advice on Twitter spam protection from BitDefender
• Health care, pharmaceuticals e-mail fuel onslaught as spam rates climb
• `Phishing' drops; are scammers switching tactics?
• MX Logic: Healthcare Remains Top Spam Category
• Health: A new spam concern?
• Twitter as a botnet command center
• Botnet bounces back very quickly
• MessageLabs: URL shortening services use for selling drugs
• Opt-in Botnets and hacking from the office
• Twitter as a botnet command center ? Hack a Day | Tweet Blogging ...
• Twitter as a botnet command center - Hack a Day
• Starwatch Consumer | 'Phishing' has fallen off, IBM finds
• Hotmail Accounts Getting 'Hijacked,' Microsoft Says
• Phishing drops
• Spam and lollies for Jessica's voyage
• UK Govt: Spammers Before Downloaders?
• City receives grants for new spam filter and to help police
• SmarterTools Releases New SmarterMail Mail Server, Provides Cost ...
• A Final Ted Kennedy Innovation: A New Way To Use Twitter
• Privacy and social networking is about more than spam
• Will Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard include antivirus protection? | MX ...
• Bogus 'free' Mac OS X Snow Leopard sites carry malware
• Risky Business #121 -- Botnet C&C getting better
• Information Security: Why Cybercriminals Are Smiling :: Gaming ...
• Botnet activity drops as spam remains at high but steady level
• Twitter used as a hacking tool
• Content Security Business "As Usual under the Circumstances," Report
• Conficker Botnet Messes With Reporters' Heads By Not Doing Anything
• What Is Conficker Waiting For?

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August 25, 2009

Links Roundup

• E-Postage Just Won’t Die
• Email Stamps Gaining Momentum, Again?
• You might be a spammer if…
• Comcast Interview
• JOHN LEVINE ON CIRCLEID: HELPING BANKS FIGHT PHISHING AND ACCOUNT FRAUD, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT
• White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform
• Software Engineer - Anti-Spam (Twitter)
• Announcement: No More Report Cards (AOL)
• WASHINGTON POST SECURITY FIX: TIGHTER SECURITY URGED FOR BUSINESSES BANKING ONLINE
• New Maine law spins a tangled Web
• Personal Tech: Gadget News and Reviews
• TwitBlock joins fight against Twitter spam
• Lawsuit seeks to pry information from banks on account breaches
• Watch Out For Pointless Self-Replicating Spam Facebook Application
• Another 'Bot-Spam Attack?
• Facebook Declares War On Spam Developers
• Spam-Fighting Website Gets Hit By Demand
• Could Google be tricked into talking to botnets?
• Botnet 'ZeuS' traced to Real Host of Latvia - SPAMfighter
• Could Google be tricked into talking to botnets?
• Botmaster: It's All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots - AOA
• Support Wars - Brazen botnet uses Twitter comm channel
• The Cheap Computer Geek ? Blog Archive ? Security firms reveal ...
• Is The iPhone's Push System Vulnerable To Spam, Malware Popups?
• Fox News: White House hired private firm to distribute Axelrod's ...
• After being canned last year, SPAM Festival is back
• Information Policy: Botnet 'ZeuS' traced to Real Host of Latvia
• Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Badware preparing to control ...
• Jual I make western union transfer, sell CCV,FULLZ AND BOTNET ...
• Fast History: Storm Botnet Sends 57 Million Emails in One Day, 2007
• What are we buying?
• Plesk Admins Can Accidentally Relay Spam Vulnerability in the ...
• Shady Cove Spam Festival
• When you say SPAM, it had better mean canned luncheon meat
• Google at risk from 'Zombie Computers'... (TheNextWeb) ? TechNews.AM
• SAGA ENTERTAINMENT
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• Phishing spam targets World of Warcraft gamers
• White House used Minnesota company to spam health care agenda
• Hormel Foods spent $90K lobbying government in 2Q
• Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions
• Serial Anti-Spam Lawsuit Filer Loses Appeal... And His Possessions
• CurbedWire: Palos Verdes Diorama, Shopping for Spam Could Save a ...
• Mr. Know-It-All on Spam Among Friends, Blog Contests, Naked Babies
• Minnesota company in the middle of Axelrod's Spam-gate scandal
• Using Sender Policy Framework to Fight Spam
• How To Install And Use ZeuS 1.2.4.2 BotNet Help Please - Opensc.ws ...
• Networking World: More tips on detecting botnet infestation
• Botnets must die
• Is Your PC Bot-Infested? Here's How to Tell
• Is Your PC Bot-Infested? Here's How to Tell | Spyware Security
• All your info are belong to us
• Ilomo Botnet Making A Mockery Of Banks Secure Login Systems ...

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August 20, 2009

Links Roundup

• Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
• MEDIAPOST: GMAIL POINTS WAY TO BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR EMAIL
• Yahoo! running (some of) Verizon’s Email Services
• SETH'S BLOG: WILLFULLY IGNORANT VS. AGGRESSIVELY SKEPTICAL
• TJX Hacker Charged with Heartland, Hannaford Breaches
• JOHN R. LEVINE: ARE PHISHING AND MALWARE SEPARATE THREATS?
• Status of dnsbl.tqmcube.com: DEAD
• POLITICO: WHITE HOUSE WILL CHANGE E-MAIL RULES
• Hackers use Twitter accounts and Tweets as command & control for botnets
• Website compromises - what's happening?
• Yahoo! Adds Behavioral Attributes to Anti-Spam Reputation Mix
• Gunfight at the Password Corral - Showdown Over Passwords Between Sheriff and County Officials
• Status of bl.open-whois.org: DEAD
• Two DNSBL updates
• "Domain tasters" bitter as new fees put an end to their games
• FAQ about Radisson data breach
• 4 out of 5 cyber attacks are now being caused by...
• Beware: Phishing and Spam in Social Networks

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August 12, 2009

Links Roundup

• Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
• Are You Deceived by Your E-Mail Delivery Rate?
• DARKREADING: ISPS TEAM IN BOT CLEANUP
• CAMPAIGN FOR A COMMERCIAL-FREE CHILDHOOD: NEW MAINE LAW RESTRICTS MARKETING TO MINORS
• Zeus botnet’s Real Host cut off from the internet
• Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure?
• Email Marketer Wins Spam Lawsuit
• What is a Good Open Rate?
• Combatting spam and suspending affected accounts
• Campaign Monitor compromised. Sender lists and reputation at risk
• TECHNOLOGY LIBERATION FRONT: IF NCMEC’S GOING TO REGULATE THE INTERNET FOR CHILD PORN, IT SHOULD AT LEAST BE SUBJECT TO FOIA
• Respect Subscribers by Managing Expectations
• Email Marketing Manager Title Has To Go
• TeliaSonera Drops Alleged Latvian Spam Host
• Pro-Georgian Blogger Target Of Spam, Scareware Following Twitter ...
• Court rejects $10 million spam lawsuit
• 9th Circuit Cans Serial Plaintiff's Spam Suit
• Mobile phone providers ring in changes to jam the spam
• Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul
• SPAM CRACKDOWN: Twitter Mass Suspends Hacked Accounts
• How to save the Internet from Windows
• Telia Closed The Infamous Botnet 'Zeus' | TechPatio
• Social Networking and cyber attacks - is this our future?
• Computerworld > Security researchers zero in on Twitter attackers
• Denial-Of-Service Attacks Hard To Kill
• Malware Diaries ? Blog Archive ? Are you part of the Koobface botnet?
• Twitter, Facebook Attack Blamed On Russia
• We need a game changer, now
• Botnet Command and control servers to kill belsec
• Avoid Email Threats and Spam with Secure Email Hosting
• Spam Accounted 89% of All Emails in July 2009
• Campaign Monitor reels from hack and spam attack
• USA continues to relay more spam than any other country
• Spam Growing Upwards, Onwards
• Spam Uncovers Career Center Security Breach
• Sandia National Lab's Scrutinizes Botnet Herders
• Twitter, Facebook and Google Attacked ~ Housewife's Utopia
• Sandia to boot behemoth botnet ? http:// ? | LocalAreaSecurity.com
• Attacks on US, Korea Web Sites Leave a Winding Trail

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August 10, 2009

Links Roundup

• Bing hosting spam ads for counterfeit drugs
• Twitter's Down And The Threats Keep Coming
• Twitter shut as hackers bombard it with spam
• SF: APPEALS COURT REJECTS LAWSUIT BY MAN WHO COLLECTED THOUSANDS ...
• Mollom Spam Control Add-On for IIS Environments
• Symantec: Phishing activity up in July
• Twitter Defending Against Denial-Of-Service Attack
• Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger
• Top three botnets sending 21 billion spam messages a day
• Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack
• Latvian Real Host was depeered for feeding Zeus botnet | Ecommerce ...
• Twitter crash points to rise of denial-of-service attacks
• Sandia to boot behemoth botnet
• Is a major social network denial-of-service attack underway?
• ISP linked to Zeus botnet shutdown after investigation
• Hackers crash Twitter
• Is a Psychopath Attacking Twitter, Facebook?
• Internet Evolution - Gideon J. Lenkey - Botnet Project Could Yield ...
• How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? ? TechBlogger
• ISPs Team Up In Bot Cleanup
• Latvian Real Host was depeered for feeding Zeus botnet
• DDOS Attacks Crush Twitter, Hobble Facebook
• Plug pulled Latvian cybercrime hub
• Michael Jackson top subject of malware spam this year
• Ninth Circuit rejects private anti-spam suit
• Twitter cyberattacks should remind internet users not to open spam
• CAN-SPAM Act private suit rejection [9th Circuit]
• Russia-Georgia Conflict Blamed for Twitter, Facebook Outages
• Symantec: Spam Makes Up 89% of Email
• Top 3 Bots: Billions (With AB!) Of Spams A Day!
• Twist in the tale of questioning spam
• Targeted Twitter user blames Russia
• Spam messages offer phony cell phone spyware
• Security Experts Scramble to Decipher Twitter Attack - CIO.com ...
• researchers zero in on Twitter hackers
• attack that downed Twitter also hit Facebook
• So How Do You Determine if Your Computer's Part of a Botnet? : The ...
• Social site sieges - collateral damage in cyberwar?
• Understanding how botnets work
• FAQ: The ins and outs of DoS attacks
• Cyber-attacks 'aimed at Georgia blogger'
• Twitter, Facebook attack seemed aimed at blogger
• Are Russians Behind the Latest Twitter Attack?
• Authorities shut down notorious ISP Real Host
• Twitter attack is a growth pang
• Zeus botnet linked to Latvia's Real Host | 3 Aug 2009 ...
• Twitter DDoS a somber reminder about the malice of botnets
• ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: The Cyberwar Bait & Switch ...
• US Government Site Hacked - Now Serving Up Spam
• Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter
• US appeals court cans CAN-SPAM suit
• It's time to get rid of Windows - Computerworld Blogs
• Why Twitter Was Attacked - The BAT Channel
• Twitter crash caused by Botnets & vicious hackers! Twitterville ...
• Botnets Help Cyber Criminals Earn Huge Revenues, says Kaspersky
• Detecting "bot rot" using log management or SIEM
• An End to Spam Litigation Factories? (Gordon v. Virtumundo)
• Web Company Wins Spam Lawsuit
• 8-step guide to get rid of spam
• An End to Spam Litigation Factories? (Gordon v. Virtumundo)
• Volunteers crucial for policing Craigslist
• Preseason polls are fun, sure, but useless
• Social Networking - Media - Marketing - Blogging - Twitter ...
• Reseachers run one million virtual machines to help flight botnet ...
• What's wrong with Twitter? | SecTechno
• Creator of Korean botnet blamed for Twitter attack

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August 6, 2009

Links Roundup

• What Will It Take To Get You to Authenticate
• This is NOT spam
• E-mail, fastest growing direct marketing segment, expands double digits
• Rogue Latvian ISP is Now Offline
• Twitter hit by denial-of-service attack
• 9th Circuit decision
• Email marketing metric measurement can drive results, says expert

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Links Roundup

• McAfee Shows Internet Security is Hot, Hot, Hot!
• Spam shows no decline: How are you defending your network?
• Following the Money: Rogue Anti-virus Software
• Are Spam Armies Invading Twitter?
• It's spam, but not as we know it
• In My Opinion: Rights lost & spam e-mails...
• Researchers simulate a botnet of 1 million zombies - SC Magazine US
• Black Hat: Hacker exposes iPhone SMS flaw
• 1 Million Linux Kernels Booted for Vast Botnet Simulation
• Researchers: Conficker Still an Active Threat
• Researcher reveals massive professional thieving botnet ...
• Clampi Trojan revealed as financial-plundering botnet monster
• Yet another DUH! report - spam accounts for 92% of all email
• Surviving SPAM
• role of ftc and other agencies in stopping spam
• US is number one 'spam nation'
• Technicalinfo.net Blog: Blackhat & Defcon - Las Vegas '09
• Nothing Bad Is Actually Happening On September 2
• Help! Why am I getting spam from myself?
• USA is the Top Spam Offender Nation in Q2
• How to block spam from your smartphone
• MAAWG outlines best practices for malware removal
• Spammer Discovers His Insurance Policy Doesn't Cover $6 Million ...
• Twitter Begins Filtering Links
• Security Vendors That Spam
• Russian Business Network (RBN): RBN - Real Host, Latvia and the ...
• Potentially Abandoned Conficker Grows | ThreatBlog
• Current Malware Report: Converged Threats and Countermeasures
• Should Your Organization Add DDoS Attacks to its Tactics Toolkit?
• Zeus botnet linked to Latvia's Real Host
• Building in Surveillance | Privacy Digest
• DoD Buzz | BotNets Biggest Cyber Threat | Cyber Security
• Red Condor: Latest Email Scams Targeting People Looking for Employment
• Spam mystery solved!
• Stand-alone spam filter is easy to use and effective
• Sendio Upgrades Anti-Spam Product
• Phishing spam fools 55000 per month
• Swedish telco disconnects fraud hub
• Vicious botnet infects a million PCs, steals financial data
• White House 'Cyber Czar' Resigns
• Confickers lights are on, but is anyone home? | Gaj-It.com - UK ...
• Zeus botnet's Real Host cut off from the internet
• Protect your computers and networks NOW - A real CERT in Belgium ...
• Image spam: the threat returns
• Fortinet: Malicious E-Cards Spread Last Month
• Tip of the Week: Say Goodbye to Unwanted E-Newsletters
• After Links to Cybercrime, Latvian ISP is Cut Off - CIO.com ...
• Zeus botnet's Real Host cut off from the internet | Windows 2008 ...
• Virtual computer army takes on the botnets
• After Links to Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Is Cut off
• Latvian botnet host canned

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July 31, 2009

Links Roundup

• McAfee, Inc. to Acquire MX Logic and Provide Industry's Most Comprehensive Security-as-a-Service Portfolio
• Amazing new exploit for Linksys routers running DD-WRT
• Twitter kills off spam accounts
• Report: Spam and malware at all-time highs
• Translation services used to pump out polyglot spam
• SNARE: A New Way to Fight Against Spam
• Twitter users hit by TwitViewer phishing spam
• Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server
• Spam now speaks your language
• S'pore spam rate crosses global average
• McAfee: Prevalence of Spam, Malware on the Rise
• Just In Just Out: Press Release: McAfee Q2 Threats Report Reveals ...
• Clampi Trojan revealed as financial-plundering botnet monster
• Was 4chan block about censorship, security or net neutrality?
• Botnets Driving Spam Volume | WebProNews
• Researcher pressured to pull 'Conficker' talk
• Technology 101: How to hire a botnet for cheap
• Spam Volumes Up 141 Percent, Aided By Botnets
• McAfee: Spam, Trojans and Botnets Skyrocketing
• Spam and Botnet Threats Increasing Exponentially
• Spam Levels Top Pre McColo Highs
• Botnets Driving Spam Volume | WebProNews
• Botnet armies driving spam to new heights
• Researcher reveals massiveprofessional thieving botnet
• Software Creator Admits to Aiding & Abetting Spam
• MySpace Mail Goes Public; Global Rollout In Weeks
• Human vs. Machine: Which Brain Is Ahead?
• Spamalot! Volume of spam is back on the rise
• Breaking: McAfee will acquire MX Logic for $140 million
• Spam levels reach new heights

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July 29, 2009

Links Roundup

• Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 hit RTM
• Twitter Fighting Against Spam By Banning Lots Of Fake Accounts
• How To Earn Money With Your Own Personal Botnet ? chrisbrenton.org
• Biggest, Baddest Botnets: Wanted Dead or Alive | New Software
• Network Bluepill - stealth router-based botnet has been DDoSing ...
• The Botnet Attacked Symbian Based 3G Mobile Phone
• Norton AntiVirus 2009 - 3 User, rapid pulse updates every 5 to 15 ...
• Social Network Phishing Attacks Businesses
• The Botnets - economics
• AVG update breaks iTunes
• DISOG: Botnet Application with SMS Spamming
• Businesses Falling Victim to Cybercrime, Report Finds
• Do-not-e-mail legislation is needed to stop onslaught of spam
  In which the writer complains that he gets too much spam!
• Language-specific spam begins to hit the web
• InfoStructures Acquires FilterPoint SPAM Filtering Service by KCI
• Fake followers: Prime Minister drowning in Twitter spam
• Big tech security conference kicks off
• Spam 'Harry Potter' emails lead to malware
• Mobile Malware Ups Stakes for Data Security
• Conficker Mystery to Continue at Black Hat Conference
• Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers
• China experiencing fewer bot infections
• Virtual Graffiti: Kaspersky Lab publishes an analytical article on ...
• Whatever happened to the Conficker worm?
• Indeck Energy Services Selects Engate Technology for Proactive ...
• Exploits Take Advantage Of Hot News, Search Queries
• Spam and phishing attacks soar in July
• Denmark's Spam Market
• Dutch spam suspect fined 250K
• The Top 3 Reasons to Try Hosted Email Security Today
• Radicati Group Forecasts E-Mail Security Market
• Cyber Criminals Adopt Corporate Strategies : Information Security ...
• Security Expert Analyzes the Botnet-Based Economy
• A Day in the Life of the Rustock Botnet - HackerJournals Blogs
• Latest News Portal: World First Botnet from Trend Micro
• Gmail and the unsubcribe (sic) feature
• Window to Your Soul - Spam Complaints
• Feedback Loop Problems at Yahoo
• Gmail Offers to Automatically Unsubscribe You from Mailing Lists
• Memo to Europe: Do You Know Where Your Email Goes?
• Network Solutions Hacked Exposing 573,000 Accounts
• Stats Porn Friday: How Traffic Shaping cuts out 2/3 more spam than blocking alone
• List Rental is…

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July 22, 2009

Links Roundup

• My unsubscribe request got caught by a spam filter
• Confirm to Unsubscribe?
• Why Traffic-Shaping Uses Less Resources, Not More
• Permission commercial email is still being blocked at a rate of about 20%
• AOL Changing Mailer Daemon Error Senders
• ALL THINGS DIGITAL: YAHOO TO ACQUIRE XOOPIT FOR ABOUT $20 MILLION
• Here's how to set your filters to block spam
• One in Six US, Canadian Internet Users Responds to Spam
• Spam-proof your inbox, cell phone
• Political spin spam comes from the Ds and the Rs
• Researchers uncover first mobile phone botnet Botnet ...
• My Spam analysis for July 13 - 19, 2009 | Wiz's Computer and ...
• Botnet for mobile phones cause for concern - ITworld.com - Mobile ...
• NTC ban on "spam" texts puts P5-B industry in peril
• Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From US
• Spam Messages Spread Through Social Network Aggregator Ping.fm
• The US Accounts For The Most Spam Globally
• Spam report: US tops Q2 list of spam-sending countries
• DeepDiscount.com phone spam
• MAAWG finds users never respond to spam, except sometimes
• Deferment of order prohibiting text spam sought
• Microsoft files lawsuit over Messenger IM spam
• Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam
• p2pnet news ? Blog Archive ? p2pnet World Headlines - July 20, 2009
• Criminal Enterprise or Legit Business? It Can Be Hard to Tell ...
• 'Sexy Space' Botnet Could Make Your Phone a Zombie
• World's First Cell Phone Botnet Could be Coming Soon
• W.K.K.Chamika: What is a Botnet?
• March of the zombie phones
• 'Sexy Space' Botnet Could Make Your Phone a Zombie | Gadget.us
• Spam researcher shows China not as 'spammy' as you think
• Spam soars despite billions spent to prevent it
• US Ranked Tops In Spamming
• Facebook adds security tools to guard against ID theft, spam
• Internet Security 101: 11 ways to reduce the spam epidemic, Pt. 3
• Google News Drops RSS Buttons Due To Spam?
• Spam-Proof Your Inbox, Cell Phone
• US named as top spam-producing country
• HostingCon Event Pass Giveaway, by Dedicated Anti-Spam Firm ...
• 'Sexy Space' Botnet Could Make Your Phone a Zombie | All That Gadget
• How to Defend Against New Botnets
• Conficker: it's only a matter of time, says researcher | Search ...
• Shields Up!: Botnets
• Who is Using Fast Flux?
• HAcKeRs's kingdom Kingdom of h4ck3rs » Blog Archive » how to build ...
• First mobile phone botnet spotted in the wild? | Blog | Futurismic
• Spammers Using Waledac Botnet to Spread Infection in Computers

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July 17, 2009

Links Roundup

• Twitter Hack Raises Flags on Security
• You Control Your Deliverability Reputation, but Your ESP is Critical to Ongoing Success
• Digital River to Axe 120 Positions
• Annoying Consumers with Too Many Emails
• First Zero-Day Exploit Released For Firefox 3.5
• Another Twitter Hack Leads to More Poorly Placed Generalities About Cloud Computing
• In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents
  Comparisons to the Pentagon Papers are a bit outlandish, IMHO
• Determining the DKIM Value Proposition
• Spammers Abusing URL Shortening Services
• THE EMAIL WARS: HOW MANY INBOXES DO YOU HAVE
• Survey Finds One in Six Consumers Act on Spam
  Maybe the PSA money no longer being spent on anti-drug ads could be used to spread the Boulder Pledge?
• INFOWORLD: TWITTER SUSPENDS ACCOUNTS OF USERS WITH INFECTED COMPUTERS
• The Email Marketer’s Syllogism
• Eloqua, Email Marketing Chief Privacy Officer at Eloqua, Dennis Dayman an Interview

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July 9, 2009

Links Roundup

• MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes
• FAQ: How to vanquish mobile spam
• NTC runs after telcos sending spam messages
• CNET News Daily Podcast: How to deal with annoying SMS spam
• Swine-Flu Spam
• Shortened URLs Used in 2% of All Spam
• Personal Antispam X5
• Spammers Shorten Their URLs
• How to Mitigate the Increasing Botnet Threat
• Massive porn spam botnet out of UKRtel.net - Forum Posters Union
• Waledac Takes Its Seasonal Turn
• ThreatBlog » Blog Archive » Guest Blog: How Much Spam Does Waledac ...
• Online attack hits US government Web sites
• Social Security Number Prediction Makes Identity Theft Easy
• Reverse-engineering SSNs from publicly available data - Boing Boing
• Guest Blog: How Much Spam Does Waledac Send? | NYC Computer Repair ...
• How to Mitigate the Increasing Botnet Threat / Best of Security
• Massive porn spam botnet out of UKRtel.net - Forum Posters Union
• Spam filters targeting foreign countries hurt legit URLs
• Spam That Makes Us Click
• Web Link Shrinkage Powers Spam Surge
• Vintage Spam Recipes: Remixing Nigerian and HTML
• Is it too easy to spam Twitter by using hashtags?
• TinyURL Spam Growing, But It Can Be Beat
• Spammers don't take the summer off
• It's always something: V-spam
• Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
• US hit by massive dos attack
• Ask Al: Checking email addresses against URIBLs?
  In which I guest blog for Al Iverson's SpamResource
• Spam tool developer faces six years in chokey
• Court: IP Addresses Are Not 'Personally Identifiable' Information
• Three myths about DKIM
• Ask Al: Help prevent a bad thing!
• Mail to Excite.com Adresses Delayed
• Usenet.com Gets Ass Handed To It By Court
• Michael Jackson headline used in Password Stealing scheme
• Spam blacklist bids top $1m
  A good thing, too, as Michelle was just laid off
• Software Developer Pleads Guilty to Spam Charge

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July 7, 2009

Links Roundup

Apologies for missing the wave of pre-July 4th "spammers take advantage of July 4th" news; I'll try to do better with the next big holiday.

• Spam levels bounce back after botnet takedown | Spamzy
• Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems
• Study shows rise in spam botnets
• U.S. Launches Offensive Operations in Cyberspace (CYBERCOM) :: The ...
• Chinese Official Says Green Dam Still Looms
• Conficker: Forgotten but not Gone
• ESET Warns of Waledac Independence Day Botnet - ESET - pitchengine.com
• Fake Tamiflu 'out-spams Viagra on Web'
• Virus Bulletin names top spam blockers
• Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam
• Botnets pushing up spam loads
• Information Policy: Botnets pushing up spam loads
• Jackson death probe spam threat to bank accounts, passwords
• I never get tired of spam like this: 'Purchase Chainsaws'
• Cybersecurity - Obama's Trojan Horse « LightPond
• Full Disclosure IcemanRonew botnet to come
• Will FriendFeed's New Search Equal More Real-Time Spam?
• Increase in volume Of Michael Jackson-focused Internet spams
• Making Money with Your Own Stealthy Botnet - Part III
• Enjoyed The July 4th Fireworks? Skip The Waledac Movie
• Technicalinfo.net Blog: Making Money with Your Own Stealthy Botnet ...
• Beware of the Golden Cash Botnet - FrugalTech | Bukisa.com
• Excellent spam catcher supports many clients
• June malware report - phishing's great
• Human error, not spam, brought down Twitter accounts
• Google sees spam spike in Q2
• Twiiter Spam Can Load Computers With Spyware
• Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
• Cybercrooks descend on Twitter with spam, attacks
• iPhone may be vulnerable to SMS security flaw
• Waledac botnet makes comeback
• NEWS Symbian botnet.. - Opensc.ws - Trojan programming forum
• ISP shutdown latest cat-and-mouse game with hackers
• New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth
• Report: Social Security numbers can be predicted
• Identity Theft Prevention

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June 28, 2009

Links Roundup

• Beckstrom to head ICANN
  I wonder if it will change anything?
• Spam Crisis in China
• Spammers Poisoning Twitter Trending Topics to Spread Spam and Malware
• Man who led spam scam pleads guilty in Detroit
• DoJ scores largest ever CAN-SPAM prosecution
• Yet Another Fake Microsoft Update Email Scam Making the Rounds
• SORBS Blacklist on the Ropes
• The Catch-22 of Email List Building
• Man arrested after allegedly cuffing teen to chair, molesting her
  One of the biggest scumbags in the history of spam gets his just desserts
• Former spam king booked with molesting one juvenile, raping another in St. Tammany
• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Starts New Email Filtering Company
  Because Outlook sucks so bad it takes a startup to add basic filtering capabilities?
• IP relisted despite no more mail being sent
  Mickey Chandler digs into Barracuda's methods

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June 19, 2009

Links Roundup

• Arguments Heard Over Obscenity, CAN-SPAM Act Case
• Twitter Spam: 3 Ways Scammers are Filling Twitter With Junk
• Yahoo Wants More Spam
• Name Of Spam King Sent To US Attorney
• MailChannels Upgrades Spam Defense
• Google Plans Twitter Search; Spam Likely to Ensue
• Fight Twitter Spammers/Scammers By Following Twitter.com/Spam!
• Spam king Wallace could be jailed
• Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
• China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch
• Fergie's Tech Blog: SCADA Watch: Buggy 'Smart Meters' Open Door to botnets
• Botnet Myth Hampering Businesses
• PC infections rising as botnets try to reseed
• Social Hacktivists Take Down Iranian Government Websites
• Clean Tweets: New Add-On Zaps Twitter Spam
• Spam King Faces Hard Time
• Biggest Threat to Social Networks? Spam?
• Clean Tweets: The Search Spam Solution Twitter Should Build
• Blank Messages Drive Spam Spike
• Decline in Click Fraud Rate in Q1-2009
• Lost+Found: Burglars, IP addresses and botnets
• Fergie's Tech Blog: The Coming of The 'Opera Unite' Botnet
• Researcher Attempts To Dispel Damaging Botnet Myth DarkReading
• The FTC Goes to Court to Ban a Rogue Web Host from the US
• Google Penalizes For Spam Comments
• Soon, billboards that know male from female
• Security experts uncover one-stop botnet marketplace: - Windows 7 ...
• Want to Buy a Botnet?
• A Call for Action in Addressing Cyber Security
• US cyber security chief warns of 'market' in malware | Take A Plunge
• Need to combat lucrative malware 'market'
• Finjan Researchers Uncover Marketplace for Botnets
• Finjan's Research Unveils Botnet Trading Platform for Hacked PCs
• Researchers uncover 'Golden Cash' botnet-leasing network
• InformationOverload: FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue ISP
• Iran's Cyberwarriors Stay Ahead Of Government Censors
• Security experts uncover one-stop botnet marketplace
• Twitter Spam Marketing Hits Peak
• Microsoft readies free PC security software
• Election "spam" riles Washington Twp.
• Mollom's Spam Filtering Helps Fast-Growing NowPublic
• Tips to Fight Spam on Your Computer and Cell Phone 2
• Worm-bearing Twitter spam on the loose
• Can Spam and email marketing
• The botnet threat in China's censorship software | Security - CNET ...
• Security-Shell: The Golden Cash Botnet
• You too can buy 1000 zombie PCs for pennies on the dollar!
• 'One stop' botnet market uncovered
• Coordinated Malware Resists Eradication
• Overheard: Marketers Still Struggle With CAN-SPAM Compliance With 3rd Party List Rental
• T-Mobile Confirms Stolen Data is Genuine
• Forrester Forecast: US Email Marketing Spending To Reach $2 Billion In 2014
• Security group converges to fight Internet abuse
• A Single Spam Message Can Sink the Ship
• Secret war on web crooks revealed
  Hee.
• 'Spam king' facing criminal charges for violating Facebook restraining order
• Dutch to Implement new anti-spam ban

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June 11, 2009

Links Roundup

• TRA issues clarification to subscribers on how to deal with spam SMS
• Spam Floods Inboxes of Gmail Users
• Fed Up With Twitter Spam? It's Going to Get Worse
• Spam server shutdown has little effect
• FTC Shuts Down Internet Provider Specializing in Kiddie Porn ...
• Etisalat and Du to Block SMS Spam
• Forwarded text messages the new spam
• Twitter's Real Time Spam Problem
• ISP Pricewert Protests Shutdown
• Humorous Illustrations of Spam Email Titles
• Shut Em Down: FTC Alleges IPS Hosted 'Witches' Brew'
• YouData Help Sign Ups - The Botting Network
• FTC shuts down suspected spam and botnet servers
• FTC Shuts Down Notorious ISP That Recruited Criminals
• Spam drops 15 percent after FTC Pricewert takedown
• 3FN.net ISP shutdown interrupts spam campaigns
• Botnets: The Silent Threat - Part II | iPositive Security
• Red Condor Beats Barracuda in Anti-Spam Appliance Comparison
• Huge spike in amount of 'spam' email
• Clement urges committee to delete spam quickly
• Spam reduces following Pricewert shutdown, reports say
• FTC shuts down suspected spam and botnet servers
• Technicalinfo.net Blog: Exploring the Botnet vs. Malware Relationship
• Court shuts down rogue ISP
• The Fallout from the 3FN Takedown
• Lazy email users drive spam click rate
• Spam drops 15% after FTC pulls plug on rogue ISP
• Swine Flu Spam Raises Total Spam in May 2009
• Pricewert shutdown brought only short-lived drop in spam
• Researcher Attempts to Dispel Damaging Botnet Myth
• China's computers at hacking risk
• Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown ...
• Microsoft takes aim at fake antivirus program
• 3FN shutdown tied to drop in spam from Pushdo botnet
• Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown ...
• Scareware attacks spreading to Twitter, Google and legit media ...

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June 1, 2009

Links Roundup

• Judge throws the book at phishing fraudster
• The new Dutch opt-in law
• More Than 80% Of Phishing Attacks Use Hijacked, Legitimate Websites
• 90% of E-mail Traffic Still Spam
• 90 percent of mail is spam
• Topsy Bets On Real-Time Twitter Search With $15M Backing
• Are comment links just a form of spam?
• Cellular anti-theft and spam SMS blocker
• MailMate Anti-Spam Expert 2.1.5
• Red Condor Wins 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year ...
• Twitter develops tools to fight rise of spam activity
• More Than 90 Percent of E-Mail is Spam
• McAfee: Malware targets people looking for work, free stuff
• Report: spam-wielding botnets are working 9 to 5 - kizo digital info
• The Rap Sheet: Tech Terrors of Tomorrow
• BNP DDoS 'mega-assault' not actually mega in the least
• Spam around the world and around the clock
• Spam hits new lows with a new high
• Report: spam-wielding botnets are working 9 to 5
• Aetna Contacts 65000 After Web Site Data Breach
• Spam techniques now 'triple threat'
• Symantec: Spam spikes 5%
• Univ ersity of California researchers take over Torpig botnet to ...
• Cisco ASA's new Botnet Traffic Detector Too good to be true ...
• The Day Before Zero » Blog Archive - Botnet C&C Participation is a ...
• Bad Behavior: The Conficker Worm
• Spam Remains a Potent Threat to Systems
• Hong Kong is number one in email spam
• Spy Vs. Spy: The Spymaster Backlash Begins And Twitter Needs To Fix It
• China takes first place in email spam
• Twitter Spam Marketing Experiencing Exponential Growth
• Free subscription to AutoWeek magazine - The Botting Network
• Honeypots: systemerror-[Brut VNC]-by system VNC botnet
• Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker
• Don't Watch This: Twitter Virus "Best Video" Is Spreading
• Top 10 worst computer viruses (Storm & Melissa) | Data Recovery Blog
• Top 10 worst computer viruses (Storm & Melissa) | Data Recovery Blog
• a pirate version of Windows 7 uses to infect computers « Script ...
• iwork/Photoshop Trojan or Botnet Binary found
• Etisalat launches EmailDefend Service in the UAE
• Breaching the Spam Act by sending unsolicited SMS
• About 'Macsimum MacOSG Forums' Spam Prevention
• Oughta be a law that would fry spam for good
• Mobile spams soar
• Top 4 Tips to Fight Off Botnet Denial of Service Attacks ...
• Selling Java Botnet [Private Version] - Page 1
• CyberCrime & Doing Time: Phishers Try MSN Worms to steal credentials

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May 27, 2009

Links Roundup

• Julian Haight launches new antispam service: Quorum.to
• How virus researchers work
• 'Gumblar' attack explodes across the web
• Insider May Have Breached More Than 10,000 Patient Records At Johns Hopkins
• HerbalMaxx -selling pills that make your digital camera automatically zoom-in
• The Importance of Reverse DNS (rDNS) for Good Email Deliverability
• Chinese Government Sites Hosting Brazilian Malware
• Artists against 419
• Cloudmark blogs on blocked email
• Botnets: 4 Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them

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Links Roundup

• Chocolate and Spam Do Well in Recession
• Andy Behrman Resorts to Spam in Fight vs. BMS and Abilify
• Acai Spam Inspires Tightened Filters More Than Tightened Belts
• Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam
• Small Company Develops New Way to Stop Form Spam
• Staring At Empty Pages: Can zombies live again?
• ScanSafe STAT Blog - Gumblar: A Botnet of Compromised Web sites
• Spammers Keep Their Fingers on Society's Pulse
• Engate Receives 2009 Product Innovation Award for Proactive Botnet ...
• Engate Receives 2009 Product Innovation Award for Proactive Botnet ...
• A Big Mac Attack | Complete Source
• Anti-spam bill targeting phishers, spyware
• Consumer Alert: Beware of Text Message Spam: "Smishing"
• European Social Network Netlog To Use Mollom's Spam Filtering Tool
• Twitter's Annoying Text-Message Spam
• Spam Defender Pro 5.0.b
• Image spam makes a comeback
• Chinese regulations target rising cybercrime
• Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai
• Spammers Pushing Acai Supplements | Security | ITBusinessEdge.com
• BBC asks nicely to run second hacking demo
• China toughens cybercrime rules - Computerworld Blogs
• Gumblar 'botnet' continues to grow as new variants detected
• Spammers Pushing Acai Supplements | Security | ITBusinessEdge.com
• China toughens cybercrime rules - Computerworld Blogs
• What the Heck are Botnets?
• Those Pirated Versions of Windows 7 RC Are Building a Botnet ...
• Conficker botnet could take Australia offline, says expert
• MCafee, inc. research reveals the environmental impact of spam
• The return of image-spam
• StillSecure Launches New Content-Filtering, Anti-Spam Managed Services
• Spam really can help you lose those extra pounds
• Swine flu, Obama's 100 days spam spread
• Red Condor Anti-Spam Appliance Wins Network Products Guide 2009 ...
• Gmail to translate foreign spam into English, automatically
• Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery
• Chinese regulations target rising cybercrime | ComputerWorld Hong Kong
• Stopping security threats at the network layer
• Authorisation Bug - The Botting Network
• Wilson Graf Consulting ? Blog Archive ? Those Pirated Versions of ...
• Conficker still infecting 50000 PCs per day
• Those Pirated Versions of Windows 7 RC Are Building a Botnet ...
• Now Gmail lets you understand your spam
• Rhyme or Reason Spam makes a resurgence
• Spam sales soar as buyers seek value
• Kaspersky impressed with Conficker botnet's slickness
• Gumblar Backdoors The Internet
• Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness | Security CNET News
• Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness : News : Security - ZDNet Asia
• Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness
• PC News Blog: Kaspersky impressed with Conficker botnet's slickness
• Kaspersky impressed with Conficker botnet's slickness - ZDNet ...
• Conficker attempting to infect 50000 per day - SC Magazine US
• Seesmic Desktop Updates: More Facebook Comments, Less Twitter Spam
• Less junk mail in the future, but more e-mail ads and?dreaded spam
• Red Condor Warns of New Twitter Invitation Virus
• Spammers Send Acai Dietary Supplement Spam through Cutwail Botnet
• Students receive spam e-mail
• Pushdo/Cutwail Botnet: Second to none when it comes to spamming
• Hackers Using Trojan-laced Fake Windows 7 OS to Build a Botnet
• Genuine Windows Blog Pirated Windows 7 RC builds a botnet
• Conficker botnet claiming 50000 victims a day
• Cutwail Botnet Flooding Net With Weight Loss Spam | Valentines Day ...
• Gadget Blog 7: Conficker botnet claiming 50000 victims a day
• BewYay - Pushdo/Cutwail Botnet: Second to none when it comes to ...
• Pushdo/Cutwail Botnet: Second to none when it comes to spamming ...
• Help File: Spam With Your Return Address; Mac and Windows Disk Formats
• Conficker still on the loose - Stay alert and test your own ...
• How Profits Motivates Virus Creators :Dump The Spyware - NOW!
• MSM: China Outlaws Cyber Crime ? Dprogram.net
• Eye on Microsoft: Even the FBI Can't Secure Windows | Boycott Novell
• BotNet Attack Services - G4 HQ Forum - | Gaming | Music | Anime ...
• Eye on Microsoft: Even the FBI Can't Secure Windows | Boycott Novell
• Cisco ASA Innovation Tracks Botnet/Malicious Activity ? by Cisco ...
• Cisco ASA Innovation Tracks Botnet/Malicious Activity ...
• Beware of another Facebook spam !
• BKIS - Yahoo IM Accounts Compromised to Distribute Spam
• Book Title and Email Woes
• NY sen. seeks crackdown on spam credit calls
• Spammers Getting Desparate With Latest Facebook Phishing Scams
• Here's how to combat e-mail spam scams
• New Captchas Outwit Computer Spammers
• Botnets: They do have the option to self-destruct
• Big Data Stolen by Botnet
• Referrals on Cashpirate - The Botting Network
• 6 50000 victims being claimed by Conficker botnet a day
• Black Wolf Technologies - Blog Archive - Gunter Ollmann: A Botnet ...
• PC Tools Alert: Mac Threat | tursun's Xanga Site - Weblog
• Conficker botnet claiming 50000 victims a day | Gifts to Gujarat ...
• Phishing, malware and spam - Beware
• The Case for Taxing E-Mail
• eleven Offers Carrier-Grade White-Label Integration of Managed E ...
• Mailshell OEM Partners Earn Kudos, Grab Honors, Versus Competitors
• Report: Spam now 90 percent of all e-mail
• my hpf / homepages - The Botting Network
• 90 percent of e-mail is spam, Symantec says
• Selfdestructing botnets
• Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail
• Opinion: it's Time for the FTC to Investigate Mac Security - CIO ...
• Facebook, LinkedIn: Are we in danger of getting a virus or a worm ...
• 90 Percent of E-Mail is Spam, Symantec Says - CIO.com - Business ...
• Spam accounted for 90 percent of all email in May - SC Magazine US

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May 18, 2009

Links Roundup

• Senator Schumer to FTC: Stop Cell Phone Spam
• StillSecure Delivers New Content Filtering and Anti-Spam Managed ...
• Research and Markets: Tolly Common - Anti-Spam Gateway Accuracy ...
• Cybercrime: H1N1 flu is so last week
• Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam
• Researchers: Image spam is on the rise again
• Blog Uses Student E-Mail Spam to Rank Top Party Law Schools
• Pirated Windows 7 OS Comes With Trojan, Builds A Botnet
• Dark cloud computing
• HostMyDomainNow Blog - Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal ...
• The Most Dangerous Spam. Or Maybe Ham.
• Our opinion: Stopping spam phone calls
• JM Shivers: Take a 'rusty chainsaw' to e-mail spam
• RedCondor.com Puts New Face on Anti-Spam Fight
• Is Gmail's Spam Filtering Failing For You, Too?
• Little-Known Botnets Can Pose Biggest Threat :: Hack In The Box ...
• An Evolution of Knowledge: Windows: pirated, owned, bugged
• Pirate Win 7 ruse used to build botnet
• Botnets Cause Network Headaches
• Defense declares war on spam in bid to protect networks
• Spam Reporting For Mobile Clients is a Must
• Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook users
• FTC Sues to Halt Car-Warranty Phone Spam
• Swine flu sees increase in spam levels
• FTC suing companies to halt warranty 'robo-calls'
• All on Swine Flu Spam: Subject lines, Content and Threats!
• Viral web infection siphons ad dollars from Google
• Botnet threat misses SA
• Little-Known Botnets Can Pose Biggest Threat
• William Jackson | Mergers and acquisitions in the botnet world
• TechVorm: BEWARE !! OF The New Pirated Windows 7 RC
• Web Attacks Surging, AV Lagging?
• Botnet Armies Regrouping: 12 Million Hijacked IPs In Q1
• Facebook's phishing clean-up: A tad heavy-handed?
• Ceaseless Threats Pervade Web, Don't Ebb
• New Technique's Gonna Find Out Who's Spammy or Nice
• Officials File Lawsuits In Spam Calls
• Ford Warns of Spam Email Offering New 2010 Fusion \ ...
• Botnet War: The Story So Far
• Web Infection Manipulates Google Search Results And Builds A ...
• beme machine: Malevolent Computer Program Botnet, Captured And Studied
• Botnet threats and countermeasures
• US senator annoyed by spam call about car warranty
• Symantec - Spam Continues to Exploit Current Events
• Sick of spam emails? Read this...
• Sec 270 Mark's Blog: Stealth Botnet
• Ford Fusion Hybrid's For $15000. Check Your Spam Filter Edition.
• Spam vs. 'Real' E-mail
• On computers: If you go online, you are going to get spam

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May 14, 2009

Links Roundup

• Spam : Elliott Burford
  Like spamusement, but by an art director
• Senator Schumer to FTC: Stop Cell Phone Spam
• StillSecure Delivers New Content Filtering and Anti-Spam Managed ...
• Research and Markets: Tolly Common - Anti-Spam Gateway Accuracy ...
• Cybercrime: H1N1 flu is so last week
• Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam
• Researchers: Image spam is on the rise again
• Blog Uses Student E-Mail Spam to Rank Top Party Law Schools
• Pirated Windows 7 Builds a Botnet With Trojan - OutlookPower
• Pirated Windows 7 OS Comes With Trojan, Builds A Botnet
• Log In Nickname Password Public Terminal
• Dark cloud computing
• Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet
• Pirated Windows 7 Builds a Botnet With Trojan
• Pirated Windows 7 Builds Botnet with Trojan :: Hack In The Box ...
• HostMyDomainNow Blog » Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal ...
• Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
• The Most Dangerous Spam. Or Maybe Ham.
• Our opinion: Stopping spam phone calls
• JM Shivers: Take a 'rusty chainsaw' to e-mail spam
• RedCondor.com Puts New Face on Anti-Spam Fight
• Is Gmail's Spam Filtering Failing For You, Too?
• Little-Known Botnets Can Pose Biggest Threat :: Hack In The Box ...
• An Evolution of Knowledge: Windows: pirated, owned, bugged
• Mergers and acquisitions in the botnet world | SecGuru
• Pirate Win 7 ruse used to build botnet
• Botnets Cause Network Headaches
• Pirated Windows 7 RC builds botnet : News : Security - ZDNet Asia

