Why spam is out of control (Spam)
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Nov 9, 2006… The technician, formerly a consultant for a spammer, reformed a couple of years ago and started his own DNS blackhole list - a list of internet addresses that …
Source: technology.guardian.co.uk
Vole throws book at German porn spammer
Inquirer, UK - Nov 1, 2006A GERMAN PORN SPAMMER has been found guilty by Karlsruhe's Intermediate Court of Appeals and is being ordered to pay damage and stop sending unwanted advert e …
Source: www.theinquirer.net
Defending a Blurred Line: Is It Spam or Just a Company Marketing …
New York Times, United States - Oct 16, 2006… The ruling ordered Spamhaus to post a Web site notice saying that E360 was not a spammer and to pay E360 $11.7 million in damages. …
Source: www.nytimes.com
Barracuda Networks Sees Significant Spike In Spam Over Past Three …
SourceWire (press release), UK - 11 hours ago… Because developing stock spam that can pass through popular spam filters often requires the spammer to degrade the readability of the messages, stock spam also …
Source: sourcewire.com
Spam mails at work on the rise
RTE.ie, Ireland - Nov 1, 2006… This is when a spammer sends an email to any likely email address associated with a domain name. Phelim O'Connell, MD with IE Internet …
Source: www.rte.ie
Russians use SpamThru to pump stock
SecurityFocus, CA - 41 minutes ago… One company–anti-spam startup Blue Security–fell afoul of one large spammer, who used bot nets to launch massive denial-of-service attacks against the company …
Source: www.securityfocus.com
Marketers Still Unclear on Authentication
ClickZ News, NY - Nov 7, 2006… It just affirms the sender is who it claims to be. A spammer can get his e-mail authenticated, just like the Grade-A e-commerce provider. …
Source: www.clickz.com
More on ending SPAM
ZDNet - Nov 8, 2006… however, that reaction delay will be down to a few hours - and it will just keep getting shorter after that, ultimately eliminating the spammer's bot advantage …
Source: blogs.zdnet.com
IronPort stops 98% of image spam
eBCVG - Nov 14, 2006… Catch rates are falling because signature-based solutions can t keep up with spammer s rapidly changing randomization techniques. …
Source: www.it-observer.com
A viral nightmare
Johnson County Sun, KS - 21 hours ago… that this is the way bad guys can send out spam e-mails and not get caught or traced, because they take over a computer like mine and turn it into the spammer. …
Source: www.zwire.com