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May 12, 2009

Links Roundup

• MX Logic Threat Forecast and Report (PDF)
• Obama's Challenge in Cyberspace
• UC hacking leaves thousands at risk of ID theft
• In China, $700 puts a spammer in business
• How to Steal Reputation
• Time to Announce Swine Flu Spam Pandemic?
• EU Mulls New Legal Fight Against Spam, Invasion of Privacy
• Gibson Dunn Successfully Plays Preemption Card in $45 Million E ...
• Verizon Continues SMS Spam Suits
• Botnets Took Control of 12 Million New IPs this Year
• Commission wants stronger sanctions against online spam
• McAfee reports huge drop in spam
• Botnet plunders 70GB of personal and financial data in 10 days
• Dubai - City with Majority Botnets in the Middle East
• Future Tense: Good guys hijack evil botnet
• Zimbra Desktop hands-on: Yahoo's Outlook alternative
• Botnet hijacking reveals 70GB of stolen data
• The Unintended Consequences of Attacking Spam - Freakonomics Blog ...
• Conficker worm dabbling with mischief
• Supping with the enemy: researchers take control of botnet
• Botnet hijack reveals 70GB stolen data
• Jewish Internet Defense Force: Botnets Took Control of 12 Million ...
• Botnet probe turns up 70GB of personal, financial data | DigTrace ...
• Conficker hype obscures sneaky botnet growth
• [ISN] Security Researchers Uncover 70GB of Financial Data Stolen ...
• How UCSB Researchers Hijacked A BotNet
• Lame Mac 'email worm' limps into view
• Control Spam with Disposable E-Mail
• Greed And Gullibility Lurk Behind The Phenomenon Known As Spam Mail
• Judge Dismisses Anti-Spam Lawsuit Against ValueClick
• McAfee reports huge drop in spam
• You Can't Spell "Bad" Without Spelling "Ad"
• Image spam returns with a vengeance
• Spam down but "zombie" armies growing: McAfee
• Canada's Anti-Spam Bill: 5 Key Differences from CAN SPAM
• Warning: Swine Flu (Spam) Attacks!
• Public Musings on Information Security (InfoSec): Wednesday 05/06/09
• Researchers Seize Botnet, ...
• Thoughts of a Technocrat: New Mac Malware Too Buggy to Build ...
• Researchers Bust Open Botnet, Examine 70 GB of Data
• New Mac Malware Too Buggy to Build Botnet, Sophos Says
• Giant Botnet Computer was found in Ukraine ? Personal Computer ...
• Small- To Medium-Sized Businesses Often Hit Hardest By Botnets
• Researchers Hijack Botnet ? Zortech Solutions Blog
• Researchers Peak Inside the Torpig Trojan Infrastructure Hijacking ...
• Security Researchers Uncover 70GB of Financial Data Stolen by Botnet
• Honeypots: millanchannel.info (Baadshah from #bottalk second botnet)
• Canada's Anti-Spam Bill Would Put a Chill on B2B E-Mail
• Phished Facebook accounts pass along malware
• Image Spam Surged 300% In April
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows off the Kindle DX
• New Mac Virus is a Worm, But Can't Pose Threat Due to Amateur Mistake
• ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option
• Signature-based scanners fail to pick up malware as Zeus botnet ...
• RE[2]: Users don't update unless they are forced too.
• Twelve Million New IP Addresses Used by Botnets This Year ...
• New Mac Virus is a Worm, But Can't Pose Threat Due to Amateur Mistake
• RSA Conference 365: Articles: New Mac Malware Too Buggy to Build ...
• EvilFingers: Zeus Carding World Template. Change the playing side ...
• Botnets Took Control of 12 Million New IPs this Year | Privacy Digest
• Researchers Took Control of Torpig Botnet Stealing Financial Data
• In China, $700 puts a spammer in business
• California Softens on Spam
• BBB Warns Against Swine Flu Scams
• Facebook 'mygener.im' spam spotted
• Spammers Deluge Inboxes With Mother's Day Offers
• Barracuda Networks' Spam & Virus Firewall Stops Threats Before ...
• Beware of flu scams
• VIRUS \ SPYWARE ALERTS - May 8, 2009 - CNET Spyware, viruses ...
• Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100000 PCs ...
• Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100000 PCs - The ...
• Cyber criminals' methods revealed by University of California study
• Botnet Kill Switch: 100000 BSODs
• Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100000 PCs - Ars ...
• Internet security problems have an upside for Silicon Valley
• Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100000 PCs (Jacqui ...
• Before Russian victory, a can of Spam
• Viral Art: A Gallery Of Security Threats
• Symantec's State Of Spam Report: Mother's Day, Swine Flu And More
• Spam is like the weather
• Torpig Botnet Harvests Online Banking Credentials | Computer Security
• mcafee: New botnets dwarf Conficker threat
• Botnet Master Hits Panic Button, BSODs 100000 Infected Computers ...
• Zeus Botnet Commits Suicide
• Time to tax spam mails
• Schumer asks for probe into cell-phone spam
• Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
• Schumer calls for probe into phone spam
• Zeus Botnet Self-Destructs ? Paradigm Consulting Co.
• .:[ Layered Security ]:.: Botnet probe turns up 70GB of personal ...
• Getting rid of backscatter spam on Exchange 2007
• E-mania: Organizing, filtering, ignoring e-mail can increase ...
• Researchers: image spam making unexpected return
• US senator annoyed by spam call about car warranty
• Spammers go back to old technique: Images
• China Makes Spam Bulletproof
• Spam Enabling Hosts Proliferate
• TD Ameritrade data theft settlement gets court OK
• Oprah, KFC and the Great PC Cleanup?
• Swine Flu spam continues to spread with cybercriminals using ...
• Criminals fail to spread Apple Mac email worm | IT PRO
• Mergers and acquisitions in the botnet world
• Hidden Botnet Costs Hit SMBs Hard
• A Zeus botnet self-destructs
• Emergent Chaos: I wrote code for a botnet today
• Botnet shuts down, kills 100000 computers

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May 5, 2009

Links Roundup

• Anti-Spam Group MAAWG Sees 5 Years of Significant Growth, 2009 Officers Elected, DSN Status Paper Released
• JOB: Spam Support at Twitter in San Francisco, CA
• Twitter spam mitigation via SURBL applied to young Follow ratio inequity accounts
• Invasion of the Opportunists
• Spamghetto: Junk Mail Wallpaper Covering
• Phishing Attack Underway At Facebook. Don’t Sign In To Fbaction.net
• Two Missouri Brothers Among Those Indicted in $4 Million Nationwide Spamming Conspiracy
• Fordham Law Class Collects Personal Info About Scalia; Supreme Ct. Justice Is Steamed
• 'DPI is necessary' - Sandvine
• Email "Protection Racket"?
• U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
• Cybersecurity Review Sets Turf Battle
• Why Email Clients Need to Change
• Four Indicted in Giant College Spam Operation
• Swine flu, Spam and lechon
• Afilias Joins MAAWG as First Domain Name Registry Member
• Swine Flu Fears Fanned By Spammers
• Hang ten with Spam: Hawaii can't get enough of it
• Red Condor Bests Barracuda and Postini in Tolly Group Anti-Spam Test
• Swine Flu Hoaxes Abound via E-Mail Spam
• Cybercriminals exploit swine flu fears with spam emails
• Dubai has most botnet infections in Middle East
• Obama to expand cyberwarfare capabilities
• WyldRyde IRC Network: Security Researcher wants Botneters and ...
• 'Scareware' has us feeling vulnerable
• What's Your PC Security Savvy? | BestStuff
• Now viruses attack BIOS and DSL-modems
• Conficker now expected to spread email spam and host spyware ...
• Four Indicted in Giant College Spam Operation
• Conficker-infected pcs sending up to 20000 spam mails per day
• Swine flu spam could sicken your computer: security firms
• MU student accused in massive e-mail spam scheme
• Spam levels continue to surge
• Mizzou student, brother accused of giant spam ring
• Vancouver Island BBB warns of swine flu scams
• MessageLabs: Spam reaches 19 month high
• BBB warns against swine flu scams
• Hacker behind P2P botnet gets no jail time - Consumer Forum
• SC Cyberworld = Malaysia's Latest IT News: Symantec Internet ...
• Report: Conficker in attack mode
• No prison for Wyo. man who designed computer worm
• Hacker behind P2P botnet gets no jail time
• Microsoft Alters Windows AutoRun Amid Conficker Concerns
• Botnets - Everything you wanted to know ? Ruslan Abuzant
• Fergie's Tech Blog: Hacker Behind P2P Botnet Gets No Jail Time
• Industry Click Fraud Rate Declines to 13.8 Percent in Q1 2009 | Ad ...
• Warning over swine flu spam emails
• USA Maintains Spam Lead
• Phishing worm hits Facebook for second day in a row
• McAfee: Computer virus spam claims Madonna, Salma Hayek have swine flu (they don't)
• Spam Close To 2 Year High: 85% Of Mail Now Spam
• More warnings about Swine Spam
• 4 Arrested in Massive E-Mail Spam Sting
• US Indicts 4 in College Spam Scheme
• Small networks can use sender verification to block spam
• BBC: USAF official calls for cyber offensive - The DEW Line
• P2P botnet creator dodges jail sentence
• BBC: USAF official calls for cyber offensive - The DEW Line
• [ISN] No jail time for Nugache worm creator
• Pixprofit Exploit, make $1.40/minute! - The Botting Network
• getting banned for spamming - The Botting Network
• WyldRyde IRC Network: Air Force Colonel wants offensive and public ...
• Nugache worm creator gets 5 years probation
• US 'should go on cyber-offensive'
• Spam messages focus on `swine flu'
• Spam, not ham: Swine flu creates epidemic of scammers
• Facebook fights phishing attacks with new security partner
• Swine flu: news round-up
• Facebook Targeted in Spam Scam
• Two brothers among indictees in $4M spam case
• Flu-tagged spam email spreads its own virus in the computer world
• Being On The Wrong Side Of Spam
• SANS NewsBites Vol. 11 Num. 34
• It's About Time to Consider Apple Mac Security
• Botnet creator escapes jail
• UK Cleans Up Its Spam Act
• Fergie's Tech Blog: Gunter Ollmann: A Botnet by Any Other Name
• No jail time for Nugache worm creator
• Uh, Mom? The Air Force Just Attacked Our PC Air Force colonel ...
• I'm a Botnet and I'm on Your Mac! - Removal Instructions ? Bill ...
• Botnet discovered by Finjan contained 73 government domains
• P2P Botnet Pioneer Avoids Jail Time Nugache worm creator gets off ...
• Botnet malware targets MyYearbook ? Webroot Threat Blog
• Control spam with disposable e-mail addresses (Feature)
• Flu news, true and false, proliferates on Web
• Your PCs are susceptible to swine flu
• Uh, Mom? The Air Force Just Attacked Our PC - Air Force colonel ...
• Botnet discovered by Finjan contained 73 government domains ...
• Botnet discovered by Finjan contained 73 government domains ...
• Advent of Cyberweapons and eBombs - Futuristic Internet - Make ...
• Reserved Bits: Why do people write viruses?
• Tech, GP: Conficker shows updates important
• Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and ...
• Swine flu spam mails stirring up confusion
• Latest Twitter Scam: Twitter Spam - Limited to Following 1000
• from the spam
• Botnet Hacker Gets Four Years | Threat Level
• Torpig Botnet Hijacked and Dissected - Technology
• Microsoft products are a grave threat to global security ? This ...
• Jewish Russian Telegraph: World Record of Ukrainian Hackers: 1.9 ...
• Honeypots: msn botnet (probably big net)
• Honeypots: msn botnet (probably big net)
• Top 10 Worst PC Viruses
• Flu-tagged spam spreads its own virus
• Spam Is Now Using Epidemic Language
• Winner in anti-spam hardware category of Readers' Choice Awards ...
• Canada Introduces Anti-Spam Legislation, Could Look At Do Not Call
• California judge blunts Internet false advertising law
• Senate anti-spam bill would give ISPs policing power over spam
• Brothers indicted in major spam bust
• Intermedia Extends Hosted Exchange Benefits to on-Premise Exchange ...
• Maintaining A True Universal Inbox on Gmail Remains Elusive
• Online Scammers use Swine Flu to trick users via Spam!
• USA (and IE) Number 1 for Botnet Mayhem
• Fergie's Tech Blog: Botnet Probe Turns Up 70GB of Personal ...
• ? UCSB Researchers Hijack Torpig Botnet ? Cornell Info 2040 - Networks
• Researchers hijack botnet, score 56000 passwords in an hour ...
• Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation ...
• Researchers spend ten days in control of Torpig botnet - Security
• Botnet Probe Turns up 70G Bytes of Personal, Financial Data
• Researchers hijack botnet

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April 28, 2009

Links Roundup

• Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Cisco CEO
  Hehe. "Swamp computing". Hehe.
• Targeted opt-out email: busting some myths
• Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It
• Best Buy - broken security architecture
• Speaking of Business Contact Databases
• Zango goes titsup
• CertifiedEmail: Now with DKIM
• Bill C-27 The Canadian Electronic Commerce Protection Act - La loi sur la protection du commerce électronique (LPCE)
• Scammers, Spammers Embrace Swine Flu News
• Former Senator On Board of Major Spammer
• Botnet expert suggests hitting cybercriminals in pocket book
• Xarvester, Rustock make most effective spambots
• Leading Eye Doctor Fawzia Ashkanani Tricked In $300M By Spam Email
• Spam and Global Warming?
• PandaLabs Reports 91 Percent of Email Received by Companies in ...
• Marshal8e6 Releases New Insight and Analysis into Botnets
• One bot-infected PC = 600000 spam messages a day
• The biggest botnet | Best programs
• 'Gang of Six' Controls Botnet of 1.9 Million Computers
• New Mega-Botnet Discovered - Journal - Stangrunner
• Massive 'Botnet' Hits US, UK Government Computers - Last News from ...
• [DR] Researchers Find Massive Botnet On Nearly 2 Million Infected ...
• Criminal Infrastructure Lets Malware Thrive
• On Macs And Malware
• More Information Emerges About Ukrainian Zombie Botnet
• Massive 'Botnet' Hits US, UK Government Computers - Last News from ...
• [DR] Researchers Find Massive Botnet On Nearly 2 Million Infected ...
• Massive Windows Botnet Uncovered
• Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly
• One bot-infected PC = 600000 spam messages a day
• New Mega-Botnet Discovered ? TechBlogger
• Botnets: How can you protect your computer?
• Cyber Criminals Industrialize to Increase Effectiveness
• New Mega-Botnet Discovered ? TechBlogger
• Experts: Malicious program targets Macs
• Ex-Sen. Bill Bradley Sits on Board of Major Spamming Firm
• Harper government to introduce anti-spam legislation
• Cybergangs infiltrate social network sites
• RSA 2009: McAfee's DeWalt touts Predictive Security
• Tories to crack down on spam
• Is AOL Gearing Up To Create Automated Search Spam?
• 1.9-million-PC botnet uncovered
• Cyber Criminals Building Botnet Using only Mac PCs
• Slashdot | New Mega-Botnet Discovered
• untangling the future? - Blog Archive - Conficker: what happened ...
• 1.9 Million Zombies: Massive Ukrainian Botnet Discovered
• Macintosh botnet on the march
• Waledac Botnet Increasingly Bombarding Inboxes with Spam!
• Conficker Hype a 'problem,' Says FBI Cyber-Chief - CIO.com ...
• Volatile and Decentralized: NSDI 2009, Day Two
• Large US corporations reportedly among those hit by vast botnet
• Business-critical e-mail needs improved integrity
• Research: US Remains No. 1 Spam Producer; Korea, France See ...
• Viruses, Spam And Phishing Continue Infecting Many Nations, Says ...
• Why the Spam Carbon Footprint Study is Wrong
• Congress Comes to 'Help' Run the Internet
• Spam scams
• Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
• Warning! SMS Reader Spam Dropping Trojans
• I love spam
• First Mac speciffic malware found in the wild
• Terry Zink's Anti-spam Blog : More Waledac data
• Security Expert Calls For New Model For 'Demonetizing' Cybercrime ...
• News of Mac Botnets Doesn't Mean an Increased Threat (Yet)
• PhotoBlogGuide ? Blog Archive ? Mac Botnet: How To Ensure You're ...
• Watch What You Pirate: Mac Bot Net Found | Greg In The Desert
• Is Your PC a Zombie Crime Bot?
• Conficker Infecting Hospital Equipment
• Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
• Watch What You Pirate: Mac Bot Net Found | Greg In The Desert
• Conficker hype may have harmed security efforts, FBI cyber chief says
• The legal risks of ethical hacking
• Researchers Find Massive Botnet
• Security maven sics 'special ops' on botnet gangs
• Week in Geek: The Macs Have Viruses Too Edition :: the How-To Geek
• How spam really is ruining the world
• Conficker activates, starts sending spam
• Conservatives introduce anti-spam bill
• Conficker Begins Attacking pcs
• Giant Botnet Found, 2000000 Infected | The Blog Pirate
• Waledac botnet starting new spam campaign
• Botnet PCs send 25k spam emails per hour (PC Advisor) | CAN Spam ...
• Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It
• Feds introduce anti-spam legislation
• Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It
• New spam worm busts open Gmail CAPTCHA
• Nice new SPAM Trick
• Ground Breaking Technology in Spam Prevention
• Swine Flu Spam and Phishing Attacks
• ISR News: 1.9M Infected by Stealth BotNet : Information Security ...
• Slashdot | Botnet Expert Wants 'Special Ops' Security Teams
• INFORMATION WARFARE: The Mighty Botmasters Of Ukraine
• Stealth Botnet Infects Nearly 2 Million Systems
• Developing Security: Quorum Sensing Botnets
• Windows 7 to include 'Virtual XP' for 100% XP compatibility
  100% vulnerability, as well?
• Hexzone Hotzone | ThreatBlog
• Stop the spam and save the planet
• Swine flu causes spam fever
• Google Spam
• Fighting the good fight against spam
• Opportunists exploit swine flu with spam e-mails
• Conficker adds new weapon: spam
• Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds
• Is AOL site just SEO spam?
• Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam
• Gov systems found on 1.9m zombie botnet ? The Register
• FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: BotnetWeb - Part II
• Stop spam and save planet from greenhouse gases
• Conficker Begins Activity Slowly
• Up and Coming Botnet uses Hexzone Trojan to Infect Computers
• FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: BotnetWeb - Part II
• Finjan uncovers botnet maintaining 1.9m compromised-zombies
• The fight against botnets is largely ineffective
• RSA Take-Away
• IT Pros Face Vulnerabilities Galore Post RSA Conference | Complete ...
• As Conficker Turns, Botnets Burn

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April 22, 2009

Links Roundup

• Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion (PDF)
• Police e-crime unit collars ex-Soviet gang in first strike
• Potential FTC changes may affect WOM
• Spam emails have carbon footprint?
• Expert gives spam-fighting advice
• Yet Another Reason to Hate Spam
• Spam Clutters Environment, Not Just Inboxes
• What's the carbon footprint of email spam?
• Jack Thompson Faces SPAM Charges
• Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
• The impact of spam on the environment
• Pairing Off: Spam
• Stop the tweet spam! Two ways to filter Twitter into Facebook
• Tech stuff for the slacker: How to make a botnet out of Skype or ...
• Opinion: The unanticipated consequences of BBC Click's botnet crime
• Cybercriminals create botnet using Mac computers
• Symantec Releases Internet Security Threat Report
• Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam - ITBusiness.ca ...
• Is Your machine part of a botnet? - Cable Forum
• Botnets: 4 Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them
• Spam: A big can of carbon
• Spam Is Killing The Planet
• If Spam Equals Tons of CO2 What's the Carbon Footprint of Cyber Porn?
• Microsoft Wants to Make Security 'Business Ready'
• Conficker Worm Is Expected to Increase Spam
• ¡MAYDAY!, ¡Suénalo!, DJ Le Spam and More Perform for Charity at ...
• FEATURE-Phishers get more wily as cybercrime grows
• Waledac kicks off new spam campaign
• Cybercriminals create botnet using Mac computers (CBC News ...
• Researchers dissect world?s first Mac botnet : Tekorama
• Underground Economy on Threshold of Price War over Personal Details
• Researchers dissect world's first Mac botnet
• Conficker botnet not nearly as large as feared
• iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie Macs
• FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab Outlines Guidelines to Combat ...
• Is Your machine part of a botnet? - Virtual Dr Forums-Computer ...
• SysAdmin1138 Expounds: A Mac botnet?
• Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
• Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active
• Conficker gotcha? Here's what you can do
• Fake SMS snoop utility turns spies into zombies
• Mortgage, Conflicker, Tax Day malware spams rule the roost
• Russian Spam Contest
• Twitter Spam Already Annoying Some Users
• Fight spam, save planet
• Spam: The $3.6 billion energy hog
• McAfee Inc.: Spam hurts environment
• Ruth Madoff Is Now Featuring In A Nigerian 419 Email Spam Scam
• Phishers Use Loopholes, New Tech To Step Up Attacks
• World's First Mac Botnet? Not Quite.
• Waledac botnet spamming fake SMS spying tool
• Security and risk you should care about - what is more important ...
• Botnets: Coming To A Social Network Near You
• How to protect your Mac OS X from first ever Mac OS X Botnet | Tea ...
• Botnets take control of Macs ? Technology Info
• Conficker botnet wake up call only pinged zombie minority
• Botnets getting harder to find and fight
• Symantec Finds First Mac Botnet, Already Launching DDoS Attacks ...
• I've Been Exploited
• Spam could pose environmental threat
• what is more important about the mac botnet story [belsec]
• Symantec Finds First Mac Botnet, Already Launching ddos Attacks
• First working Mac botnet found in wild
• Time For The World's First Botnet? ~ OS X Fanatics
• Shelve the spam
• Spam Pollutes More Than Just Our Inboxes
• Spam is Expensive and not Green
• Hardmac.com : Le "Macbidouille" in English - First Mac BotNet ...
• First working Mac botnet found
• Macs Aren't Able to Become Infected? Get Out of Town - Windows Live
• First Mac botnet detected by Symantec - SlipperyBrick.com
• [Slides] How I learned Reverse Engineering with Storm
• Pirated iWork 09 Creates Mac Botnet
• Mac Security III: The Rise of the Botnets - Care2 News Network
• 97 Percent of Spam Gets Filtered, Microsoft Says
• Spam Wasted 33 Billion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity in 2008
• SPAM Attacks Target Ford & Nissan Google Searches
• Conficker to Enhance the Growth of Spam
• F-Secure beefs up e-mail and spam safeguards
• Percentage of Taiwan-originated Internet spam declines
• Mac botnet used for DDoS attacks
• Music industry sites DDoSed after Pirate Bay verdict
• First Mac-based botnet becomes active
• Buzz Out Loud 956: Zombie Pirate botmacs
• Taiwan Botnet affection ranks second among Asian countries in 2008 ...
• Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks
• Puter Gnome: First Mac botnet found
• Teen hacker sentenced to 11 months
• Symantec Warns: Mac Botnet Could Strike Again
• A Virtual Zombie in Your Home
• Lovely spam and the scareware menace
• Social networkers tired of spam
• Save electricity by eliminating spam
• New Conficker Variant Enters into Spam Business
• Happy Earth Day, Now Turn Off Your PC
• Facebook and MySpace users 'fed up with spam marketing messages'
• The state of spam 2009, Part 4
• Security researchers uncover massive, fast-growing botnet
• Apple's new TV ads focus on iPhoto's Faces and PC viruses and ...
• Symantec Warns: Mac Botnet Could Strike Again | PCISP
• Symantec Discovers First Ever Mac Botnet
• Teenage hacking menace jailed for 11 months
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• Cisco bolsters security family
• Cisco Expands Security to the Cloud
• Cisco Launches Security Services For Cloud Computing, Collaboration
• Botnet 'ensnares government pcs'
• Cisco Looks To Cloud For Security, Collaboration
• International Headline News: Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'
• Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'
• Botnet ?ensnares government PCs? | Dominic Fallows
• Hitting Botnets Where It Hurts at RSA Conference

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April 15, 2009

Links Roundup

• Digital Pearl Harbor, Cyber 9/11, and E-Qaeda
• A Few Thoughts on the Future of Email Authentication
• What you can learn from unsubscribes
• Spam increases global carbon footprint
• Prove "Art Wants to Be Free" By Spamming Your Friends With Spam?
• Spam Making A Comeback In Tough Times
• Italy quake spawns spam attacks
• Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam
• Protect Your PC, for Free! | gadgetphix
• Conficker botnet wakes up and smells the coffee
• Windows Conficker swings into action, able to steal data from ...
• ? Conficker Starts Up Botnet to Enable Online Fraud : iovation Blog
• Conficker Botnet Preparing Massive Attack?
• Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam - Computerworld | Digim.net
• Terry and Clarence Low: Blocking spam from site forms
• Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail?
• Filters getting better at blocking spam
• New Zealand telco denies hiring botnet operator arrested in FBI ...
• Conficker E Variant Linked To Fake Antivirus Scams
• Conficker botnet could flood web with spam
• VoIP Services are Vulnerable to Botnets, Security Researchers ...
• Botnet operators may be able to profit from Conficker update
• VoIP Services are Vulnerable to Botnets, Security Researchers ...
• Conficker Worm Can Send 400 Billion Spam Emails
• Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam - Soft-Go.Com Blog
• FBI Scam Updates. ? Scams and Scammers - Fighting the Mugu Mindset
• Another image-based Captcha method
• Conficker Attacks 700 University of Utah PCs
• Microsoft notices spam is a problem
• Security Software: Protection or Extortion?
• Surprising Security Shortcomings
• Twitter worm attack spreads 10000 spam tweets
• INTERNET LAW - Australian's Spam Act 2003
• Conficker Kido Sending Millions of Spam Messages a Day?
• Conficker launches antivirus scam as malware hits Twitter
• Malware jumps over 200 per cent in 2008
• Mitigating DDoS attacks with ZXTM (ZXTM KnowledgeHub: Articles)
• The Rise and Fall of the Srizbi Botnet
• Twitter Botnet | Damon Gudaitis
• Botlab keeping an eye on spamming botnets | NetworkWorld.com Community
• Technicalinfo.net Blog: Cleaning up botnet infestations
• Report Shows Spam's Massive Carbon Footprint
• No downturn for the virus, worm and spam industry
• Why spam e-mails are like traffic jams
• Twitter Worm No Longer Security Threat
• Reduction In Viagra, Cialis and Levitra Spam
• The state of spam 2009, Part 2
• Symantec Showcases Digital Malware Snapshots for 2009 RSA Conference
• Cyberattacks, spam grew at alarming rate in 2008, report says
• Symantec issues latest Internet Security Threat Report
• Spam spurt fuelled by booming underground economy
• Spawn of Conficker hooks up with Storm botnet
• Report: Cyberspace remains a dangerous frontier
• mydigitallife | Kaspersky discovers Conficker variant
• .:: Malware Info ::.: Night of the Living Dead!!
• Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Finds Malicious Activity ...
• [ISN] Making a PBX 'botnet' out of Skype or Google Voice? / Best ...
• How Not to Sell Viagra (Part I)
• One in ten PCs still vulnerable to Conficker exploit

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April 10, 2009

Links Roundup

• "Nigerian scam" fraudsters go to jail
• 7th Annual Waikiki SPAM? Jam
• Spam levels soar as Easter approaches
• No Spam Today! for Servers Freeware 3.1.5.1
• Clickcha - A New Approach to Combat Comment Spam
• Senators Introduce Bill to Block Mobile Spam
• Data Mine Is Latest Tool In Spam Arms Race
• Legislators call for tougher penalties in anti-spam bill
• SES NY: TwitterHawk, Spam or Not?
• Senators Seek Do-Not-Text List to Curb SMS Spam
• Barracuda Networks Enhances Virus and Malware Threat Prevention ...
• DISOG: Full Circle
• Beware the botnet
• DeviceLINE: Malware hijacks 100000 home routers into Botnet
• dgrand: DDOS attack again
• Latest Antivirus Updates ? Beware the botnet - Malaysia Star
• October Meeting - Dennis Brown on The Anatomy of the Asprox Botnet
• LEET'09 Taking Place Soon - honeyblog
• DISOG: Full Circle
• Shadowserver Foundation - Information - Botnets
• Conficker infects 1.3 million PCs worldwide: BKIS
• Red Condor Enhances Spam-Fighting Capabilities With Latest ...
• Two senators sponsor mobile spam bill
• Bill Would Extend 'Do Not Call' to 'Do Not Text'
• SL SPAM fanatic auctions huge collection to get a school ...
• TAIWAN: Proposed anti-spam law criticized for loopholes
• Spyware levels jump over ten percent in Q1
• Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake; 50000 now homeless
• E-mail spam can generate high cost
• Not every Botnet is Conficker | ThreatBlog
• RSA Keynote Address Will Be A Timely One For The Obama ...
• RSA Keynote Address Will Be A Timely One For The Obama ...
• FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: BotnetWeb: A Collection of ...
• Rootkits penetrate the heart of the machine | Sir Arthur's Den
• Conficker still a threat: AusCERT
• Ghostnet Botnet Fed by Rudimentary Toolkit
• Psyb0t worm breeds botnets using home gear. | Secret Engineer
• Spam overwhelms e-mail messages
• Plex Gaming Twitter Spam
• Mobile Can-Spam Act Sought In Senate
• 97pc of emails are spam: Microsoft
• Senators pushing legislation to reduce SMS spam
• Spam mail overload
• Cybercriminals are profiting from spam and 'scareware'
• Avira Premium Security Suite 9
• Mollom reaches another milestone and hits 50 Million Spam blocked
• New legislation aims to squash text spam
• Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload : News ...
• Microsoft: 3% of e-mail is stuff we want; the rest is spam
• Conficker, the Internet's No. 1 Threat, Gets an Update
• New Conficker variant spreading via peer-to-peer
• GuardSite.com - WatchGuard: Media Alert: WatchGuard Presents ...
• Conficker botnet stirs to distribute update payload
• Security-Shell: Inside a Zeus Crimeware Developer's To-Do List
• 7 Days Later : Confiker.C Wakes Up | Scam Types dot Com
• Mortgage Crisis Spawns Spam Scams
• 97% Of All Email Is Spam, But How Much Of The Other 3% Is Just Noise?
• Conficker Update: Creating Spam-Spewing Drones?
• Conficker Followed up by Scareware-Powered Spam
• Conficker Worm Arms Itself To Steal And Spam
• Conficker cashes in, installs spam bots and scareware
• Oprah Fans Tricked By Spam Scam!
• Conficker worm apparently just a spam generator, not a world ...
• Oprah, FBI Shoot Down Spam Scam
• Microsoft: Spam level now at 97%
• Malware Web Threats: Black Hat SEO - RBN Hacks, p.1
• Conficker worm sends instructions to grow botnet
• Conficker Downloads Payload
• Researchers say Conficker is all about the money : News : Security ...
• Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model : This day ...
• NVDi Support News & Alerts - Conficker botnet bestirs itself

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April 6, 2009

Links Roundup

• M-Spam law coming to target Mobile Spam?
• The Proposed Federalization of the Computer Security Field
• New Email Security Protection From SonicWALL Focused On Spam
• Good Email Habits are Important: MAAWG Explains Messaging ...
• Internet update: 225 million websites, more malware and spam
• US senators seek to squash spam
• Snowe Introduces Bill Aimed at Curbing Mobile Spam - 4/2/09 3:34 ...
• People should have right to reject spam
• Send 'Phishy' Emails Straight To Your Spam Folder
• Researchers Enhance Spam Call Filtering
• Waledac might be out for revenge in latest spam run
• McAfee Security Insights Blog ? First Conficker - now your router?
• Conficker Worm: Not Finished Yet
• W A R S H O C K - dumping site of the trivias, tips and guides ...
• The Confounding Case of Conficker
• Conficker Silent, But Future Attack Likely, Experts Say
• Epoch Times - April Fools' Computer Virus Still Dormant
• Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
• Conficker postmortem: Hype distracted but threat is real : News ...
• Bill would put a stop to wireless spam
• Google in talks to buy Twitter? Reports conflict
• US Supremes flatline Virginia's hardline anti-spam law
• Researchers enhance spam call filtering
• Conficker zombie botnet drops to 3.5 million ? The Register
• Conficker botnet estimated at 3.5 million computers
• Conficker zombie botnet drops to 3.5 million / Best of Security
• March 2009 virus activity review from Doctor Web - BIOMETRIC FORUM ...
• How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker]
• -=PCTechTalk=- Re: The final word on Confickr/Downadup/Kido ...
• Conficker zombie botnet drops to 3.5 million - MESH Computers ...
• Eye chart can help diagnose Conficker
• Google: Spam Volume Returns To Pre-McColo Levels
• Inside BBC’s Chimera botnet | Malware Help. Org
• Pats Computer Services: Was April 1 a Dud?
• SecureBuilt.com - Inside BBC’s Chimera botnet
• Kaspersky Lab: What You Need to Know about Kido
• Engate Unveils EngateLabs Global Threat Analysis and Defense for ...
• The Life of Hex - The Truth Behind Conficker/DownAdUP
• Spam back to full strength
• Bill Introduced To Block Mobile Spam
• A Supreme Court defense of spam
• Cisco has SMEs in sights with anti-spam appliance
• Lawmakers reviewing spam bill
• Spam increases for Google's Postini unit
• Conficker zombie botnet drops to 3.5 million

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March 31, 2009

Links Roundup

• Most popular email clients in February 2009
• Psyb0t Compromising Insecure Home Routers
• This April Fool's Day virus may be no joke for your computer
• Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
• Conficker Working Group
• Meet the Canadians who busted GhostNet
• Canadian research uncovers cyber espionage network
• Conficker Fact and FUD, Flaw In Worm Leads to Detection Tool
• US Supremes flatline Virginia's hardline anti-spam law
  Fortunately, Jaynes is still in jail on other charges
• Romanian phisher gets 50 month prison term
• Scamdex on 419/Advance Fee Fraud
• The Conficker Worm: April Fool’s Joke or Unthinkable Disaster?

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March 23, 2009

Links Roundup

• Spam messagers pester mobile phone subscribers
• VB anti-spam testing: results revealed
• Natasha Richardson: A critical appreciation
• ipod touch Bluetooth
• Low awareness blocks solutions to mobile phone spam
• Two Texas men settle charges in spam scam case
• Political Net Attacks Increase : On Target
• BBC?s botnet practices treated as digital security threat and law ...
• BBC?s botnet practices treated as digital security threat and law ...
• BBC?s botnet practices treated as digital security threat and law ...
• Comodo Security Architect Applauds bbc's Questionable Botnet Tactic
• The botnet for BBC investigation was bought from hackers in ...
• Experts in Race to Stop Conficker: Zombie Computers Set to go off ...
• Protip: Don?t include SEC lawyer in your $4.6m botnet scam ...
• Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet
• Email Spam Up By 156 Percent
• Use spam filter on unwanted e-mail
• Job-related spam on the rise
• MidnightW: ER S15E20 HDTV XviD-XOR
• BBCs Botnets. | Gaj-It.com - UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and ...
• BBC Runs Botnet Test Attack, Security Experts Criticize
• Recording Blogs | Botnet takedown offers peek at private data ...
• Botnets 'main managed security threat'
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Hearing
• Sophos highlights botnet problem : Industry News : News : BCS
• BBC responds to botnet illegality claims | Tech News on ZDNet
• Wham Bam Climate Spam
• SPAM sell off Peas
• Abuse of DCU mailing lists is worse than spam
• Autopilot: The Confiker Cabal
• BBC exposes Overseas credit card scam | Malware Help. Org
• Knight framed 600 honda roller "new price" (4 viewing) (4) Guests
• Symantec releases free anti-spam software
• Web Giant's Back Story Is Filled With Spam, Rogues
• Dallas Baker XR 250 "NEW PRICE" (4 viewing) flattrack15g , (3) Guests
• Into the byways of the Internet's immune system
• Morbid spam hits Law School
• [Updated] New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm
• psyb0t - A stealthy router-based botnet discovered | IRC-Junkie ...
• Routers and Modems running Linux are being targeted by malware ...
• Experts Team Up To Battle Conficker Botnet
• Cloud Security: Internet Virus Conficker's grand plan
• New Symbian mobile malware in the wild - caustic webpage of cubes
• Hack Attacks Infect 450000 Websites Daily
• four: A stealthy router-based botnet discovere

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March 19, 2009

Links Roundup

• Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating
• BBC in hot water for hiring botnet
• Friday Night: Spam Allstars at Bayfront Park
• Hormel results mixed in recession
• New Waledac spam falsely warns of bomb blasts
• Democrats.org Cans the Spam
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• Malicious 'terror attack' spam sets off security alarms
• Spam delivers fake news of bomb blast as lure to malicious code
• McAfee Secures Schools in Indiana
• Breaking News: Waledac Terror Attack in a City Near You
• Cool Science News: Botnet Back-Up Gives Glimpse Into Hackers' World
• Holes in the machine
• BBC should be applauded for raising awareness of botnet attacks
• BBC botnet buy: What were they thinking?
• Computerworld > BBC in hot water for hiring botnet
• BBC Click paid cybercrooks to buy botnet ? The Register
• Your Computer & "Botnets"
• Buying a Botnet - Windows Live
• BBC Botnet: Another View or Two | ThreatBlog
• Leading Colleges Select FireEye to Stop Malware-Related Data Breaches
• BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
• Botnets Steal Private Data, 160000 infected computers : Palluxo ...
• Prevx defends itself over Click botnet experiment as CEO attacks ...
• Opinion: The BBC and the case of awareness versus ethics
• Sophisticated "Terror Attack" Spam Uses Geolocation To Infect
• The BBC acquired a botnet, but was it legal?
• E-mail news spam gets local with IP geolocation
• Symantec improves anti-spam with Brightmail update
• Malware Attack Uses Geo-Location to Lure Victims
• Spam attacks focus on victims' economic gloom
• re: SPAM-LOW: Wfn-editors Digest, Vol 11, Issue 32
• A guide to US President Barack Obama's favourite eateries in Hawaii
• Spam messages, unable to make clean sweep
• Waledac: There's a bomb in your city
• BBC Botnet-Taxpayers money well spent? ? certifiedbug.com
• IT Security Expert: BBC Click?s Pointless & Unethical Botnet usage
• Botnet takedown offers peek at private data repository | The Cool ...
• New Conficker Variant More Aggressive | Darknet - The Darkside
• BBC Botnet Experiment IS Illegal, No Matter What They Say
• Comodo Backs BBC against AV | ThreatBlog
• 15 questions that the BBC should answer in relation to its botnet ...
• Terror related emails link to Malware ? Storm botnet struggling
• Experts blast BBC over botnet stunt
• Botnet takedown offers peek at private data repository
• The BBC and the Computer Misuse Act
• Was the BBC botnet test illegal? Does it matter?
• BBC turns hacker with white hat botnet attack
• Kraken the botnet: The ethics of counter-hacking
• Sendmail launches Sentrion Cloud Services
• SonicWALL Delivers Spam-Free High-Performance Network Security for ...
• 2 Houston-area men settle civil charges over penny stocks
• Two men settle stock spam charges
• Stimulus and Oscars highlight early spam haul
• Internet Policy Institute Launches Spam Complaint Feedback Loop ...
• BitDefender's Spam Omelette 18 Spotlights "XRISIS" as Top Spam ...
• Man behind BBC botnet defends decision :: Hack In The Box ...
• Protip: Don't include a SEC lawyer in your $4.6m botnet stock scam
• BBC botnet 'public interest' defence rubbished by top IT lawyer ...
• Man behind BBC botnet defends decision | The Binary Bombers Home
• The Conficker connection
• Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm
• Security Provoked ? Blog Archive ? The BBC Responds To Questions ...

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March 16, 2009

Links Roundup

• How to make your cell phone completely spam free
• Cyber stalker clogs spam filter
• Democrats.org Blog Spam Contributes to Google Search Poisoning
• Vintage Brown -- We Don't Fight, I Walk Away
• Craigslist touts 'spectacular' reduction in erotic ads
• Symantec creates havoc with unsigned Norton patch
• Ralph DeFrangesco: Kaspersky Details the State of Malware
• Get Ready for Cell Phone Botnets - Technology - InfoNIAC
• Mobiles to turn into zombies by malicious cellphone networks
• John Schiefer Sentenced to Four Years in Prison in Federal ...
• Device Fingerprinting Aims To Stop Online Fraud
• Russian politician: 'My assistant started Estonian cyberwar'
• Mininova Hit By Massive DDoS Attack | SecGuru
• Mobiles to turn into zombies by malicious cellphone networks
• US sentences man convicted of managing major botnet
• Conficker Authors Push First Update Aimed at undermining the work ...
• Ralph DeFrangesco: Kaspersky Details the State of Malware
• UPD warns caution against spam
• Is Spam Ever Really Going To Disappear?
• Symantec Bungle Unleashes Torrent of Spam, Confusion
• E-mail spam gets time-out
• Despite Fixes, Google Maps Still Vulnerable To Spam
• 'Spam King' resurfaces, linked with SMS campaign
• Symantec Speaks About Spam
• Dean Cameron's show 'Nigerian Spam Scam Scam' comes to San Francisco
• IT Professional Gets Four Years for Stealing with Botnets | SecGuru
• BBC buys its own botnet 7:48AM, Thursday 12th March 2009
• Fergie's Tech Blog: Russia's Cyber-Attacks on Georgia and Estonia ...
• TI-double-guh-Er...The unique and fierce Tigger Trojan pounces
• Botnet kingpin jailed for four years
• Malware Distributor & Botnet Master Sentenced To 4 Years | Darknet ...
• WyldRyde IRC Network: Botneter sentenced to 4 years in prison
• Cyber crime gets 'professional'
• Ads delivered on spam, at times with zingers
• BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs
• Karaoke spam hits sour note
• Symantec slip sparks suspicion, spam
• Editorial: If you want to avoid scams, delete the spam
• New rules advocate opt-in for Bluetooth marketing to curb spam
• Spam, clippings inspire musician
• The Rotten Word: BBC Gets Its Botnet On - law/lit/music/politics ...
• Human botnets and Twitnets - the problem with commercial social media
• BBC builds 22000 system botnet
• BBC botnet hijack proves controversial
• Audio Video | BBC Hijacks 22000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration ...
• BBC cybercrime probe backfires
• Audio Video | BBC Hijacks 22000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration ...
• Botnet ringleader gets 4 years in prison for stealing data ...
• The BBC hacked my computer
• BBC violated the Computer Misuse Act by using botnet | Ecommerce ...
• BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs
• BBC botnet investigation turns hacks into hackers - The Register
• BBC Click botnet 'attack' criticised by industry experts
• Political Cyberattacks to Militarize the Web
• BBC shows what happens when you buy a botnet
• BBC Program Purchases Botnet, Touches off Ethical Debate
• Political Net Attacks Increase
• Slashdot | BBC Hijacks 22000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration
• Create Trust, Reduce Spam with Google Friend Connect API
• BBC Responds to Botnet Controversy
• Facebook users can limit spam with precautions
• Tips to Avoid Spam
• China's major mobile phone operator fights against spam messages ...
• Foreign Web Attacks Change Security Paradigm
• BBC breaks botnet Act, accusers accuse
• BBC in hot water for hiring botnet
• Should the BBC botnet have hijacked 22000 computers?
• No joke -- Conficker worm set to explode on April Fool's Day - SC ...
• iTWire - Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts
• Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts | CHARGED's Digital ...
• BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs
• Fighting Spam: Google and Microsoft can do better
• McAfee - Spam to Grow 20% in March 2009
• Click Botnet Special - Computing and Networks - Digital Spy Forums
• Sophos Accuses BBC Botnet of Breaking the Law
• BBC zombie caper slammed by security pros
• BBC Responds to Botnet Controversy | Your Daily Mixed Net Soup
• BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | BBC team exposes cyber crime risk
• BBC botnet experiment broke law, says lawyer
• (ISC)2 Blog: The BBC's Botnet
• The British Botnet Corporation
• BBC makes a BOTNET and spams and DDOSES LIVE! - Black Hat Forum
• BBC online spam documentary may breach UK laws
• Pharmacy spam strikes google
• Ex-SEC lawyer indicted in stock fraud scheme
• BBC botnet 'reckless', may inspire copycats
• BBC buys itself a little Botnet
• Conficker.C primed for April Fool's activation
• BBC botnet "broke the law" 8:43AM, Friday 13th March 2009
• Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet
• BBC defends botnet acquisition
• Is Your PC Part of a Botnet? - TechChuck

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March 3, 2009

Links Roundup

• Text messages used to lure restaurant patrons on LI
• Citibank Officially Dumber Than Your Spam Filter
• Spam Sales Soar In These Tough Times
• Connection filtering versus keyword approaches to anti-spam
• Cloudmark Released Seven Spam Techniques Hackers Use
• Researchers demo anonymous botnet :: Hack In The Box :: Keeping ...
• New Conficker Update Dispenses with Need to Phone Home
• Black Hat: Researchers demo anonymous botnet
• New Version of Malicious Computer Program Is Released
• Symantec Announces February 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report:
• Google Suffers Gmail Outage Early Tuesday
• A Snowshoe Winter: Our Discontent with CAN-SPAM
• SPAMfighter Launches New Spam Filter for IBM Lotus Notes
• Spammers Play to Recession Fears, Emotions
• Spam Traffic Increases in Russia
• Judges hail 'Spam King'
• Brian Krebs on Computer Security
• EvilFingers: Zeus botnet. Mass propagation of trojan. Part two
• Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection ...
• Hacker Claims He Used Celeb E-mail, MySpace Accounts to Send Spam
• Trend Micro Leads in Antispam
• New Classmates Themed Spam Links to Malware Site
• Rising Spam and Infected PCs ? A Big Concern for the Middle East
• Spammers using Yahoo to bait phishing hooks
• Gmail users hit by spam attack after outage
• MessageLabs: Recession Spam Volume Shows No Recession In Spam
• Security Aegis ? Blog Archive ? How Metasploit Turned The Tables ...
• Phishers ride on financial crisis theme : News : Security - ZDNet Asia
• Online Hoses - EXPERT ADVICE The Next Generation of Cyber-Threats
• DakkaDakka - Warhammer 40K Forums - Spambots
• SGA hears plan to cut university spam
• New phishing scam targets MobileMe users
• Domain Name Whitelisting Allows Spam to Pass Undetected
• BELD warns customers about E-mail spam
• Love bug is here again
• Data Security - Cybercriminals Deploy New 'Botnet' Program
• Corporate Data Security
• Conficker botnet ready to be split, sold
• Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Stormworm bot net
• Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security ...
• Spam King Back in News Thanks to Facebook
• Conficker botnet ready to be split, sold - OutlookPower
• LuckySploit, the right hand of Zeus
• New Waledac variant unleashed, spoofing coupons
• Recession winners, losers
• Facebook Vs. Spammers, Round Two
• The Many Phases of Waledac
• Cybercriminals Deploy New Botnet Program | SecGuru
• Cybercriminals Deploy New Botnet Program
• Spam Spiked, then Slowed in February
• The New Era of Device Security
• Spammers Play on Economic Fears
• Vectors ? Even hackers need help
• Part 10: Gone phishing
• Avoiding the Worst Spam Scams
• Recession Spurs Search Engine Spammers
• Spam slightly lower in February, but botnets still lurking
• Email Spammers Turn to Recession-Based Search Engine Spam
• Spam King Faces Wrath Of Facebook
• Securing & Hacking the Cloud
• Damballa unveils anti-botnet product, badmouths McAfee A/V
• Why Virus Writers Do What They Do!
• Conficker-created connections could confound consumers
• New antivirus software looks at behaviors, not signatures
• Study: Antivirus Software Catches About Half of Malware, Misses 15 ...

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February 23, 2009

Links Roundup

• 92.241.160.25 on mass spam run
• Mobile manufacturers express security fears
• Taiwan to Adopt Anti-spam Law
• US, China leading spam senders in the world
• Russian Culture Monday: Russian Spam
• Beware! Crisis boosts the spam
• The End Of Ad Based Revenue?
• Bot logger for IRC/botnet ? GNU/linux page
• Microsoft takes on Srizbi
• Where Are the Feds on Cybersecurity? - CIO.com - Business ...
• Engate Email Security Solution Named Among Top Products to Watch ...
• Opinion: Where is the government on cybersecurity?
• Hosts file pharming and other botnet recruitment methods
• Spammers break Hotmail's CAPTCHA yet again
• Canada attempts to pass anti-spam bill
• A quick look at Windows Live security
• Verizon To Finally Crack Down On Spam
• SenderOK will save the online community from email overload, spam ...
• Verizon to Implement Spam Blocking Measures
• Red Condor Swoops Down On Spam
• Microsoft Offers $250000 Botnet Bounty | The ultimate SPAM ...
• Alarming Cyber Crime You Don't Want to Know About
• Hosts file pharming and other botnet recruitment methods :: Hack ...
• Lumension Releases Annual Cybersecurity Report in Tandem with ...
• The mysterious case of the inactive botnet
• Be Wary Of Spam Claiming A 'Stimulus Check'
• Spam & Malware-based E-mail Attacks Surged in January 2009
• Bizanga closes $8M to block spam, email viruses
• Spam's supply and demand
• Building a better spam-blocking CAPTCHA
• Network Security - Experts Rethink the Net as Security, Privacy ...
• Shadowserver Foundation Announces New Alerting and Reporting ...
• EvilFingers: Zeus botnet. Mass propagation of trojan. Part one
• Patched IE7 Flaw Attacked
• Botnets and social networking threats join USB sticks as problem ...
• Running a PC with reduced user privileges stops 92% of malware ...
• Monitor Botnet Threats Your Antivirus Cant See | SecGuru
• Twitter gets serious about spam
• Comstar-UTS uses anti-spam platform from Bizanga
• Massive increase in spam originating from China and the Far East
• Megalomaniac Creates Digg Spam Business
• Mebroot - Advanced and Stealthy MBR based Rootkit - Harry Waldron ...
• New Symbian-based mobile worm circulating in the wild
• How Metasploit Turned The Tables On Its DDoS Attackers
• Mebroot - Advanced and Stealthy MBR based Rootkit - Harry Waldron ...
• Digital Degenerate: Is there a Mobile Botnet in Our Future?
• All Spammed Up: Microsoft Offers $250000 Botnet Bounty_PPC_PPC Tech
• Botnet Recruitment Methods | The McMillen Group, LLC
• A few more Spam theories
• Anti-spam products 'increasingly essential'
• Interior to hire czar to oversee stimulus funds
• More than 70% of E-mails Intercepted in January 2009 were Spam
• Could Sexy View be building the first mobile phone botnet ...
• Hackers using DDoS attacks against Xbox Live rivals
• ddos attack | Tech News and Information
• PDF Zero Day Vulnerability in the Wild | Tech-Linkblog.com
• New Worm Targets Mobile Devices
• Microsoft: Online Gamers Still a Top Malware Target
• "Sexy view" worm takes first step towards mobile botnets
• Pay per e-mail system would sound the death knell for spam
• Google Groups again used to spread porn spam
• Five Years On, Can-Spam Gets Help
• Rejected E-mails Enabled China Overtake US in Spam Generation
• Other Issues!: Botnet Warnings
• Meet the Examiners
• Consumer 10 Report Web freebies may cost you in time, spam or cash
• Nearly one-third of internet users buy from spam
• PostScript: Toothpick towers, political spam scam and more
• ? Botnets at Home and Abroad ? Cornell Info 2040 - Networks
• My Spam analysis for Feb 16 - 22, 2009 | Wiz's Computer and ...
• Botnet warnings - Weplaytech's Weblog
• RSA Report Points to an Increase in Cyber Crime
• Botnet warnings? | The Composed Gentleman

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February 11, 2009

Links Roundup

• FAA says Hackers broke into agency computers
• Email Acquisition Tip of the Week: Web Candy
• Spam Filters - Fighting Obfuscation
  It's a shame so much energy goes into content filtering, given how 90% of your spam is easily stopped on basis of its origin
• Traveler Scams: Email Phishers Newest Scam
• Another Waledac Valentine's Day Spam Run Has Started
• Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed
• Data breach incidents are increasing, study shows
• No Reply - Why Bother At All?
  I despise noreply messages. I'm looking at you, Basecamp!

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February 9, 2009

Links Roundup

• IBM urges rethink on vulnerability assessments
• It's Boom Time for Spammers
• EECB Over Xbox 360 Keeps Getting Bounced Back As Spam
• Meaty role for 'Spam' creator
• Setting Up Your Own Real SPAM Filter for E-mail
• Google Typo Causes Malware Warning Misfire
• Buckeye Chuck sees his shadow
• IBM report: vulnerabilities still going unpatched
• Google Glitch Sends Gmail E-Mail to Spam Folder
• [ISN] Techwatch weathers DDoS extortion attack
• Police nab Shadow creators, force botnet to commit suicide - Ars ...
• 911 fraudsters provoke, endanger public, law officers ...
• Russia Launches New Full-Scale Cyber Offensive Against Foreign Country
• Canadian Pharmacy and Glavmed: An Open Letter To Law Enforcement ...
• Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat?
• Russia engaged in cyber war with neighboring countries
• The Month of Valentines?..Spam
• Google snafu marked Gmail as spam
• T-Mobile updating G1: Fixes glitches, adds "spam tapper"
• Proofpoint Adds Cloud Solution for Anti-Spam and Email Mgt
• IBM X-Force report: Corporations are own worst security threat
• Russia emerges as spam superpower
• Jose Nazario on the Kyrgyzstan DDoS Attacks
• Hackers Use DIY Botnets To DDoS Xbox Gamers - SpywareGuide ...
• Botnets (Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog)
• ippimail.com ? Blog Archive - ASProx botnet dials into Conficker ...
• New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse
• Botnets (Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog)
• LinuxMagic Announces Major Licensing Deal for its Anti-Spam Technology
• Spam musubi
• The Next CAN-SPAM??
• MailChannels And CommTouch To Bring Premium Spam Filtering To ...
• Fortinet's January '09 Threatscape Report Shows a Swell in ...
• Call 4 Action: Do Not Call Registry Saves Cell Phones From Spam
• Brazil Earns Top Spam Honors In January
• Report: Most Spam Sites Tied to Just 10 Registrars
• BitDefender's Spam Omelette Spotlights "UND" as Top Spam Word in ...
• Botnets Beat Spartan Laser on Halo 3 | Threat Level from Wired.com
• Cybercriminals 'eyeing jobless IT experts'
• Is Microsoft going to Violate the Military Secrets Export Laws ?
• Open sourcey bulletin board offline after hack attack - TechChuck
• MessageLabs Intelligence: 2009 Security Predictions
• Message-based Attacks Ramp Up Anew
• Kaspersky ups the ante in anti-spam battle
• Red Condor Releases Version 6.0 of Email Security Software
• Russia Becomes the World Leader in the Production of Internet Spam
• Spare the spam, spoil the scam
• New App Lets Spammers Target Twitter
• 'Spam-friendly' domain registrars named and shamed
• Valentine Spam Part of a Junk-mail Resurgence
• Botnets Beat Spartan Laser on Halo 3 - Godaddy Grid Hosting Test
• Windows 7 Reviewed and plotting BOTs across the northwest
• sudosecure.net ? Blog Archive ? How Long is the Waledac Binary ...
• Hackers Use DIY Botnets To DDoS Xbox Gamers - Xbox Live , Gaming
• Windshield handbills as computer virus vector | Blog | Futurismic
• A Google Talk Botnet? | dmiessler.com
• The Top 10 Internet Registrars Hosting Spammers, Illicit Sites
• Hackers Use DIY Botnets To DDoS Xbox Gamers - Xbox Live , Gaming
• Your Car, Yet Another Way to Spread Malware
• The spam mail in your inbox could be a terrorist's handiwork
• Just 10 registrars responsible for 83% of all spam
• TrollGuard.com - Protect Your Blog From Spam
• More Internet spam in January: MessageLabs
• Mobile Spam On Your Phone
• Data Doctors: 'Do not spam' will never fly
• KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List
  World responds, breathless with anticipation
• The Anti-Spam Gateway Drug
• XBOX Gamers Can Now Target Opponents with DDoS attacks
• Spam botnets back up to speed
• 10 Reasons Why IT Security Is Getting Worse Not Better ...
• MessageLabs Intelligence Report: What Happened in January 2009
• Busting bots: Defending against botnets
• Austin, meet 'The Spam King'
• Even spam is a bit lean these days
• Spam Jumps in January, Study Says
• Twitterhawk: Clever Twitter marketing, or spam?
• OpenDNS offers blocking and monitoring for prolific worm
• 70% were Spam Out of 210 Billion E-mails Sent Daily in 2008
• Proofpoint Releases Cloud Computing Solution
• Army deserves Spam filter
• E-mail professionals help get the word out
• Still no escaping Spam
• Metasploit: Pathetic DDoS vs Security Sites
• Shmoocon 2009 Day 1 - Roger's Information Security Blog
• A Plan to Stop Fast Flux Networks Begins to Form
• GranneBlog - Largest botnet as of 2006: 1.5 M machines
• GranneBlog - Why botnet operators do it: profit, politics, & prestige

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February 2, 2009

Links Roundup

• Project Grey Goose Phase I Report
• "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!
• MailChannels and Commtouch to Bring Premium Spam Filtering to Parallels Plesk Panel
• New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse
• Spam resurges to pre-McColo takedown levels
• Spam nears pre-McColo-shutdown levels
• Oh, Come On, You Love Spam!
• Google: It's Hard to Keep Good Spam Down
• With Acquisition Websense to Silence Comment Spam
• Post-McColo, Spam Is Back with a Vengeance
• Websense Acquires Spam Blocker Defensio
• How to Safeguard Your Online Security
• Fake AV, Autorun Threats Still on Top
• [RS.com] Mail Bomber (inc. KeyGen) and SMTP Server Full Warez ...
• Anyone want to code a botnet? - Opensc.ws - Trojan programming forum
• ICANN grapples with growing use of fast-flux botnets
• Fastest-spreading email worm 'MyDoom' turns five
• The Happy Geek: Top 3 Badboy Botnets revealed
• Botnet Serving Browser-Targeted Exploits Malware distributors make ...
• Spam Levels Rising After McColo Shutdown
• Millions of PC infected over Windows
• newsletter archive: Economy woes haven't hit Verizon yet; New ...
• New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse | Computers
• Don't let marketing e-mails wind up in spam folders
• Mailprotector Reaches 3000 Customer Milestone as Market Demand for ...
• Spam catcher issues
• Spam Remains A Major Problem
• Websense buys Defensio to fight blog comment spam
• Virus and spam protection for small networks
• Researchers: Less Than 10 Percent of Email Non-Malicious
• Email Marketers Challenged By Phishing, Spam
• Waledac worm celebrates Valentine's Day with spam
• Conficker Virus Threatens Millions of Windows Users
• Microsoft Conficker worm hits peak, but payload awaits
• Click Fraud Rates Hit Two-Year High
• Search engine and botnet click fraud rises, AdSense and Yahoo ...
• Security networks send spammers underground
• New Fast-flux Botnet Using Browser Specific exploits to Attack Victims
• Click Fraud Reaches Record Level | WebProNews
• Computerworld > Click fraud shoots up in Q4, driven by botnets
• Security Networks Send Spammers Underground - CIO.com - Business ...
• CAN-SPAM: Quick Refresher
• Spam almost back to pre-McColo levels says report
• Rants and Raves: Chocolate chips, spam texts, Kerouac and 10000 ...
• About 90 Percent of All Corporate Email is Spam
• Security networks send spammers underground
• The new natural search spam
• The Cost Of The War On Spam
• MSU drops spam charges against ASMSU official
• Click Fraud Rates Shoots Up 17.1% in Q4, Highest In 2 Years: Report
• Search engine marketing click fraud on the rise
• Preemptive Connection-level Botnet and Email Security Patent for ...
• ICANN tries to tackle botnet-friendly fast flux hosting
• Botnets, Click Farms Propel Click Fraud Rate to Record 17%
• Spam: You just can?t win
• Valentine's Day approaches and spam is in the air
• Protect yourself from spam in the year of the Ox
• Increase in spam and phishing attacks have marketers concerned
• New filter to cut spam to TechMail
• Spam Levels Up Again
• Over 90% Emails Are Spam & Malware
• support Brucon.org sept 09 - 33 .be domains in fast flux dns ...
• Spam Up 159% Since November 2008
• Malicious worm squirms into Millions of Computers ? Computer ...
• Techwatch weathers DDoS extortion attack - TechChuck
• Boycott Novell ? Microsoft Puts the ?P? in ?Propaganda?; Windows ...
• Beware Revived Valentine's Day Virus
• Sending spam may be fined NT$2000 per mail: NCC
• Google Malware Mess Now Just Annoying Spam Scam
• 33 .be domains in fast flux dns phishing botnet and also .eu [belsec]
• Cryptography, Law and Privacy Blog: Re: Proof of Work ...
• Startup Of The Week: FireEye
• Cryptography, Law and Privacy Blog: Re: Proof of Work ...
• Flag ISP over spoofing, hijacking
• The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam
• Spam: You just can't win
• For 40 minutes this morning, the Internet was all spam
• Engate Offers a 40% Promotional Discount on its Email Security ...
• Recording Blogs | ICANN tries to tackle botnet-friendly fast flux ...
• sudosecure.net ? Blog Archive ? Visualizing Waledac
• World Tech Update: Obama's BlackBerry, the Pope, and More...

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January 26, 2009

Links Roundup

• Email Marketing Bootcamp Part 1
• Strategy Tip of the Week: Start With a Foundation
• USPTO overturns patent for virtual subdomains
  A brief moment of sanity from the USPTO...
• Journalism School 'Ricochets' Spam Messages
• Yahoo! Adds New Spam Tools to its Webmail
• Report: Spam is More Malicious than Ever
• CAPTCHA Allows Comments, Keeps Spam Bots Out
• Valentine's Day Themed Spam from the New Storm Botnet
• Social networking sites a hotbed for cyber crime
• Yahoo Loses Zimbra Founder But Adds New Anti-Spam Measures
• Spam Trends in 2009: McAfee's Report
• Fortinet: Holiday season saw spike in Trojan activity, spam
• Outraged teachers: Spam campaigns counter-productive
• Botnets and Fast Flux | Krypted.com
• Nasty Worm Has Wriggled Into Millions of Computers
• Building a better spam-blocking CAPTCHA
• Why I love my job: Pete Chronis, senior manager for fraud and ...
• Cyberdemocracy or a surge of spam?
• 2009 comebacks: Spam
• Asprox Botnet is Back!! ? Computer Security Weblog
• 200 airline terrorists thwarted | HAINSWORTH.COM
• Hey Apple Kids! Now you can become the miserable slave of a botnet ...
• Do You Need AV on a Mac? ? Tech?for Everyone
• Obama outlined his Cybersecurity Strategy on Day 2
• My Spam analysis for Jan 19 - 25, 2009 | Wiz's Computer and ...
• Conficker Worm Infecting Millions of Systems

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January 23, 2009

Links Roundup

• Leamington man loses $150,000 in Nigerian scam
• ICANN ad for new TLDs
• Lycos Europe To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15
  Wow, Tripod was still around?
• A Month of Spam, Illustrated
• Credit And Debit Card Breach May Affect Over 100 Million
• Help, I'm Blacklisted!
  some good advice from Matt Vernhout
• Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide
  The word is that it's not spamming, yet
• MessageLabs Reports Spike in Financial Fraud Spam
• 70 Of Top 100 Web Sites Spread Malware
• BlueTie Collaboration Service Now Available on Mac
• New Research: Converged Threats on the Rise; More Than 90 Percent ...
• Yahoo tries harder to screen out spam
• Google should learn the difference between real sex and spam
• Websense publishes bleak spam figures
• RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity
• Yahoo touts new spam protections
• Yahoo! Adds New Spam Tools
• Yahoo fighting against spam
• Spam Back On The Rise
• Yahoo Introduces New Spam Tools
• Bill Gates' Spam Solution Prediction Rings Hollow
• Spammers defy Gates's junk mail predictions
• More spam and malicious links out there
• Spam still causing IT headache: reports

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January 21, 2009

Links Roundup

• Spam Three Times Higher than Last Year, but Lower than before ...
• I'm Getting Spam From Myself
• Appriver Releases Spam Report and Forecast
• AT&T catching flak for sending text spam promoting American Idol
• Botnets Landscape Changes as Spammers Get Back in the Swing of Things
• Next-gen botnet armies fill spam void
• Has the volume of spam fallen because of the recession?
• Spam News: Michelle Obama Hotter Than Britney?
• Financial Fraud Spam Spikes
• AT&T Slammed For Text Message Spam Telco says it's not spam ...
• AT&T Enters Wonderful World of Spam
• Spam: This Year's Bacon?
• New spam, phishing attacks center on Obama inauguration
• Spam & Hackers UK Hacker Offers Guilty Plea To Avoid Extradition
• Another Year, More Poisoned Spam
• mocoNews.net - Australian Regulator Sues Text Spammers For First Time
• The Bagger at Sundance: Weaponized Spam Analytics
• Two big, bad botnets gone, but replacements step up, says researcher
• Spam-Scam Artist Gets Scammed at Theater 4301
• American Idol Spam Text Messages on AT&T
• AT&T Floods Users with American Idol Texting Spam
• Green party says sorry for e-mail gaffe
• Spam scam in Arkansas
• I love Spam in the can, in a pan, but not in my e-mail
• Stemming the flow of junk e-mail
• Vendor claims ZDNet being "exploited" to send spam, forgets ...
• Inauguration events in the Tri-State
• Businesses taken to court over mobile phone spam
• 'Obama quits' spam recruits zombie drones
• How CAPTCHA got trashed
• Spam emails claim that Barack Obama will refuse Presidency
• Network Security 'Updated' Worm Using Obama Spam To Spread Rapidly
• INTERNET LAW - Fines Imposed for SMS Spam
• Malicious Spam Says Obama Refuses to Accept Presidency
• Malicious Sites with Fake Obama News Infect Users with Malware
• How does foreign language spam exist?
• Ireland?s Green Party Apologizing for Email Spam
• Yahoo Mail Talks Anti-Spam Improvement
• How to Really Eliminate SPAM
• Michelle Obama spams overtake Angelina, Britney and Paris
• Stressed out by spam? Here's what you can do
• Anti-spam service receives praise
• PC Club: Limit spam by creating a whitelist

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January 16, 2009

Links Roundup

• 1 in 3 Windows PCs vulnerable to worm attack
• Postman loses £130,000 savings to Nigerian internet scam after being duped by a friend he met on MySpace
• Todd Herr from Time Warner Cable/Road Runner is Coming to Reputation Radio!
• AT&T Says 2 Million Customers Got 'Idol' Text Ad
• Q: 'Why did you write adware?'
  A: 'I was broke'
• The Elements of Spam
  Hilarious.
• IBM Announces Intent to Acquire Outblaze's E-Mail Service Assets

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January 12, 2009

Links Roundup

• $100,000 fine for sending spam (New Zealand)
• mocoNews.net - Media Breakaway Pays $1 Million To Settle Florida Attorney General Case
• California Spam Lawsuit Dismissed
• Don’t Fear CAN-SPAM or PIPEDA With Targeted E-Mail
  Crackpots are so funny sometimes.
• A Grand Inquisitor Condemns My Heretical Email Doctrine
  In other news, Neil Schwartzmann is a Grand Inquisitor now

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January 7, 2009

Links Roundup

• Verizon awarded $33M in 'cybersquatting' case
• Spammers will face fines up to €250,000
• Google picks up third spot in spam-friendly shame list
• 2008: A Significant Year In The Fight Against Illegal Spammers
• RBS WorldPay breach exposes 1.5 million
• Crime to boom as downturn blooms
• Kiwi spammer gets hefty fine
• ICANN sets the schedule to kill domain tasting
• A New Year and Anti-Virus Products Are Still Losing

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December 17, 2008

Links Roundup

I ought to just start calling this "tabclearing".

• LAUNCH: DMA Email Authentication Help Center
• Hong Kong businessman pleads guilty in spam case
• Stupid Pinhead Watch: SpamZa Boy Speaks
  Insert "do not feed the trolls" sign here.
• Cisco Study Says Canada Leading Source of Spam
• CAN-SPAM: What went wrong?
• Dr. Libshitz Can't Get an E-Mail Address

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December 15, 2008

Links Roundup

• Google cranks up the Consensus Engine
• FTC kills scareware operation that duped over a million users
• Should cybersecurity be managed from the White House?

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December 10, 2008

Links Roundup

• Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer
• Penis pill botnet awakens after McColo shutdown
• RR.com FBL Delayed - Expected Early 2009
• Hackers Hijacked Large E-Bill Payment Site
• Spammers Sidestep SMTP
  Not sure how using webmail is "side-stepping SMTP", but agree it's a problem
• The Risks (and Sometimes Rewards) of Not Following Best Practices

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November 30, 2008

Links Roundup

• All the movie's sales will go to the victim who inspired the film
• Dead network provider arms Rustock botnet from the hereafter
• Get in the Loop
• Facebook Spammer Dinged for $873 Million
• Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now
• How to Foil "Phishing" Scams
• Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web

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November 13, 2008

Links Roundup

All the news the past few days is about the takedown/de-peering of McColo, which according to some reports was hosting the C&Cs (command-and-control hosts) from some of the largest botnets around. In other news, "Pangea" took down a slew of drug peddling spammers. This should probably not distract us from the also recent revelations about just how much money spammers can make on very, very little investment and a paltry response rate. And finally, the stupidity of some people is enough to make you wonder just what they won't believe, no matter the consequences.

• Election Hoax Sent Via D.C. Based E-Campaign Group
• ChamsCity: World’s Largest Cyber Centre is in Lagos Nigeria
  Oh, Lord.
• The Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
• Profitability of spam finally measured
• Major Source of Internet Spam Yanked Offline
• Update
• SpamCop Stats for the past week
• Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline
• Internet drug peddlers raided in 9 countries
• Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer
• Turning the Tide Against the Spammers
• Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits

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October 30, 2008

Links Roundup

• 'Backscatter spam' gums up many e-mail inboxes
• Expressions of Interest Sought for Bulk Transfer of Registrations
• EstDomains Update: Notice of Termination Stayed
• FreshAddress Acquires Return Path’s ECOA Unit
  Wasn't that what RP started up to do?

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October 24, 2008

Links Roundup

• Major spam bust fails to result in sustained drop in spam
• StrongMail Lays Off 25% of Staff
• No School Like The Old School
• A Robot Network Seeks to Enlist Your Computer
• Windows: Unsafe at any speed?
• Hackers Crack Code To Send Spam
• Kiwi living in Australia behind world?s largest spam operation
• Stopping spam with 'remove' doesn't work
• 40 Trillion Spam Scheduled for 2008
• Is What I Sent Really Spam?
• Facebook Spam Pitches
• Has Storm stopped sending spam?
• Judge Orders Shutdown of Huge Spam Ring Accused of Selling Viagra
• Spam, Illustrated
• Tracking The Evolution Of Search Spam
• Alleged spam king may be sausage king
• FTC Busts Major Spam Operation
• Spam Problem to be Solved Once and For All by Patent Pending ...
• Our View: A little less spam in your inbox?
• We treat our Spam musubi quite ethically
• FTC Busts Giant Spam Operation, Enlarges Penis
• Warezov Botnet is Back in the Spam Game
• Spam masters shut down
• Why Do ISPs and E-mail Carriers Use Spam Filtering?
• FTC Shuts Down 'Spam Gang'
• How to Write Comments That Get Deleted Or Marked As Spam
• Botnet Spam Attacks to Target Cellphones, Report Warns
• US shuts down vast spam email operation
• Spam vs junk mail - which is the lesser evil?
• Trio face $200000 fines in first spam prosecution
• Twitter steps up its anti-spam moves
• Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring
• Kiwi spam network was 'world's biggest'
• The Problems of Political Spam
• 10 Tips For Getting Your Email Marketing Emails Past the Spam Filters
• IT firm pledges to banish spam
• Have You Been a Victim of Backscatter Spam?
• Ralsky confidant agrees to rat out notorious spam gang
• Trio accused of internet spam trade

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October 15, 2008

Links Roundup

• Verizon plays fast and loose with the wrong 1,200 e-mail addresses
• Cybercrime Supersite 'DarkMarket' Was FBI Sting, Documents Confirm
• Authorities Shut Down Spam Ring
• Did Anti-Spam Group Create a Backstory For DarkMarket's Undercover Fed?
• Virgin Media ADSL service e-mail was halted by spam
• Experts predict surge in spam during festival season
• 'Spam attack' halts Virgin e-mail
• Keeping malware at bay
• Is It Interstellar Spam?
• India is top spam sender in Asia: study
• Use Gmail to Fight Spam
• Spam Activity Drops After ISP's Demise
• Obama Beating McCain: Spam trends of Sept
• Phone Spam Filter Reaches The 1 Million Mark
• Google's Web 2.0 Services Invite Spam
• When it comes to spam, India shines on the top

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October 8, 2008

Links Roundup

• Symantec to Extend Online Services with Acquisition of MessageLabs
• Prior Business Relationships are irrelevant
• Right back at ya, CAPTCHA: bad guys crack Gmail, Hotmail
• An update to the email standards
• The root of all email
• Information warfare and defending organizations from computer espionage
• 10 Worst CAPTCHAs
• Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) – How to Use
• Clinton company wins another spam lawsuit
• China tackles spam text messages
• When is spam not really "spam?"
• Fight spam and bots in Web applications with CAPTCHAs
• Backscatter Spam on Email Security Radar
• Mollom blog spam checking solution comes out of beta
• Mollom Comment Spam Solution Emerges From Beta
• Cracking a Gmail Account
• Put an End to Cell Phone Spam
• Obama beats McCain in 'spam-off' by landslide
• What Is Spam?
• Getting rid of cell-phone spam
• Spam going down?
• CIS Internet Services Receives $236 Million Anti-Spam Judgment ...
• Inside a Managed Spam Service
• Fight Spam With A Direct Message To Twitter
• BitDefender Points Out a New Mix of Spam Techniques Using "Read ...
• Spam is getting nasty, says Symantec
• OJ Simpson guilty verdict could lead to malicious spam
• The Spam Report, October 2008

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September 25, 2008

Links Roundup

• Virgina Overturns Spam Conviction Citing First Amendment
• Clay Shirky Busts The Myth Of Information Overload At Web 2.0 Expo
• Ethics@work: Spam vs freedom of speech
• The dumbed-down spam approach to political campaigning
• Your administrators thank you for saving them from drowning in spam
• Symantec Releases State of Spam Report for August 2008
• Virginia Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Spam Law
• Spam and why there seems to be no cure
• Secure Computing Highlights Three Major Spam Campigns
• New GFI MailEssentials with additional anti-spam engine
• Outstanding Spam Capture Rate and Low False Positives With GFI ...
• Opinion: No Spam E-Mail Deserves Protection
• What Does the CAN-SPAM Act Mean to Marketers?
• MX Logic Helps Partners Report Spam & Virus Data to Customers
• Concordia admin gets one spam email, bans Facebook

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September 16, 2008

Links Roundup

• Ad hoc malware police besiege net neutrality
• Anonymous Speech in Email Upheld in Spammer Case - Updated
• Virginia court throws out spam law; one spammer gets away with it
• Why Virginia is right to overturn spam conviction
• Va. Court Strikes Down Anti-Spam Law
• Tech Tips: blocking spam in Firefox
• Oman Mobile signs Mobile Spam Code Of Practice
• Runaway Spam, Malware Lift Cisco, Other Security Players
• UFO spam hides a Trojan horse
• Celebrity Names Used to Send Maximum Spam
• Virginia Spam Law Struck Down, Experts Question CAN-SPAM
• That SMS from your friend could be spam
• Virginia Court OKs Anonymous Spam
• Test Center ThreatWatch: Sept. 16
• Kidnap spam proliferates
• Abaca Achieves Unmatched 99.997 Percent Accuracy in Real-World ...
• No spam deserves protection
• Untangle turns ordinary PC into security box
• 'UK's Chernobyl' spam spreads Trojan
• No cure for spam or the common cold?
• INVESTIGATE: THE SPAM TEXT PESTS
• Warning over Obama sex scandal spam

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September 8, 2008

Links Roundup

• Joint statement from Directi, HostExploit and Knujon clarifying previous posts
• You Ask for Garbage, You Get it
• Bastard Blocklist from Hell
  Mat Sullivan's latest blocklist
• Anti-Virus Products Still Fail on Fresh Viruses
• Voice Phishers Work Harder To Get Your Number
• Your Name Could Determine Your Spam Load
• US Web Firm Described As "Phantom Registrar" Haven
• MIIT Reports SMS Spam Regulations Working
• Spam Spade Favoured In NJSS Final
• Spam Spade snags $85000 NJSS Final
• Get heavy spam, blame your email ID
• ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009
• Search Engine Link Spam: Risks, Threats, Solution
• Picasa and Flash become latest spam tools
• Beware of e-mail news alerts -- Storm Worm might be lurking inside
• MX Logic Warns Users to Be Extra Weary of Political Emails
• MySpace Closes App Profile Forums Due to Spam Overload
• Scammers skirt spam shields with help from Adobe Flash
• Spam e-mail theory

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August 25, 2008

Links Roundup

• Legal flap over Defcon talk exposes divide on disclosing security flaws
• You've got jail! AOL spammer sentenced to seven years
• U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say
• Pizza Hut Sends Unsolicited Email To Apologize For Sending Unsolicited Email
• Most Email Spam Comes From Russian Mobsters
  Quel surprise!
• One of these things is not like the other. Cursed Nigerians!
• Srizbi and Rustock, Family Feud or Sibling Rivalry
• 29% of Internet Users Have Bought from Spam: Study
• 30% of Internet Users Admit to Buying from Spam
• An Easy Way To Retrieve The Entire MobileMe User Email List
• Jail the 'greedy' scam victims, says Nigerian diplomat
• Brazilian charged in U.S. in connection with operating botnet

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Links Roundup

• Obama bloggers using Obama's campaign website to send email spam
• Spam Data Mine Uncovers Russian-Georgian Escalation
• Internet and Websites : How To Prevent Spam On Your Internet Forum ...
• 'Spam' Definition Grows
• Products Tested: Operating systems, utilities, Web sites
• SD swimming in spam, study says
• Vietnam Issues New Decree Against Spam E-Mail
• Sex, drugs, software lead spam purchase growth
• Spam Data Mine Uncovers Russian-Georgian Escalation
• Beware MSNBC.com Breaking News Spam E-mails
• Living with spam
• KCC to Revise Law to Root out Illegal Spam Mail
• Sex, drugs and software lead customers down path of spam
• 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
• 29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It ...
• Study: 29% of Internet Users Buy From Spam
• Cybercriminals Spam Out Madonna Video in Advance of World Tour
• BitDefender Total Security 2009 Prudent Spam Protection
• TYT Site Suggestion: Avoiding Conservative Spam
• Brazilian Charged in Botnet Scheme, Will Be Extradited to US
• Common Cents: Slam the Spam!
• Bootle residents warned of email spam and scam
• CNN.com Daily Top 10 email spam
• Spam Fighters: Revenge is a Dish Best Left in the Freezer and ...
• Indiana AG Goes After Spam Faxer
• We get so much SPAM, because it works!
• NeuStar's UltraDNS selected by Spam Arrest
• Qtel looks to limit unwanted text and phone messages
• How To Get Your E-mail Past Clients' Spam Filter
• South Dakota gets spam rating | KXNet.com North Dakota News
• Where Has All My Spam Gone?
• Spam email piracy warning hoax
• Spam targets addicts
• Spam levels 'driven by zombie computers'
• 8 quick ways to get your site blacklisted
• Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court
• Fake CNN Alert Still Spreading Malware
• Customers charged for incoming texts will receive refunds for spam
• Most Email Spam Comes From Russian Mobsters
• Fighting Spam with Spamassassin
• Anti-spam tool used to translate old books
• INTERNET LAW - MEXICAN SPAM LAW
• UK sees sharp rise in spam
• Twitter begins bringing down the spam hammer
• Gov=92t has a =91spam=92 problem
• Facebook Is Still Battling Spam
• Twitter Gets Serious About Spam
• Fake MSNBC news alert used in latest spam campaign
• Marshal: Spam sells
• Beware of 'WWIII' E-mails, IT Security Firm Warns
• SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
  No, it's not an opt-in spamming service, it's a mailbomb service
• Character recognising spam breaking CAPTCHA defences
• What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
• Sex, drugs and software lead spam purchase growth
• Georgians Use Spam to Explain Their Situation
• Archives aided by anti-spam tools
• 10M Zombies Distribute Spam, Malware Every Day
• Barracuda Spam Firewall Now Rejects Invalid Non-Delivery Report ...
• Spammers still defeating CAPTCHAS
• Indian anti-spam software company growing 100% per year
• Spam Volume Doubles and Is More Likely to Be Malicious
• University warns of MSNBC spam trend
• MSNBC Spam-O-Rama
• Dem candidate brags about porn spam
• Sales via Spam Surge, Report Says
• Report Reveals That Internet Fraud Threatens E-Commerce
• Spam Leads to Sex and Drugs and Apps in Poll
• msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS spam
• Credit card bills end up in the spam filter
• Google see "more robust" spam techniques
• Spam senders face $5000 fine
• When is Spam not Spam?
• How Exactly Does IM Spam Work?
• UK spam increasing
• AN4 helps stockbroker devour spam
• SPAM : Don't let this modern day scourge ruin your life
• UK spam quadruples in three months
• Fake MSNBC News Alerts Used in Latest Malicious Spam Campaign
• ubExact Develops New User-Centric Search Engine to Address ...
• Small Danish software Development Company wins the battle against spam
• Facebook and MySpace leading fight against spam
• Latest round of spam e-mails posing as MSNBC news alerts
• Sex and software diet fuels spam growth
• ON COMPUTERS : E-mail shift to new account flagged man as spammer
• UAB cybersleuth on the trail of spam
• Media briefs and TV ratings: Nine quibbles over Olympics ratings ...
• Titter Refines the War on Spam
• YouTube User Sues Google Because He Feels He Deserves Something
• Can MySpace Suits Can the Spam?
• Twitter Starts Imposing "Following" Limits to Prevent Spam
• Spam sells
• Spam sent by millions of zombies
• Qtel issues guidelines to tackle spam messages
• Roaring Penguin and Level Platforms to deliver monitoring of anti ...
• A spam week of Olympic proportions
• Spam sales surge
• Web Fraud 2.0: Thwarting Anti-Spam Defenses
• Apple MobileMe Service Open to E-mail Harvesting and Spam
• Obama's VP Announcement Generates No Spam, So Far
• India Generates the Least Spam -- Study

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August 13, 2008

Rob McEwen launches new site for invaluement DNSBL

A mix of three different DNSBLs, one a URI blacklist, one a standard "sender IP" blacklist, and another expressed in terms of whole netblocks, Rob's invaluement DNSBL service launched recently. It's a for-pay service, and though I don't subscribe, I know folks who do who report that it is effective at catching stuff other DNSBLs do not.

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August 4, 2008

Links Roundup

• Exinda Networks, Level Platforms Team on Remote Monitoring Solutions
• Illinois tops the spam list
• ALIFE Conference to reveal bio-inspired spam detection
• UCE, shouting into thunder
• 5 Tips To Avoid Spam E-mail
• New Anti-Obama Spam Is So Confused!!?
• Business taxes, computer spam top new laws
• Comment spammers never take a holiday
• Storm Worm is latest e-mail virus
• Escaped 'Spam King' murders family
• Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt Integrates With Level Platforms ...
• phone pest
• Spammers step up "hit-and-run" operations
• Regulate text spam
• Buyer Beware - Acai Weight Loss Spam is Here - Hold on to Your Wallet
• Virus alert: Facebook and MySpace users targeted by Paris Hilton ...
• Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives
• Canadians File Class Actions Over Incoming SMS Fees
• China Olympics, earthquake exploited by spammers =96 Symantec
• A campaign to mark left-leaning blogs as spam
• Games spam attack alert
• Purported e-mail from UPS, FBI contains virus
• A Recipe for Spam
• When Spam Filters Defeat Their Own Purpose
• A tale of spam and something going wrong.
• Convincing spam, warn your loved ones!!
• Spam King jailed
• Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives
• Google Blogger Meltdown? You Have Been Identified As A Potential ...
• PitchEngine Promises to End PR Spam
• Bypass Gmail's Spam Filter
• The creative subjects of botnet blasted e-mails
• The Tale of Two Busted Spammers
• Simple Spam on the Rise
• James Daley: Why spam texts are driving me mad
• Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street as Koobface worms its way ...
• Spammers change tactics to beat security
• Kaspersky Lab Detects Worm Attacking MySpace and Facebook
• Just no stopping spam
• Spam masks itself as news to evade filters
• Blog Shutdowns: Spam Attack Came from barackobama.com
• Worms spread via spam on Facebook and MySpace
• Spam fees are not acceptable
• The trouble with spam laws.
• Gmail Adds 'Never Send It to Spam' Filter Option
• The bonus scandal: $1.7 million 'spam scam'
• Montana safe from spam
• Customers fight back at Bell and Telus over text message fee fiasco
• A Spam-Based Writing Contest from Weird Tales
• US is the most prolific source of spam and viruses
• Getting Unwanted Spam on Your Cell? You're Not Alone.
• Social Network Spam
• Our view: Spam flap furthers AG's 'Bonusgate' investigation
• A Recipe for Getting Spam
• Spam attacks from faked Opera e-mail signatures

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July 28, 2008

Links Roundup

• The Spam World's Election Season Blast
• Fighting off the great spam attack
• Montana bottom of the 'Spam barrel'
• 'Spam King' kills himself, wife and daughter
• IronPort tops Forrester's vendor list for spam management best ...
• Will One Spam King's Conviction and Another's Escape Mean Less E ...
• $1.7 million Pa. spam scam outlined
• Eliminate Spam before it gets to your mail server
• Security guide: reducing risks from outbound traffic
• "Spam King" Found Dead In Apparent Murder Suicide
• Surviving daughter of 'Spam King' murder-suicide fills in details ...
• Got Spam? Consider Moving to Montana
• IronPort Reduces Power Consumption and Improves Efficiency
• Cyberoam-Commtouch Report: Universities and ISPs Cyber Warfare ...
• Spam, spam, spam, spam
• Spam king kills family and then himself
• `Spam King' lured family with promises of gifts
• Cell Phone Spam On The Rise
• Spam, Malware and FTP cracks
• Teen Tells Authorities About 'Spam King' Shooting
• Prosecutor: Escaped convict, wife, daughter slain
• What is "backscatter spam" and why is it hard to block
• Top spammer sentenced to nearly four years
• Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
• `Spam King' lured family with promises of gifts
• 'Spam king' commits suicide after killing wife, daughter
• Convicted Spammer Escapes Prison, Murders Family, Kills Himself
• Fugitive "Spam King" Kills His Family Before Committing Suicide
• George Bush and Microsoft Exploited by Spammers as Malicious Spam ...
• F****** Microsoft and that W***** George Bush help boost spam traffic
• Fugitive Spam King Dead in Apparent Murder-suicide
• Government's CAN-SPAM Act Works Just as it Sounds
• Unutterably sad: escaped "spam king" kills wife, child and self
• Russian Cybercrooks, CoreFlood, and the Amazing Joe Stewart

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July 25, 2008

Davidson proves to be a scumbag to the last

Unable to face his own failure to evade prosecution and sentencing, and unable to bear imprisonment, even of the most country club sort, "spam king" Eddie Davidson walked off from prison and finally shot his wife and two of his children, killing two and leaving two as orphans. As much as he deserved all the punishments that could be devised, and as much as his final actions prove what a sociopath he was, our thoughts are with his remaining family, who did not deserve this at all.

For more details, see this Denver Post article.

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July 24, 2008

Links Roundup

• Uniq solution to defeating spam and spyware
• Report: 81.5 percent of all e-mails sent in June were spam
• Business emails nearly all spam
• Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
• Global Spam On the Rise
• FTC settles CAN-SPAM dispute
• Spammer Faces 30 Months Sentence For Sending Spam Mails To AOL ...
• Illinois battered by junk e-mails
• T-Mobile users can sue over cell phone spam
• Inbox Insider: For CAN-SPAM compliance, sooner is better
• Still Drowning in a Sea of Spam
• Spam King pulls prison vanishing act
• Beating the threat of spam - a ComputerWeekly podcast
• "Phishers" target agency users
• Anti-Spam Software For Mobile Devices Launched
• PC help: Block spam in Skype
• 'Spam King' Behind Bars: Robert Soloway Gets 4 Years In Prison
• CTIA Rallies Against Spam, But Controversy Continues
• Google Mail has more spam
• Homegrown software firm Spamjadoo keeps the inbox intact
• Matt Cutts "Spam Master General" Video
• World spam volume at 81.5%
• Spam accounts for 96.5% of business e-mail in Q2 2008
• 'Spam King' Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years for Millions of Junk E-Mails
• Infotech: the spam that can catch your IT department out
• SPAM Doesn't Just Come in a Can
• Why Spam Can't Be Stopped - Emailappenders and Others Sell Bogus Lists
• Spam uses Angelina Jolie's name and fame to spread malware
• Twitter: Yep, We've Still Got A Spam Problem
• Put spam in the can
• Spam King Sentenced To Nearly 4 Years In Jail
• Hagens Berman: T-Mobile Loses Important Battle in Cell Phone Text ...
• Mobilink deploys Tekelec's anti-spam firewall system
• Sending E-Mail in a Spam-Hysterical World
• Rhymes With Five: Spam worth reading
• "Spam King" Escapes From Prison
• 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison in Florence
• Text message spam
• California Is The 32nd State For Spam
  See: "Wisconsin"
• Malware and Spam still appearing in abundance (Report roundup)
• Facebook wants to reduce application spam
• E-mail spam a problem in Wisconsin
  Slow news day?
• New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos
• Become a Drug Mule! Exciting new spam offer
• Irish Stock Exchange ends spam's upward trend
• Convicted 'Spam King' gets 4 years

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July 17, 2008

Links Roundup

• Experts report 'disturbing rise' in spam
• Weight-loss Supplement Dealer Settles Spam Charges
• 'Spam King' to be Sentenced Today
• Victims Testify At Sentencing For 'Spam King'
• Telus dishes out free spam to avoid egg on face
• Spam e-mail claims to come from attorney general
• Highway spam canned
• 2012 Internet spam spreading malware
• CAN-SPAM updates take effect
• GFI Software launches white paper on non-delivery report (NDR) spam
• Out with the Spam, in with Presdo for Facebook
• Cloudmark Identifies Crafty Spam Techniques
• What you can do to stop cellphone spam
• Lots of gagging on this Spam
• Reader: 'Spam King' Soloway should 'work his behind off'
• Spam-A-Lot
• Soloway case reveals big business behind spam
• Frustration As 'Aggressive' Xtra Filter Treats Valid E-Mails As Spam
• You want me to pay for spam on my cell?!
• Calyx helps the Irish Stock Exchange fight spam
• Spammers gearing up for Beijing Olympics
• UK's most spammed man identified
• Should 'spam king' Soloway pay the price for worse?
• State ranks 10th in Internet spam:
• VoIP Spam - An Impending Doom?
• Fighting spam with Exchange 2007
• Storm botnet stages Fourth of July attacks
• Only One Email Of Out 28 Is Not Spam
• Spam, Spam, Spam
• Chianca: Frankly my dear, I don't give a spam
• UK's most spammed man identified
• Spam shrieks of World War III
• Judge puts off 'spam king' sentencing
• Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding?
• Only One in 28 Emails Legitimate, Sophos Report Reveals
• 194.8.75.x on big blog spam run
• Consumer Alert: Spam E-Mails Claiming To Originate From AG's Office
• Suffolk woman receives death threat as e-mail spam
• Text tax: subscribers forced to splurge on spam
• INTERNET LAW - ANTI-SPAM REGULATION IN JAPAN
• Telus offers credits for text message spam
• China officially sets up anti-spam message alliance
• Swiss Slammed By Lots Of Spam
• Telus customers - dial spam for no charge
• Captchas: The Last Barrier against Web Form Spam on the Verge
• Attorney General Spam Email Alert 7/8/08
• What is your assessment as to the typical volume of spam received ...
• Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war against spam
• Hacked e-mail accounts used in 419 scam "with a twist"
• E-mail scam uses Texas attorney general's name 12:06 PM CT
• Idnet e-mail service affected by spam attack
• Malicious Spammers Deliver Fake UPS Invoices
• ASB bags $5.86 mln GSM deal from Tianjin Unicom, spam filter deal ...
• Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
• Anti-Spyware with Spam Controls -PC maintenance tools
• Call For Crackdown On Email Spam
• Spam is spreading all over
• Lessons From McAfee's SPAM Experiment
• Businesses targeted by spam emails
• Cloudmark Granted Patent for Spam Blocking Technology
• Telus says it will credit customers for cost of text messaging spam
• Switzerland Tops World in Spam
• Should 'spam king' Soloway pay the price for worse?
• US Military Actions Used as Decoy to Spread Malware
• How CAPTCHA got trashed
• McAfee conducts spam experiment, nothing really discovered
• Government Releases Mobile Anti-Spam Software
• Spending a final night in the Spam can
• Victims testify at Spam King's sentencing
• Diary of a Deliberately Spammed Housewife
• Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 30 Months in Prison In AOL Spam Case
• Detroit Knocks Out Email Threats and Improves Citywide ...
• Chianca: Frankly my dear, I don't give a spam
• Secrets & lies: The new CAN-SPAM rules
• SPAM-alicious contest results
• Prentice should get off text-messaging high horse
• Spam is a growing plague
• Online auction site goes to war on spam
• Report: Almost all emails are spam
• TELUS guarantees spam free text messaging service - no questions asked
• Business spam 'on the up'
• Botnets winning spam wars, says report
• Spam races to the Olympics
• Analyzing a Trac spam attempt
• Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails
• Spammers Choose GMail
• Email Security Appliance protects 300 addresses from spam.
• Tougher rules against phone 'spam'
• From Poop Jokes To Obscure References, Spam Attacks On Google ...
• First computers, now cell phone spam?
• Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious ...
• McAfee Conducts 'SPAM' Experiments
• New anti-spam rules kick in today
• Spam gets sophisticated, says McAfee
• Iran invasion spam circulates
• Defendants in International Spam Operation Settle FTC Charges; New ...
• Deliberately Responding To Spam
• Tired of spam? Then dial SPAM, Telus says
• Fighting spam with Exchange 2007
• Amazon EC2 Spam and Malware Problem
• Software protection for SMEs against spam, viruses and other malware
• 8 Hot Summer Spam Trends
• MTC advises clients against spam text messages
• Feds to expose e-mail schemes in 2-day 'Spam King' hearing
• Anti-Obama Bloggers Question Why Google Froze Their Accounts
• E-Mail Spam Morphs in First Half of 2008

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July 3, 2008

Belated Links Roundup

• The Greatest Thing Ever
• Antispam Group Outlines Defenses to Block Botnet Spam
• Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!
• Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
• McAfee study takes surfers to depths of spam
• McAfee Spam-A-Thon Founds That Fraudsters Prefer UK
• SUSAN TOMPOR Hot stock tips often leave you in lurch
• McAfee releases results to SPAM experiment
• New Spam Campaign Targets Olympic Games Fans
• Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service
• Malicious Spam Triples in One Week, According to Marshal's TRACE Team
• New anti-spam method 'could protect corporate mobiles'
• The Essential Guide to Spam Control
• Spare me the Spam
• Ameritrade attempt to settle spam lawsuit blocked
• Antispam group outlines ways to block spam from botnets
• eSoft spam filter goes mobile
• How To Can The Spam
• LOOKED LIKE SPAM ..THEN I GOT BILLED
• Szirbi botnet causes spam to triple in a week
• Spam's back on the menu
• How to Control Spam Infiltration in the Enterprise
• Turn down the volume on your e-mail
• Spam fighters lay down gauntlet
• ISPs Join Hands to Battle Botnet-Driven Spam
• Unluckiest Guy On Earth Gets 44000 Spam Emails Every Day
• Cyberclinic: Why am I getting spam on my mobile?
• Antair Releases BlackBerry Spam Filter 3.0
• Forecast for July: Mostly sunny, 100% chance of spam
• Malicious Spam Triples in One Week, According To Marshal's TRACE Team
• Why Did Google Tells Us They May Use Cookies To Prevent Spam?
• 90% of e-mails exchanged are spam!
• MX Logic: July 4th Holiday, iPhone to Boost Spam Levels in July
• Cloudmark announces ActiveFilter, game-changing spam filtering for ...
• ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar
• MCAfee's Experiment Reveals the Growing Psychological Nature of Spam
• New Worm Spawns More Than 8M Spam Messages
• Combating spam on your computer
• 3G iPhone Spam Targeting Latin America
• Engate Unveils Proactive Anti-Botnet Technology
• A different spin on Spam
• Spam carving contest gives winner greasy glory
• Yahoo Search Adds SearchScan, a Good Security Step
• Grandmom's guide to spam with worms
• CAN-SPAM Update: Have You Complied With the New Rules Yet?
• Spammy Jammy: Pajama-clad sculptors revel in Spam
• Engate Stops Botnet-based Spam at the Network level with 99% Accuracy
• Unsolicited mail and spam equally unwelcome
• Spam, spam, and shooting the instant messenger spam
• New scam e-mail resorts to deadly threats
• Spam As Economic Indicator?
• Stewart: White House treated EPA email like 'boner pill' spam
• Spam-Free, Virus-Free Woomail is Not Your Grandfather's Email
• Another E-Mail Archive Service Gets Bought
• E-Mail Spam Morphs in First Half of 2008
• Industry group publishes papers to tackle spam, improve e-mail ...
• Tough economy heats up need for Spam
• Business spam evolves
• Antispam Group Outlines Defenses to Block Botnet Spam
• Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
• Outsmart Calendar Spam
• Fake Microsoft patch spam
• Malware, spam, botnets growing faster than ever before
• Spam & Hackers Tech Industry Takes Aim at 'Password Overload'
• Spurs Remain Innovative, Spam the Entire NBA
• ESoft spam filter goes mobile
• Fake 'quake spam warning
• Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state
• Spam Fighters Drop Gauntlet
• Facebook's Anti-Spam Campaign Claims An Innocent Victim
• WillametteLive.com chooses reCAPTCHA for spam prevention
• Software602 Licenses Commtouch Real-Time Anti Spam for Groupware ...
• PartyGaming Spam A Disgrace To Online Gambling Industry
• Escalating Spam Wars Take Their Toll
• 'Google As Spam Filter', and 'Mundaneum'
• And the Twitter Scam/Spam Continues...
• Spammers exploiting world problems
• The Fulgurator: Inserting spam into your photos
• Spam Fighting Guidelines Published
• Spam Lit: the silver lining of junk mail?
• Spam Thoughts Take Her Back
• King Of Spam Hit With $6 Million Fine
• NDR spam: when non-delivery reports become a nuisance
• Malicious spam triples in a week
• Spam experiment overloads inboxes
• What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam
• The Spam King Ordered To Pay MySpace $6 Million
• Real Message About Spam
• Beating Text-Message Spam
• Security Company Plays With Spam
• Spam Celebrates a Dubious Milestone
• Are you getting too many spam mails?
• Prime Minister presents first annual Spam Awards
• MySpace wins $6 million spam judgement
• Best Practices for e-Mail to Fight Spam and Botnets
• Cell Phone Spam
• Identifying Spam: MAAWG's Latest Documents Improve Accuracy of ...
• Symantec warns against new types of spam
• Fans Compete in Spam Carving Contest at FirstEnergy Stadium
• Lessons Learned from McAfee's SPAM Experiment
• Google Docs: the latest spam tool
• Scam e-mails on Myanmar, China tragedies on the rise
• Keeping Spam at Bay and a Clean System
• What Privacy Policy?
• Commtouch Enterprise Anti-Spam Gateway "PARAMS" Cross-Site Scripting
• Spam guidelines published
• Spam and suspected porn cases on the rise
• Is Sprint voice-mail spam part of a pernicious new trend?
• I'm fed up with spam, unless it's about doughnuts
• MCafee, inc. experiment reveals the growing psychological nature ...
• Software602 Licenses Commtouch Real-Time Anti-Spam for Groupware ...
• Friday Cheers: Spam Allstars
• Anti-spam Group Draws up Guidelines for ISPs
• Global spam trends reveal a taste for text, drugs and eBay
• Another Spam warning
• Qualsec's (Pink Sheets: QLSC) Spam Popping up
• Spam: Still a Big Problem
• McAfee Spam Experiment Sheds Little Light on Spam-demic
• New Guidelines Introduced To Reduce Email Spam
• UK the favourite target for Nigerian spam
• More than 70% of Germans receive 1 spam e-mail per day

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June 18, 2008

Links Roundup

• Don't host domains at GoDaddy if you do email marketing (who doesn't?)
• How to Comply with CAN-SPAM and All of Its New Rules
• Short-and-distort stock spam?
• Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

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Links Roundup

• E-Mail Wedding Invites and Other Netiquette Nos
• Triangle Communications Warns Internet Customers of Spam Email
• Yahoo! files lawsuit against spam artists
• As prices rise, so does Spam's popularity
• Analysis: Mapping malware, spam on the Web
• Sugar Grove firefighter hit with 375000 spam e-mails
• Convicted spammer: Virginia's anti-spam law unconstitutional
• Spam Email Review
• CA Anti-Spam 2008
• New Tactics Needed to Deal With Growing Onslaught of Spam Email ...
• High Gas Prices + Food Prices = More SPAM!
• Why we're losing the war on Spam
• Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN
• MySpace Anti-Spam Machine Whacks Another Mole
• E-Mail Spam Linked to Economic Slowdown, Symantec Says
• EU agency declares war on botnets
• Va. high court to reconsider state's anti-spam law
• Pull the Plug On Mobile Spam
• Mesquite tackles 'street spam'
• Sales of Spam increase
• Eliminate text message spam
• Worker Fired Over Child Porn Was Spam Victim
• You've Got Spam: Fight back against unwanted e-mails
• Facebook To Stop The Spam? Depends Who Follows The (New) Law
• MySpace Wins $6 Million From 'Spam King' Richter
• The FTC's New Spam Rules: Sender Beware
• UnsubCentral Partners With AOTA and ESPC to Help Marketers ...
• Spam sales rising as food prices strain people's wallets
• Drupal, Mollom, and the Future of Blog Spam
• The return of Spam
• Spit Will Be Worse Than Spam
• Cell Phone Spam
• The High Cost Of Spam
• Symantec slows spam at the edge
• ISIPP offers free CAN-SPAM compliance reviews
• Nationwide Survey Shows the Prevalence of Spam on Social ...
• FTC: Yes, you can still spam
• Experts Offer Tips To Deal With Cell Phone Spam
• Retiring 'Spam King' ready to garden
• Angstrom Microsystems Corp. Comments on Recent Unauthorized Spam ...
• Lawyer Hell! Can-spam's From: Requirements
• Internet Policy Institute Offers Free CAN SPAM Compliance Review ...
• Will we learn to love Spam?
• Spam Ruse Promising Money For Being An Internet Crime Victim ...
• MySpace Wins Another Lawsuit Against Another Famous Spam King
• How Will You Stop the Flood of Spam in 20 Years?
• Cyberclinic: False Positives
• Phone watchdog plans text spam clampdown
• Knesset adopts tough anti-spam legislation
• MX Logic Launches Spam Report
• Spam king Richter must pay $6m to MySpace
• MailTrust deploys Cloudmark system for spam protection
• Spam Spread by Hosted Tools
• Spam targeting instant messaging, Google--Symantec
• Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?
• How to Block Cellphone Spam
• New Opt-Out Clause Makes CAN-SPAM Worse
• Did You Pass Math? A Simple WordPress Comment Anti-spam Plugin
• Why Social Network Spam Matters
• SonicWALL Clears Spam-Clogged Small Business
• Social networking spam relies on email
• Google Docs the Latest Spam Vehicle
• More than 700000 sign up for spam-blocking service in Hong Kong
• Va. court urged to hear appeal of e-mail spam law
• Spam emails rocketing
• SixApart Challenges Akismet on the Anti-Spam Front
• Social networking spam on the rise
• New Scam Linked with Social Networking site LinkedIn
• Mortgage and petrol coupon spam rampant in May
• Anonymous Domain Sales: A Spammer's Delight

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Links Roundup

• Die, Comment Spam. Die
• Spam: The Ultimate Survivor
• Google's experimental Gmail toys
• Va. high court hears arguments on law against spam
• Threat forecast predicts more Storm, spam, phish
• Anti-virus, anti-spam still popular; security policy yet to catch up
• Va. court urged to hear appeal of e-mail spam law
• Credit union warning members over spam e-mail
• Top spam fighters offer feature diversity
• MySpace Exec Talks Strategy
• Yahoo and the Case of the Lottery Spam Bandits
• Strategies For Setting Spam Filters
• Yahoo Sues 'Lottery Spammers'
• Geotest Picks PineApp's Mail-SeCure to Block Spam and E-mail Threats
• Google targeted as spam levels increase
• Spam activity reaches peak
• Fortune Market Media (FTMM.PK) Enjoys the Spam Ride
• Spam thoughts take her back
• Reduce Spam: Block Asia
• E-mail directed toward Oshkosh Central Credit Union customers is spam
• NDR spam explained
• Yahoo! Rolls Back Anti-spam and SSL Features of Yahoo! Mail
• FTC says yes, you still Can Spam
• Cellphone spam got you down? Try these steps
• A Note About Spam Filters and Comments
• Drilling Down Rogue Computers Used in Ad Fraud
• Get educated about spam
• HK is Beating Spam, says HKDNR
• MySpace wins $6m judgment against Spam King
• Spam over security for social networkers
• Green eggs and spam
• Fundamentalist Christians Create Armageddon Spam Service
• MySpace Wins $6 Million In Spam Suit
• Ofta eyes phone spam loophole
• Newbies, new fees and Spam
• Japan to Ban Spam E-mail. Seriously
• MySpace Wins Another Spam Ruling (NWS)
• SECNAP Email Security Solution Dubbed 'King of Spam Filters' by SC ...
• Why Spammers Like NDR Spam
• A landmark birthday for distasteful spam
• Current events reign as popular spam messaging
• Spam (the computer kind) reaches an annoying anniversary
• 12 Pennsylvania School Districts to Install Abaca's Email ...
• Consumer Smarts: How to block cell phone spam and texts
• SPAMfighter Standard
• Getting 'Spam'-ed
• Family Spam Is Crushing My Inbox
• Hong Kong is Beating Spam, Registrar Says
• ICANN takes action against spam havens
• What Changes in CAN-SPAM Mean for You
• Smith aims at spam texters
• Economy, IRS Figure In May Spam
• Second spam king is toast
• 3Com Selects Commtouch GlobalView Mail Reputation Service as Anti ...
• Va. high court to reconsider state's anti-spam law
• Spam and ID theft attacked from all sides
• Report: Worldwide Spam Hits Highest Rate in 15 Months

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May 26, 2008

Links Roundup

So, this round seems to highlight the inexactitude of headline writers. Apparently, it doesn't really matter how much MySpace won in a judgement against Spamford, (and it doesn't) because they'll never collect, anyway.

• New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware
• 38 INDIVIDUALS IN U.S. AND ROMANIA CHARGED IN TWO RELATED CASES OF COMPUTER FRAUD INVOLVING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
  W00t!
• Battling Botnets and Online Mobs - Estonia’s Defense Efforts during the Internet War (PDF)
• Anti-virus firm warns vs spam about China earthquake
• MySpace wins $230M in case against 'Spam King'
• Spam swings from Viagra to Versace
• Software guards against spam and phishing attacks.
• Orange UK registers highest average spam rate - study
• Senator's anti-spam bill is welcome news
• Epic Gets Off Easy in ASIS Spam Lawsuit
• Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken
• Epic Advertising Wins Spam Suit
• Spam Scam Attracts Record Punishment
• Spam-a-Plenty
• Spammers sentenced to five years under anti-spam law.
• Sorting out the spam
• New High-Capacity Barracuda Spam Firewall Launched
• Why I like some spam in my e-mail
  Don't settle for imitations!
• CAN SPAM and Affiliate Mailer Opt-Out
• Mobile Content Bits: Mobile News; SendMe; Anti-SMS Spam
• Most Spam Sites Tied to a Handful of Registrars
• MySpace hit by application spam
• Spam Soars to 95% of E-Mails Sent
• Spam sales, lower pork prices boost Hormel's Q2
• Batelco 'offer' SMS a spam
• Frustration over 'aggressive' Xtra spam filter
• Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m
• Users urged not to click on spam emails
• MySpace says it has won $234M spam judgment
• Barracuda Networks launches new spam firewall
• You just can't escape from spam
• I long for the days when spammers had manners
• MySpace Hit by Application Spam
• MySpace Wins $225 Million Spam Judgment
• Canadians Welcome Belated Anti-Spam Legislation
• Symantec Spam Report: April Was The Cruelest Month
• MySpace wins major spam judgment
• Spammers Create a Tricky Situation for Stickam
• Facebook Spam Filter Censors Speech
• FTC updates CAN-SPAM rules
• 'Spam King' disappears after $234m MySpace fine
• Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide
• US Government Beefs Up Anti-Spam Rules
• Popular open source spam filter gets boost
• Victory against spam
• MySpace Wins $234 Million Judgment Against "Spam King"
• anti-spam bill an important step after years of inaction
• Block spam
• MySpace Is Awarded $230 Million From 'Spam King'
• ClearMyMail And The Banking Spam Index
• Batelco customer announcement; SPAM SMS alert
• MySpace Awarded $230 Million In Anti-Spam Case
• Fraudsters Spam Out Trojan Horse As China Earthquake News Story
• Summer's sonic spam: Irksome ice-cream trucks after nightfall
• Spam domains use small number of registrars
• Everything You Need To Know About Spam
• Yager: How I became spam kingpin, went legit, turned detective
• SendMe Mobile's Premium Content Catalog Now Available Through ...
• Federal Trade Commission Issues New CAN-SPAM Act Regulations
• Intercept Spam & Viruses With MessageLabs
• FBI Warns Against Spam from the FBI
• Opta issues half million euro fine for spam
• Barracuda Networks Launches New High-Capacity Barracuda Spam Firewall
• MySpace Wins $230 Million From "Spam King" Wallace
• Email Marketing Clinic: Spammers vs. the spam filter
• Batelco issues spam warning
• ICANN notifies "worst spam offenders"
  Sort of like shaking your tiny, ineffectual fist at a tyrant as you enjoy your latte from the safety of lunar orbit, though, no?
• Good quarter for Hormel
• Latest spam hits Brunei's mobile phones
• Spam on Myspace and Facebook - Will You Fall For The New Scam?
• MySpace wins $234 million judgment in spam case
• Stop Spam Email
• MySpace spammers given largest fine in CAN-SPAM history
• Spam law affects affiliates
• MySpace Wins Record $230m in Case Against 'Spam King'
• That=A1=AFsa Lot of Spam!

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May 15, 2008

Links Roundup

• New Sender Best Practices Document
• Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays
• MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment
• Srizbi grows into world's largest botnet
• Exploiting the Trust Hierarchy among Email Servers
• What Google Knows About Spam
• Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
• A reason not to celebrate: Spam turns 30
• Watch out for gas spam scams
• Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive
• A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
• Proud Managers Verdict On Spam
• Finding God in your inbox? Spam goes spiritual
• MySpace tells AP it has won $234M spam judgment
• E-mail spam on the rise, officials offer tips
• Cybercrime expert comes to SA
• Researchers See Gmail "Spam And Phishing Threat"
• Blondie and Spam - 30 year Annoversaries
• Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam
• McAfee releases results of its Global SPAM experiment
• What's Considered Spam On Twitter?
• Google on Spam: Best 10 Minute SEO Video Ever Made
• Spam turns 30
• FTC Clarifies Single Sender CAN-SPAM Rule
• Security Hole Turns Gmail Into a Spam Machine
• China Unicom Sued Over SMS Spam
• Loose Cannon: Spam @ 30
• Srizbi sending half the world's spam
• Spam turns 30, India high on spammer target
• Turning Spam Into Entertainment
• Backscatter Spam Spreading, Bouncemail Battle Heats Up
• Spam is 30-years-old and growing stronger
• Spam Turns the Big 3-0
• FTC Tightens Up CAN-SPAM Rules
• Spam & Hackers Web Site Flap Prompts Alaska Democrat To Give Up ...
• Right Click Acquires Cutting-Edge Virus and Spam Filtering Software
• FTC Approves New Rule Provision Under The CAN-SPAM Act
• Students Spam State Capitol To Keep Ax From Falling
• Spam's Birthday, the Bionic Dolphin, and More
• 30 years of spam
• Astaro Blocks Growing Backscatter Spam
• Spam more creative, better targeted
• First Caller-ID Spoofers Punished
• Marshal claims one botnet accounts for half of all spam
• MySpace says it has won $234M spam judgment
• Storm clouds gather again
• Mobile Spam Problem in UK
• Gas Savings Spam Fills Inboxes
• Neddy The Racehorse Receives Tasteless Spam Email
• Phishing grows as NDR spam tapers off
• Do not call, do not spam, do not mail
• Educator takes part in e-mail spam study
• 20 registrars control 90% of illicit domains, says Knujon
• Back-scatter spam tacked by Astaro
• Website of the Day: Innocent Spam
• Maxis offers anti-spam service for cellphones
• [ TECHNOLOGY ]: Some tips on how to stay one step ahead of the ...
• Happy 30th birthday, spam.
• Park seeks FBI probe after text messages swamp switchboard with ...
• Stop Spam. Publish Books
• OS X Security: How I became a spam kingpin, went legit and turned ...
• Spam filters become lore
• Happy birthday spam, but no returns please
• Spam More Creative, Better Targeted
• Gmail Security Flaw Spotted, Spam Filters Subverted
• Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business?
• Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server
• Gmail Flaw Could Enable Spam
• Gasoline spam hits inboxes
• Feds Tackle Mobile Spam
• When ghosts spam
• Gmail can be used as 'Spam Bazooka'
• McAfee, Yahoo! Partner for Safe Searching
• International anti-spam laws?

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May 5, 2008

Links Roundup

• Having Fun With 419 Scammers
• 100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered.
  More "end user" perspective on a much larger problem
• Criminals try to 'copyright' malware
• McAfee Digests Spam Experiment
• Sophos Calls For End To Spam
• Happy birthday, dear spam
• Favourite moment in spam history
• Cell Phone Text Message Spam A Growing Concern
• Unhappy Birthday, Spam
• Stamping on the spam or wading through it?
• 30 Years Later, Spam Continues To Attack Your Email Inbox
• Worldwide Nuisance Spam Turns 30
• 30 Years Of Spam E-Mails
• Spam Turns 30 And Never Looked Healthier
• Scourge of spam e-mail is 30-years old
• Security firms 'celebrate' 30 years of spam
• Phone companies face fines for spam texts and calls
• Happy belated 30th birthday, Spam
• Internet serves up 30 years of spam
• Why the good stuff will always triumph over spam
• Teacher experiments with email spam
• The typing error that gave us thirty years of spam
• Nine of ten e-mails are spam

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May 2, 2008

Links Roundup

• Drawing the Line
• Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
• Questions about Web Server Attacks
• Microsoft denies fault in hacks
  The resulting botnet's mail was the only thing that was making it through my rDNS filters (until yesterday :)
• Man gets prison after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails
  We like to see spammers get sentenced
• A Case of Network Identity Theft?
• The Standard Argument: Incorporating Internet Standards into the Design Process
• MySpace wins suit against 'spam king'
• Spamvertized URL with multistage downloads and lots of spyware
• A week of Cooked Ham and Pork
• Clinton and Obama XSS Battle Develops
• 30 years of Spam - and we ain't finished yet
• Google's pointers on countering Web spam
• The case of the missing e-mail
  Awesome. Why am I not surprised that the Bush White House runs MSExchange?
• MII Sets Up Email Spam Message Reporting Center
• Local anti-spam system catches DIA's attention
• How to stop your inbox exploding
• Google keeping mum about its Anti Spam strategy
• SonicWALL Protects Customers Against Latest Spear Phishing Attacks ...
• Spam is 30 - unhappy birthday!
• Taxing Software Experiences
• Millions hit by mobile spam
• A Case of Network Identity Theft?

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April 27, 2008

Links Roundup

• Web 2.0: Whatever Google Knows About Spam, It Isn't Saying
• New Spam Hits Google Calendar
• Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
• Spam to increasingly target US elections
• Biz Buzz: Even spam is experiencing a downturn
• Facebook Under Increased Spam Attacks
• Not Again: Anti-Spam Bill Being Crafted in CA
• MP calls for firms to pay back costs of spam texts
• Dear Spam, Happy 30th Birthday. PS, You Suck.
• And still the spam comes...
• Get ready for the 30th anniversary of e-mail spam
• E-Marketers, ISPs Take Fresh Look at Battling Spam
• Latest spam statistics
• Large majority of German mobile users receive SMS spam - survey
• Cure for Twitter spam: Worse than the disease?
• Spam e-mail 2008
• Google's New Challenge: Keyword Spam
• Computers and Software : ParetoLogic's Spam Controls Software Has ...

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April 22, 2008

Links Roundup

• ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses
  Please, let the DNS be the DNS and not an ad channel
• Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm
• Mac users need to think about security, too
• Information Security Consultant Pleads Guilty to Federal Wiretapping and Identity Theft Charges
• Bill toughening anti-spam law in works
• SaaS Could Be Google's Key To The Enterprise
• Putting [SPAM] Back in the Can
• User Data Stolen From Top Auction Site and Sold
• Cyber criminals to target mobiles
• Storm Dismantled at USENIX LEET Workshop
• Spam texts that exploit a loophole to charge receiver
• SPAM traffic at 93 per cent, says IT Force
• Mollom May Soon Offer Serious Competition To Akismet
• Turkey Becomes Third Biggest Spam-relayer
• Spam Attack and Radio Interview
• Exclusive: The Rise of Social Network Attacks And Their PR Circus ...
• New spam wave uses naked video claim
• The Growing E-Mail Security Challenge
• Your naked video reveals a bot behind the email
• New spam outbreak says its seen you naked
• Can the spam
• Review: 3 Ways To Kill Spam Dead
• Spam Tool CAPTCHA Helps Digitize Books
• CHIME Survey Shows CIOs Rejecting Stark Exception, Embracing Spam ...
• Sophos reveals spam 'Dirty Dozen'
• Fight, Fight, Fight for That Old Can of Spam
• Marshall Identifies New Spam Trick That Claims, "We Caught You Naked"
• Company in court over spam' texts
• McAfee runs The SPAM Experiment
• Bell rejects report showing its customers biggest spam target
• An Rx for Doctors Suffering From Spam Attacks
• Dealing with Comment Spam Collecting Posts
• Schools don't like spam, board members told
• Verdict: Worth a try in the fight against spam

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April 17, 2008

Links Roundup

• Having problems with your ISP's email service? Go elsewhere!
• MailFoundry announces new versions of anti-spam email security ...
• A McAfee Spam Experiment That Didn't Go So Well
• Live Webcast: The Evolution of the Underground Spam Economy
• MCafee, inc. launches global spam experiment
• New Spam Web Page Found Every Three Seconds
• Why Can't Google Catch Easy Spam?
• Spam Webpage Warning From Sophos
• Twitter Vigilantes Step Up to Solve Spam Problem
• Mobile Spam
• New spam tricks revealed
• Spam just keeps getting worse
• More Than 90% Of Email Is Spam
• Does Spam Still Bother You?
• Reunion.com Will Scrape Your Address Book, Then Spam Your Contacts
• SpamStopsHere Anti-spam Service Launches IT Security Blog
• Kaspersky Lab estimates spam traffic
• Wadja Launches SPAM Free Privacy on Social Messaging Platform
• Arnerich Massena Selects Sendio to Provide eMail Integrity
• SecureWorks says botnets can spew out 100 billion spam messages a day
• Configure Mail to Prevent iCal Spam
• Closing the Web: Why Fighting Spam Is Like the "War On Terror"
• Judge: law protects Comcast's "Good Samaritan" spam filters
• Banning Mobile Spam Forces Focus Media To Slash 2008 Forecast
• More than 50% of users regularly double-check for false positive ...
• Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer
• ClearMyMail spam blocker and antivirus
• Is CAPTCHA's Moment Passing?

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April 15, 2008

Links Roundup

• Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer
• Big, Brass Ones: Threat Level exploits cross-site scripting bug on CIA.gov
  I guess the CIA needs to read my XSS article from 8 years ago
• http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/jeff.yan/msn_draft.pdf (PDF)
• North Dakota v. David Ritz: Motion to Dismiss
• Memorandum Opinion and Order GRANTING Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
• Test Justin Mason's automated SpamAssassin ruleset
• Wadja Launches SPAM Free Privacy on Social Messaging Platform
• SecureWorks says botnets can spew out 100 billion spam messages a day
• Configure Mail to Prevent iCal Spam
• Live Webcast: The Evolution of the Underground Spam Economy
• Closing the Web: Why Fighting Spam Is Like the "War On Terror"
• MCafee, inc. launches global spam experiment
• Wadja Launches SPAM Free Privacy on Social Messaging Platform
• Killdeer priest thought invite to greet Pope Benedict was spam
• Mobile Spam
• New spam tricks revealed
• Banning Mobile Spam Forces Focus Media To Slash 2008 Forecast
• Judge: law protects Comcast's "Good Samaritan" spam filters
• Spam just keeps getting worse
• FTC: We'll take on spyware, spam, and unlabeled DRM
• Why You'll Hate Cell Phone Spam
• Does Spam Still Bother You?
• Botnets Running Rampant
• Twitter Spam Spirals Out of Control
• Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer
• Protect your child from spam mails
• ClearMyMail spam blocker and antivirus
• McAfee launch international SPAM experiment
• CEOs targeted by subpoena spam
• Kaspersky Lab estimates spam traffic

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April 10, 2008

Links Roundup

• You are the weakest link
• AOL launches postmaster blog
• From MIT Blackjack to E-Mail Databases: We Catch Up with the Other Micky Rosa
• Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat
  I LOVE the pic of Chertoff with wings sprouting out of his head
• Spam peaks at 88%
• Tech Watch: Israeli software to help protect vital US sites
• ICSA Labs Introduces Formal Testing of Anti-Spam Products
• Spam up by 50% in first quater of 2008
• Spam Anniversary No Cause For Celebration
• Spinal Decompression Spam is Bad for Chiropractors
• Journalists Find Relief From Spam with Woomail
• Spam still alive and well
• Spam through the years
• Verdict: Anti-spam client that sits between your email client and ...
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police computers turned into spam spewing ...
• Spam alert
• Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye
• SPAM on the rise
• Spam 'cold war' set to continue
• Spam levels remain steady in March
• Spam filters shut out bad & good
• Focus Media Out $40M In Post-Spam Period
• Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail
• Twingly - a 'spam-free' blog search engine
• Spam filters lighten the load but not foolproof
• McAfee volunteers eat spam for 30 days
• Gmail falls afoul of spam filters
• Wadja Launches SPAM Free Privacy on Social Messaging Platform
• Hidden spam epidemic among outdated WordPress blogs
• Spam volume continues to skyrocket
• Mcafee tells volunteers to spam it up
• Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam
• MailFoundry Announces New Versions of Anti-Spam Email Security ...
• How to Secure Your Network Against Spam
  Need a followup on how to secure your network so your infected boxes aren't spewing spam OUT to other networks, though.
• Spam filtering services throttle Gmail to fight spammers
• Proofpoint Attack Response Center Reports that Spam Volume ...
• A New Approach to Defeating Spam
• An interesting approach to solving the spam problem
• I Heart Spam: E-Martyrs Endure 30-Days of Nonstop Spam
• McAfee begins spam experiment
• Web is a stock scammer's gold mine
• SECNAP Strengthens Anti-Spam Sales Channel
• SEO Spam is Good
• Spam levels remain steady in March
• Make your spam scram with ease
• Volunteers For Spam
• The Best Ways to Stop Spam
• One Fifth of all Spam Hails from Storm
• As April 15 approaches, tax-related spam is on the rise
• BT hits 'undo' on anti-spam email update
• The Spam Report, March 2008
• Colorado spam law awaits Ritter's signature
• Kaspersky Lab posts spam statistics for March
• A Peek at ISP DDOS, Spam Traffic Trends
• Wadja Launches SPAM Free Privacy on Social Messaging Platform
• How to combat cell phone spam
• McAfee's SPAM experiment
• E-mails have it wrong
• DnC Multimedia Comments on Recent Unauthorized Spam Emails
• MessageLabs: Storm Botnet Spews 20 Percent of All Spam
• Twingly: Spam-Free Blog Search... With a Side of Spam
• Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye
• McAfee promotes 30-day spam diet
• UIS Boosts Spam Filters, Students See Improvement
• 30 Years Passed Since the First Spam Message Was Sent
• France emerging as major spam source
• Mimecast assures Hollard of zero false positives
• Spam-Free Blog Searches
• Missed-call tactic subject to anti-spam law
• McAfee launches the Global SPAM Experiment
• eApps Hosting Now Includes Postini Spam/Virus Filtering
• Bell internet tops for viruses, spam: study
• US Bill Could See Crackdown on Spam
• No let-up in spam emails
• Underworld economy runs on bots and spam
• ClearMyMail spam filtering review
• * WAR OF WORDS Spam text messages infiltrating more cell phones
• Take these steps to keep spam off your cell phone
• SoftScan Sees Sudden Drop of Spam Levels at the End of March
• US Army goes into spam business 12:07PM, Friday 4th April 2008
• Gmail being throttled, blocked by some anti-spam vendors
• No more spam calls
• Abaca's Industry-Leading Anti-Spam Solution Now Available
• Facebook user profiles hacked, Wall feature relaying spam
• IE Internet Reports Dramatic Rise In Rate Of Spam Email In March
• Spam text messages infiltrating more cell phones

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March 29, 2008

Links Roundup

• Guidelines for Management of DNS Blacklists for Email
• Virus from China the gift that keeps on giving
• Malware Cited in Hannaford Breach

  Hannaford spokeswoman Carol Eleazer said the company doesn't know how the malicious software, known as malware, got on the servers.

• The state of spam: An interview with Jamie de Guerre, Part 2
• SpamExperts Desktop
• Consumers Quick to Report Spam
• WordJot eases anti-spam compliance for newsletters
• Ma.gnolia: OpenID to Save Anti-Spam, Anti-Spam to Save OpenID
• Cbeyond deploys IronPort's anti-spam technology
• Our Take: Any Spam is too Much
• Tired of E-Mail Spam?
• Cbeyond Launches New Anti-Spam Technology
• China Vows to Cut Down on Massive Mobile Spam
• Fixing combat log spam when you zone
• CAN-SPAM still gets mixed reviews
  Pointless or stupid? You be the judge.
• Michael Geist vs. phone calling spam
• Battling spam, wherever his computer may be
• Can Pricing Solutions Overcome Spam?
• Microsoft unfazed by FTC's loss in spam case
• Janet stymies spam with Sophos
• Email Users Have Broad Definition of Spam
• PC help: Report spam on Computeractive forums
• Google Calendar Spam
• Shutting Down Text Spam: Just Good Customer Service
• Solve a Riddle Today, Stop Spam Forever: LogSat Software Launches ...
• Your computer may be spreading spam
• Remove ORDB from your Spam Filter!
  A good idea, considering it's been dead for 14 months
• China hit by text spam attack
• AmVia 'blocks up to 38 000 spam e-mails daily'
• ORDB anti-spam blacklist lists everything

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March 26, 2008

Links Roundup

• Enraged AT&T spam filter eats legitimate mail
• AT&T's Spam Filter Gets A Bit Too Aggressive
• Spyware 'scammer' sued over PC pop-up invasion
• Study Finds E-mail Recipients Misunderstand “Report Spam” Buttons
• Report spam button broken
• Can You Trust TRUSTe?
• Q Interactive: Spam definitions need an overhaul
• MySpace moving away from user spam with apps platform
• Email Marketers in Trouble as 'Spam' Definition Evolves to Mean ...
• Spam forces UCS to disable e-mail
• Govt to investigate spam attack
• Consumers reporting legitimate e-mail as spam: Q Interactive
• Spam blocker rises from the dead to bite lax email administrators
• Economic Affairs committee approves: NIS 200000 fine for spam
• Comcast Claims Linhardt Sued to Beat Spam Filters

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March 25, 2008

Links Roundup

• Google’s CAPTCHA - not entirely broken after all?
• Enraged AT&T spam filter eats legitimate mail
• SEC slaps 3 clients of Valley firm
• Adult Web business off the hook for spam
• The state of spam: An interview with Jamie de Guerre, Part 1
• Mahalo is Spam According to Google's Quality Guidelines
• 200m Chinese Hit By Cellphone Spam
• Beijing investigates spam attack
• The terrible curse of spam
• China to probe advertisement SMS spam
• Toilet Paper, Spam and a Political Hit

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March 24, 2008

Links Roundup

• Three tips to stop spam on cell phones
• The plus side of all this spam is its twisted poetry of longing
• Niche Industry E-Mail Spam is Irresponsible and Unprofessional
• How much money are you wasting on email marketing?
• SEC suspends trade for 3 firms over spam,YouTube videos
• Ferris Research and Abaca Technology Corporation Hold Anti-Spam ...
• Spam and Phishing Guilty Plea
• China to Probe Online Text Message Spam
• Spam invading cell phones
• SEC stops trading on three stocks engaging in spam
• Fired MedPro Consultant Indicted For Spam, Disrupting Business
• Experts call for laws to regulate spam message
• Ferris Research and Abaca Technology Corporation Hold Anti-Spam ...
• Cyber crime stays one step ahead
• SEC Suspends Trading In Three Companies Promoted Through Spam
• SEC Suspends Trading in 3 Small Stocks
• Tracy anti-spam software develops glitch Questionable messages ...
• Upcoming Events
• Telus reiterates: Don't respond to spam
• More network changes disrupt Xtra email users
• One down, many to go
• AG Warns Of Cell Phone Spam
• Don't panic: answers to tech questions
• Four Ideas For Curbing Cell-phone Spam
• Ad giant focus of phone spam backlash
• Adversarial Information Retrieval -- That's Spam to You and Me
• Features And Benefits Of Anti-Spam Software
• SPs Modify SMS Spam Strategy
• GFI MailEssentials wins Global Product Excellence award
• When spam is not spam
• Four ways to prevent spam on cell phones
• China Mobile apologizes for mass spreading of spam text
• Put a Stop To Costly and Annoying Cell Phone Spam
• China Mobile Clamps Down on SMS Spam
• China Looks Into The Case Of The Mobile Spam

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March 19, 2008

Links Roundup

A special shout-out to DoNotReply.com, which exposes the stupidity of organizations that don't quite get the whole "don't use other people's domains for MailFroms" thing.

• Fake Google Calender meeting invitations used in new spam attack
• FCC Nails ValueClick with $2.9M Spam Fine
• Spam Apps Protest Tops 1 Million on Facebook
• Silicon Valley Companies Battle Cell Phone Spam
• Sophos Reveals Spam Relaying Countries
• How To Avoid Catch-All Domain Spam
  Don't use catchalls? Just a guess.
• WATCH FOR SPAM ON YOUR CELL PHONE
• Google Calendar invite used in spam attack
• The Worst Spam Ever
• Focus Media Bans Chinese Wireless Spam

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March 18, 2008

Links Roundup

• 40% of all spam comes from just one source
  "source" loosely defined as "one giant botnet"
• The Secret China-U.S. Hacking War
• Online advertiser to settle spam charges for record $2.9 million
  IOW, pennies on the dollar for what they actually made
• Spam doesn't pay: man faces 26 year sentence for spamming
• Hawaiian QB comfy in Tucson but sure misses his special Spam
• Virus and spam levels drop in February
• Sen. Klobuchar showcases Spam and other Minn. specialties
• E-pitched battle not slowing
• Microsoft Dethrones Spam King
• Persistent Spam Hits University Accounts
• Configure Exim with anti-spam
• Readers' Platform: Scam, counter-scam
• Watch Out for Gmail Spam, Analyst Warns
• 'Spam King' pleads guilty
• Measures sought against VoIP spam
• 'Spam King' Robert Alan Soloway Pleads Guilty
• Cell phones getting spam in form of text messages
• He bit into some Nigerian spam - to fight it
• Blocking Skype Spam is Up To Users
• Clinton, Obama campaigns used in spam blasts
• SMS spam scam surfaces
• 'Spam King' Pleads Guilty
• Focus Media Unit Reportedly Big Player In SMS Spam
• Protect Yourself From Unwanted Spam
• Email 'a broken business tool' as staff spend hours wading through ...
• Developers hope for wider use of the DKIM anti-spam protocol
• SEATTLE: Man pleads guilty to fraud charges over mountains of spam
• Google Report: Spam, Security, User Support Are Trouble Spots For IT
• Avoid That Spam!
• Google Report Highlights Spam As Top Security Issue
• Advertising Sent To Cellphones Opens New Front In War on Spam
• Crafty Spam Outsmarts Gmail's Filters
• Get Spam-free Email on your iPhone
• Pitcairn Islands is top rogue nation for relaying spam
  Um, NO.
• Screensaver spam is new malware from old gang: Sunbelt
• Text-message spam on the rise
• SurveyWatch: Pirates of Pitcairn board the good ship Spam
• Taragana Launches Comment Guard Pro - Comment Spam Protection ...
• 'Spam King' Faces 26 Years In Prison
• Gmail CAPTCHA cracking leads to spam surge
• One Problem Google Can't Solve: Spam
• Spam rates steady, as spammers pose as presidential candidates ...
• Engineer follows spam trail
• Following these tips can reduce amount of e-mail 'spam'
• Cybercrooks beating CAPTCHA to send more spam
• Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever
• One company sends 80% of SMS spam in China
• Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over?
• Fighting Phone Spam
• Email 'a major channel' for spam
• YahooXtra spam filters disrupt email delivery
• Four ideas for curbing cell-phone spam
• Niue, Tokelau, 'among worst spam senders'
  Um, no.
• Report Shows Businesses Beleaguered With Spam, Phishing Attacks
• CAN You SPAM?
• Two major spam cases end up in Seattle
• "Spam king" pleads guilty to felony fraud
• Spam king pleads guilty
• Stress on safety
• King of Spam Pleads Guilty; Faces 26 Years in Prison
• Hacker email breach triggers spam flood
• Spam Penetrates Gmail Filters
• Friday Links: Spam on Skype, Choosing IP-PBX and VoIP
• Fake presidential candidate spam comes to Twitter
• Stopping spammers isn't easy to do
• SEC halts Beverage Creations trading in anti-spam initiative
• Botnet scams are exploding
• What Is Anti-Spam Software
• Obama 'spam' triggers a cynical rant
• What To Do About All That Spam?
• Klobuchar features SPAM at Minnesota Morning event
• Symantec releases March Spam and Scam Trends
• King of Spam pleads guilty; faces 26 years in prison
• Precious Metals Dealer Solves the Spam Problem With Woomail
• Beverage Creations stock suspended
• @SXSW: Zuckerberg looking at China and stopping spam
• Mum is targeted by hitman e-spam
• Gmail falls prey to spam bots
• Is it Spam if You Add Your Link to Blog Comments?
• Spam king pleads guilty
• Just another E-mail SPAM? Pay Attention! Beware when using Western ...
• GFI MailEssentials Wins Global Product Excellence Award
• British Astronomers Turn To Interstellar Spam
• Skype Booms With Oprah, Spam and Mobile

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March 17, 2008

Links Roundup

• Breaking Gmail’s Audio Captcha
• E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam
• The 411 on Text Msg Spam
• Google: Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever
• Boiler room victims get cash back
• Money for spam
• Breaking Google Captchas for Some Extra Cash
• GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com -- Update
• Man dubbed "spam king" pleads guilty to three charges
• 'Spam king' pleads guilty
• Is Flixster a Big Fat Spammer? Are They Accessing Your AOL or Hotmail Address Book? The Answer to at Least One of These is Yes!
• The Company Behind All That Address Book Scraping that Flixster, Facebook, and Others are Doing

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March 6, 2008

Links Roundup

• Smut spam and Malware grows on Google Groups
• Mullenweg Indicates Over 30 Percent Of Blogs Are Spam
• Google Groups Grapples With Porn Spam
• Virginia Supreme Court Upholds First US Spam Conviction
• Arlington Heights police issue 'spam' e-mail warning
• Spam E-Mails Make Death Threats
• Battling blog spam: sploggers - the 'terrorists of Web 2.0'
• Lottery scam in sham Oxfam spam
• VA Supreme Court says 1st Amendment doesn't cover spam
• BRIEF CASE: Spam Invasion
• Spam is in the eye of the beholder
• Why are there no spam or trolls on Twitter?
• Storm returns to non-holiday spam
• Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam
• The botnets behind our spam
• Arlington Heights police issue 'spam' e-mail warning
• Precious Metals Dealer Solves the Spam Problem With Woomail
  Bwahahaha
• Spam King trial set to start next month
• Spam busters
• Company Settles Porn Spam Charges
• Should the First Amendment protect spam?
• Text spam growing problem with expense and annoyance
• Changes made to prevent more e-mail accounts from becoming spam ...
• Taragana Launches Comment Guard Pro - Comment Spam Protection ...

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March 3, 2008

Links Roundup

• Email is Dead, Long Live Email
• Now Yahoo Mail is having problems
• The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail
• Light Weekend Readings
• New Whitepaper: RBN "Rizing"
• (Japanese) Gov't moves to outlaw spam, foreign offenders in sights
• Are you bored of Facebook and fed up with application spam yet?
• Google's CAPTCHA - caught by spammers!
• E-Marketers Getting Crafty in Spam-Flooded World
• Cyber crime accused in court
• Felony SPAM Conviction Upheld
• Spam operator loses his appeal
  Best headline in a while
• Web Spam, Not Just Bots Anymore
• Leading Hotels of the World Stops Spam with Sendio
• Blocking Spam Text Messages: The Real Deal
• Spam King trial set to start next month
• Six botnets behind 85% of all spam, says Marshal
• What Can You Do To Stop Spam?
• Nepal Being Turned Into The Autonomous Region of The Republic of India
• WordPress Founder: 25% Of Blogs Are Spam
• Postal spam protection
• Vulnerable applications and mutating spam
• Prison Spam
• Virginia high court upholds first US felony spam conviction
• Virginia Supreme Court Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Spam ...
• So-called 'Father of Spam E-mail' lives in Valley
• First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
• Why spam filters are bad for writers
• Use e-mail programs to block pesky spam
• Workshop: Filter out spam
• Spam Volumes Continue to Set Records in 2008
• Jury Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
• Woomail Wants To Woo You Away from Spam
• Researchers Name Top Six Spamming Botnets
• Most spam comes from just six botnets
• Six botnets spew 85 per cent of spam
• Filter Foreign Language Spam?
• Auto-responder spam on the up
• 'Out of office' messages turned into spam relays

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February 27, 2008

Links Roundup

• The battle against the botnet hordes
• "Smiling Bob" Verdict: Guilty
  Not technically spam related, but hits on keywords "enlargement", "fraud", and "prison"
• Bad flavor: ICANN, Network Solutions sued for domain tasting
• Gotcha, CAPTCHA! Gmail bot detector system cracked
• PC Help: Guest book spam
• Scammers launch 'out of office' spam
• Etisalat, AdaptiveMobile to offer SMS spam protection
• Unseen spam costs growing, according to report
• How to: Fighting spam
• Money for spam
• Use a Googlemail.com Address to Lessen Gmail Spam
• Startups feel the lure of friend spam
• AdaptiveMobile Signs Deal with Etisalat to Offer SPAM Protection ...
• Etisalat sets up SMS spam blocking service
• Qype claims Facebook falloff is due to "group spam and pointless ...
• How to can the spam
• Greatest spam-blog post I've seen in a while
• Can the brand spam or seek 'permission'
• Heavy demand for multilingual hackers in global spam market
• Spam scam appears at Ball State
• All hail Europe, the new king of spam
• Spam is 90 Percent of All Email
• Olympic spam carries malicious code: MessageLabs
• PC users could help ban spam
• Computer Users Warned About Uploader Spam Attack
• Digg town hall meeting is over - fighting spam answers all questions
• Christians Embrace Woomail: It's a Morality ThingGosh!
• Is The Time Ripe For Search Marketing Standards?
• Engate Technology Awarded 2008 Hot Companies Anti-Spam Honor
• AdaptiveMobile signs with Etisalat to offer spam protection to UAE ...
• E-politics
• Aussies more concerned about securing outbound email than spam
• Click here for a cyber attack
• Woomail Launches Instant Email That Never Enters Cyberspace
  Carrier Pigeons!

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February 22, 2008

Links Roundup

• BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic (PDF)
• MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent cyber crime
  NOTE: Mega-D botnet defeats greylisting, apparently
• Japan brings down Godzilla of spam
• Hackers spread malware with presidential spam
• Web Hosting Provider Vistapages Offers Free Spam Protection Service
• TBJ Poll: Enough with the junk mail
• Cloudmark Announces Innovative Sender Reputation
• Spam lures to eclipse "videos" laced with malware appear
• I Am Spam
• Spam e-mails frustrate students
• Japan brings down Godzilla of spam
• Facebook cuts out the app spam
• Isleton's 11th annual Spam Festival serves it up
• Spam on lunar eclipse
• Is Facebook Application Spam Dead?
• Spam Rally
• M+Guardian 2008.1 Consistently Delivers Exceptional Spam Detection ...
• Engate Technology Announces vista computing as Reseller Partner ...
• Will OpenID Support Help Defensio Squash Blog Spam Better?
• Social web will be spam killer says Berners-Lee
• Company fined after thousands of complaints over spam faxing
• Etisalat offers anti-spam protection from AdaptiveMobile
• India has 1 in 30.5 Emails Infected
• Europe steps forward in network security and anti-spam measures
• FTC will review bogus e-mails
• Hillary Clinton used as a spam lure to download malicious software
• Google's Mail To Link AdWords And Analytics, Not A Spam!
• Spam Uses Clinton's Name to Lure Users
• Anti-spam measures can cut costs to your business
• Malware writers think global, act local
• Spammers gaming Google advertising
• Friend Spam Is The Worst Kind Of All
• Spam attack exploits US election
• Saying goodbye to spam
• Hormel: Spam Pushed Q1 Profits Way Up
• Facebook use drops - Could application spam be the cause?
• Spam filters catching e-mail avalanche alerts
• First Reports of Google Reader Spam Injection?
• Russia named "spam superpower"
• Spam Volume Increases 50 Per Cent
• Office of Fair Trading runs fake spam stunt

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February 16, 2008

Links Roundup

• FBI warns of Valentine's Day 'Storm'
• Stupid Media Watch: Europe, No, Wait! The US Tops Spam List
• Hackers spread malware with Hilary Clinton spam
• Barracuda Spam Firewall with Microsoft Exchange
• Prepare for Mobile Spam Onslaught, Cloudmark Warns
• Habeas: Spam increased 100% in 2007
• Personal About Politics: Political SPAM
• Spam and malware are for lovers
• Fine for sending spam could reach BGN 2000
• Spec and Spam: Hollywood Execs Ahead of Curve
• Text 'spam' could be costing you money
• UK maintains position in spam 'dirty dozen'
• ESP Makes Mailers Provide their own Spam-Complaint Button
• Kaspersky warns of Valentine's day spam
• Clinton Video Is Bait in Spam Scam
• IRS spam rockets as tax deadline nears
• Malware "Ready on Day One:" Hillary Clinton spam campaign underway
• IRS spam hits inboxes: Message Labs
• Spam -- the Perfect Valentine's Day Gift
• Online Valentine cards may contain Internet worm, FBI warns
• Symantec warns of bogus "Hillary Clinton video" spam
• Mobile subscribers showered with spam
• FBI warns of virus attack through Valentine e-cards
• Mobile Spam Is Coming To The US: Reports
• Fight spam or roll over and die
• Russia Put At No. 2 in Spam List
• The next generation of spam?
• Facebook tackles invite-spam problem
• Hackers Spread Malware With 'Hilary Clinton' Spam
• Russia emerges as spam superpower, Sophos says
• Facebook to limit how many invitations users get. No more spam?
• Spam, spam, and more spam
• How Spam Was Done 70 Years Ago
• Happy Valentine's Day From The Storm Worm
• Russian spam bots crack Google Mail captcha

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February 12, 2008

More Links Roundup

• Streamlined anti-CAPTCHA operations by spammers on Microsoft Windows Live Mail
• FTC Settles with Spammer
• Bot breaks Microsoft's CAPTCHA
• IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2007 Trend Statistics
• Yahoo SMTP accounts sending spam

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Links Roundup

• ParetoLogic's Spam Controls Software Has the Solution For Record ...
• Feds Rule Against Hoodia, HGH Spammers
• Europe: For All Your Spam Needs
• POPFile, the best free spam filter bar none
• Europe Now The King Of Spam
• Software vs. appliance: A first look at the Barracuda Spam Firewall
• Valentine's Day spamming up a Storm
• Russia becomes 'spam superpower': survey
• Symantec: Europe becomes king of spam
• Brittney Spears Paris Hilton botnet spam P2P storm worm ...
• Valentine's Day spam: Symantec report
• I'm Suffering An Evil Tidal Wave of Blogsurfing Public Relations Spam
• For Whom the Spam Tolls
• CP Secure joins with Commtouch anti-spam for content security
• Spam drop 'is calm before the storm'
• Has the European Union become the primary point of origin for spam ...
• Storm worm dethroned by sex botnet
• How to fight spam, and where to go for more storage
• In 2008, Say Goodbye to Spam and Say Hello to Woomail
• New Year Starts With Spam Up Viruses Down
• Let There be Spam
• Mobile spam increasing: Cloudmark
• IBM X-Force Security Report: Web Browsers Under Siege From ...
• Engate Technology Named Best Startup Corporation in Global ...
• Nepalis Call on SPAM to Resolve All Pending Issues Before CA Election.
• Russia becomes spam superpower
• Spam continues to litter Irish inboxes
• MAAWG Joins The London Action Plan to Expand Cross-Border, Public ...
• SEC Charges California Attorney For Role In Spam-Fueled Pump-and ...
• Spamdunk Steps Up Efforts To Support 'Small Guy' Spam
• All hail Europe, the new king of spam
• Europe still top source of spam
• Gambling sites play small role in global spam traffic
• Europeans are new spam kings says Symantec
• Wave Uranium Responds to Reports of Video Spam
• All hail Europe, the new "king of spam"
• Valentine's emails pull at our heart strings, then attack
• Wanted: Fighters to Battle the Latest, Largest Source of Spam
• Google Reorganizes Email Security Services, Cuts Prices
• January spam blues for Ireland
• Spam Button being used Wrong
• The truth about e-mail spam
• EU Now the Top Source of Spam
• Can I Get a Spam Filter for This?
• Mega-D Spam Surpasses Storm Botnet
• 7 Tools For Fighting Spam In WordPress
• Europe's The New Spam Capital - Symantec Report
• Email Service is also offered as spam filtering service.
• Spam levels drop - for now
• The UK ranks 12th for spam production
• Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots
• Britney, Paris used as hook in new spam botnet
• sending out the spam, as well as a cut of the profits generated by the
• Column: Thumbs down to the flu and Facebook spam
• Valentine's Day brings cheers for spammers
• Commtouch and MayFlower Announce OEM Cooperation
• Spam emails are social pointers at given time

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February 4, 2008

Links Roundup

• Online advertiser pays $200,000 for deceptive claims
• Storm Spam Peaks at 10 Each Morning
  Interesting. 10AM where?
• Microsoft's Offer to Buy Yahoo: An Anti-Spam Point of View
• Skype Spam On The Rise Lack of customer service hinders solutions
• Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
• Storm worm dethroned by Mega-Dik botnet
• Spam pit serves malware. Surprised?
• Out, out, da*n spam!
• Spam company Member Source Media settles with FTC
• New Mega-D menace muscles Storm Worm aside
• Komando's Q & A: Help FTC fight spam
• Extending SpamAssassin and Amavis
• FTC settles with advertiser for spam campaign
• Playak database being used for SPAM email
• Wham, spam
• Marketers must be careful not to ''spam'' customers
• Comment spam -- say no more
• Mega-D sticks it to Storm in spam contest
• Stream of spam offers little insight
• Mortgage spam spikes due to Federal Reserve rate cut
• ONLINE ONLY: Stop the flood of junk mail, spam, telemarketers
• Targeting Attachment Based Spam
• FTC settles with advertiser for spam campaign
• Three Plead Guilty in Nigerian Spam Scheme
• Technology Leader SECNAP Introduces Hosted Spam Solution
• Sex, Shopping, Money: Chinese Internet Users Receive Spam Emails
• New spam botnet leaves Storm for dead
• Mega-D overtakes Storm in spam contest
• Mega-D Botnet Overtakes Storm, Accounts for 32% of Spam
• Computing Services cans Internet spam
• Deceptive Spam Advertiser, $200000 Civil Penalty
• Spam nightmare looms as CAPTCHA is defeated

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January 30, 2008

Links Roundup

• Linhardt Sues Anti-Spammers…Again
• Spamford Wallace's MySpace riches come under attack
• CP Secure Selects Commtouch Anti-Spam for Content Security Gateway ...
• VoIPowering Your Office: The Looming SPIT Threat
• Working Memory: They Found Your Brain's Spam Filter
• DATACORE AND BARRACUDA JOIN FORCES TO BATTLE SPAM AND VIRUSES.
• The Spamhaus PBL, a one year old anti-spam heavyweight
• GeekCast 3.0 - Spam, TechCrunch and Trucker Hats
• What=E2EURO(tm)s the Deal with Skype Spam?
• Spam technique sighting: porn for CAPTCHAs
• Datacore And Barracuda Join Forces To Battle Spam And Viruses.
• Western Union spam downloads keylogger
• Ipswitch, Inc. Announces Spam Level Increase for Sixth Quarter in ...
• PDF spam reemerges in some inboxes
• Spam Taking Advantage of Trust
• Over 95 Percent of E-mail is Spam
• Spam accounts for 96.4% of e-mail
• Out, damned spam!
• Marshal integrates Cloudmark to increase spam detection
• Working Memory: They Found Your Brain's Spam Filter
• E-Mail Users Still Open Spam

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January 29, 2008

Links Roundup

• Domain tasting will hopefully be gone soon (see sections 5 and the end of 6)
• E360 Back in Court, Suing Comcast
  I cheerfully hope they get their ass handed to them
• Malware's new infection route: photo frames

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January 28, 2008

Links Roundup

• Valentine Spam Could Bring Heartbreak
• BullGuard aiming to help fight spam - for free!
• That's kinda a lot of spam, Dave
• Users warned vs 'romantic' e-mail spam
• 43% of Facebook messages are spam - the rest is almost worse
• Type of content: VENDOR WHITE PAPER
• Attention Oldnews and the PROTRADE family
• Behavioural analysis security software could have prevented IKEA ...
• Spam text messages target Kansas
• Engate Technology Announces Computer Geeks as Reseller for Network ...
• BullGuard releases free spam filter
• 200 spammers send 90 bn messages!
• An Answer To Evangelical Spam Emails RE Obama
• Spam Wars: When Good Geeks Say Bad Things
• Political Dynasties, Democratic Values & National Sovereignty
• Custom spam filters coming
• MySpace feature 'encourages' spam
• Good Buys With a Spam Twist
• SEC Takes Anti-Spam Initiative - SEC Suspends Trading
• Free anti-spam program?
• Manufacturers warned over Trojan loophole after Ikea spam problem
• Seasonal Spammers Going For Nintendo Wii Console
• Valentine Spam Could Bring Heartbreak
• Wallace Global Fund Names New Executive Director
• Storm wreaks havoc in 2007 and helps push spam levels to 96%
• USC E-Mail Accounts Hit With Phishing Spam
• So sorry -- didn't mean to spam you
• Planet Nutrition Holdings, Inc. Announces SPAM Disclaimer in ...
• SpamTitan Announces First-Ever West Coast Labs Certified Virtual ...
• Sunbelt upgrades iHateSpam anti spam software
• Data at loss--not anymore
• Survival of the fittest: Spam evolves, but so do filters
• How To: Eliminate Spammers
• Junk mails down sharply in China
• Review: 'Untraceable' - it's worse than spam
• You've got mail
• The spam filter gauntlet
• More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague
• Marshal Integrates Cloudmark Technology to Augment Its Leading ...
• How to limit spam if you use Outlook Express, XP
• Ikea rapped for flat-pack spam
• Is Today International Spam Day and Someone Didn't Tell Me?
• Spam filtering tool SpamSieve gets updated
• Researcher Claims to Crack Yahoo's Antiscam Filter
• Whoa! Facebook Porn Spam!
• Call It Flat Pack Spam
• New wave of PDF Spam

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January 18, 2008

Links Roundup

• Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup 'hack'
• Yahoo! CAPTCHA is broken
• DNS zone transfers ruled illega
• Anti-spammer fined for accessing DNS records of private network (help him out here)
• December spam spike threatens Irish email users
• Coming Soon: Spam on Your Printer From the Web
• MailWasher Free 6.1 Major Upgrade with Better Spam Blocking, More ...
• Spam King Indicted for Stock Scheme
• MySpace spam seeks botnets
• Spam ads begin airing today in 31 markets across
• Spam spewing printer attack pulps security
• Intego: Intego releases Personal Antispam X5, the spam-killer for ...
• Spam snowballs in December: report
• The truth about email spam
• Spam levels reach 95 per cent in 2007
• Seniors: Don't fall for this new phone call scam
• Purported Spammer Accused of Stock Fraud
• Global Spam Remain High
• IDTHQ Defines Businesses War on Spam
• Yahoo! Mail rolls out new spam defense system
• Spam and malware were biggest security issues last year - report
• DZIKIY: Life in spam world
• Webroot Offers Cloud-Based E-mail Scanning Service
• Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup 'hack'
• Spam levels reach 95% in 2007
• 'Spam King' indicted in Internet fraud case
• Commtouch Releases Year-End Email Threat Report
• JupiterResearch Forecasts Spending on E-Mail Marketing Will Top $2 ...
• New MP3 spam surges
• Ralsky Indictment Won't Reduce Spam
• Botnets Plus Spam Equals Trouble
• FBI Warning On E-Mail Spam
• Storm worm, other botnets, kept spam levels high in 2007
• USA - Spam at 96 percent peak level of all email, Commtouch announces
• Town Cracking Down On 'Street Spam'
• Nigerian Spam Restitution Latest Scam Attempt
• Barracuda Networks Protects salesforce.com Users Against Latest ...
• Does googlepages.com have any spam protection at all?
• Spam King faces additional criminal charges
• Choosing Anti-Spam Software That Is Right For You
• BETT: Brunel tackles harrassment with anti-spam
• Spam continues surge as spammers become clever in '07
• Google's embarassing spam pit
• Spam hits 97 per cent of all email
• Spammers Up To New Tricks
• System Suite 8: improve performance, protect against viruses ...
• MailMarshal claims 99.5 percent spam detection
• Ikea closes global spam hole
• Student develops anti-spam program
• Hey ChaCha, I Don't Like SMS Spam
• Features And Benefits Of Anti-Spam Software
• Hormel launches new Spam campaign
• Engate Technology Awarded New Patent for Anti-Spam Threat Protection
• Political Execution of People's Sovereignty
• Digital TV, spam and other things readers ask about
• MailMarshal claims 99.5 percent spam detection
• Text-message spam proves costly for cellphone users
• Ralsky Indicted, CAN-SPAM is Still Useless
• Spam is more than just annoying
• Open source brings a spam-free lunch
• The Social Networking Dream Has Died: Facebook Spam!!!
• Spam exploit highlights dangers of free Web-based services
• Dating adviser fishes for clients through spam but needs to ...
• What Is Anti-Spam Software
• It's a SPAM-a-demic
• Text Message Spam Aggravating Cell Users; Abuse On the Rise
• Spam levels back to normal after festive peak
• Spam threat: Can we win this war?
• Malicious Spam Exploits MySpace
• How Can I Report Spam to Google?
• Printers Could Be Vulnerable to Spam
• Spam printing proof-of-concept revealed
• Spam topped the security threat list in 2007
• 2007 The Year in Spam

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January 16, 2008

DNS Zone Transfers Now Illegal in North Dakota

Apparently, judges in North Dakota are so poorly trained in recognizing the obvious that it is no longer safe to access any public information services hosted in that state, for fear of prosecution. For more on the story, which involves anti-spammer David Ritz, we take you to CircleID: North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong. Be sure to toss in some cash for David's defense fund, if you haven't already. And if you have already, hey, it's a new year, and stupidity is as plentiful as hydrogen.

Oh, and be sure to read the Findings of Fact; apparently going by the nick "BOFH" is also grounds for a slapdown from the judge. What a pile of steaming nonsense that whole document is.

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January 15, 2008

Links Roundup

• Hackers turn Cleveland into malware server
• Mass web infection leaves researcher scratching her head
• Spam spewing printer attack pulps security
• HACKING THE INTERWEBS
• Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites

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January 14, 2008

Links Roundup

• Spamming printers from the Web? Researcher shows how
• Warning on stealthy Windows virus
• ABC: An Introduction to E-Mail Technology
• Windows Live SkyDrive Used For Spam-Related Hosting
• Man arraigned on charges he sent e-mail to inflate stocks

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January 6, 2008

Links Roundup

• Alan Ralsky, Ten Others, Indicted in International Illegal Spamming and Stock Fraud Scheme
• Mich. spammer, 10 others indicted in alleged Chinese stock pump-and-dump scam
• The Nugache Worm/Botnet
• New York Times Makes Spam Headlines for the Wrong Reason
• USA v. Ralsky, et al.
• Alan Ralsky indicted
• Phishing kits take advantage of novice fraudsters
• Feds Snag 'Spam King' in Stock Scheme Sweep
• 'Spam' Jam
• BitDefender Issues 2007 Top 10 Spam List
• Annoying Service Plaxo Sells Itself With Mystery Banker
• 11 people to face federal charges in spam case
• Example of double spam sent to mailboxes and mailing lists
• The Botnet Ecosystem: What's the Point?
• Spam King and His Helpers Indicted in Stock Fraud Scheme
• Caucus Chaos: Campaign Spam
• What makes a post spam?
• Major spam ring broken up, Detroit federal officials say
• What is spam?
• Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives
• Ron Browning: News room changes beat structure to better serve you
• Eating for victory: Rationing in the Second World War
• Spam on the Run: Notorious Spammer on the Lam
• Data breaches, phishing hog the limelight
• Storm Worm Entices With New Year's Spam
• Detroit feds to announce charges in major spam ring
• New Year's Eve greetings disguise Storm Worm attacks
• FTC Ups the Ante on Fighting Spam, Phishing
• Davidson Co. Bombarded with Spam, Undergoes Email Overhaul
• Engate Enhances Anti-Spam Global Partner Program to Deliver ...
• Are you a spam victim?
• Spam's 'poster boy' indicted
• Screen Your Server
• No Spam, no Junk, Now Send Your Emails with Confidence
• Malware for Materials
• FTC issues report on Malicious Spam and Phishing
• Is It Spam Or a Question?
• Spammers Keep Texting
• I-Mode Gets Tough on Spam
• Spam filtering for dummies
• Campaign Spam: McCain Ad
• Spam continues to represent almost 90% of e-mail: Proofpoint
• A Remedy for the Inefficient Report User Button
• Purported Spammer Accused Of Stock Fraud
• Online bullying and fraud costs firms EURO 25k
• Spammer Alan Ralsky Indicted
• Spam, spam, spam, spam
• SPAM and SPIT: what are the dangers?
• Michigan Spam Fraud Ring Busted
• Software assaults worsen
• Anti-botnet vendors plug in
• NOV. 11, 2002: Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles
• A real way to keeping on-line threats at bay
• EXCLUSIVE: What To Do About Spam Faxes

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December 27, 2007

Links Roundup

• StormBot stripshow analysis
• Storm is Back, Dude!
• Monitoring your spam complaints from Comcast subscribers
• JangoMail sets up Comcast Feedback Loop
• SenderScore update

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December 26, 2007

Links Roundup

• Storm Worm Delivering Coal for Christmas
• Storm botnet drops strippers, switches to New Year's greeting
• McAfee Releases GroupShield 7 for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino
• Engate MailSentinel(tm) Anti-Spam Receives Product of the Year Award
• SpamTitan Announces Email Virtualization Appliance
• Cisco issues inaugural report on global security landscape
• If You Need A 2008 Prediction... How About: The Fact Checker Is ...

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December 24, 2007

Links Roundup

• FBI compiling big database of physical traits
• Enemies at The Firewall
• Re: Enemies at The Firewall
• Five security threats best avoided in 2008
• Facebook addresses growing spam on network
• Proofpoint Reports Spam Email Trends for November 2007: Enterprise ...
• NCC fast tracks legislation in war against spam
• You've Got Spam: The New Field of Reputation Management
• Alleged spam man exposed
• UK journalist, Danish geek beat authorities to alleged spammer
• Cyber Crime: Old Game, New Tricks
• The Year In Chips And Spam
• Spam Spam Spam
• Verizon targeting spam texts
• Internet society applauds raid on spam
• High praise for internet anti-spam crackdown
• Symantec highlights threat of quiet spam attacks
• Mr. Know-It-All: Smuggling Pirated DVDs, Skirting Spam Filters ...
• Turning spam into good publicity
• IronPort offers tips to avoid spam, online scams this holiday season
• McAfee seeks spam volunteers
• Web threats make their mark on 07/08
• Full anti-spam laws to launch
• Anti-spam raid in Christchurch
• LeTourneau University's "in-house solution" brings Spam solution ...
• McAfee Releases GroupShield 7 for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino
• Cyberhand Fights Spam Artists
• Game|Housekeeping: A Note On Comment Spam Issues
• Spam and malware payloads show significant increase
• Two questioned over global spam inquiry
• Spam nightmare
• Call 4 Action: Inappropriate Spam Texts Showing Up In Verizon ...
• Anti-spam raids in Christchurch
• Optus caught in spam trap
• Spam Baiting
• Two questioned over global spam inquiry
• McAfee pays people to reply to spam 11:54AM, Thursday 20th ...
• Spam ain't spam anymore
• Data Doctor: Anti-spam devices block some legitimate e-mail
• MailFoundry says no false positives
• Being charged for spam text messages no game
• Malaysia's Celcom launches anti-spam platform
• Trend Micro Receives Checkmark Premium Certification for its Mail ...
• Facebook Settles Spam SMS Lawsuit
• Kafkaesque Political Phone Spam, Part II
• UK falling for 'lottery scam' spam 8:21AM, Wednesday 19th December ...
• Free Velnet.co.uk e-mail shut down by spam abuse
• Why, spamk you
• Red Condor announces new strategy to fight spam-generating botnets
• Top 12 Christmas Spam
• IronPort Offers 10 Tips to Avoid Spam and Online Scams This ...
• Nearly All Mail Is Spam According to Barracuda Networks
• 2007 Roundup: Pump-and-dump tops spam league
• Hitting the delete button
• IT managers report 100% increase in spam
• 19-12-2007: Celcom launches anti-spam solution
• 'Super Spam Me'
• ITS Seeks Volunteers to Battle Spam at UNM
• Spam's New Nemesis: 'Trust-Based' Messages

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Links Roundup

• FBI compiling big database of physical traits
• Enemies at The Firewall
• Re: Enemies at The Firewall
• Five security threats best avoided in 2008
• Facebook addresses growing spam on network
• Proofpoint Reports Spam Email Trends for November 2007: Enterprise ...
• NCC fast tracks legislation in war against spam
• You've Got Spam: The New Field of Reputation Management
• Alleged spam man exposed
• UK journalist, Danish geek beat authorities to alleged spammer
• Cyber Crime: Old Game, New Tricks
• The Year In Chips And Spam
• Spam Spam Spam
• Verizon targeting spam texts
• Internet society applauds raid on spam
• High praise for internet anti-spam crackdown
• Symantec highlights threat of quiet spam attacks
• Mr. Know-It-All: Smuggling Pirated DVDs, Skirting Spam Filters ...
• Turning spam into good publicity
• IronPort offers tips to avoid spam, online scams this holiday season
• McAfee seeks spam volunteers
• Web threats make their mark on 07/08
• Full anti-spam laws to launch
• Anti-spam raid in Christchurch
• LeTourneau University's "in-house solution" brings Spam solution ...
• McAfee Releases GroupShield 7 for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino
• Cyberhand Fights Spam Artists
• Game|Housekeeping: A Note On Comment Spam Issues
• Spam and malware payloads show significant increase
• Two questioned over global spam inquiry
• Spam nightmare
• Call 4 Action: Inappropriate Spam Texts Showing Up In Verizon ...
• Anti-spam raids in Christchurch
• Optus caught in spam trap
• Spam Baiting
• Two questioned over global spam inquiry
• McAfee pays people to reply to spam 11:54AM, Thursday 20th ...
• Spam ain't spam anymore
• Data Doctor: Anti-spam devices block some legitimate e-mail
• MailFoundry says no false positives
• Being charged for spam text messages no game
• Malaysia's Celcom launches anti-spam platform
• Trend Micro Receives Checkmark Premium Certification for its Mail ...
• Facebook Settles Spam SMS Lawsuit
• Kafkaesque Political Phone Spam, Part II
• UK falling for 'lottery scam' spam 8:21AM, Wednesday 19th December ...
• Free Velnet.co.uk e-mail shut down by spam abuse
• Why, spamk you
• Red Condor announces new strategy to fight spam-generating botnets
• Top 12 Christmas Spam
• IronPort Offers 10 Tips to Avoid Spam and Online Scams This ...
• Nearly All Mail Is Spam According to Barracuda Networks
• 2007 Roundup: Pump-and-dump tops spam league
• Hitting the delete button
• IT managers report 100% increase in spam
• 19-12-2007: Celcom launches anti-spam solution
• 'Super Spam Me'
• ITS Seeks Volunteers to Battle Spam at UNM
• Spam's New Nemesis: 'Trust-Based' Messages

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December 18, 2007

Links Roundup

• Revenue loses 6,500 people's data
• HAI Creates Spam-Free Email Alerts for Safety Managers
• McAfee, Inc. Again Receives Coveted Checkmark Premium Certification
• The New Pornographers' Name Triggers Spam Woes
• Ads-Click Introduces MicroSocialAds In Beta. Now Get Paid to Spam ...
• Consumer Groups Defend Their Right to Receive Mobile Spam
• Combating Spam: Best Practices
• Symantec Releases the State of Spam for December 2007
• Take Proper Precautions When Dealing With E-Mail Spam
• Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business

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December 17, 2007

Links Roundup

• Shadowy Russian Firm Seen as Conduit for Cybercrime
• Cell Phone Spam Is Costly And Annoying
• Teen spam victim has the last laugh
• Spam-makers getting better, says report
• A dismal Dow, the power of spam, and why Americans are taking ...
• Breakfast Wrap: Best of the Weekend
• Spam a bigger concern than network neutrality
• Security at the barricades
• Tired of spam? Give them a dose of their own medicine

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December 16, 2007

Links Roundup

• Super scam me
• Melbourne: Spam, spam, spam a lot (+photos)
• Paramount's "Jackass" Web-Only Distribution Gambit
• Price as rated
• Berserker Botnet Hammering Networks With Spam
• Who needs real friends when you've got spam?
• Inside a botnet: SecureWorks trails Ron Paul spam
• Spam Gets Read, And Spurs Sales
• November was Spammiest Month Yet, Symantec Says
• Software provides spam filtering.
• How do spam busters work?

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December 14, 2007

Links Roundup

• Polyamory and crime on the Internet
• Phishing for phools with a 'Net
• Numbers: Spam Increases 100 Percent, Gets dirty in 2007
• cellcyte shares ride a wave of hype
• Spammer Gets Longer Prison Term Thanks to Diligent Recordkeeping
• Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry
• FATHER AND SON SAVED AT SEA
• Father and son saved in Atlantic
• Holiday Spam Is on the Rise
• Airwide and Cloudmark Partner to Offer Comprehensive Mobile ...
• Hawaii Food Expert Matthew Gray Explains Hawaii's Love for SPAM
• Spam Worsens, Broadens As Computer Threat
• Spam is 95% of email traffic, says Barracuda
• letourneau University's Texas-sized Spam Problems Lassoed by ...
• Super scam me
• Sophos claims spam protection breakthrough
• Spam leaves bitter taste
• E-feedback for mayor is load of spam
• War on spam, the sequel
• Spam Levels Rise to Unprecedented Heights
• Spam reached peak last month
• I Was Wrong, On a Couple of Counts, about the Idaho State ...
• Blogger hit by Skype porn spam, plays along for a bit
• Fun Filled Search Spam Party At pubcon Vegas
• Study: 95 percent of all email sent in 2007 was spam
• William Jackson | A cure for spam: Attack the cause, not the symptoms
• This post is costing 377.60 rubles
• Spam Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
• Lincoln County Medical Center Secures Patient Data and Stops Spam ...
• Book Review: The Book Of Spam by Dan Armstrong and Dustin Black
• Group files text-blocking complaint with FCC
• Net Integration Technologies Signs OEM Agreement With Engate ...
• Spam Now Accounts For 95% of All E-mail
• Americans Ingested Too Much Holiday E-Mail Spam, Survey Finds
• Golden Spiders spam victim awarded EURO 500 compo
• Study: 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam
• Ask wireless carrier to waive charges
• UTEC, Inc. and CPN Condemn Spam Campaign
• Password itself needs protection
• bullguard Internet Security 8.0
• It's time to take e-mail back!
• Rant: Now I'm getting Facebook spam, oh me oh my
• High-earning spammers face tougher sentences
• Almost all email now spam
• MX Logic Announces 2008 Threat & Managed Service Predictions
• Google Attempts to Combat Spam by Accidentally Blocking Gmail Accounts
• Spam Rulz!
• UTEC, Inc. and CPN Condemn Spam Campaign
• Verizon Customers Flooded With Spam
• Qingyun Ma: I. The Idea Behind spam
• Judges rule that spam is not Spam
• Commtouch Reveals Licensing Deal With Check Point Software - Quick ...
• Cell phone companies battle mobile spam
• Tis' the season for spam, says Symantec
• How can it be?
• messagelabs Intelligence 2007 Annual Security Report: A Year of ...
• Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
• 'Tis the season to be ... wary of e-cards
• Spam accounts for nearly 95 per cent of email

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December 10, 2007

Links Roundup

• Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics
• Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet
• Top 10 Worst Computer Worms of All Time
• Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization ...
• Spam Shot, Heard Around the World
• Spam recall: A tale of two languages
• Spam Tidal Wave Hits UK
• Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain
• Colorado legislators fight the war on spam
• Spam gets dirty in 2008
• Ethics @ Work: Once and future spam
• Researchers track Ron Paul spam back to Reactor botnet
• Don't give spam a chance: Avoiding "e-trash"
• UK computers hit by 20 billion spam messages every day
• Spam's End? Maybe, if Time Allows
• Spam Arrest wins Hormel lawsuit
• School district gets 121000 spam e-mails
• Empty Promises, Overflowing Spam Folders
• Search Spam Primer
• Malware Doubled In 2007; Next Year Isn't Looking Better
• Watch For Holiday E-Card Spam, Symantec Warns
• Spam reaches 120 billion messages a day - study
• E-feedback for mayor is load of spam
• War on spam, the sequel
• Procera's packetlogic Relieves Pain of Botnet E-Mail Spam Attacks ...
• High-rolling spammer facing longer sentence under CAN-SPAM
• Koreans' Endless Love for Spam
• As the ham to spam ratio continues to plummet, what are your plans ...
• Unsung innovators: Gary Thuerk, the father of spam
• Spammers shift to spreading malware
• Spammers catch on to the local lingo
• Fun Filled Search Spam Party At pubcon Vegas
• Spam Arrest LLC Wins Lawsuit Against Hormel Over SPAM Trademark
• Stay out, spam
• Ron Paul Spam Traced to Ukrainian Botnet
• Clearswift sees benefits from email and spam explosion
• Do More Spam, Do More Time
• Study: Better Spam Control Leads To Higher Business Results
• Avis Tries Harder to Spam You
• spamfighter Warns Holiday Spam Scams Keep Pace with More Online ...
• Who's Behind The Latest Political Campaign Phone Spam?
• INTERNET LAW - What are the Legal Remedies against Spam?
• How2 ... stop spam
• Spam encourages people to buy, study reveals
• The Spam Wars

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December 5, 2007

Links Roundup

• Technocrat held for online drug trafficking denied bail
• Network firms can be punished: court
• Tackling the hackers face-to-face
• Government 'failing on e-crime'
• Inside the Chinese malware economy
• Ron Paul Spam Traced to Ukrainian Botnet
• Spam recall: A tale of two languages
• Avis Tries Harder to Spam You
• Procera's packetlogic Relieves Pain of Botnet E-Mail Spam Attacks ...
• Who's Behind The Latest Political Campaign Phone Spam?
• Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain
• Colorado legislators fight the war on spam
• INTERNET LAW - What are the Legal Remedies against Spam?
• Spam gets dirty in 2008
• How2 ... stop spam
• Watch For Holiday E-Card Spam, Symantec Warns
• Spam reaches 120 billion messages a day - study
• Spammers shift to spreading malware
• Unsung innovators: Gary Thuerk, the father of spam
• Spam's End? Maybe, if Time Allows

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December 3, 2007

Links Roundup

• Junior indicted in hacking scheme
• Penn student at center of worldwide hacking investigation
• 'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals
• Major Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges
• Naked Britney Subject of Botnet Spam
• despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers
• 'Celebrity Gang' behind 23% of all spam
• Interview: Adrian Chamberlain and Jos White
• Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
• New report reveals 20 billion spam emails are targeted at UK ...
• Online Advertiser Pays $650000 in Spam Fines
• E-mail spam hits freshmen
• SECNAP Expands Email Security Channel
• Is Spam on the Decline?
• OFTA publishes code of practice on spam
• Spam for the Holidays
• Anti-spam practice code published
• . Cyber Security Trends by PTLB: Spam in India
• Social Websites Challenged By Spam
• E-mail sent to wrong address likely spam
• Obvious Email Spam is Still Successful
• Download only safety
• Spam-spitting Storm virus, a year old, tricky as ever
• New Spam Scam Preys on Fear of Blackmail with Bogus MP3 Attachment
• Spam Lawsuit's Last Laugh is at Hormel's Expense
• Say good-bye to spam for good with Boxbe
• Illegal e-mail spam from the federal government?
• Anti-spam bills advance in Knesset
• net.wars: Spam today and spam tomorrow
• Recycled Phrases
• Preventing spam bots from hijacking an enterprise network
• Boxbe: A Guest List For Your Inbox
• Get Spam Trends Update On trustedsource.org!
• Blog Link Spam Claims Another Victim: Al Gore
• Google: Email Spam Declines as Filters Tighten
• In 3 Years Spam Will Decrease To More
• Russians outraged by pr-election SMS-spam
• Google claims drop-off in Gmail spam
• Almost 76% mails originating from India are spams: Raja
• Cyber Monday's spam hangover
• Board dismisses Spam lawsuit
• The Spam-ish inquisition
• Trademark judges throw Spam lawsuit into recycle bin
• Seattle software company claims Spam-fight win
• IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application
• MAAWG Offers Abuse Desk Recommendations; Joint Meeting Strengthens ...
• Spam Condoms Make Great Christmas Stocking Stuffers
• Symantec's 2007 review: Data leakage, Vista and spam
• Proofpoint MLX: Machine Learning to Beat Spam Today...and Tomorrow
• Buck passed as mail binned
• Spam Kings: Book Review (Part 2)
• Spam, spam, spam, spam

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November 29, 2007

Links Roundup

• The Email Standards Project
• Internet Security as Conversation Piece
• Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
  Erm, I doubt it.

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November 26, 2007

Links Roundup

• Judge: Spam Exempt From Law When Sender Names Self
  "Dear Webmaster"?!?
• Latest target of MoveOn: Facebook
  The irony is leaden.
• ITU Botnet Mitigation Toolkit
• How HMRC gave away the UK's national identity
• Conditions of Sending Email

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November 12, 2007

Links Roundup

Sorry for the delay in getting these out; I've had a nasty cold for the past few days.

• Spam through the years: A timeline
• Spam the Vote: Ron Paul Spam Surfs into Inboxes
• WWD Coffee Break - Stickers, Spam, and Sharing
• Spam filter for Outlook Express
• Purify lets you filter, trace, report spam
• Researchers dig for hidden links in spam
• Cellphone user confronts the problem of text spam
• Robot Brides, Political Spam, and PS3 Price Cuts
• When is Facebook Marketing Spam?
• NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam
• Akismet Stops Blog Comment-Spam Cold
• Google's Search Results Dominated By Doorway Pages & Other Spam
• Spam Traps And List Hygiene
• Defensio Comes Out Guns a-Blazing (Against Spam)
• Defensio goes after blog spam
• MXSweep reports on massive outbreak of MP3 spam by stock market ...
• New spam hits IT, ITeS firms
• Hosting firm claims to beat MP3 spam
• India on spam list
• SPam over Internet Telephony threat grows
• Spam Scam for the Holidays
• Spammers Go Political
• Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters
• AOL spammer gets two years in the slammer
  Yay!
• Replica Spam and the Poetry of Karl Marx
• Political spam and you're paying for it
• Antispam Team Targets Transactions
• Can Spam Act Complying Email Lists Marketing Ideas
• This kind of SPAM was most welcome
• MXSweep reports on massive outbreak of MP3 spam by stock market ...
• MP3 spam: The latest trend
• PC help: Spam control in Outlook
• Broader collaboration needed against spam
• Anti-virus programs don't always detect spam mail
  In other news, antispam programs don't always detect high lead levels in paint
• The strange war on spam
• Get lifetime freedom from spam calls
• Too Much Spam? Turn it Into Poetry and Hang it on Your Wall
• The spam SPASM
• Latest trick to clog your inbox: Audio spam
• What you can learn from spam
• 'Unprecedented' spam levels detected
• Political spam on the rise says Symantec
• Kids on MySpace falling for spam scam
• Spam magnets
• Battling to block spam
• Chris Anderson vs. Public Relations Spam
• Avoiding Spam
• PageMailr.Com Introduces New Solution to Prevent Spam
• Bullguard Spamfilter
• Spam the Senate demands change in state, federal government
• AUSTRALIA: The Spam Act & Code of Practice
• What does SJ think of Spam?
• Project Knujon Shuts Down More Than 50000 Illicit Websites
• PDF Spam Back With a Vengeance
• Ron Paul Campaign Swept Up in Botnet Spam Scandal
• Phishing gone in Sophos net
• Shark Tank: Spam, canned
• ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER PRODUCES MUSICAL ON INTERNET SPAM
• Ministry to get tough on spam
• Smarter zombies, spam net threat
• Wired.com corrected Ron Paul Spam story
• NJ man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam
• VoIP has spam potential, says expert
• Spam levels reach all-time high
• Symantec reports on spam trends for 2007
• VoIP spam 'can be countered'
• PageMailr.Com Offers New Solution to Help Prevent Spam
• Consumer Alert: New Form of Penny Stock Spam in MP3 Form Can Be ...
• >From us to you: three post-award-spam giveaways
• Commtouch debuts online spam center
• Back-to-School Means Back-to-Spam
• CanIt-PRO - Anti Spam/Virus-Control
• French data protection body joins forces with Signal Spam
• The Rise of PDF Spam
• SpamStopsHere detects new MP3 spam tactic
• Mike Sullivan: How to combat Spam e-mails
• Live Webcast: Best Practices for Reducing Threats from Spam and ...

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November 8, 2007

new pats posted - 20071108 (maintenance pats release)

24058 patterns, 10396 right anchor strings, 32083 test IPs.

Some contribs, more QA.

PLEASE NOTE: the patterns_xwalk file and rightanchors file now contain
a new token, 'mixed' for patterns_xwalk and 'MIXED' for rightanchors,
which will be increasingly used to designate and distinguish between a
"we're not sure what this is but it is generic" class, and a "this is
a naming shared by both known dynamic and known static hosts" class. I
will be going back through the history of the dataset and looking for
those cases where a pattern had a non-generic class that was subsequently
reduced to generic, and changing these to 'mixed'. It's restricted to a
very small number of strings and anchors at present, but expect more.

Download them here:

sendmail:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules.m4
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules-20071108.m4

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_access_db
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/rightanchors

postfix:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested-20071108

exim:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact-20071108

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November 5, 2007

Links Roundup

• Macintosh Malware Reported ( 10/31/07 )
• New OS X “Trojan” In the Wild
• Trojan horse targets Mac OS X
  It requires several approvals from the end user to install, but the interesting/unpleasant thing is that it targets OS X
• Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
• Are you part of Ron Paul's botnet?
• PC stripper helps spam to spread
  Pure evil genius.
• Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock

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November 1, 2007

Links Roundup

• US Tops List of Spam-relaying Countries
• Halloween 'skeleton' spam hides Storm Trojan
• Researchers dig for hidden links in spam
• MessageLabs: Watch out for audio and video spam
• McAfee to offer free security software
• Google's Search Results Dominated By Doorway Pages & Other Spam
• Spam Spoofs FTC E-Mail To Distribute Keylogger
• Why spam can only be managed, not ended
• Spammers targeting cell phone users
• IronPort Technologies Wins the Fight against Spam
• Warning over mp3 spam
• More on Ron Paul Spam
• I Need Your Help To Fix My Spam Problem
• Startup Makes Bold Spam-Fighting Claims
• Spam trend: PDF crashes, MP3 on rise
• PDF spam back with a vengeance
• India on spam list
• Faqs! Facts! Fax! Spam filter
• SPam over Internet Telephony threat grows
• Comments for: "I Need Your Help To Fix My Spam Problem"
• MailChimp Adds Enhanced Spam Filter Testing on the Cheap
• PC stripper helps spam to spread
• Follow the Spam! What Happens If You Buy From a Spammer?
• PDF Spam Back With a Vengeance
• US accounts for 28.4% of world's spam - study
• DENIC reports progress in the fight against spam
• Ron Paul Campaign Swept Up in Botnet Spam Scandal
• US tops "dirty dozen" of spam-relaying countries by a landslide
• Shark Tank: Spam, canned
• Wired.com corrected Ron Paul Spam story
• Listen up: MP3 spam on the rise, despite being utterly stupid
• NJ man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam
• Spam levels reach all-time high
• MXSweep Highlight MP3 Spam Attack
• Researcher Finds Flood of PDF Spam
• What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block ...
• This kind of SPAM was most welcome
• Storm Worm Sent 15 Million Pump-And-Dump E-Mails Last Month
• Broader collaboration needed against spam
• Halloween spam hits inboxes
• Indiana sues company, alleges 'spam faxes' sent
• Connect the Google dots: In war on spam, gmail's IMAP support ...
• "Ron Paul" Spam Targeted
• SpamStopsHere detects new MP3 spam tactic
• The Rise of PDF Spam
• gmail spam decreases
• US ranked as top spam exporter
• Porn images 'encouraging response to spam'
• Tenth of junk email now MP3 spam
• Hacker Criminals Find An Exploit In a Fix

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October 26, 2007

Links Roundup

• Abaca Takes New Approach to Spam
• Missouri Cracks Down on Spam Faxes to Small Businesses
• The US Keep The Title Of Spam King
• The Internet's Public Enemy Number One
• Why spam is the most lucrative game in town
• Startup Unveils Reputation-Based Spam Fighter
• Stock spam gets smart
• It's spam, but it's entertaining
• US still top spam generator
• Have you heard the new buzz? It's MP3 Spam!
• The Next Inbox Clogger: MP3 Spam
• CP explores all things Spam
• Coping With Spam
• Spam finds a new way to intrude in Lebanese life
• Halloween spam tries to spirit away personal information
• US still worst for spam
• Is iPod Spam Next!)
• Bulk discounts for spam
• Is spam so bad that we no longer care about legit e-mail?
• Spam still makes presence felt in field of education
• MailScanner is anti-spam tool of choice in new Novell suite
• Poles get most spam in Europe
  along with being the source of a good chunk of botnet spam, too
• US ranked as top spam exporter
• Online Spam Index Compares Users' Email Experiences
• Malware News: Gozi Trojan Makes a Comeback Using PDF Spam, Then is ...
• Spam Spikes: Spam trends and what to expect for Christmas 2007

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October 22, 2007

Links Roundup

• In millions of Windows, the perfect Storm is gathering
• What's Russian for 'Hacker'?
• Thank heavens for class action lawyers
• Spam e-mail is like good & bad cholesterol
• The Hot New Spam Type: MP3s
• Audio Spam: Latest Twist on a Security Threat
• Spam hit takes out state office
• Storm Worm Now Just a Squall
• Email Systems Notes Global Deluge of MP3 Spam
• Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spam
• Spam police get ready to rumble
• Massive MP3 Spam Outbreak Hits Users; Constitutes 7-10% of Global Spam
• Spammers Turn to MP3s to Deliver Pitches
• Nick McKeown on how he can finance an altruistic spam blocker
• Boo! Halloween Spam Arrives
• MP3 stock spam rears its head
• Using Spam Blockers To Preserve Literature

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October 19, 2007

Links Roundup

• Four startups ready to change the face of email
• MP3 Spam Hits Inboxes
• New Spam Attack Delivers MP3 Attachments Pitching Stocks
  I had a better speech emulator on the C64 when I was 13
• Audio Spam: The Latest Twist on a Never-Ending Security Threat
• Global Spam Level Reaches 95 Per Cent: Commtouch
• Spam Hits New High
• Put a lid on spam with CanIt
• Ending spam, for good
• Listen up: A New Kind of Spam
• Pump-and-dump spam goes Top 40
• TalkBack 10 of 130: Next Previous RE: Note to all anti-spam ...
• Time to crack down on spam e-mail
• New Spam Attack Delivers MP3 Attachments Pitching Stocks
• Spam Via Bluetooth? That's What's Next
• Project aims to secure Internet
• Anti-Spam Wrap-up
• Pump-and-dumpers move on to MP3 spam
• Porn Spam Miscreants Get 5 Years In Prison
• Storm botnet evolution hints at spam and DDoS renting
• More Spammers in the Slammer
• Spam reaches all-time high of 95% of all e-mail: Commtouch
• Spammers' new MP3 trick may be short-lived
• MP3 Spam Hits Inboxes
• Ban on spam, phishing sought
• MP3 Spam Scam Hits In-boxes
• Anti-spam firm blasts US on phishing record
• Man Spam: Alive and Well
• Delete, delete, delete Spam e-mails gotta go
• The Gathering Storm

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October 16, 2007

Links Roundup

• Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails
  Any word on whether this is just another case of hysteria from a political nutjob?
• Spam texts 'on the rise'
• Part Four - NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait ...
• RESPECT THE SPAM
• Fed up of junk, spam mail? Here's some good news
• SEC Takes a Few More Bites Out of Spam
• Men Imprisoned for Pornographic Spam
• A Case of Spam
• Porn Spammers Get Five Years Each
• Spam is Killing the Internet
• Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection
• Two Men Get Five Years For Sending Pornographic Spam
• 'Spam bomb' clogs Hargray e-mail system
• Pair jailed for sending spam pornography
• Note to all anti-spam vendors: Why your solutions stink and ...
• Porn Spam Bandits Get Five Years
• How to Use Tokbox and Spam Your Friends
• Man armed with Spam brings justice
• Cooks don't mind getting Spam
• Porn spam operation lands spammers in federal pokey for over five ...

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October 12, 2007

Links Roundup

• StupidFilter
• Police mail server in Lower Saxony overloaded by spam wave
• Undisputed King of Comment Spam: Newsvisual
• YouTube Invitations Used to Bypass Spam Filters
• 87 percent of Philippines e-mail is spam: report
• Dumb Regulators To Legalize Bluetooth Spam
• What do spam and the mafia have in common?
• Practice cyber smarts in blocking spam from your computer
• YouTube's "Invite-a-Friend" Feature Exploited to Send Spam
• Coupland on failure, death, booze - and Spam
• Techies take on spam zombies
• Spam accounts for 70 percent of emails
• Belgacom spam count reaches nearly 90% of e-mail
• '91% of mail received by companies in September was spam'
• After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a ...
• Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers ...
• YouTube used to lauch spam
• Spammers 'invite a friend, send spam'
• Spam levels soar in Asia
• Spam sneaked out via YouTube systems
• Spam lords gang up on mobiles
• Vietnam drafts anti-spam rules
• FTC Sues to Stop Spam Touting Bogus Weight Loss and Anti-Aging ...
• Spam heads for a phone near you
• 86 per cent of all emails are spam
• The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either
• St. Bernard Tracks Summer Slowdown in Spam and Virus Activity
• A practical CAN-SPAM update for 2007
• Spam and the Housing Bust
• NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads ...

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October 10, 2007

Links Roundup

• France Declares War on Spam
• FCC asked to mandate 'e-mail address portability'
  Fortunately, it's unlikely that one crank will mandate a multi-billion dollar rearchitecture of the entire Internet's messaging infrastructure
• Police mail server in Lower Saxony overloaded by spam wave
• Undisputed King of Comment Spam: Newsvisual
• YouTube Invitations Used to Bypass Spam Filters
• 87 percent of Philippines e-mail is spam: report
• Dumb Regulators To Legalize Bluetooth Spam
• Practice cyber smarts in blocking spam from your computer
• YouTube's "Invite-a-Friend" Feature Exploited to Send Spam
• Coupland on failure, death, booze - and Spam
• Techies take on spam zombies
• Spam accounts for 70 percent of emails
• Belgacom spam count reaches nearly 90% of e-mail
• '91% of mail received by companies in September was spam'
• Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers ...
  He should consider reading up on that SPF thing, or that DKIM thing, or ...
• YouTube used to lauch spam
• Spam sneaked out via YouTube systems
• Spam lords gang up on mobiles
• Vietnam drafts anti-spam rules
• FTC Sues to Stop Spam Touting Bogus Weight Loss and Anti-Aging ...
• St. Bernard Tracks Summer Slowdown in Spam and Virus Activity
• A practical CAN-SPAM update for 2007
• Spam and the Housing Bust
• NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads ...

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October 8, 2007

Links Roundup

• YouTube Spam Panic Emerging
• Hacker spam poses as old school friend
• Spammers turn YouTube into spam relay channel
• DHS Spews Forth Spam In IT Snafu
• France kicks off nationwide spam fight
• And now for something completely different: Good news regarding spam
• 'Spam' messages to mobiles on rise
• French government unveils new tool to cut down spam mails
• France Declares War on Spam
• Spam menace spreads to mobile phones
• SEC makes inroads against financial spam
• US Gov't E-mail Server Turns Into Spam Cannon
• SEC crackdown on stock 'spam' grows
• SMX gives customers' email a decent scrub
• Spam Filters and Outlook Rules: Friends or Enemies

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October 5, 2007

Links Roundup

• Portrait of an (alleged) cyber bully as a young man
• Red Condor Zeros In on Fast-Flux Spam
• The Black Knight and the Monster
• Perspective: A turn in the antispyware war?
• Security Bulletin Problem Creates Message Flood
• Message storm turns DHS email list into social networking utility
• SANS on the DHS 'Spam' List
• Bruce Schneier on the Storm Worm
  Love the comments. "Why does evil have to be so awesome?" Heh.
• Stop buying from spam, phone solicitations
• SEC says crackdown on stock-touting spam paying dividends
• Spam levels soar by more than a third
• Google brings Postini's security, spam features to enterprise ...
• Spam levels soar in September
• Red Condor Announces New Defense Against Fast Flux Email Spam ...
• A four-letter word
• Welcome Break bolsters spam defence with Vistorm
• Spam e-mail from China on the rise
• Brits drowning in spam
• Web Host Eleven2 Hosting Launches Anti-Spam Features for Apple's ...
• Google Says Spam Links Can't Hurt You; Again
• Storm Worm Rewrote the Botnet and Spam Game
• No one to blame as bacn, not spam, clogs inboxes
• Eleven2 Offers Anti-Spam for iPhone
• Spam Fighting, Revisited

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October 2, 2007

Links Roundup

• Receiver Initiated Authentication: A Practical Method to Authenticate Incoming Email
• HK doing something about all those spammer domains
• Spam weapon helps preserve books
• Anti-Spam Turing Test Is Really Global Human-Powered OCR System
• Ten Tips To Avoid Identity Theft
• Hackers Push Trojan With Promises of 'Nude Angelina Jolie' Pics
• Athletique Inc. Warns About Fraudulent Spam E-Mail
• Spam weapon helps preserve books
• Glorious, Glorious Spam
• FAQ: Storm worm
• Beat spammers at own game
• Junk war rages on despite spam act
• Spam rises 39% in September
• Spam continues to pork up inboxes
• Drugs SPAM: A New Public Health Concern
• New Technology for Fighting Image Spam from COMDOM Software
• Porn links found on British school's website
• E-mail spam raises red flags
• Gone phishing
• MicroWorld Releases MailScan 5.3 Security for Mail Servers
• Just How Bad Is the Storm Worm?
• Avinti Rolls Free Anti-Spam Software
• Phishing, Viruses, Spam On The Rise
• Fight Spam and Preserve Ancient Books, All At Once
• Storm: The Largest Botnet in the World?
• NZ Anti-Spam Law Seen as Ineffective

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September 28, 2007

Links Roundup

• Cyber-criminals turn to smaller botnets
• ISP Death By A Thousand Duck Bites
  In other words, we're screwed.
• The Worm that Roared
• McAfee, Inc. Catches More Spam, Malware and Malicious Web Sites ...
• Engate Enhances Connection-level Anti-Spam Solution with ...
• Spam now at 85pc

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September 27, 2007

Links Roundup

• Mystery eBay 'hack' exposes 1,200 accounts, possibly more
• Critics Say Ameritrade Failed to Heed Warnings
• * CRAP! Spam on my iPhone
• Spam, Spam, Spam, Eggs, and Spam
• Barracuda Spam Firewall "Monitor Web Syslog" Script Insertion
• Pump-and-dump spam changes image
• Spam still failing to be canned
• Anti-spam law causing email havoc
• How to Spam Proof your Email Marketing
• Spam on the rise
• Giz Finds Companies Guilty of Rampant Product Spam
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• Spam on the rise again
• Your Online Email Marketing Campaign is not Spam
• China Will Use E-stamps To Prevent Spam
• Best Anti Spam Software - Spamwasher Anti Spam Software For Outlook
• 95% of email is now spam and it's still rising
• Pump-and-dump spam replacing image spam: Symantec
• Spam Taking Over Our Email
• Humanitarian Organization Protects Infrastructure From Spam and ...
• Spam, Pfishing on the Rise
  Pfishing? Sounds unsavory.

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September 24, 2007

Links Roundup

• Why ISP’s and NSP’s Love Botnets
• Guilty: The $20 million spammers who manipulated stock market
• Alumni Associations And Public Universities Profit By Selling Student Data To Bank Of America
• Security Suite Smackdown 2008
• The Pro Shop Stock Spam Is Effective at Manipulating Shares
• One-third Of Spam Is 'Health'-related
• How does junk mail, spam find its way to your house?
• Attack of the Killer Spam
• Possible open source solutions for spam
• Anti-spam blamed for 5m lost hours
• Oh, SPAM, where are thou?
• Email forms deleted as spam
• Mobile Spam Gets More Complicated to Track Down
• UK IT managers waste 5.85 million hours a week sifting through spam
• Regulator acts against spam SMS
• Scam uses spam to pose as banks, financial cos.
• Anti-Spam: When the cop becomes the thief
• Google being used to bypass anti-spam defenses
• Ablewise Classifieds Strengthens Measures Against Spam
• Health Spam
• More on battling spam -- and spamming morons
• Ameritrade may have been hacked since 2005
• More about Battling Spam

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September 19, 2007

Links Roundup

• Assets Remain Secure; No Evidence of Identity Theft
  How comforting.
• Gang guilty of fake Viagra scam
• Puppy scam bites unwary
• Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
• TD Ameritrade database breach an inside job?
• ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster

Posted by schampeo at 5:32 PM | TrackBack

Links Roundup

• Mobile Phone Spam
• TD Ameritrade breach may have occured a year ago
• Just When You Thought Spam Couldn't Be a Bigger Pain...
• Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time ...
• Anti-Spam Law Challenged
• Hackers Steal Information On 6.3 Million Ameritrade Customers
• Face of spam changes in bid to thwart filters
• Use of zip, PDF files for spam increasing
• Refresh this button for spam
• IronPort Delivers Intel-Based Anti-Spam Acceleration
• Possible Solutions for Spam
• Defendants Convicted in First Criminal CAN-SPAM Trial
• Storm Worm Botnet Attacks Anti-Spam Firms
• Would You Like Some Quechup With Your Spam?
• Anti-Spam Unconstitutional?
• SPAMfighter Consumer Alert: Spam Containing Link to Fake US ...
• Which Cellphone Company Is Best About Fighting Text Message Spam?
• Flood of spam complaints for Internal Affairs team
• Spam Likely to Hit TD Ameritrade Victims
• Tech.view Canning spam
• Quechup Spills Spam Into Email Boxes
• Commtouch's Peter Eicher to Present on Spam and Malware at VB2007
• Spam Creep Gets Creepier
• Web Marketing 101: Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?
• Nothing can stop UIS (except spam)
• Users fume over spam overload
• Names, contact info on 6M TD Ameritrade customers compromised
• Spam delivers: study shows unwanted e-mail puts meds only a few ...
• Spam can be deadly, warns expert
• IBM Report: Stealthy, Targeted Online Attacks Continue to Grow in 2007
• Canary - the thinking spam blocker
• Worm outbreak yields bumper crop of spam
• Spam is free speech, claims spammer
  What a surprise!
• In fighting the spam wars, mail wins - or does it?
• Storm Worm linked to spam surge
• UCSD Computer Scientists Follow Spam-Scam Trails
• Maxis rolls-out anti SMS spam platform

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September 13, 2007

Links Roundup

• Law Society of Scotland get spam filter
• Webcast: Stopping Spam and Other E-Mail Threats
• Chris Barton: Huge growth in 'small willy' spam driving me nuts
• Kids are natural spam filters
• Malicious YouTube links seen in August spam: Symantec report
• FBI cybercrime fighter lauds CAN SPAM, international efforts
• 'Street Spam' Won't Be Gone Soon
  In case you weren't paying attention, this apparently means "illegal advertising on those little plastic signs on the side of the road"

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September 11, 2007

Links Roundup

• Linhardt Drops Suit Against Anti-Spammers
  One of the suits, anyway. Must have had too much trouble locating Dave Null
• Battling Spam
• The future of technology is spam and urine
• Stop Forum Spam
• Defendants Convicted in 1st Criminal CAN-SPAM Trial
• Review: Send A Message To Spam
• Quechup's Spam Produces Disgust
• Marketers over-reacting to new spam law
• Storm spam campaign targets NFL fans
• Spyware Spam
• eSoft Beefs Up Anti-Spam Software
• Pump-and-Dump Spam Nets Scammers $20 Million
• Study Claims 83% of All E-Mail is Spam
• Spam now 83% of all email
• Spam Leads to GUMail Blockage
• Spam dominates business emails
• SPAM - A Brand Abused Like No Other

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September 10, 2007

Links Roundup

• Achewood takes on the Junk Folder
• Google Hacking for MPacks, Zunkers and WebAttackers
• Aladdin Security Team Announces New Developments Surrounding eBay Botnet Attack
• Battling Spam
• Spyware Spam

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September 9, 2007

Links Roundup

• China's cyber army is preparing to march on America, says Pentagon
• Storm Worm Botnet More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers
• The Commercial Malware Industry
  A very eye-opening read, worth the time
• Soloway's Motion for Review of Detention Order (PDF) (Motions (PDF))
• NDFCU's scammer identified
• Pfizer PCs used to relay Viagra spam
• Financially Motivated Malware Thrives
• Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam
• Pfizer PCs Used for Viagra Spam Forwarding
• Social network launches worldwide spam campaign
• Got Spam?
• Spam levels reach record high
• Can the New Spam Laws Increase Sales by 250%?
• Onus on celcos to set up spam prevention system
• Spam allegations hamper a BC mother's search for her missing daughter
• RP companies vulnerable to spam attacks from China
• Spam Levels Inch Upwards in August 2007

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September 6, 2007

Links Roundup

• Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam
  This is hardly news: some corporate networks insecure and leaky? Feh.
• Huge SPAM / DDoS-like Explosion
• Mystery SNAFU exposes email logins for 100 foreign embassies (and counting)
  And in the US, Iran's old password was "GreatSatan"
• Hacked: Email inboxes of Indian missions in US and China; NDA, DRDO officials too
• University amps up defenses against computer attacks
• STOCKS, NOT STICKS: Spam text message fuels bomb concerns in Augusta
  Apparently, mailmen in my home state are dumber than a box of rocks
• Attackers turn Bank of India site into malware bazaar
• Will World War 3 hit the web?
  Why use future tense here?
• Courts erred in awarding e360 $11.7 million against Spamhaus
• Spam Cube Locks Spam Down
• Blog: Antipathy towards anti-spam law
• The evolution of image spam: Why your network needs heavy ...
• Spam Blacklists Still In Tunnel, But Is That Light Up Ahead?
• Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement
• Spam nuisance spreads to text messaging
• Thousands of emails lost in spam attack
• Spam traffic rises as ban takes effect

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September 5, 2007

Links Roundup

• Barry Leiba's CEAS rundown
• New spamming tactic?
• China hosts nearly half of malware sites
• Today's Hottest Blog Spam
• Indian firm touts 'alternative internet'
• Sophos announces top ten web and email borne threats for August 2007
• Spam law brings more junk mail
• ISP Spam Code of Practice launched
• Is virus alarm for real, or is reader being alarmist?
• Email scramble ahead of anti-spam laws
• STOCKS, NOT STICKS Spam text message sparks fears of bomb
• Sean Lynch: New law slams the door on spam
• Spammers add a new dimension to junk mail
• InternetNZ welcomes anti-spam law
• NZ launches Anti-spam law
• Spam Gets A Touch Of 3D
• Google Desktop for Mac gains spam support, 9 new languages
• Latest Spam Scam Targets Bank Of America Customers
• Latest spam pretends to be video from your favorite musical artist
• Farewell spam?
• Spam laws to take effect
• The 'Storm Worm' Is Not a Worm -- It's a Gang
• Olympic Reply Letter May Be Treated as Spam
• Webcast: Stopping Spam and Other E-Mail Threats
• Get your spam in 3D
• Spam minus a can? Can do
• Sudanese Operator Deploys Anti-Spam Software
• Anti spam law creates surge in emails
• Vietnam a victim of 'e-commerce boycott'

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new pats posted - 20070905 (maintenance pats release)

23240 patterns, 10248 right anchor strings, 29266 test IPs.

Unmatched DNSBL lookup candidates from the past week, plus a few contribs.

PLEASE NOTE: the patterns_xwalk file format has changed to include the
tech attribute from the XML database files; this is to allow separation
of "assignment type/duration" from more specific knowledge about the
type of technology in use (such as dsl, dialup, cable, etc.)

Download them here:

sendmail:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules.m4
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules-20070905.m4

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_access_db
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/rightanchors

postfix:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested-20070905

exim:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact-20070905

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August 31, 2007

Links Roundup

• Virus outbreak tied to fake YouTube e-mails
• CORRECTION: Don't Spam the Opera
• Facebook Cracks Down on Developer Spam
• Apologies for the Look Spam
• New Zealand to outlaw spam
• Law Firm Cuts Spam by 99% with Mimecast Managed Email Service
• SunRice says you can can spam
• Price list: trojans, password stealers, trojans, spam servers
• Ministry of Commerce Sends Spam Mail
• PDF Spam Levels Plummet
• Sophos: Scammers dropping PDF spam
• Storm Worm Spreads In YouTube Spam
• Malware-laden spam promises pop videos
• Vietnam tries to control spam emails
• Lincoln man spams for 30 days straight
• Find 'lost' favorites and stop 'Russian Bride Scam' spam
• Keep Up With Spam Scams
• Stiff-Arm the Stock Spammers
• Move Over, Spam: 'Bacn' Is the E-Mail Dish du Jour
• Spam: There's No Canning It
• Food at the Fair: Lamb, Spam & strawberry jam
• Storm Worm Spam Spoofs YouTube
• Spam & bounced email!
• Fake YouTube email turns PCs into spam machines
• Wave of text-message spam hits area cell users
• Winning with Spam
• Storm Botnet sends spoofed YouTube spam
• PDF Spam Scourge May Be Over
• Fax Spam Ban Considered

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August 27, 2007

Links Roundup

• FTP stops diet spam
• 'Microsoft' to compensate 419 victims
• DynDNS (perhaps wisely) stops sending all NDNs for feear of generating outscatter/blowback
• Spam Fighters Hit Criminals' Weak Spot
• Firms 'overreact' to spam act
• The Biggest Challenges Facing Spam-Fighters
• Legislation won't stop spam, says marketer
• 'Book of Spam' Invites Us to Further Spam-Out our Desktops
• Spam Fighters Hit Criminals' Weak Spot
• Full email boxes predicted before anti-spam law takes affect
• Pharmacy Spam Blogs At US Nuclear Safety Lab
• Xtra's Bubble debacle leaves users battling through spam
• Two new spam scams masquerade as official messages from top ...
• Spam, spam, spam, spam...
• FTC Stops Diet Spam

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August 24, 2007

Links Roundup

• PlusNet blasts email into blackhole (again)
  Oh, man. I'm glad I don't have anything to do with plusnet.
• PlusNet deletes customers' emails again
• AOL phisher faces seven years in jail
• Spam that just might kill you
• Spam levels up to 85%
• Security experts brace for September spam deluge
• Email Marketing Clinic: How to prevent your messages being treated ...
• Gmail as a Spam Filter on Cpanel
• Spam 'almost' at record levels
• Storm Worm uses e-cards to push spam near all-time high
• Beware of spam: Fake e-cards harm computers
• Spam now 85% of Irish email traffic
• Storm Worm uses e-cards to push spam near all-time high
• Storm Worm returns, spam levels rising warn security firms
• Spam Levels Coming Close To All-Time High of 90%
• September storm of spam coming, targeting students
• Hawaiian SPAM Tortellini Appetizer
• Not Spam, but Bacn
  Stupidest neologism ever. I like bacon. And vowels.
• Mail.Ru Agent IM service is to fight with spam
• New anti-spam legislation
• 4 Steps To Fax Spam Your Way To Complaint Resolution Success
• EntreMetrix Victimized by Stock Spam Assault
• SonicWALL data shows increase in PDF spam
• September spam predicted to soar
• New Form of Blog Comment Spam?
• Cyber-criminals unleash spam Storm
• Spam surge precedes Xtra email issues
• The great debate: Spam
• Is your message being read or mistaken for spam?

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August 23, 2007

Links Roundup

• DMers Show Signs of Getting it … Sort of
• Warning! Gmail users beware, fake upgrade emails
• Storm of the day: "Welcome Member"
• Spam that just might kill you
  I think you meant "being stupid just might kill you". Spam has little to do with it.
• Spam levels up to 85%
• September spam predicted to soar
• Hormel Foods launches Spam rugby collectors can
• SonicWALL data shows increase in PDF spam
• Security experts brace for September spam deluge
• Cowlitz Bancorporation Prevents Data Leaks, Ensures Compliance and ...
• Verio Protects Their Business and Customers With Foundry's ...
• Email Marketing Clinic: How to prevent your messages being treated ...
• New Form of Blog Comment Spam?
• Cyber-criminals unleash spam Storm
• Gmail as a Spam Filter on Cpanel
• Should We Spam Proxies to China?
  No, we should troll slashdot instead
• Storm Worm uses e-cards to push spam near all-time high
• Beware of spam: Fake e-cards harm computers
• Spam now 85% of Irish email traffic
• Storm Worm uses e-cards to push spam near all-time high
• September storm of spam coming, targeting students
• Is your message being read or mistaken for spam?
• Not Spam, but Bacn
  This is stupd.

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August 20, 2007

Links Roundup

• Justin has a new ruleset and he wants your help testing it
• E-cards: I delete them all unopened. ... You?
• Best. Phishing email. Ever.
• Hinson: Let us now praise SPAM
• * Junk emails could cost $500000
• What is the worst spam you've ever had?
• PDF spam - the latest trend
• Total Networking Solutions LLC Announces Sendio Anti-Spam Solution ...
• Massive jump in spam emails
• From spam haiku to feline Fuhrers
• Dallying With The Muse Of Spam
• Stock Scam Highlights Growing Spam Threat
• Malicious Ecard Campaign Accounts for 9 Million Spam Messages in ...
• PDF Spam Jumps 500% in Two Weeks
• Resurgence in "Storm Trojan" Spam E-cards
• Top spam revealed
• WSU offers emergency alert service... maybe some spam, too
• Summer of Spam: Record Growth, Record Irritation
• Viagra spam edges out pump-and-dump
• SpamButcher Announces 'Spam Cats' Photo Contest
• Less annoying cell phone ads are the way of the future

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August 17, 2007

Links Roundup

• Half Of Consumers Are Not Aware Of Online Threats?
• Webmail-creating Trojan targets Gmail
• Researchers identify Spam's weak spot
• Expert: Users need spam education
• Stocks claim 75% of image spam
• Ron Kantowski shares some e-mails his spam filter missed
• Spam: The never-ending story
• Scam Alert: Be cautious of the spam flooding your inbox light for ...
• Today's Hottest Blog Spam
• Ms. Plunkitt's Report: No stoppin' spam
• Adobe claims PDF spam not a security issue
• Why spam still poses a danger
• Toxic junkyards of cyberia
• Adobe: No threat from PDF spam
• 9M Spam E-cards Sent in Last 48 Hours

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August 15, 2007

Links Roundup

• On Computers : Gmail makes mincemeat of other spam catchers
• Spammers debut FDF spam
• Yucky Spam From Our Competitor
• Putting a stop to PDF spam
• Unusual Pump-and-Dump Spam Run Continues
• Spam beats records in summertime
• China's Spam Surge
• CITC announces public consultation for anti-SPAM policy
• Pump-and-dump scam spikes spam by 445 percent
• A Day Without SPAM is, well, Rare
• George W Bush parody spam email is one welcome piece of spam mail
• Operators responsible for reducing mobile phone spam
• New Types of Spam Emails Are on the Rise
• Spam Subject of the Day
• Exchange Server 2007 Spam Whitelist Rant
• Symantec: Surge in spam from Chinese domains

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August 13, 2007

Links Roundup

• Government 'must act on e-crime'
• Stopping Spammers At The Point Of Sale
• Inbox hell: Half a billion stock spam e-mails
• You can retrieve IP address, not phone number, from spam
• Image spam down; PDF spam up: Symantec
• Ban on cell phone spam sought
• UK Mobile Carriers Spam Their Users
• Stock scammers unleash 500 million spam emails
• Hong Kong internet spam declines
• Big 'pump-and-dump' spam scam hits PCs
• Antispam bill cheered
• Spam Spikes 445 Percent Due to Biggest Pump-and-Dump Scam
• Email spam 'at all-time high'

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August 10, 2007

Links Roundup

• Dutch police arrest six in 419 scam
• Trojan Uses Hotmail and Gmail as Spam Host
• Boffins find way to fight spam scams
• Spammer tricks getting more personal; PDF spam also increasing
• Challenge/Response and "Spam Index" conversation roundup
• Spam levels creep up again
• Spam case tossed; plaintiff must pay $111k
• Spam email in Vietnamese: how to control?
• Researchers: Take anti-spam fight to the Web
• Interview with JangoMail on e-mail marketing and the problem of spam
• Computer Scientists Shed Light On Internet Scams
• Spam and Virus Rates Still At All Time High
• Coming Home to Hate Mail, Creepy Spam, and Healthy Debate
• Spam Case Tossed; Plaintiff Must Pay Up
• Image spam continues to decline
• 'Trojan moves to use Hotmail, Gmail as spam hosts'
• New Pump-And-Dump Scheme Fuels 30% Hike In Spam
• Anti-Spam law countdown
• Study Finds Spam's Achilles Heel
• Prepare to act on spam law
• Spam on the up in July
• Germany, Japan to collaborate on anti-spam strategies
• Scam spam has a weak spot
• Symantec says spam attachments up, image spam down
• PDF spam tsunami hits email inboxes
• Adobe Acrobat's Unintended Use: Spam & Stock Promotion (ADBE, CHSH)
• America's Worst CAN-SPAM Suit Ends
• AOL Spam Roadblock Takes a Toll
• CAN-SPAM Defendant Awarded $111k in Fees/Costs: Gordon v. Virtumundo
• Happy Birthday! You Have Spam!
• The New Yorker On Spam
• Spam nuisance 'can be combated'
• Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it
• Snail mail spam scam targets Finns with claim of lottery win

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August 6, 2007

Links Roundup

• EIGHTEEN CHARGED WITH RACKETEERING IN INTERNET DRUG DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
  And the text of the indictment, courtesy Whizardries
• PDF spam - a step ahead of image spam (PDF)
• You are here: Home : News : Spammers on holiday: Spam and Virus ...
• Attachment spam skyrockets
• PDF spam surges to 25% of malicious emails
• MessageLabs: 20 per cent of image spam uses PDFs
• Pharmacy Spam King Rizler Sentenced to 30 Years
• Spam scammer sentenced
• Novelty ads spice up the spam
• Dubai - Riddle of mystery spam text
• "Viagra spam" emperor gets 30 years behind bars
• New Excel Spam Hits the Airwaves, Commtouch Reports
• I've been getting spam complaints from customers who have ...
• PineApp Enhances Anti-Spam Channel Push
• Kittens Could Solve Spam
• PDF spam on the increase
• Putting a stop to spam!
• What is the best thing to do about spam?
• New Spams and Virus Threats -- and the Blogger Spam Robot!
• A beginner's guide to managing e-mail
• What SPAM Means: Stupid People Annoying Me
• Nigerian global warming spam, part 2
• Attachment spam rising
• How the FBI Nabbed the "Spam King"
• Attachment spam on the rise

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August 2, 2007

Links Roundup

• Annals of Technology - Damn Spam: The losing war on junk e-mail
• What Yipes adds to Reliance Communications
  We've happily blocked Yipes as a spam hoster for years here
• Web's 'drug kingpin' gets 30 years
  I wish there was a <gloat> tag in XHTML

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August 1, 2007

Links Roundup

• Meet Spam's biggest fan
• Simpsons Movie Brings Simpsons Spam
• SPF strengthens anti-spam defences
• Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files
• Wi-Fi spam man avoids can
• Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS
• Howard clip becomes spam magnet
• Spam filter targets PDF scams
• Weekend Beat/ Breathing Space: For 270 million yen, there ought to ...
• Personalized Spam May Lead To Infection
• Screensaver Spam Installs Rootkits and Trojan Horse
• Residents react to Walker e-mail Political spam? Maybe not by law
• Missed call spam nets AU$150000 fine
• Internet Engineering Association Offers Email Privacy & Spam ...
• Simpsons Spam, Harry Potter Worm

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Links Roundup

• Meta Spam: Search Results In The Search Results
• Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
• Ay caramba! Simpsons spam hits net
• Google Zaps Malware Spam Blogs
• Artist will show Dave the magic of Spam
• Challenge-response anti-spam technology
• Criminals could hijack your iPhone to send spam
• ClearMyMail Finds Solution For PDF Spam
• Spam for your ears
• Business urged to consider anti-spam procurement
• Vietnam to have decree on spam mail
• Europe outspams the US
• Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam
• The CAN-SPAM Act can seem confusing. What are the keys a marketer ...
• Spamford Wallace banished from MySpace
• Spam is getting more sophisticated, says MessageLabs
• BitDefender labs find e-mail spam attachments decreasing
• PDF spam on the wane, say experts

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Links Roundup

• Stock your anti-spam tool chest
• Vendors disagree on PDF spam volumes
• DC Bar Seminar Will Review Anti-Spam Regulations
• Asta Viewpoint: Victory in Can-Spam Case Underscores Complex Issue
• Computers love Viagra, but they call me spam?
• Spam doesn't make pitch
• Spam hits summer slump
• You are here: Home : News : D'OH! Spam Hits the Simpson Movie.
• US and China Top List of Spam-Relaying Countries
• Massive spam scams infect whole world
• Stock your anti-spam tool chest
• Irish company tackles spam surge
• Why does Peter Brockmann rate "challenge/response" spam filters so ...
• Spam filter targets PDF scams
• Take care with anti-spam technology
• Very fast automatic spam tool sold for $450
• LinuxMagic Fights Spam With Its Enhanced Version of MagicMail
• How to beat comment spam
• Yahoo, AOL plan to charge users for sending 'direct' emails

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Links Roundup

• Man who sent porn spam sentenced
• Ranking today's anti-spam solutions
• Tumbleweed Message Protection Lab Detects Excel Spam Hitting Inboxes
• Apply the DICE framework to determine your best anti-spam solution
• New spam scam hits e-card market
• Trial of "spam king" postponed until January
• Large Scale Bulk Spam Uploaded to Google Maps
• Expert: PDFs used to evade spam filters
• Spam goes back to the future
• Spam email in Vietnam
• Firms give anti-spam solutions thumbs down
• Excel Latest Vehicle for 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam
• Simpsons spam and Potter worms flood web
• Banned ads do the business
• Annals of Technology
• Commercials flooded with SPAM
• Spam Spread Goes Global
• Anti-Spam Technologies Fail the Grade
• Company's sending spam from their domain and don't even know it

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Links Roundup

• PDF spam - the latest trend
• Canadians willingly duped by spam: report
• Website Hosting Provider Flux Services Offers Increased Anti-Spam ...
• USB drives find malware favour
• US, China top quarterly Sophos list of spam-relaying countries
• Spam lady bounced from Letterman
• WebMail spam filter improved
• Spam e-mail brings headaches
• Pump-and-Dump Scammers Turn to Excel
• Image Based Spam, the Threat Spreads
• PineApp survey highlights growing threat from image based spam
• MailFoundry Defeats New Spam Variants With No Modifications to ...
• Spammers spread virus with greeting-card ploy
• Image spam with PDFs on the rise: BorderWare report
• Spreadsheets latest spam message carriers
• PDF Spam Beats Filters, Clogs In-Boxes
• The Casey Group Introduces SPAM Email Solution to Businesses
• Most anti-spam technologies get failing grade
• Web Hosting Provider Flux Services Enhances Anti-Spam Solutions
• Filed under: None

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July 27, 2007

Links Roundup

I've been on vacation in Maine with a lousy dialup connection for the last week, so apologies for the delay. I'm still on vacation with a lousy dialup, but I had a brief respite yesterday, so I'm catching up a bit. More next week.

• New group lobbies against Internet fraud
• Storm Worm Erupts Into Worst Virus Attack In 2 Years
• Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux Service Networks

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July 20, 2007

Links Roundup

• FBI Spyware Revealed
• Former Spammer: 'I Know I'm Going to Hell'
• A Web Cadre Turns the Tables on African Scam Artists
• A fishy Challenge-Response press release
• Spam to hijack video messaging
• Spam Changes Direction
• US, China top quarterly Sophos list of spam-relaying countries
• Study: Europe overtakes US in spam chart
• Three Reasons To Report Gmail Spam
• Bluetooth spam from the thin Blue line
• PAY88, Inc. Denounces Third-Party Stock Spam
• PDF spam on the rise, as spam techniques converge
• Unsubscribing from spam and mailing lists
• Charity fights against overzealous spam filters
• Anti-spam solutions get battering from business
• Firm Releases Anti-Spam Tech Report
• Europe leapfrogs US in spam league
• Howard clip becomes spam magnet
• Military Spam Scam: Bogus E-Mails From Rogue Soldiers
• Supreme Court to rule on spam SMS advert case - report
• Spam mails in PDF format flood the web

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July 18, 2007

Links Roundup

• Spam suspects charged over $4.6m share con
• US court throws book at zombie bot-masters
• Crooks Used Botnets, Spam in Stock Scheme
• Barsa Blocks Spam With St. Bernard's LivePrism
• 'Strong Arm' Azar pinned by spam
• Spammers Strike Again With Image Spam via PDFs
• Cooking up a trip to the National Spam Cookoff
• Study: Challenge-Response Surpasses Other Anti-Spam Technologies ...
• Korea's mobile spam calls rise, reversing downward trend
• Marshal Warns of Several New Spam Tactics
• MailMarshal Spam Quarantine Management Interface Information ...

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July 17, 2007

Links Roundup

• Pretty Darn Fancy: Even More Fancy Spam
• Pretty Darn Fancy: Stock spammers using PDF files
• Nigeria Calling: Indians beware!
• The Useltons
• Fast flux foils bot-net takedown
• Study: Challenge-Response Surpasses Other Anti-Spam Technologies in Performance, User Satisfaction and Reliability; Worst Performing are Filter-based ISP Solutions
  This appears to be a very stupid study
• FBI Ramps Up Spam War
• Neil Schwartzman: Commentary on the FTC Spam Summit
• FBI sources say spam related prosecutions expected to increase
• City of Richmond cuts spam in half
• Spam Hunter
• Image spam declines in June
• Spam e-mail loopholes to close / Bill would tighten ban
• Ceryx now provides management of spam and virus control, as well ...
• FTC Spam Summit Opens Today
• Image spam drops again, but researchers see more PDF stock spam
• Spam Filter Costs Lawyers Their Day In Court
• Spammers tweak Storm worm to push PDF spam, less image spam
• Spam Is Gateway To Malware Economy, Feds Say
• US claims top spam spot
• Email security vendors see PDF spam spike
• Cans of Spam again sport famed face
• Storm Botnet Driving PDF Spam
• p2pnet comment spam: canned
• ICEWEB(tm) Leverages F5 Networks' Solution to Fight Spam
• SonicWALL's Andrew Klein to Present at FTC Spam Summit, July 11
• Ahead of the Bell: FTC forum on spam
• Flaming Nora: Uncovering secrets in Spam
• Blocking spam on a Linux system
• Fraud Spam Continues To Rise
• A PC From Viruses and Spam:
• The Top Countries For Cybercrime
• Rogue Sap Spam Intentional
• Overzealous Spam Filter Proves Costly for Lawyers
• Dealing With Phishing, Pharming & Spam
• Google snaps up anti-spam and data security firm Postini
• Japan to tighten spam laws
• Latest technique embeds spam into corporate press releases to lure ...
• Federal task force releases "best practices" to battle spam
• Trojan Uses Hotmail, Yahoo as Spam Hosts
• Image spam gets a makeover
• FBI and DOJ promise more spam prosecutions
• Now PDF Is The Format For Spam Delivery
• Eclipse deploys new anti-spam, virus protection system
• Group urges governments to do more to fight spam
• Next Menace: PDF Spam
• The iPhone, Gmail, and spam
• What Can We Learn from the Best Piece of Spam Ever?
• Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
• Total Tech Announces Revolutionary Anti-Spam Solution Now ...
• Google Squishing Squidoo Over Spam
• SEC Prosecutes $4.6M Spam Scam
• Spam Scam
• SEC charges stock spam botnet scammers
• Image Isn't Everything as PDF Spam Grows
• PDF Spam Ready to Replace Declining Image Spam
• Search Spam Fight - Mahalo: 1; Squidoo: 0
• Spam, Spam, Spam!
• Service can slip through spam filters
• Bejing world capital for spam and viruses
• PDF spams give security tools the slip
• Anti-malware defense uses junk e-mail's sheer volume as a weapon
• Spam takes up 88.3% of Dutch e-mail traffic
• Open Source Filtering Solutions and the Spam Problem
• Scam and Fraud Spam on the Rise
• Hotmail vs Goodmail
• How Wimbledon became spam fodder
• New Image Spam Threat Uses PDF Files

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July 9, 2007

Links Roundup

• You've got worms
• Google to Acquire Postini
• Google Press Center: Google to Acquire Postini
• Google buys email security firm
• US claims top spam spot
• A New Form of Gold Spam
• Declare Your Independence from Spam
• 90% of corporate e-mail in the past quarter was spam
• How to Find Legitimate Email in Your Gmail Spam Folder
• Turing test challenges spam filters
• Weird Gmail behavior
• Scariest spam I've ever received...
• Freedom from cyber crime: No reply, no buy, no spam
• Startpages 'not spam'
• Spam squad
• Time to blacklist blacklists
  A security firm that doesn't know that "RBL" is a trademark? Bah.
• Image spam goes fuzzy
• The Squidoo Spam Problem
• Trojan creates webmail accounts to send out spam

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July 6, 2007

Links Roundup

• How to get email headers
• Trojan creates bogus webmail accounts to punt drugs
• Spam levels peak at weekends
• Mike Holland: Blame more spam on gullible buyers
• Is Google's Spam Fight a Sham?
• Unlikely spam king in the can
• Mpack installs ultra-invisible Trojan
• Spam:Cigma Metals Corp adds an additional 3 drill rigs to its ...
• Report: Gang behind surge in targeted spam attacks
• Anti-Spam Software/Appliance optimizes email security.
• Hyperlinking Keywords to the Same Page: Spam, Usability Issue, or ...
• Has Spam Had its Chips?
• Preventing Spam with Unique Disposable E-Mail Services
• Comment spam again!
• Spam on the rise again
• Free IPhone Sites Full Of Spam
• iPhone scams ramp up, target over-eager buyers
• Arkoon Integrates Commtouch Anti-Spam Protection to UTM Product Line
• Can-Spam Act Leads to Convictions
• iPhone links full of spam, says McAfee
• Spam hitting more cell phones
• Spam on the Rise Again
• Spam Filtering Software features customizable options.
• Yeah, I get spam
• iPhone Hype Encourages Online Spam
• Spam warning from Department of Justice
• New form of spam email spoofing?
• Kiwi anti-spam firm SMX clinches deal with Indian IT giant
• Fast and secure SMTP/POP3 server. Lots of features against spam ...
• Corporate PC users are the weakest link
• NSW.net tempts libraries with free anti-spam
• iPhone Spam Scam Warning
• Storm Worm, Hidden In Phony E-Card Spam, Strikes Again
• Trojan Uses Hotmail, Yahoo as Spam Hosts
• Fourth of July targeted by trojan spam
• Independance Day spam arrives

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July 2, 2007

Links Roundup

• Status of dnsbl.tqmcube.com: ABANDONED
• Project UCEPROTECT-Network under new leadership
• Kaspersky Anti-Spam Web-based Configuration System Unauthorized ...
• Gangs flooding the Web for prey, analysts say
• No Decrease in Spam after Alleged Spam King's Arrest
• Review: McAfee Appliance Offers All-In-One Security
• My first requests
• Opening Up A Can Of Spam, I Mean Worms
• DoJ alerts US citizens to spam attack
• Sorry, but My Sarbox E-vite Got Stuck in the Spam Filter
• Scammers dump pump-and-dump spam
• Build another layer on the foundation
• Request For Corporate Privacy Villians: Help Wired News Rank and ...
• Banana pancakes and spam
• Will spam ever end?
• Yahoo's Greylist Gets Into Grey Area

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June 29, 2007

Links Roundup

• TITLE: Kaspersky Anti-Spam Directory Access Authentication Bypass
• Hackers launch PDF spam campaign
• Email SPAM scam inflates stock by 20%
• Hydra-headed 'Storm' attack starts
• DOJ Alerts Users To Spam Hoax
• Spam makes food for thought

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June 28, 2007

Links Roundup

• When Computers Attack
  ...apparently, you get the stupidest headline ever.
• Majority of Email Marketers Not Aware of CAN-Spam Regulations
• Inside The Mind Of A Spam Scammer
• Not All Spam Is Spam
• How About Some Spam With That Free iPhone?
• Accused Spammer To Decide Fate Of Anti-Spam Crusader
• Prolexic Defends Anti-Spam Services Against Ongoing DDoS Attacks
• Has 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Been Dumped?
• PDF Spam Pumps Stock Scam
• Spam disguised as PDF attachment

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June 27, 2007

Links Roundup

• Fighting Spam with CSS
• NZ Banks demand a look inside customer PCs in fraud cases
• Jury Convicts Two Men for Running International Pornographic Spamming Business

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June 26, 2007

Links Roundup

• MOTION for Leave to File Status Report
• Pentagon confirms email system hacked
• Spam tackled by Holbrook
• Block graphics in e-mail to slow spam avalanche
• Microsoft sues more alleged Hotmail spammers
• Two Men Charged With Obscene Spam
• US Department Of Justice - Jury Convicts Men In International ...
• Seven tips to keep spam email at bay
• The Federal Government Sanctioned Spam Trap
• Two convicted for porn spam operation
• Stock Spammers Regroup
• McAfee Inc. Offers Tips for a Spam-Free Summer
• Facebook Spam on the Rise -- the Changing Face of Email Permission
• Spammers dump Pump 'n Dump spam
• Law to deal with spam on the way
• Microsoft lawsuit defends Hotmail users from spam
• Man spam ma'am
• Lack of interest spurs ISP spam deadline extension
• Spam contest set for Norman hangout
• Habeas CEO to Present at the Federal Trade Commission Spam Summit ...
• US porn spammers guilty as charged
• Two porn spammers convicted on CAN-SPAM, conspiracy, fraud and ...
• Microsoft sues more alleged Hotmail spammers
• Dirty duo guilty of obscene spam act
• Image Spam Reaches Center Stage
• Two companies fined for breaching Australia Spam Act
• Microsoft files two more John Doe suits targeting spammers
• Duo found guilty for international spam campaign
• Stiff prison terms threatened for spam-senders in South Africa
• 5 Billion Spam Emails Boost Stock Prices

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June 21, 2007

Links Roundup

• Transcript of Detention Hearing
• nic.at domains blacklisted by Spamhaus
• Spamhaus: Report on the criminal 'Rock Phish' domains registered at Nic.at
• US 'Spam King' new slick face of cyber crime
• GMail Thinks My Google Alerts Are Spam
• Spam:Calvalley Petroleum Inc. Provides Operational Update for June
• Spam, Anyone?
• Latest Stock Spam Strategy Uses PDFs
• First Anti-Spam Platform Online In China
• Mafia-style mobs muscle in on malware
• Take steps to control onslaught of spam
• New Zealand ISPs to adopt spam code of conduct - report
• No Decrease in Spam after Alleged Spam King's Arrest
• Internal Affairs probes paedophile, porn and spam company with ...
• Google: In Search Of SPAM
• TANGO TELECOM IAX ANTI-SPAM DEPLOYED BY LEADING INDONESIAN ...
• Burger King Adds Spam to Menu in Hawaii
• BorderWare: 80% of Company E-mail Spam
• Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty To Massive AOL Spam Scheme
• Massive Stock Spam Attack Uses PDF to Lure Investors
• Slingshot curbs surging spam volumes with IronPort
• Submissions on ISP voluntary spam code close today
• Security vendors beating pump 'n' dump spam?
• Image attachments for spam decline
• Companies Are Sending Spam and Don't Even Know It
• Image spam fluctuates, fraud spam up
• Spam complaints prompt shut-down of Murray State message board
• China opens anti-spam website
• Airwide Mobile Anti-Spam and Anti- Fraud Router
• Spam:Atomic Grants 2000000 Stock Options

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June 18, 2007

Links Roundup

• Dutch police arrest 111 over suspected Internet fraud
  Now that's long overdue, too bad that's less than 5% of the likely scammers
• Can-Spam Jury Conviction - First Can-Spam Conviction Sees 'Phisher' Sentenced To Nearly Six Years' Jail - US Attorney
• Can Uncle Sam Can Spam? I Think Not
• MXSweep takes Spam Off the Menu at Schools and Universities
• An overview of Our Spam Prevention Efforts and Moderation Queue
• US arrests ''Spam King,'' spam goes up 8%
  Desperation, defiance, or what?
• SPAMfighter Releases Updated Version with Improved Spam Detection
• Texas Attorney General traces Allen man to "zombie" spam email scheme
• Barracuda Spam Firewall Spam Accuracy Remains Unaffected by Recent ...
• Can-Spam Jury Conviction - First Can-Spam Conviction Sees 'Phisher ...
• Spam, Botnets and Hackers, OnGuardOnline
• Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture
• Massive Spam Scheme Guilty Plea
• Symantec: image spam decline continues
• New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper
• Scams pump out spam
• Why is Hotmail so bad at spam?
• NTC still helpless vs spam texters, after all
• FBI goes after 'bot-herders' with charges, arrests
• NATION'S FIRST CAN-SPAM ACT JURY TRIAL CONVICTION
• New type of image spam hides in email wallpaper
• Burger King ignites Spam war with rival
• A million zombies threaten US national security
• Spam Crackdown 'A Drop In The Bucket'
• No Bail For Spam King
  I confess I didn't know there was an identity theft daily before seeing this
• Using RBL and DCC for spam protection
• Who Needs Spam When You Can Advertise Penny Stocks In Forbes?
• Spam special coming to KHON, and Big Isle radio deals
• Security Software to Protect Symbian Mobiles from Viruses, Spam
• 'Spam king' Soloway denied bail
• 'Image spam' slips into inboxes
• Symantec Offers Unified Solution for Managing Information Risks ...
• Stemming the tide of spam
• Spam code to be implemented soon
• FBI tackles 'zombie' PC networks
• BROMLEY: Sending spam back to the kitchen
  Wow, that's an incredibly ignorant idea.
• Spam & Hackers FBI Stresses Partnerships in Bot Battle
• Scam Spam On The Increase
• Judge denies bail to "Spam King"
• Prison might not protect us from the 'Spam King'
• Infernal spam: Blocking e-mails constant struggle

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June 14, 2007

Links Roundup

• Spam suspect to be held until his trial
• Spam suspect denied bail
• FBI tries to fight zombie hordes
• FBI logs its millionth zombie address
• FBI Unveils Movable Feast with 'Operation Bot Roast'
• Symantec Offers Unified Solution for Managing Information Risks ...
• US arrests ''Spam King,'' spam goes up 8%
• BROMLEY: Sending spam back to the kitchen
• Burger King ignites Spam war with rival
• FBI goes after 'bot-herders' with charges, arrests
• Spam, Botnets and Hackers, OnGuardOnline
• Security Software to Protect Symbian Mobiles from Viruses, Spam
• Judge denies bail to "Spam King"
• Massive Spam Scheme Guilty Plea
• New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper

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June 13, 2007

Links Roundup

• AOL Spammer Pleads Guilty
• Bennett Haselton: stop signs kill ambulance drivers, toll roads encourage fascism, automobile inspections cause cancer
  OK, maybe that's not really his argument, but it's close to the nut.
• OPERATION: BOT ROAST 'Bot-herders' Charged as Part of Initiative
  FBI tells public to call their ISP if they need technical support. Heh.
• Soloway denied bail
• Where they Love Spam
• Anti-Spam Group Under Attack
• Effectiveness Timeline Of Search Spam
• Spam Going to the Golden Arches and BK
• Anti-spam sites come under attack
• Attack on anti-spam services
• Burger King, McDonald's Launch Spam War
• Singapore 'Spam Control Act' to take effect on June 15, 2007
• Spam:Renmark Financial Communications Inc. Engaged For Investor ...
• Anti-spam sites weather DDoS assault
• SME Sector - Spam Free!
• Austin mayor's name worth year's supply of Spam
• Spam King may rule prison cell for 11 years after Feds nail him
• Spam King Gone, Spam Rolls On
• Spam featured as Hawaii's fast food
• BARRACUDA NETWORKS LAUNCHES NEW BARRACUDA SPAM FIREWALL FOR SMALL ...
• SPAMfighter Releases Updated Version with Improved Spam Detection
• Burger King Ignites Spam War With Rival

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June 11, 2007

Links Roundup

• Nude Japanese Nurses snuck into Terry's RSS feed?
• Keep spam complaints down: Cohen
• Most companies struggle with spam, security breaches
• Golden Pen Award: Some teen will design a way to end spam
• Anti-Spam Orgs Under DDoS Siege
• Content ''not triggering'' spam filters
• Spam campain surfs Web on your behalf
• Irish study shows potent threat of spam
• China cracks down on mobile phone spam
• Spam levels steady as junk e-mail evolves
• Verizon Broadband Customers Get Help in the Fight Against Spam ...
• Study: Spam Scam Numbers are Up
• WoW: Spam reporting update
• Singapore To Enforce Anti-Spam Laws Next Week
• Use Disposable E-Mail Addresses to Stop Spam
• Long as spam = / scam, I can find a way to appreciate it
• Burger King, McDonald's Ignite Spam War
• Spam barrages take down filters, networks
• Four ISPs Join Anti-Spam, E-Mail Delivery Program
• SPAM goes Guggenheim
• New Barracuda Spam Firewall for small businesses
• Sendio Fights Spam, Enhances E-mail Security with ICE Box Updates
• Spam Spikes Pose New Challenge for In-House Email Security Management
• Barracuda Networks Launches New Barracuda Spam Firewall for Small ...
• Barracuda Networks Unveils Barracuda Spam Firewall 100
• Four Major ISPs Join Anti-Spam, E-Mail Delivery Initiative
• Weird Computerworld spam story, with ironic twist
• Spam on the rise in Ireland
• Anti-spam laws in Singapore to take
• SPY Acts vs. CAN-SPAM: No difference

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June 7, 2007

Links Roundup

• DIY kits dumb down phishing
• Considerations for the use of DNS Reverse Mapping
  Andrew is looking for feedback, please give it to him
• Scamming the Spammers

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June 6, 2007

Links Roundup

• E360’s Linhardt: Hacker Sent Porn to Client’s Database
  Some think he sent them himself, as a sort of "Hacker X" defense
• BBB Phishing Trojan
  We're also seeing variants of this supposedly sent from the IRS
• Welcome to CAUCE North America
• 64% of e-mails to Irish addresses are spam
• Guangzhou Global Telecom: Spam Stock Tips Go Postal
• Ameritrade: Buy, sell, spam?
• Robert Soloway, Spam King, Arrested
• Attackers using spam spikes to disable email security
• IRS Scam Spam Campaign
• PHONY GOVERNMENT SPAM TARGETS EXECUTIVES

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June 5, 2007

Links Roundup

The big news for the last week has been the arrest of 'King of Spam' Robert Soloway. And there was much rejoicing, though little widespread belief that it would have that much effect on overall spam volumes. In other news, some people are having good success with a p0f (passive TCP fingerprinting) scanner as a way to detect spam and abuse; there's a module for EL that tried this a couple of years ago, and we found it didn't really tell us anything new; perhaps some finer-tuned detection would benefit, I suppose - at the time, all we were detecting was major OS (i.e., Windows) rather than sub-release (e.g., Windows XP SP 1). Given the numbers found in Joe Stewart's report on SpamThru, maybe it's time to try again.

• SnertSoft announces Barricade MX
• Desperate Botnet Battlers Call for an Internet Driver's License
  Complete with pic of Joe St Sauver!
• Stiffer Cyber Laws to Crack Down on Botnets, Spyware
• p0f, spam detection and OOF e-mails
• Attempt to block spam could be hindering e-mail
• Sendio Has New Take On An Old Approach To Conquering Spam
• Bankers warn, don't fall for spam scams
• Spam King arrested
• Spam levels unlikely to drop anytime soon
• Anti-spam ordinance effective from 1 June
• Analysis: Is Ron Paul Internet Buzz Real or Spam
• Spam flows despite high-profile arrest
• Spam levels remain steady in May
• "Spam king" arrested, faces multiple charges
• Spam Flows Despite High-Profile Arrest
• Some Not Counting On Junk Mail Decrease After "Spam King" Arrest
• Anti-spam laws take hold in Hong Kong
• Mobile spam can kill the golden goose
• Spam surges hurt SMBs
• Cloudmark takes anti-spam to the edge
• Report: New spam tactics threaten SMEs
• Spam: Spam King arrested in US.
• Soloway's Arrest Spotlights Malicious Spam
• MySpace Settles on Spam
• "Spam King" arrested in the US
• Even more Spam Prevention Tool clarifications: auto-squelching and ...
• It's spam dunk for emails, SMSs
• Feds Arrest 'Spam King' in Seattle
• MySpace Wins Spam E-mail Suit Against Globe.com
• Another 'Spam King' arrested
• Notorious Spam King Busted
• How to protect against spam
• Spam King's Revenge: Junk E-Mail Rages On
• Spam spikes wreak havoc
• Spam King and the zombie computers
• "King of Spam" arrested in Washington state
• SB County relieved with 'Spam King' arrest

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May 31, 2007

Links Roundup

• Phony BBB email dupes more than 1,400 execs
• Image spam accounting for half of spam received
• The Best Spam Fighters
• Spam countermeasures RFC
• Volunteers greet troops with spam and love
• Sao Luis Mining (SAOL) Becomes Target of Illegal Spam Emails
• Google Buys Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam Company
• Stop Spam! Best New Spam Eliminator Software on the Market
• reCaptcha - Stop Spam. Read Books.
• Text Spam Adds Up
• The end of image spam
• mcafee inc. helps customers to better understand image spam
• Tiscali scrambles to tackle spam
• Microsoft sues over spam sent through Hotmail
• Symantec's State of Spam Report for April 2007
• Spam worries being curtailed
• 'Spam King' taken into custody
• Hong Kong cracks down on spam

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May 30, 2007

Links Roundup

• Feds: Notorious Seattle 'Spam King' indicted
• Cyber Crooks Hijack Activities of Large Web-Hosting Firm
• Offering puppies is the newest twist in Nigeria scams
• Tiscali e-mail 'hit' by spammers
• House Passes Anti-Spyware Legislation
• Junk mail on the rise, but more Americans accept them as a fact of life
• Promising antispam technique gets nod

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May 29, 2007

Links Roundup

• Hong Kong to implement new ordinance to control spam problem
• I've grown accustomed to my spam
• PR Spam On Why You Shouldn't PR Spam Bloggers?
• IronPort Reports Image-Link Spam
• Learning to Live With Spam
• Image spam on the wane
• Spam-Symposium 2007 in Wien
• Americans getting used to pesky spam
• Ironport Systems Reports Image-Link Spam as Next Online Threat Wave
• Are you a spammer?
• More feedback from WoW players on spam prevention tool
• Anti-spam reaches standard status
• Spam targets Better Business Bureau (1st Update)
• Spam bothers all -- even gamers
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• New tool launched to combat spam
• Local firms warned as new spam laws near
• More Spam, Less Worry
• Is the CAN-SPAM Act Working?
• Hong Kong cracks down on spam
• New tool introduced to prevent spam and phishing
• Spam and Virus Partnership Still Strong
• MailFoundry claims world's fastest anti-spam filter
• British Library, You've Got Mail, and It's Not Spam
• Spam Is a Matter of Definition
• Cloudmark Announces Innovative Upgrade to the Cloudmark Desktop ...
• Anti-spam measure gets thumbs up
• This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need ...
• Has the Image Spam Flood Dried Up?
• Digitized books and spam actually have something in common
• Pirates of the Caribbean spam spreading
• New Spam Filter - reCAPTCHA
• America's Most Wanted Spammers: The 200 that control 80% of spam ...
• Are We Acclimating To Spam?
• TECHBITS: Cell phone art, Lead-free chips, Spam, Flight messaging
• Get lost in spam? Learn the triggers
• Study: More spam but fewer complaints
• Spam Scam Fakes Better Business Bureau Complaint
• / CORRECTION - Oncology Med, Inc. Denounces Spam Email Campaign ...
• New tool screens spam, digitizes books
• Three gangs behind spam barrage
• Bye Bye Spam and Phishing with DKIM?
• MailFoundry Announces Worlds Fastest Anti-Spam Email Filtering ...
• Spam Relief on the Horizon
• TCD increases spam defence

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May 23, 2007

Links Roundup

• Image Spam On The Rise
• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2007
• New code of practice targets internet spam
• Fighting Spam, Artistically
• Scammers Target Elderly With Aid of Data Brokers
• Technology making headway in spam battle
• Spamcop BL: Another Look (It’s Accurate!)

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May 22, 2007

Links Roundup

• Discover these lesser known web and e-mail tools e-mail programs
• Spam surge stretches software
• Authentication can counter more sophisticated spam: e-mail summit
• Burlington Coat Factory Relies on Proofpoint Protection Server to ...
• Fake Digital Camera Order Spam Hits Australia
• Blizz with WoW spam-prevention notes; players still not quite happy
• Spam code: Good idea but no panacea
• As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root
• Perspective: Can-Spam put to the test

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May 21, 2007

Links Roundup

• Digital Currency Business E-Gold Indicted for Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting
• MAAWG Sender Best Communications Practices - Version 1.1 (pdf)
• Firefox Surfers More Likely Patched Than IE Users
• Spam' is not exclusive to the Internet
• France Launches Anti-Spam Platform "Signal Spam"
• Mobile Phone Spam Raising its Ugly Head Again
• Renegade spam fighter returns to game Digg, YouTube
• Businesses Urged to Check Domains for Spam
• British Columbia Securities Commission: BC Regulator Steps Into ...
• Spam and my cell phone
• Vendor efforts fail to reduce spam levels
• Vendors detect upsurge in spam levels
• Talk Talk most spam-targeted UK ISP
• Follow the marketing advice your mom gave you
• ISP Spam Code of Practice released
• Image Spam: By the Numbers
• Spam today: BCSC forward-looking on e-mail stock promotions
• Ron Paul's propaganda posse and spam squad
• Intimately yours, spam
• Businesses urged to check domains for spam
• Take care of spam on your phpBB forum with bbAntiSpam
• Clear My Mail Names the UK's Most Spam Targetted ISP's
• New Image Spam Technique
• Almost half of spam comes from the States
• Detecting SPAM from inside your network
• Kaspersky Lab joins anti-spam product developers' consortium
• How Image Spam Works

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May 16, 2007

Links Roundup

• TALK TALK NAMED AS MOST SPAM TARGETTED ISP
• Prostitute Spam
• Death Threat Spam
• How the pros deal with spam
• Spam and Malware a Growing Problem for Small Businesses
• New Image Spam Technique Detected
• The Truth Behind Penny Stock Spam
• E-Marketers, Senders, ISPs Fight Spam with New MAAWG Sender Best ...
• Trend-Micros Anti-Spam Solution: Prevention is Better Than Cure
• Image Spam: By the Numbers
• New Botnet Gang War Raging on the Internet

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May 15, 2007

Links Roundup

• Avoiding the Impact of Spam
• Cal Poly Program Uses Pet Photos to Foil Spam Robots
• Don't be driven batty by e-mail
• Blizzard Planning on Implimenting New Spam-Prevention Features
• For Mother's Day, Try Some Spam
• MySpace users snowed in by new blizzard of spam
• Botnet Manager Exposed
• What's New in Network Security
• Signal-spam launches anti-spam website
• Pair of Coniglio Bills to Cut Down on Spam Approved in Committee
• Trend Micro Surpasses Competitors
• Spam &Telemarketers: Better the antivirus you know
• Image spam: In the picture
• New Release of Spam Scrubbing Service Allows Choice of Domain ...
• Spam Hits Inboxes in Run-up to Mother's Day
• SpamTrap gets out your frustration at spam
• France Launches Anti-Spam Platform
• Fun with Spam Mail
• Automated Spam Shredder
• Mothering SpamDay - Spam Hits Inboxes in Run-up to Mother's Day
• PlusNet customers face surge in spam
• Spam threat for SMEs

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May 10, 2007

Links Roundup

• Trend Micro Surpasses Competitors in Anti-Spam Effectiveness Test
• Same spam, different image?
• Huckaby:A Spam objection overruled
• China Voice Holding Corp. Takes Stance against Anonymous Spam E-Mails
• Trend Exploration Addresses Recent Fax and E-Mail Spam Issues
• Wave of spam infected with the Alanchum.VL trojan
• VASCO aXs GUARD Survey: Swift Rise of Spam and Malware Threats for ...
• Is it Spam? Is it a Scam? Could it be Real?
• Singapore: Singapores Spam Control Act Will Affect The Ways ...
• WoW: Darkshore under spam attack
• DoS Attacks Dropping As Spam Rises
• Spam Rules
• Extra: Stopping Spam E-Mail
• Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop"
• Spamtrap automatically prints, shreds spam for ultimate satisfaction
• Spam Could Be Replacing DoS Threats
• Sorry, Barack, 'friends' don't trade spam
• Postini Communications Security and Compliance Update for April ...
• Sharp Spike in Spam for Q1 2007 Reported
• Spammers use new spam technique to evade filters
• Spam still comprises two-thirds of e-mail: Symantec
• Poland's ISP, The Polish Telecom, Is A Major Spam Relay Company
• Law to stop spam reaching kids dubbed a failure
• Spam gets shredded by art
• Macworld Video: Filter your spam
• 'Don't Spam Kids' Registry A Financial Disaster For Utah
• Undelivered e-mail an offshoot of spam-prevention
• Spam:Semafo Forms Technical Team To Manage Uranium Exploration ...
• New Spam Attacks Company Reputations
• Small companies face spam explosion
• Orkut ties up with cops to stop spam
• Against the growing tide of spam, heres one anti-spam standard we ...
• Sophos warns of 'escort' spam campaign
• Image spam from a fake online prostitute finder
• Spam artists try new tactic -- death threats
• Spam:Semafo Reports First Quarter 2007 Financial Results
• Spam hitting small companies exploded in 2006
• Spam still over 60pc mark
• Three-fourth of mails on Internet are spam
• The Future of Spam
• BRIEFCASE: Spam Invasion
• Technology making headway in spam battle
• Spam Slams E-Mail Inboxes (Again)
• Getting Email Without Spam
• Web Form SPAM Protection: Stop SPAM, Block Spamming Bots
• ParetoLogic Launches Spam Controls to Protect Email Users from ...
• Beware Wolfowitz spam
• Symantec Releases May Spam Report
• Editorial: Spring Spam
• Sophos Warns of 'Escort' Spam Campaign
• Image spam hooks with hookers
• Ipswitch, Inc. Announces Spam Levels Have Hit All Time High
• Ambassador From Mars Receives 181634 Spam Emails - Says ...
• Spam is always evolving
• SonicWALL records sharp spike in spam for Q1 2007
• Temple U Takes Action on Antiwar Spam
• Crash course in spam, blogs
• Image spam levels fluctuating, say vendors
• E-mail Fails Because of Poor Spam Control: Report
• E-mail Fails Because of Poor Spam Control
• DDoS attacks die off, but spam returns

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May 4, 2007

Links Roundup

• Malicious code rise driven by web
• Aussie Greenies told to can the spam
• Fighting the spammers
• Magnet poetry is born from chaos of random spam
• Landmark Anti-Spam Court Case Filed
• Raiders Fans Spam MySpace Page of Moss
• The business pitfalls of NZ's anti-spam Act
• Spam e-card hides Trojan sting in its tail
• $1B Anti-Spam Suit Filed in Virginia
• Spam Botnets Worm Their Way Into Fortune 1000 Companies
• Spam shot up in April
• Massive lawsuit brought against spam harvesters
• New York to fight menu spam?
• HUGE ANTI-SPAM LAWSUIT FILED
• Say What? NY takes bite out of menu spam
• SINGAPORE: Anti-spam law means more unwanted mail?
• Spam e-mails show relentless rise
• Business Users Give Software Industry Failing Grade for Poor Antispam
• Spam a lot

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April 30, 2007

Links Roundup

• Project Honey Pot Files $1B+ Lawsuit Against Spammers
• Anti-Spammer Mumma on a Major Losing Streak
• Could silly spam be increasing anxiety, harming psyches?
• Utah Company Has A Lofty Goal: End Email Spam!
• Fighting the spammers
• Classic DM Tactics Are Spam for Filters
• The Farmer File: Do we bring spam upon ourselves?
• More Than Just Spam
• Comparing Email Management Systems that Protect Against Spam ...
• Hackers debut spam and virus sandwich
• Spam Stimulates Brain, say Researchers
• Billion dollar spam lawsuit filed
• Spam now arriving with virus attached
• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2007
• Spam could kill mobile advertising says Cloudmark
• Spam, Phishing, Spyware Pose Threats to Government Cybersecurity
• New Image Spam Scheme Hits Photo Sharing Sites
• Lawsuit aims at spam harvesters
• Spam situation definitely not getting any better
• Melbourne medical institute takes Kiwi spam cure
• Waikiki Spam Jam street party set for Saturday
• 5% of World's Spam Comes From One Polish ISP
• Unspam hopes to flush out 'spam harvesters' with billion-dollar ...
• New image spam sneaks into inboxes
• Storm Worm marries malware and spam
• Hurrah! Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit Filed In Virginia
• Infosecurity: Convergence of spam and viruses detected in new attack
• Getting Rid of Spam, Phishing Scams and Other Junk E-mail
• Viruses are hiding in spam
• Spam Fighters Eye New Target in Fresh Legal Offensive
• LG N-Sys Offers Commtouch Anti-Spam to UTM Customers Across Asia ...
• Greenies told to can the spam
• After Hours: Get some Spam and much more at Zago
• Record-Setting Spam Effort Turns Computers into Zombies
• MessageLabs Intelligence Report: Criminal Gang Debuts Spam and ...
• New York tries to crack down on 'menu spam'

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April 25, 2007

Links Roundup

• Spam busters on the run
• E-mail Security Appliance Uses Profiling to Thwart Spam
• Theft spam, fraud and web threats may rival ad spam
• SPAMfighter Stops New Malware Infected Virginia Tech Spam Mail
• Indian telecom watchdog to restrict unsolicited spam calls
• Your email address will be displayed, but is spam-protected
• Mobile Operators must meet the threat from Spam and Viruses head ...
• Double up on your spam filtering with Apple's Mail and procmail
• 98% of Hotmail messages are spam
• ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7
• Microsoft's Sender ID hits new milestone for stopping spam
• SONIC SWING: Spam Allstars define Miami's new sound machine
• Mozilla adds tags and anti-spam to email client
• Blocking spam is up to you; these programs can help
• Review: A Virtual Solution To Spam
• Malware Spam Offers Camera Phone Footage of VT Shootings
• The battle against spam
• Gmail's Normal Spam Filtering Returns
• Spam fighters
• More About the CEAS Spam Control Bake-off
• byteplant Offers Advanced Anti Spam Protection; NoSpamToday ...
• Free Practical Do's and Don'ts Guide to Spam
• American TonerServ Announces No Affiliation/Connection With Recent ...
• Will Spam Jeopardize the Dream of Mobile Advertising?
• Hotmail still riddled with spam
• Experts warn of botnet-driven spam deluge
• The Zombies Want Your Computer: How Botnets Generate Spam and ...
• Urban legends the worst spam
• Five percent of world's spam sent via Polish ISP
• Hijacked newsletter spam the latest trend: Commtouch
• Avoiding spam
• Spam Free Contact Links from Contactify
• Combating Spam
• Big Corps Busted Hosting Spam Zombies on Their Networks
• Work on keeping out spam steps up
• Spam from CitizenRE

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April 19, 2007

Links Roundup

• Brunton Vineyards Disavows Recent Spam
• Single-victim spam attacks skyrocket
• Spam news is good news for UK marketers
• Reputation systems gaining credibility in fight against spam
• Barracuda Spam Firewall Moves Beyond Traditional Reputation ...
• Spam-fighters coalition formed
• Spam still accounts for up to 90 per cent of all email
• Spam-Bot Intrusion Caught Now What?
• Mimecast spam and anti-virus managed service guarantees processing ...
• Somewhat complicated spam utility offers extensive filtering
• "Virtually" Eliminate Spam and Viruses: Virtualization Comes to ...
• Tom.com Hopes To End Outgoing Spam Problems
• SEC suspends trading in 3 companies as part of anti-spam campaign
• Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions
• Spam Fighters Turn To Profiling As Tax Deadline Looms
• Innovators offer hope of curing spam
• Five stars for GFI's anti-spam, anti-phishing solution
• Microsoft claims success in spam battle with Sender ID
• IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year
• Spam ahoy
• Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions
• UK falls out of top 10 spam offenders table
• Laura on Life: Green eggs and spam
• SINGAPORE: Anti-spam law means culprits face civil action
• US is the worlds top SPAM producer
• The Comment Spam Ends Here
• Spam up in Q1 2007 according to Sophos
• SEC suspends LA firm's shares in spam crackdown
• Poland Now Third Worst Spam Relayer As Polish People Ignore ...
• This spam sure ain't ham
• Storm Trojan Virus Spreads like Wildfire Wrapped in Spam
• Spam:Commerce Resources Corp. Expands Program with Gartner Lee Limited
• Storm Worm Email Virus returns, raising fears of fresh Spam Flood
• Increased use of spam combined with social engineering to spread ...
• New 'storm worm' spam run launched
• The gold standard of Macintosh spam utilities
• Email Marketing: Before the Spam Act!
• Data Doctor: Why spam filters block expected e-mails
• Send us feedback: http://www.cnet.com/4520-8_1-6625070-1.html?tag=txt.alert.fb
• Wikipedia SEO: Don't Spam - Contribute
• Symantec Identifies Sophisticated Zipped Trojan via Spam Attack
• How do spam busters work?
• Nikkei Server Used Illegally To Send Spam Mail
• SpamFrit.org's 'Spam Is Not Green' Campaign Set to Both Help Consumers and Rescue Global US Brands in Danger Due to Lax Corporate Trademark Policing
• Spam: it sucks like a tarpit
• Fenty Spam Offers Information, But No Cheap Viagra
• Switzerland serves up a ban on spam
• Utah and Matthew Prince: Zany Laws 'R' Us
• FTC To Host “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions”
• EU court rules monitoring of employee breached human rights
• Hormel OKs Spamhaus' Trademark
• ISP ejects whistle-blowing student
• Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions
• Gmail Team Accidentally Disables Batch of Accounts

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April 16, 2007

Links Roundup

• Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal
• Why you get so much unsolicited email from constant contact
• DOA Week 13, 2007
• Data Loss Cost Calculator
• e360Insight Response to Opposition to Motion for Order to Show Cause
• RBL.CLUECENTRAL.NET is back
• Bluesnarfing
• Trial in 419-related murder under way
• Spam to overtake human-issued e-mails in 2007
  Is it just me, or is this obvious?

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April 13, 2007

Links Roundup

• Law firm increases web security after spam attack
• SPAM will bury us all!
• Security Firm Says China Fixing Spam Problem; US Isn't
• Sophos: China makes strides in spam fight
• Singapore's parliament passes anti-spam law
• Live spam-catching contest at CEAS
• Anti-Spam Product Developers Consortium formed
• Recriminations Mount - SPAM Alliance Schisms
• Despite filters, spam continues to wage war on businesses
• Britney Spears hackers turn to Paris Hilton, Jenna Jameson image ...
• Massive spam shot of 'Storm Trojan' reaches record proportions
• Image spam and how to fight it
• Spam volume to exceed legitimate emails in 2007
• 19 Percent of World Spam from US-Based Computers
• 2007: The Year Of The Spam
• Agnitum Unleashes New Spam Terrier -- For Free
• US Remains Biggest Spam Culprit, Says Report

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April 11, 2007

Links Roundup

• Image spam doubles average file size
• Blocking image spam
• e360 Pulls 180 On Spam?
• Spam emails push porn Trojan
• Image spam fattens junk mail
• Did Expedia violate the Can Spam Act? As a customer, I think so.
• False Net doorways lead to spam
• Adult spam campaign pushes PC users to Pushu trojan
• Bulgarian woman charged in eBay conspiracy
• New antiphishing shield serves up ads
• MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'

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Links Roundup

• Spam Soars in 1Q, Small Businesses Under Fire
• Spam, to Go
• Will law suits stop Spam Kings?
• E-commerce outfit trades lawsuits in spam spat
• Telstra, Google in spam spat
• Switzerland serves up a ban on spam
• Spam poses as Internet Explorer 7 download
• Secrets to Success
• Spam Scams
• Service providers should be well-armed against spam
• Roaring Penguin Software selects High Stream Security to represent ...
• Study: spam costs US businesses $70B
• Yahoo loses 4.5 million spam e-mails
• UK Company launch 100% NO-SPAM guarantee
• Fortune 1000 Spam
• Google Wants Your SPAM Reports
• Not much you can do about AOL's spam
• Spam Costs $712 Per Employee Annually
• Tracking Code in Spam
• Comment and Trackback Spam Pollute Blogs
• The Spam Fighter anti spam program Posted By : Ckint Jhonson
• Anti-Spam Solution Remedies Lost Worker Productivity
• Chimps used to create spam
• Transactional vs. Unsolicited commercial: Ducking anti-spam ...
• What To Do About All That Spam?
• MySpace Sues 'Spam King'
• Secret spam wars
• Users want more tools to slay spam
• Spam:Golden Valley Mines/Uranium Project Update: Athabasca Basin ...
• Spam Relays Found In Surprising Places
• The Sorry State of Spam and What You Can Do About It
• Americans retain spam crown
• Spam Volumes Reach Record Highs
• Two of every three office e-mails are spam
• Yahoo Mail Offers Unlimted Storage for your Spam
• You've got SPAM
• Battling the scourge of the Internet: Spam
• Hanaro Telecom Hosts Spam Kings
• UK firm claims 100 per cent no-spam guarantee
• Spam Island
• MySpace Files Suit against Spam King in Los Angeles
• Enhancements in Deep Six DS200 anti-spam appliance
• ReSoft Release Free White Paper on Perils in Spam Emails & How to ...
• Spam scams skyrocketing
• Website defacement and spam together at last
• Spam costing US companies over $70 billion per year
• Spam to exceed person-to-person e-mails: study
• SMEs struggle with spam
• Spam rates in Ireland hit record high
• Pump and dump spam come to Europe
• Spam Causing Headaches for Legit Marketers
• Report: Consumers Are Savvier Spam Defenders Than Previously Thought
• Simple observations on email spam, freshmen and the Supreme Court
• MySpace Sues Spam King
• Street 'spam' targeted by local group
• America's Spam Shame
• The spam mistake
• Email Updates Urged Before Anti-Spam Laws Introduced
• Divine Spam
• The Size Of Spam
• Spam campaign uses Storm-like attack technique
• Is Google's Armstrong Promoting Search Spam?
• What's Cooking: Spam contest winner
• Spam Swamps SMBs
• Chongqing Telecom Begins Reverse IP Lookups To Block Spam
• Area companies keep spam at bay
• NaviSite lures spam haters with managed service
• Fenty Spam Offers Information, But No Cheap Viagra
• Spam reconsidered
• Spam: it sucks like a tarpit
• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, February 2007
• You've got too much mail!
• Spam catcher is simple to use but not configurable
• CAN-SPAM Act - Is it working? You Decide.
• ISP association offers guidance on Spam
• Mespam You Spam We All Spam
• CAN-SPAM Liability for Your e-mail partners.
• High Spam Levels Demonstrates Success of Campaigns'
• New and Noteworthy: Poorly founded complaints for DRM-free iTunes ...
• Stopping Wordpress Comment Spam
• Google's Blogspot Contains 75 Percent Spam
• Engate and Bentor partner to deliver next generation, connection ...
• Image spam: Annoying, but less deadly
• Spam Jam Gets A Partner: New Event Slated for Spring Weekend
• Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing
• ANI attack update: Rootkits, Hot Britney pics spam
• Blogs, Trackbacks, Spam, and All Those Lovely Pornographic Links
• Spam stress for small firms
• E-mail users want ways to weed out spam
• Museums offer tasty look at food history
• Spam Soars In Q1, Small Businesses Under Fire
• Google Spam Reporting Update
• ISPA recommendations on combating spam
• Spam Epidemic Could Make E-Mail Obsolete
• UK ISP association issues spam guidelines
• Building a Better Spam Trap
• Despite filters, spam continues to wage war on businesses
• Company guarantees no spam
• Image Spam: Getting the Picture?
• Comment spam, trackback spam, splogs pollute blogs
• Study: Spam costs businesses $70B
• Nucleus Research: Spam Costing US Businesses $712 Per Employee Each Year

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January 23, 2006

Links Roundup

• Build a better spam trap and ... spam multiplies
• US cuts spam output
• Kama Sutra worm seduces PC users
• Microsoft helps net Bulgarian phishers
• Spammers voted #26 most loathsome people in America (right behind Paris Hilton)
• Software Notebook: Is Gates' prediction on spam a bust?
  Apparently, it all depends on how you define "solved"
• How to spot 10 common spam scams
• This week in Net crime
• Happy Birthday, Brain.A
• Obscene Kama Sutra worm spreading via email
• F-Secure issues patch for critical flaws
• More brands targeted as phishing attacks to soar
• The Moon and the Spam Filter
• Consumers increasingly hitting the "this is spam" button
• Win32.VB worm spreading quickly
• Spam costly to court system
  North Dakota court system: 91% of all email was spam in 2005
• How to react to spam email
• MIT to host spam, next-generation computing events
• Spammer faces two years in jail
• Spam costs billions
  And that's just in Norway
• Dodgy domains spam message boards
• Threat of $5 per spam lands Qwest in hot water
• ISPs asked to help clean up Sober worm
• Supreme Court won't hear spam appeal
• The blurry line between email marketing and spam
• How to sue a British spammer
• Spear Phishing Spam Targets eBay Sellers
• Bill Gates Outlines Technology Vision to Help Stop Spam
  Of course, Billg said that spam would be gone by now, too
• Spam judgements exceed value of city
• A Sobering Look at Email Viruses
• Virus emails halve in 2005
• UK spam win opens door to NZ claims
• Less spam? Says who?
• California cracks down on phishing
• Spam volume to remain constant in 2006

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January 19, 2006

Links Roundup

• Feds after Google data
• The Psychology of deception
• The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat

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January 16, 2006

Links Roundup

• Email hits and misses
• Phishing fraudsters target Apple (users)
• US-CERT: 5,198 Software Flaws in 2005
• Site claims $3.5M damages from spam blacklist
• FTC opts out of Spamhaus input
• Dutch botnet much bigger than expected
  Yeah, what's an order of magnitude between friends?
• Jailed Russian Billionaire Khodorkovsky New Favorite Spam Hero
  Um, yeah. New.

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January 13, 2006

Links Roundup

• Customers win battle against Qwest over $5 spam fine
• Utah fines its first porn spammer under its Web child protection law
• Feds to send spammer to slammer (Ralsky associate Daniel Lin)

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January 12, 2006

Links Roundup

• DDoS attack cited in million dollar home page outage
• update on "iTunes spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?"
• I've woken up to the reality of spam: it's passed its peak (Charles Arthur)
  An astonishingly optimistic assessment

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January 11, 2006

Links Roundup

• iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?
• Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap
• FTC launches new online safety site
• Anatomy of a hosts file hijack (phishing support trojan)
• FBI warns of Sago mine e-mail scam
• Future Trends of Malware

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January 10, 2006

Links Roundup

• FBI raid shuts down suspected spammer
  Alan Ralsky still out of business? I doubt it
• The Antispyware Conspiracy (Mark Russinovich)
• Silent Runners (adware disinfectant)

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January 9, 2006

Links Roundup

• White Buffalo Loses Again
• Sober.Y update from F-Secure's blog
• New exploit released for the WMF vulnerability - YELLOW
• Overview of WMF related articles at ISC
• Planet Antispam
• Netcraft: Phishing Attacks Evolved Steadily Throughout 2005
• Sadly misinformed article on Blue Frog
• Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
• CodeFish Spam Watch
• Boca mayor, Greenacres state senator pushing anti-spam effort
• Spammer lands $11B fine
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001 - Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)

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December 30, 2005

Links Roundup

• Malicious software targets Google AdSense ads
• Alleged spammer sues over "Faith in Jesus" email campaign

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December 29, 2005

Links Roundup

• China to Help Korea Stem Spam
• Trojan delivers unwanted gift to Windows PCs
• Man pleads guilty to eBay Internet attack
• Is reputation services the future for spam fighting?
  No, but grammar are.
• LimeWire spam filtering
• Spam-fighting Crist's campaign e-mails irk some recipients
• US-Canada cross-border law enforcement team targets spammers
• California pushes fax spam laws (to replace the ones our legislators decimated recently)
• AOL: Trump, 'penis patch' spam dominate 2005
• China cracking down on cell phone fraud, spam
• Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger Beta
• Top security trends for 2006
• 9700 Phone Numbers Blocked Since Start Of Anti-Spam Campaign (Hong Kong)
• Businessman wins e-mail spam case
• A feast of leftover Christmas spam
• 10-20% of all blogs are spam blogs, according to Umbria
• E-Mail Dominance Faces Challenges
• AOL top ten spam list
• Trump among top spam subjects
• Spam volume down by 75% in 2005
• Spam Blackhole List Sued, Injunction Ordered
  the spamkings article
• How To Choose an Anti-Spam Service Provider
• Claim back £ per spam (UK/EU)
• Spam a lot less, but worse
  Yet another end user chiming in - spam volumes aren't down, sadly, except due to better filtering
• Bill Gates 2004 spam prediction
  fun commentary on how much spam Billg still gets

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December 25, 2005

Links Roundup

• E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you
• Fla attorney general says his emails aren't spam
• British rogue dialers face heftier fines

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December 21, 2005

Links Roundup

• Texas Expands Lawsuit Against Sony BMG
• Google plugs obscure phishing holes
• The Impact of Emerging Technologies: The Internet is Broken
• Part 2 and Part 3 of the aforementioned article
• 2005: The Year We Didn't Solve Spam (Ray Everett-Church)
• 'Little Red Book' story gets wide publicity
• High risk in Symantec antivirus software flaw
• FTC Celebrates CAN-SPAM with Spam Suits
• Spam Reduced by Vendor Software, Not CAN-SPAM
• Texas AG sues Hawaii man for alleged spam
• Number of Virus Threats Continues To Rise
• N.C. man charged with violating anti-spam law
• CAN-Spam Act Can Do Better, Sophos Reports
• Florida Sues Spammer Touting Bogus Fuel Saver
• Antispam group established in China
• Spam tsar sends out unwanted message admitting defeat in war on junk e-mail
• Why viagra spam floods your email
• Scammers jingle all the way
• Yesmail named privacy seal reseller
• Exchange users begging for features they can use in version 12
• The Web: Feds flop at stopping spam

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December 19, 2005

Links Roundup

• FTC says federal spam law has worked
  Sadly, it crippled other, better laws first, which might have worked better
• Santa IM worm hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo!
• FTC releasesd CAN-SPAM report (PDF)
• Worm traps alleged child porn offender
• Hackers Break Into Computer-Security Firm's Customer Database

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December 16, 2005

Links Roundup

• Dasher worm gallops onto the Net
• InternetNZ welcomes anti-spam bill
• Open source antivirus tech may get commercial help
• Taking on rootkits with hardware
• Rootkit Guru: The Evil in Sony BMG
• Senate panel approves more Net policing powers
• AT&T launches security Webcast network

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December 12, 2005

Links Roundup

• Browsers to get sturdier padlocks

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December 9, 2005

Links Roundup

• California Spammer Ordered to Pay $3.4 Million
• Spam scam invokes Princess Diana
• Airport passcodes leaked from virus-infected [Microsoft Windows] PC
  I'm going to start explicitly editorializing the MS Windows aspect of all of these reports from now on. Hope you don't mind.
• eBay phishing saga; in summary...
• eBay tricked by phony email
• Sober code cracked
• Deakin University drops its Linux mail servers in favor of IronPort appliances
• Two Tampa men fined under state's antispam law
• Illegal Spam, Internet Operation Shut Down
• AvTech Direct Fined for Anti-Spam Violations

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December 7, 2005

Links Roundup

• Study says 1 in 4 Net users are phishing targets
• Survey: most home PC users lack security
  This is why I don't call these links "news".
• Clock's ticking on new Sober onslaught
  Just a few more weeks to trade in your Windows computer!
• New Sony CD security risk found
• New IM worm chats with its intended victims

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December 6, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spam scams tout stocks
• Sophos: Gates will be proven wrong about spam
• November tops for spam, zombies on the rise
• Spam surges in November, CipherTrust reports
• Christmas phishing threats loom
• Security Firm Reports Malware Threats Jump 48 Percent (in 2005)
• Anatomy of a failed virus attack
  Looks more like spearphishing to me
• Affiliate spam in Google Base
• New AIM worm spreading
• Splitting the root: it's too late (John Levine at CircleID)
• WSIS and the splitting of the root (Brad Templeton at CircleID)
• Fighting Spam with Reputation Systems
  (Vipul Ved Prakash and Adam O'Donnell from Cloudmark)
• Microsoft: Stealth Rootkits Are Bombarding XP SP2 Boxes
  Which is to say, "rootkit" has now come to mean "software that can hide its presence" instead of "software that exploits vulnerabilities in order to gain administrative access"
• Two years later, Blaster worm still squirming
• Google fixes IE bug
  Which is to say, Google works around IE bug that affects google Desktop

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December 3, 2005

Links Roundup

• Don't call it spyware
• Sunbelt to acquire Keiro personal firewall
• Mail-Filters Offers Free Anti-Spam Filtering Service to Charitable Organizations Through the End of 2006
• Holiday spam could reach one billion emails
• Universal Studios flooded with spam
• Virus rate slows as spam rises
  Must have come out before Sober did
• Top five virus groups and spam stopped by SoftScan in November 2005
• Sniffing out e-mail spam company's main mission
• Phishers dangling more lures in front of NZ businesses
• Adware maker sues over 'high risk' designation
• Sober worm stalls MSN, Hotmal
  In other words, MSN, Hotmail refusing Comcast email because Comcast subscribers are infected

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December 2, 2005

Links Roundup

• How to immunize your computer: Model shows viruses can be beaten at their own game.
• Windows OneCare. Do You Dare?
• Pricey filters can’t stop all spam
• Microsoft confirms what the rest of us have known for going on three years: Windows PCs are routinely hijacked by spammers
• Internet spam wastes energy and detracts from general usage
• Gmail gets security upgrade

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November 30, 2005

Links Roundup

• DNS Based Blacklists and Whitelists for E-Mail
  John Levine's draft DNSBL RFC
• Premature victory declaration [in Sony rootkit case]?
• Sober storms charts as month's biggest attack
• Phishers use IRS tax refund as bait
• Clever crooks can fool wiretaps
• Spam blogs will die
• Wireless carriers have the right idea
• A more critical reading of the FTC study's conclusions
• ISPs filtering out spam, FTC study says
• Harvesters still at work but spam more manageable
• Cloudmark PR: Cloudmark Server Edition Earns 'Highest Accuracy' Rating in Network Computing Review
• Coach spams 38K to apologize for his team's performance

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November 29, 2005

Links Roundup

• In search of holiday suckers
• Cybercrime yields more cash than drugs

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November 27, 2005

Links Roundup

• S. 1789 - identity theft bill (draft, PDF)
• Sony unsinged by rootkit CD fiasco
• Verizon cracks down on wireless spam

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November 22, 2005

Links Roundup

• Verizon files suit over cell phone spam
• Latest Sober threatens e-mail gateways
• UK Government sees silver lining in botnet cloud
• Sober.Y becoming huge

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November 21, 2005

Links Roundup

• Cleaning up Sony's rootkit mess
• Spam Slayer: Meet Average-Joe Spammer
• Tech buzz: Protection for IM Spam, reporting computer intrusions and more
• Marketing to the Global Inbox
• Texas Sues Sony Over Anti-Piracy Software
• The other side of email spam
• Spam! What is it good for, absolutely nothing!
• Bloggers beware! Bots Are Stealing Content From Your Blog, Stop Them
• "Friendly spam" comes with load of guilt
• Who has the right to control your PC?
  This question even needs to be asked?
• Sony BMG Rootkit Lawsuits portal
• Shadowcrew six plead guilty to credit card fraud
• Nigerian email scammers jailed
• Timeshare spammer jailed

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November 18, 2005

Links Roundup

• Earthlink's pursuit lands spammer in can
• Economies of Scale in E-Mail Security (Outblaze offering outsourced MX)
• An Open Letter to Operators Of Redirection Sites (SURBL)

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November 17, 2005

Links Roundup

It's "all-Weaselboy, all the time" day here

• Rootkit worm linked to hacker group in Middle East
• Microsoft enlists new buddies for antiphishing trip
• Will certification legitimize adware?
  Of course it will. At an unnecessary cost to all independent software developers
• Spammers Barred from Violating Federal Law (go, FTC)
• Online spam king jailed for 'catalogue of criminality' that netted £1.6 million
  Be sure to read all the way through to page two for the juicy details
• 'Vindictive' UK spammer jailed for six years
• Police welcome blackmailer jailing
• Weaselboy death threat spammer sent down
  I must say I enjoy the phrasing of the subhead

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November 16, 2005

Links Roundup

• Sony recalls copy-protected CDs
  Too bad they've already infected half a million networks
• Bots slim down to get tough
• Study: Keystroke spying on the rise
• Spammer jailed for £1.6m net scam
• Group backs program to certify downloads
  Too bad it won't do anything but cast suspicion on and add cost to all indy software developers
• U.S., United Nations reach Net detente
  Personally, if Mugabe is against it, I'm for it. No matter what it is.

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November 15, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spam University
• University of Nigeria: Creators of Advanced Fee Methodology
• Sony’s Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs
• Is it lights out for email?
  Funny how you can replace "email" with "Windows" in the first two paragraphs and keep the sense intact.

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November 14, 2005

Links Roundup

• Caught in the Net: There are a few ways to combat spam
• Internet showdown in Tunis
• SA companies should follow international best practice in permission-based marketing
• Postini And The On-Again, Off-Again Spam List
  An appallingly uninformed and badly written article
• Microsoft will wipe Sony's rootkit
• Scaling down the email mountain
• Online porn not as popular as get-rich-quick scams

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November 11, 2005

Links Roundup

• New Sober worm release tomorrow
• Malware Removal and Prevention
• Strange phishing/spam emails (SANS Internet Storm Center)
• Unmasking a John Doe spammer
• Spam from Iraq
• Pump-and-dump spam domains go silent after botnet closure
  Note that this is not stock pump and dump spam
• DHS official opines on Sony DRM and related topics
  Oddly enough, he makes sense
• New Windows trojan causes confusion
  More like "Trend Micro causes confusion"...
• Banking customers willing to pay for online security
• Sony to stop making protected CDs

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November 10, 2005

Links Roundup

• FTC shuts down spyware operation
• Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?
• Sony malware works on Macs, too!
• Spyware spat makes small print a big issue
• First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted

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November 9, 2005

Links Roundup

• Antivirus firms target Sony copy protection
• Sony: you don't reeeeaaaally want to uninstall, do you?
• ChoicePoint notifies another 17K consumers on possible breach
• Data on 3K consumers stolen with computer
• Alleged virus spreader held without bond
• Sony's second 'Rootkit' DRM patch doesn't hush critics
• Why Challenge/Response Is A Bad Idea
• Online banking too risky? Some say yes
  Up to a fifth now using online banking less or not at all
• Blue Coat to cleanse encrypted traffic
  Wow. I guess SSL really isn't very strong after all, if security products can scan it in real time.
• Google phishing scam promises a $400 windfall
  The Websense alert for the scam
• Image handling flaws put Windows PCs at risk

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November 8, 2005

Links Roundup

• Linux worm targets PHP flaw
• A constant state of insecurity
• DMA requires email authentication - do we care?
• A worm by any other name
• New worm targets Linux systems
• Sony facing not-so-secretive legal action

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November 7, 2005

Links Roundup

• Windows AntiSpyware becomes Defender
• Nigerian scammers used US airbase, claim
• FBI busts 'BotMaster'
• The next big target: Cisco
• Unsecured WiFi would be outlawed by New York county
• Sony sued over rootkits
• Nigeria joins antiscam effort
  This time, it's the London Action Plan
• Why they say spyware is good for you

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November 4, 2005

Links Roundup

• More coverage of the SEC online trading security guide
• More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home
• One more reason not to use censorware
• Seeing No Evil
  Time to regulate the ISP industry?
• SEC Urges Investors to Protect Their Online Brokerage Accounts from Identity Thieves
• SEC Files Emergency Action Against Estonian Traders to Stop Ongoing Fraudulent Hacking Scheme
  Stealing and republishing press releases? Fraudulently? wtf?
• Nigeria joins antiscam effort
• Virus scanners made moot by new exploit

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November 3, 2005

Links Roundup

• Apparently, Microsoft thinks now is a good time to protect privacy
  I wonder what the lawyers told them?
• More on the popup arrest
• Alleged Popup Hacker Arrested
• Bruce Schneier in Wired on RFID Passports
• Cisco patches "black hat" IOS flaw
• Internet Advertising Firm Helps Crack Cybercrime Ring
• Ed Felten on Sony's "rootkit remover"
• DOS attacks aren't illegal in the UK
• The Cover-up is the Crime
• Apparently, the recent MSNBC thing on RATs was first aired by Dateline NBC in 1999
• World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit
• Responsible Spam (McSweeney's)
  HIlarious.

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November 2, 2005

Links Roundup

• Forget phish, start fumigating for RATs
• Spam can be controlled
  Note: this story would read better if <ADV> had been encoded properly
• Antispam Offerings Grow Up
• British teen in court over email bomb charges
• Bird flu virus infects PCs
• Sony to patch copy-protected CD
• Sony CD protection sparks security concerns
• Swedish programmer in Greek spam probe protests innocence
• Rootkits All Around: Universal Music Has It Too

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November 1, 2005

Links Roundup

• UT students' private data posted on the 'Net
• Attack of the blogs
  Remember, it's not the people, it's the technology they use that matters!
• Final exam for CAN-SPAM (Dana Blankenhorn)
• Multiply Gets Funding Despite Social Spam Stigma

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Links Roundup

• Man Is Sentenced in Phishing Fraud
  ...after making $360K from phishing ebay users
• More on the Sony DRM "rootkit"
• Hoosiers advised about potential scam involving jury service
• Evasion bug bites virus shields

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October 28, 2005

Links Roundup

• Blue Security Spams Spammers
• Sophisticated eBay fraudsters jailed in Britain
• Spam scams targeting smaller firms
• Google not responding to Splog and Spam
• AIM worm plays nasty new trick
  Yeah, it downloads a rootkit

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October 27, 2005

Links Roundup

• Anti-spyware group drafts guidelines
• A differing opinion on GMail spam filter effectiveness
• So-called "spam charges" hit thousands of credit cards
• Spam scam seeking $5 donations
  Another Katrita/Red Cross scam
• Spam pushes manifest destiny to new frontier
• Spam, spam, spam, and blogs
• Looking beyond simple spam filtering
• The deadly duo: spam and viruses
• Chilling new spam hits email
• Spam crams teachers' inboxes
• Spyware costs UK £445M/year
• UK firms flouting spam regulations
  More accurately, EU privacy regulations
• Gmail spam is gone
• Spam sentence sends the right message
  More on the Irish 4's a Fortune spammer
• Survey Shows That Security Is the Top Messaging Concern of SMBs
• SpamButcher launches SpamFreeze
  Free service to fight address scraping by spiders
• Helping consumers fight spam
  Interview with FixingEmail's Stephanie Jordan
• Child pornography latest spam in Sweden
• Spam begins to pick up for shopping season
• TechBookReport on 'Slamming Spam'
• Spam causes Northrock shutdown (Bermuda)
• Spammers exploit bird flu fears
  The google ads below the article might give one pause
• Microsoft, FTP recruit for a zombie hunt
  See also MSFT's press release and Brian McWilliams' take

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October 26, 2005

Links Roundup

• Police arrest cafe owner for throwing out 419 scammer
• Security fears on Internet cause big cuts in US Web usage: survey
• Forgotten principles of Internet governance (Karl Auerbach at CircleID)
• Zotob damage deep but not widespread
• LURHQ Internet Threat Update
• Survey results expose widespread DNS vulnerabilities
• ICANN gets the root zone, too (John Levine at CircleID)
• "Splogs" roil Web, and some blame Google
  Yeah, because you know, without Google, there'd be no concept of links

Posted by schampeo at 9:20 AM | TrackBack

October 25, 2005

Links Roundup

• Asia: Spam factory of the world
• Disbarred lawyer on Department of Justice's watch
• ICANN and VeriSign Announce End to Long-Standing Dispute

Posted by schampeo at 11:08 AM | TrackBack

October 24, 2005

Links Roundup

• Bank shuts down Web site after phishing attack
• Yet another "glitch", this time letting criminals out of prison
• Software glitch reveals private data for thousands of state's students
  I'm reminded of Rich Kulaweic on the use of the word "glitch"
• Dutch Say Suspects Hacked 1.5M Computers
  Up from 100K just a few days ago
• Accused Spyware Installer Settles Lawsuit
  Go, Spitzer

Posted by schampeo at 7:38 PM | TrackBack

Links Roundup

• Spot the laughably idiotic claim in this article
  okay, maybe there's more than one
• Colleges protest call to upgrade online systems
  at great expense, solely for the purposes of spying on email and other traffic
• 3 year jail term for 419/advance fee fraud scams considered
• Marketers claim to fight spam
• Bruce Schneier: ISPs must be held liable for viruses and other bad traffic
• Yahoo! fixes Web mail security flaw
  Yet another cross-site scripting bug with little demonstrable impact
• You've got sloooow mail (AOL suffers glitch)

Posted by schampeo at 7:06 AM | TrackBack

October 18, 2005

Links Roundup

This is the "comment spam" edition of the links roundup. Hopefully, splogs won't draw attention away from the real scumbags like Alan Ralsky and their eagerly-anticipated comeuppance.

• Tim Bray takes note of the "splog explosion"
• Blogger had a bad weekend
• Jason Goldman on Blogger's approach to handling comment spam and "splogs"
• Spam blog problem becoming significant
• Spam blogs make up 30% of all new blogs being created, according to Pete Blackshaw

Posted by schampeo at 7:46 PM | TrackBack

October 17, 2005

Links Roundup

• DMA requires members to adopt email authentication
  Interesting. Stupid, but interesting.
• Security flaw touches Windows Media Player, IE
• Bird flu: you'll die, but your IT will survive
• At Microsoft, Interlopers Sound Off on Security
• Feds Want Banks to Strengthen Web Log-Ons

Posted by schampeo at 5:45 PM | TrackBack

October 14, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spyware can constitute illegal trespass on home computers
• The Government of Nigeria and Microsoft Announce Co-Operation to Help Fight Cybercrime

  "At Microsoft, we have invested substantial resources and implemented comprehensive campaigns and initiatives to help make the internet a safer place to help ensure the integrity and viability of e-mail and the internet. Nigeria is often perceived as a country that hosts financial scammers, this is why it is a great honour for us to contribute to the outstanding efforts of the EFCC," said Horacio Gutierrez, Associate General Counsel of Microsoft EMEA. "We are excited to share our knowledge and resources in this area to support the efforts of the EFCC so that these emerging online threats do not continue to proliferate."

• Nigeria considers outlawing spamming
• How safe is your mail?
• Kaspersky Labs comments on spam
  90% of freemail traffic in Russian is spam

Posted by schampeo at 3:13 PM

October 13, 2005

Links Roundup

• XSS worm hits MySpace
  Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks, IE!
• John Dvorak on the "Microsoft Protection Racket"
• Appeals court hears arguments on spam-law case
• Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.0 Includes Delivery Enhancements for Habeas Certified Senders
• Next Generation Solutions for Spam: A Predictive Approach (reg req)
• Splitting the Room: Project Honeypot and the Future of Spam
  In which our guest editor draws specious and dubious conclusions
• And they said CAN-SPAM wouldn't work
  Boy, did he ever miss the point.
• Boca Raton keeps US at top of spam charts
• Spamhaus takes warning shot at NRA
• British spam scammer Peter Francis-Macrae in the dock

Posted by schampeo at 2:29 PM

October 12, 2005

Links Roundup

• DDoS attacks big Net threat
• Department of Homeland Security to standardize on most insecure OS
  Oh, yeah, this already happened - hence the FEMA stupidity
• Antispam push helping to curb US junk mail
  By which they mean "junk email"
• Security exec to cops: talk to us
• Phishign defense a key factor in ebay/verisign deal
  I predict an escalation in theft of two-function authentication devices
• Paul Ferguson points out that this vulnerability could lead to another worm fest

Posted by schampeo at 8:47 AM

October 11, 2005

Links Roundup

• Does your Web host fight spam?
  ...or does it merely offer the lame antispam tactics listed here?
• AG Reilly shuts down Internet "spam gang" Web sites
  Poor Leo.
• Spam 'error' costly for NZ Web site
• Wired interviews Eran Reshef from BlueSecurity
• Microsoft's Web Mail gets overhaul
  Compare and contrast with Yahoo's Mail beta
• Searching (or not) with SpamGoogle
• Verisign buys weblogs.com for $2.3M
  Somehow, this has to do with spam?
• Pumped, dumped
• A conversation with Walt Rines
• YupiMSN combats hotmail spam with Brightmail
  The irony of the headline is making my day
• ProofPoint updates email security software
• China purges SMS spam
• New sober spam
• Spyware threat escalating, expert warns
• Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested
  Yes, more of them.

Posted by schampeo at 12:10 PM

October 10, 2005

Links Roundup

• Origin of the term 'spam' to mean net abuse
• Get ready for Son of CAN-SPAM
• Google fixes Web site security bug
  Too bad they refuse to include useful point-of-injection information in GMail
• Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication

Posted by schampeo at 1:33 PM

October 9, 2005

Links Roundup

• California makes spam slightly more illegal, too
• California makes phishing slightly more illegal

Posted by schampeo at 11:01 AM

October 7, 2005

Links Roundup

• Maintainers of 100 000+ computer botnet arrested
• Hackers jailed over global virus (the T-K worm)
  Six months for one, three for the other

Posted by schampeo at 12:49 PM

October 6, 2005

Links Roundup

• Nigerian 419 scammers win Ig Nobel prize for literature
• Microsoft: advance warning of security updates
• Sober worm offshoot lurks behind class photos
• CheckPoint acquires Sourcefire
• Nematodes: The Making of "Beneficial" Network Worms
  General response among security pros is "put the crack pipe down and back away slowly"
• The Insecurity in Microsoft Security News
• New security nightmare: robot networks
  Apparently, this is new.
• SpreadFireFox brought down by crackers

Posted by schampeo at 3:23 PM

October 5, 2005

Links Roundup

• SpamHuntress Wiki
• link spammers are attempting to get around blacklists by linking to innocent, unrelated sites
• Worm ID scheme gets under way
• Internet crime shifts to Russia
• Visa CEO calls for data protection laws, incentives
• Spam Glossary
• French voters received spam signed by minister
  Oops! Apparently, buying "opt-in" lists doesn't guarantee they're "opt-in"!
• California passes nation's first anti-phishing law
• BigPond cracks down on spam
  Heh. From mid-2003.
• Spam Queen Cans Spam, Says Email Marketing is Dead
• Nokia to inoculate phones with antivirus
• Spam stock tracker tracks stocks affected by pump and dump scammers
  If you'd have bought the stocks pimped by these dirtbags, you'd be down 50% since May (via kottke)
• AOL notches up barrier against phishers
• Cisco and Oracle panned, shaken, stirred
• FTC Seeks to Halt Illegal Spyware Operation
• The Six Dumbest Ideas In Computer Security
  I love his idea of Artifical Ignorance.
• Defeating Windows Personal Firewalls (pdf)
• Preserving the Internet Channel Against Phishers
• Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones, a Paper Says (reg. req.)
  And here's a link to the paper discussed in the article

Posted by schampeo at 10:23 AM

October 4, 2005

Links Roundup

• Microsoft expected to provide security strategy update
  But I don't think many Windows people will be happy with "please just unplug your boxes from the Internet"
• Kaspersky confirms antivirus software flaw
• The Zombie Hunters
• John Levine weighs in on the Robert Braver lawsuit at CircleID
• Paul Vixie: Why I Am Participating in the OSRN Project
• Phishers shut down Swedish bank Nordea Sweden

Posted by schampeo at 1:15 PM

October 3, 2005

Links Roundup

• Tokenization: The Building Blocks of Spam
  A detailed introduction to how Bayesian filters are built
• Some press for Robert Braver's $10M win against Soloway
• Big Hurdles Remain For VoIP Deployments
• Man indicted in Katrina fraud case
• .travel TLD open for business

Posted by schampeo at 2:56 PM

September 30, 2005

Links Roundup

• California gov. signs law to punish phishing scams
• U of Ga: Hacker may have student info
  I guess they're cautious about calling them 'crackers'
• Sound Embedded In Spam Becomes Latest Office Irritant Says Email Systems (more here)
  I think they mean "previous irritant: mail clients that automatically play attached midi files"
• Trojan Targets Unpatched Windows Flaw
  And no, it doesn't try to actually fix it, like Naachi
• U.K. town a global contender in bot battle
  5% of all the bots in the world in one small town? Doesn't this suggest to anyone that the stats are horribly, horribly wrong?
• New worm spoofs Google, Yahoo, and MSN sites

Posted by schampeo at 5:11 PM

September 29, 2005

Links Roundup

• Phishers go after World Cup fans
• Spam floods Wright State inboxes
  Welcome to college, please also make sure your resnet isn't a spam source
• Cloudmark, QPass team to block mobile spam
  Cloudmark's been busy lately.
• F-Secure launches new anti-spyware product
• AOL blocks Tuftsemail after spam reports
  Welcome to college, please also make sure your resnet isn't a spam source
• Paltalk partners with Cloudmark to protect members from spam and phishing
• ISPs called upon to bar 'nasties'
• DEA shuts 4,600 rogue pharmacy sites
  Lots of fun stats
• Now this is funny
  This from the nimrod who happily wrote his software to spew outscatter and refused to fix it, even altered it over and over to avoid filters?
• Northwestern implements spam/virus blocker
• Is email failing us?
  No, it's working as expected, you just have some basic misunderstandings of how it's supposed to work
• China to nap mobile spammers using "spam trap"
• Phone spam a security risk
• Google Testing Remove Result and Spam Report Options
• Yet another survey showing that Internet Marketers are worried about spam
• Fighting phone spam proves difficult
• Apparently, antispam measures taken by broadband providers may prevent high volume email deployers from reaching wealthiest of customers
• Spam Rate Declines But Overall Volume Increases
  More on the MXLogic survey

Posted by schampeo at 5:12 PM

September 28, 2005

Links Roundup

• Identity theft law poster child faces four year jail sentence
• Toolbar, search site aim to guard against phishers
  A prominently displayed Post-It reading "am I about to do something really stupid?" might help more.
• Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 released
  I'm curious: why does an office productivity suite need to protect you from phishing attacks?!

Posted by schampeo at 9:44 AM

September 23, 2005

Links Roundup

• Robert Braver wins big ($10M) against idiot spammer Soloway (pdf)
• Sophos: Cell phone virus claims are bonkers
• Mozilla Suite and Firefox Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Posted by schampeo at 9:47 AM

September 22, 2005

Links Roundup

• Symantec buys antiphishing firm WholeSecurity
• MessageLabs signs global reseller alliance with HP
• Forbes: the secrets to email nirvana
• German Consumer protection agency sets up spam hotline
• CircleID: Sitefinder writ small
  As always, read the comments
• Global Web Promotions Pty, Australian HGH spammers, put out of business by judge
  And ordered to pay $2.2 million
• Spam Bagle surge fills internet
• Is VOIP the Next Target of Worms, Spam?
• Cell phone spam is now a crime
• How's your Unsubscribe Reputation?
• Feedster CTO comments on splogs (spam blogs)
  (Direct link to article)
• Cell phone virus tries leaping to PCs
• Name that worm: plan looks to cut through chaos
• EarthLink lands a win in phishing suit

Posted by schampeo at 12:06 AM

September 21, 2005

Links Roundup

• EDS: Banks should shape up on security
• Court nixes some ads sent to cell phones
• And you thought security couldn't get worse?
• AOL swaps out anti-spyware for users
• Bagle attack comes in two waves

Posted by schampeo at 10:29 AM

September 20, 2005

Links Roundup

• New Bagle making the rounds?

Posted by schampeo at 12:32 PM

September 19, 2005

Links Roundup

• Cisco IOS hack? (in Russian)
• ClamAV Multiple vulnerabilities
• Spam and scams could make the Internet unusable
  Microsoft and Spamhaus both warning of three to five year horizon
• UK tops zombie PC chart (again)
• Firefox, Mac users living in "false paradise", according to Symantec

Posted by schampeo at 12:39 PM

September 16, 2005

Links Roundup

• Financial Express reviews TrustELI's antispam appliance
• National Center for Policy Analysis releases report on "the spam divide"
  Basically a rehash of Suresh's OECD report
• KickBackSPAM launches antispam tool for Outlook and other Windows mail clients
  From the description, it looks like a potential CloudMark SpamNet competitor
• Remote code execution vulnerability in IE for XP
  Have a good weekend!
• Miami University student information stolen
• Japanese phisher gets slapped on wrist
• ICANN approves .XXX, also top level domain for cat lovers and their blogs

Posted by schampeo at 10:06 AM

September 14, 2005

Links Roundup

• SpamAssassin 3.1.0 released
• Fake Windows W32sinnaka.a alert actually front for spyware
• Blue Security cancels conference presentation at last minute
• In the battle against spam, they stand on guard for thee
• Techies don't get security either
• Interesting use of Google Maps to track source of spam (possibly a joke)
• uk.com wildcard raises Net stability worries
  though many saner heads point out it's just a single dot com domain, not a TLD; Tony Finch suggests they could at least run a mail rejection service
• First Monday: The Economy of Phishing
• McAfee Releases New Secure Content Management Appliances For Comprehensive Web And Email Protection
• Trend Micro: Financial spam tops list in August
• Spam filtering nears breakdown, warns "expert"
  Apparently, 30 or more a day is beyond their ability to handle. Good thing we don't use their software here, with volumes into the high hundreds/day

Posted by schampeo at 3:29 PM

September 13, 2005

Links Roundup

• Security threats rise 22% over last year
  Or, more companies are reporting them nowadays, one
• Tenebril debuts free anti-spyware tool
• Zotob suspect appears in court
• Comcast: Overlords of Spam, Zombies Despite last year's port 25/tcp crackdown
• UK gov't "too busy" to deal with spam
• FBI Warns of Bogus Spam Email Solicitation Disguised as a Post-Katrina Red Cross Appeal
• Meg Whitman's $2.6B spam goof
  

  eBay hopes to monetize the user based by selling their account details to junk callers, at $2 to $12 per lead

• Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response
  I would love to know more about this (more at the WSJ)
  UPDATE: fema.gov doesn't even have an MX record, the bozos.
• VoIP provider spills customer emails
  How do you accidentally attach a spreadsheet containing 21K email addresses to an email message?

Posted by schampeo at 7:52 AM

September 12, 2005

Links Roundup

• Draft spam bill gives S'poreans right to sue
• Proposed Spam Control Bill to cover commercial mobile phone messages
• Microsoft chief of security hit by rogue dialler scam
• EU has spam and youth protection filters tested
• Virtual goods, real scams

Posted by schampeo at 10:38 AM

September 8, 2005

Links Roundup

• Microsoft to integrate reputation service into new browser?
• Interruptions caused by spam, etc. cost US businesses $588B a year
  Yes, that's more than half a trillion dollars; of course, it's Jonathan Spira at Basex, who can't manage a mailing list to save his life, either
• AOL awards $85K to winner of its spam booty contest
  Ah, now I understand - it was a marketing campaign (note the page views reference at the end)
• Vint Cerf joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist

Posted by schampeo at 1:53 PM

September 6, 2005

Links Roundup

• Apparently, referrer spam is "new"
• Multi-billion dollar international software monopoly turns to half a dozen guys on a houseboat for help stopping spam
  Gibson: "We don't do a good job of responding to abuse."
• Apparently, Yahoo! is a great place to host phishing sites
  Maybe it's because their abuse desk is MIA?
• UK Information Commissioners Office admits it has no power over spam
  Surely they can send in agent 007 to take out a few people in southwest Florida?
• Some interesting "spam as percentage of all email" numbers from Tiki
• The best way for individual users to stop spam and protect their ability to receive legitimate e-mails is to ensure that their own computers are protected against viruses and trojan horses, thereby forestalling those machines from being used as spam relays. Next, use an ISP that protects your IP addresses from being placed on block lists.
  Amazing logic.
• Insight from the mid-90s on whether unsubscribing from spam is sufficient
  Apparently, "legitimate" email marketers aren't very competent.
• Virus writers exploit Katrina disaster
• China Holds Anti-Spam International Summit
• Microsoft's SenderID might lose official backing
• Irish Spam abusers will net jail term
• Adware maker seeks to thwart rogue installs
  As opposed to all those legitimateannoying thefts of resources? And Sunbelt Software is anti-spyware? Feh.
• Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text

Posted by schampeo at 8:35 PM

September 2, 2005

Links Roundup

• China will never be able to end mobile phone spam, says general manager of Chinese SP
• Spam still growing, research shows
• Symantec probes report of antivirus product flaw
• Verizon Wireless Takes Legal Action Against Florida, California Telemarketers to Defend Customers' Privacy

Posted by schampeo at 9:25 AM

August 29, 2005

Links Roundup

• Security vulnerabilities in Barracuda Spam firewall
• Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 Players Found
• Katrina phishing scams (may) have begun
• Renting a car online may deliver spam
  

  A whopping 74 percent of car rental companies share data collected from online customers with either business partners or third parties

• Blog spam is relentless
• Men more likely to fall prey to online scams, spam and viruses
• 60% of Google’s Blogger Blogs Spam Blogs
  Now there's an English sentence worth reading twice
• Deliverability still tops concerns of marketers
  Aw.
• Zotob worm linked to credit card fraud ring
• Yahoo! is rapidly becoming home to phishers and other abusers
  Word is that they've recently dismantled their abuse department (?)
• Web site gives email senders a reputation

Posted by schampeo at 10:48 PM

August 26, 2005

Links Roundup

• Arrests made in Zotob worm case
• SpamBouncer standalone IP and domain lists as procmail recipes
• Three indicted in major spam case
  It's the knllc spamgang
• Maybe IETF won't publish SPF and Sender-ID as experimental RFCs after all

Posted by schampeo at 11:24 AM

August 25, 2005

Links Roundup

• A sadly fawning article on Blue Security's "antispam" tactics
  Great line from Yankee: "Leaving the legal and ethical issues aside, it's an interesting approach to try to use prospective victims to fight the spammers," said Yankee Group senior analyst Andrew Jaquith.
• Rizler indicted

Posted by schampeo at 4:17 PM

August 24, 2005

Links Roundup

• Positive Social Engineering in Fighting Phishing/Spearphishing attacks
• Phisher who targeted Microsoft charged with 75 counts of wire fraud
  And he owes MSFT $3M
• A lengthy tale of woe that ends when Grand Prairie ISD picks IronPort
  Funny, I got spammed by an ironport box in Brazil just today.
• GoDaddy offers free personalized email hosting
  Here come the dropboxes.
• O'Reilly's Link Spam
  Not UBE, but worth keeping an eye on. See also Tim O'Reilly's reply to the charges
• No, not VoIP, the next spam entryway is Bluetooth
  We apologize for any confusion
• VoIP emerging as Next Spam Entryway
• MSN Instant Messenger worm speaks your language
• So You Think You're Safe from DNS Cache Poisoning?
• Suresh on .XXX at circleid
• NGS Insight Security Research: The Pharming Guide (pdf)

Posted by schampeo at 2:39 PM

August 22, 2005

Links Roundup

• Denmark adopts non-standard abuse report addresses
• Spam, viruses tops IT security concerns
  I wonder if they know they're related?
• Stock spam on the rise
• Microsoft Opposes NZ Spam Law
• Mail Registry offers big reward
  If you get spam through their whitelisting scheme, that is.
• Phishing scams down slightly in July
  But they're getting more sophisticated.
• Earthlink nab Aluria's anti-spyware software

Posted by schampeo at 2:58 PM

August 21, 2005

Links Roundup

• Still more insight into Brad Bournival

Posted by schampeo at 5:37 PM

August 20, 2005

Links Roundup

• Primer on preventing backscatter (aka "outscatter")
• Blogcritic article on Blogger's new antispam features
• Long article on Christopher "Rizler" Smith, drug spammer
• Cisco - ZOTOB and WORM_RBOT.CBQ Mitigation Recommendations

Posted by schampeo at 11:27 AM

August 19, 2005

Links Roundup

• Humorous coverage of Zotob's impact
  "CNN should be embarrassed," wrote Timothy Beckner in News.com's TalkBack forum. "Their IT people could have patched them last week."
• Zotob was nearly as flawed as the Windows machines it infected

Posted by schampeo at 12:17 PM

August 18, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spey: a greylisting SMTP proxy
• Mark Cuban going after blog spam
  Does the world really need another name for blog spam, though?
• CAN-SPAM act may have teeth, after all
• I have to admit I enjoy when spammers fight amongst themselves
• Spam down 20% since March
  I'm not seeing 20%, but spam is down here, too
• Teen sentenced to 5 years and fined $35K for jersey-joe.com DDoS
• New Zealand ISPs unhappy with new spam laws
• Ukrainian Government Outlaws Spam
• Zdziarski's DSPAM site
• Review of Jonathan Zdziarski's Ending Spam
  Being a compendium of all antispam tactics interesting enough for MIT to look at
• New King of the Spam Kings
• FTC: How not to get hooked by a phishing scam

Posted by schampeo at 9:37 AM

August 17, 2005

Links Roundup

• Latest bots indicate yet another war between zombie spammers
  New bots may remove previous bots; nothing new there.
• Adware vendor 180solution sues "affiliates" in attempt to shine its image
• Jason Smathers sentenced to 15 months
• Worm strikes down Windows 2000 systems
  Seems among the "1000 servers" Zotob hit are the Capitol, New York Times, etc.
• Malaysia Ban on 'security risk' pay-as-you-go phones

Posted by schampeo at 10:52 AM

August 16, 2005

Links Roundup

• Russians Launch Multi-Warhead Trojan
• Bush objects to .xxx TLD
  For all the wrong reasons
• Zotob fizzles; only infects about a thousand
• The Spammer's Compendium
  Being a public exposition of tricks, secret ploys, ruses and techniques employed by those that send many scurrilous messages through the ether using the mysteries of electronics and other modern marvels to dazzle the eye, lighten the wallet and clog the recipient.

Posted by schampeo at 9:17 AM

August 15, 2005

Links Roundup

• Most users now safe from spam
  Or so claims the Dallas Morning News, anyway
• Hong Kong to crack down on spam
• Spammer Scott Levine convicted
  Maximum sentencing would be 640 years and $30M
• Zotob Worm Hits Windows

Posted by schampeo at 11:24 AM

August 12, 2005

Links Roundup

• More details on the AOL Spammer Loot Giveaway
• Republicans Engaged in Heavy-Artillery Shill Spam Campaign
  More accurately, they're trying to shout down bloggers who support Cindy Sheehan
• Earthweb: Phishing: what's spam got to do with it?
  Good rundown of the layered security approach to fighting phishing scams

Posted by schampeo at 3:15 PM

August 11, 2005

Links Roundup

• Most spam sent via zombies (mules)
• AOL Employee Pleads Guilty
  Smathers sold the list of AOL users to Sean Dunaway, gambling spammer

Posted by schampeo at 2:10 PM

Links Roundup

• Internet scammers keep working in Nigeria
  reg req, cypherpunk/cypherpunk works, too
• More info on the AOL "spammer loot lotto"
  It was Brad Bournival's gold and Hummer
• People are suspicious of filling out forms online, so new scam asks them to fax it

Posted by schampeo at 10:51 AM

August 10, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spammers exploit Iran nuclear crisis
  by linking to a site that infects the user's computer with a trojan
• Mobile Spam: The Next Battleground?
  Not in the US, apparently, but Europe is wide open
• Survey finds spam contributes to tech rage (reg req)
• Yet another stock pump-and-dump victim disclaims responsibility
• Anti-Spam, Phishing, Malware, Spyware News Channels Launch
• Florida Legislators propose anti-spam bill that would threaten prison time
• Killing Spam Zombies Made Easy
  A guide from Spambutcher
• Make spam invisible by altering your inbox rules
• AOL, MSN giving away confiscated spammer assets
  Including gold bars and a Hummer?

Posted by schampeo at 4:05 PM

August 9, 2005

Links Roundup

• More info on the ID theft ring
• Sunbelt researchers discover massive identity theft ring
  Much more in other posts on their blog
• Sender IDs fading message
• How Utah, Michigan Legislators Got Fooled (Livingston on "email tax", part three)
• New Bagle variant getting smarter at avoiding detection
• eBay, Yahoo! Pull Spam Auction
  Technically, the auction was for an address list, but kudos anyway
• Email Privacy Seal Program, We Don't Spam

Posted by schampeo at 1:58 PM

August 5, 2005

Links Roundup

• Korean Ministry of Information and Communication takes antispam steps
• Long Island Legislators being spammed by Charles Wang
• Yet another pump-and-dump scam disclaimed
• Australian political organization GetUp! possibly spamming for the Labour Party
  or maybe it's just enabling grassroots constituent-to-politician contact?
• US Government computers most targeted in cyberattacks
  Another interpretation of the recent IBM report

Posted by schampeo at 4:46 PM

August 4, 2005

Links Roundup

• Analysis of Spam Keywords
  Pretty useless overall, 3sp3c1/\11y w1t|-H 0bf\/5</\t10n, but interesting nonetheless...
• It's a Bull Market for Stock Spam
• Spammer Loses Fight for Right to Spam
• IBM Says Gangs Now Behind Most Spam
  Note also: "spear phishing", targeted phishing
• Company Responds to Pump-and-Dump Spam
• Spam Levels Drop, Email Crime on the Rise (IBM)
  ...which jibes with my stats here, too
• Sophos Identifies the Most Prevalent Spam Categories of 2005
  P1l1z st1l1 at the top, surprising drop in porn spam
• Ed Hurst on Spam Fighting at Open For Business
  Apparently never heard of Spamhaus, but still a lot of good advice in there
• Top Retailers Comply With CAN-SPAM
  According to the FCC by way of DMNews, which means most of them allowed opt-out and even stopped mailing after the addresses were "removed"
• So-called "darkmail" rises 400% according to Email Systems
  Too bad the article doesn't provide the period, else it might mean something
• Court OKs UTexas Spam Blocking
• Advertising.com forced to admit they're a spyware company

Posted by schampeo at 3:36 PM

August 2, 2005

Links Roundup

• SPF Loses Mindshare
• Spyware Skyrockets on Greynet Fuel
• Part Two of Brian Livingston's Utah/Michigan "E-Mail Tax" articles
• Wired: Router Flaw is Ticking Bomb
  An interview with security researcher Mike Lynn

Posted by schampeo at 2:39 PM

July 29, 2005

Links Roundup

• Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
  I want the red stapler. A red Swingline stapler.
• BigPond Blocks Westnet
  Looks like maybe BigPond is waking up to the spam problem in a big way
• Cisco Security Advisory: IPv6 Crafted Packet Vulnerability
  Cisco's official advisory on the problem.
• Cisco Patches Security Researcher Vulnerability
  Best. Headline. Evar.
• Cisco Comes Clean on IOS Flaw
  Sort of.

Posted by schampeo at 4:37 PM

July 27, 2005

Links Roundup

• UK Antispam Policies Failing
  More details on the recent UK report
• Warning Issued Regarding Fake London Underground Spam
• New Zealand Moves Toward Antispam Legislation
  With fines of $500K for organizations and $200K for individuals
• Earthlink Drops Spam Charges Against Somebody
  It's not entirely clear who from the article
• Cisco Strikes Back at Security Researcher
  Someone is scared witless, it seems.
• John Levine on Blue Frog at CircleID: "A Dreadful Strategy"

Posted by schampeo at 1:12 PM

July 26, 2005

Links Roundup

• Brian Livingston: "Michigan, Utah Impose E-Mail Tax"
• Spyware "calling home" blamed for more than 8% of all outbound Internet traffic
• The Digital Phishnet

Posted by schampeo at 1:36 PM

July 25, 2005

Links Roundup

• Spam, Worms, And Spyware Flourished In Spring
• A funny press release about how RSS feeds are the "answer to spam"
• Russian spammer murdered by "loose antispam group"
  Or so claim Russian police, anyway.
• UK Gov't report shows antispam efforts in the UK failing
• Hiawatha Bray on Blue Frog: "has its own ethical issues"
• "SMTP Path Analysis"
  by Leiba, Ossher, Rajan, Segal, and Wegman, from The Conference on Email and Spam
• Draft-IETF-Seive-3431bis-01.txt
  also by B. Leiba, IBM
• "A Multifaceted Approach to Spam Reduction" (PDF)
  Barry Leiba, IBM (from July 2004) - reads like an executive summary
• IBM Research Antispam Site
• IBM discovers "mail headers"
  Assuming this is just a very poorly written article, does anyone know anything more about this "technique"?See above.
• Russian Spammer Vardan Kushnir Found Beaten to Death

Posted by schampeo at 12:59 PM

July 23, 2005

Links Roundup

• Sanford Wallace is in trouble again

Posted by schampeo at 5:19 PM

DMA announces $1 fee for removal of dead people from marketing lists

The Direct Marketing Association recently announced the Deceased Do-Not-Contact list, to which, for a small fee, relatives of the recently departed may ensure that scrupulous marketers do not call and ask for the dead person. The fee is for a credit card verification, to prevent abuse of the system and provide a permanent record of who requested the name be removed.

I'm not sure what to think of this. On the one hand, it sounds like a nice idea. Funeral directors and obituary page editors can help the grieving avoid being bothered by marketers, and reminded of how soulless and evil the practice is in the first place. And hey, it's cheap - no recurring fees, I would assume, death being a sort of final opting out of wanting to receive marketing messages.

On the other hand, though, I must admit I use the name of the long-dead previous owner of my house to rate the competence of the folks who send me solicitations. If they aren't smart enough to buy their lists from companies that are smart enough to cull out the dead, then I'm pretty sure I don't want to know any more about them or their products or services. The DDNC, as implemented, might remove this thin layer of consumer protection.

In any event, it's a comical admission of just how evil such marketing is; how what is already intrusive, invasive, and annoying can also be slow to keep pace with the Reaper. I wonder if they'll set up a similar list so that bereaved pet owners can have their Rover's name removed from the lists used by those offering pre-approved credit cards?

Posted by schampeo at 2:33 PM

July 21, 2005

Links Roundup

• SANS on "vigilantism" in security (PDF)
• Biggest 419 bust in history
• MIPA/Message Authentication Signature Service
• News from the Authentication Summit in NYC
  Don't miss Suresh's excellent rebuttal, in the comments
• MTAMark
• Client SMTP Authorization (CSA)
• Certified Server Validation (CSV)
• Wired asks the question: "does spam justify vigilantism?"
  John Levine is on the spot with the right answer

Posted by schampeo at 3:36 PM

April 25, 2005

DoubleClick Goes Private

A pair of private equity firms are buying DoubleClick for more than a billion dollars and taking it private.

Posted by schampeo at 11:48 AM

DMA: Junk Faxes Are Illegal

In case you were curious, yes, those junk faxes you get are illegal in the US. The Direct Marketing Association has some guidelines for any discerning telemarketer, junk faxer, or spammer, regarding the use of unsolicited faxes as part of your overall annoyance and theft campaign. I've got a stack of junk faxes three inches high sitting on a shelf here, most trying to sell me Disney vacations and low-cost health insurance. (via spam-l)

Posted by schampeo at 11:31 AM

April 21, 2005

Comcast, Time Warner Buy Adelphia

Internetnews is reporting that Comcast and Time Warner are buying Adelphia. That's over five million cable customers, to be shared roughly a third to Comcast and two thirds to Time Warner, which means that a lot of zombies are going to change hands (and the responsibility for cleaning them up is finally going to be in the hands of two of the largest cable Internet providers). (via spam-l)

Posted by schampeo at 4:07 PM

April 18, 2005

KnowSpam to Shut Down Unexpectedly

Annoying, but effective (if you consider challenge/response effective, rather than an abuse amplifier) C/R system KnowSpam has announced, somewhat briefly, that they will cease operations June 25 of this year.

The weird thing, for me, about this unexpected shutdown is that I have a lot of friends who use (or used, at one point, anyway) KnowSpam. I wonder if it's because people like me refused to answer, and sometimes even blocked, the stupid C/R mail as abuse? Or maybe it's just simple economics; as spam rises, C/R bandwidth consumed per user must also be rising as well. Maybe they just couldn't afford their bandwidth. If anyone knows the real scopp, I'd love to hear what happened. (via kottke)

Posted by schampeo at 11:08 PM