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Lycos Europe's antispam tool no longer available

Lycos Europe's antispam tool no longer availableProbably a good thingIt was only a matter of time before a new worm would seek out machines with this screensaver and use it to hose Lycos Europe.Just shows how much people hate spam and spammers.I guess there were a lot of people that...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, anti-spam, Vigilantism, tool, Lycos Inc., spammer

Discussion threads 2004-12-03

Lycos Europe's zombie campaign downs two sites

Lycos Europe's zombie campaign downs two sitesSuccess!Can't wait until the spammers start seeing their bandwidth bills.. muahaha..Woo Hoo, where do I sign up?I still think the spam situation would be brought under control if they were required to credit me with the cost of a postage stamp so it is...

Tags: Spam, SECURITY, MLNS, Lycos Inc., distributed denial of service, spammer

Discussion threads 2004-12-02

Lycos Europe: 'Make love not spam'

Lycos Europe: 'Make love not spam'screensaver needs option to send MORE data!NOW, there are some differing viewpoints on this idea, one is from the Spamhaus people:"It's irresponsible of Lycos to put its name to it because it lends legitimacy to [DDoS] attacks," said Linford. "You can't break into a thief's...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Lycos Inc., spam, spammer

Discussion threads 2004-11-30

Additional Resources

Twitter's "me too" anti-spam strategy

With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following them when they're actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last' week's Twitter announcement...

Tags: Strategy, Anti-spam, Spammer, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Fasted-growing web categories in France in May 2008

May-08 Rank Apr-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 31,066 1 1 Google Sites 23,054 2 2 Microsoft Sites 20,667 3 3 Orange Sites 16,031 4 4 Iliad/Free.fr Sites 13,478 5 5 eBay 12,257 ...

Tags: Web, Site, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-20

29ò0of Internet users buy from spam emails

29ò0of Internet users buy from spam emailsthis total is based upon the spammer purchasing their own product...and a few innocent idiots... i was innocent once...;)spammers (nuke em!!!!)

Tags: Spam, spam email, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts

With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...

Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-15

CSRF vulnerability allows Twitter 'follow' abuse

Last week, TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid wrote about an obvious Twitter vulnerability that allowed a user called "johng77536" to game the popular micro-blogging service to add thousands of followers subscribers in a short period of time. The "johng77536" account has since been disabled but a security researcher tracking...

Tags: Vulnerability, Twitter, Aviv Raff, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

'Spam King' escapes from federal prison

[ UPDATE:  Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...

Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

FTC to hit more spammers

FTC to hit more spammersFTCSince when is spam a new phenomenom? It was in existence well before Congress passed the CAN-SPAM act, which many spammers think allows them to send out their scams as long as they put a disclaimer on it.Before CAN-SPAM, I sent Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson...

Tags: Spam, Viruses and worms, spammer, FTC

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...

Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect   Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-07-17

It's a start: Spammer gets jail time

It's a start: Spammer gets jail timeI dont see spaming as a jail-able offense.I would love to give jailtime to companies that send crap to my mailbox.The issue is waisted time and resources. It costs x dollars to clean that up, so you owe me x dollars, if dont...

Tags: Spam, spammer, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

It's a start: Spammer gets jail time

There have been a few high profile penalties against spammers of late, but they all lack one key ingredient--jail time. To wit: MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement MySpace's $230 million spam win: Will it really be a deterrent? ...

Tags: Spammer, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...

Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Top Web properties in Germany in April 2008

Apr-08 Mar-08 Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 34,539 1 1 Google Sites 25,790 2 2 eBay 18,394 3 3 Microsoft Sites 18,271 4 4 AOL LLC 16,602 5 5 United-Internet Sites 16,169 6 7...

Tags: Web, Site, Wiki, Internet, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-28

Googlenomics, Shrugged

Come the morning of September 7, you'll probably go to the Google search box and find a fun-loving in-house artist has replaced the first "o" in the company name with a symbol that looks like a "1" and the second "o" with a slightly altered version...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Yahoo sues unknown phishers

Yahoo sues unknown phishersA Yahoo like e-mail might accuse you of spammingMy conclusion is that some virus scanning programs will automatically upload any suspected virus that are caught by you and your diligence.And this is the hacker scaring you by calling you a spammer.

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Yahoo! Inc., phishing

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Yahoo sues 'lottery' spammers; Good luck collecting

Yahoo sues 'lottery' spammers; Good luck collectingSpammersWhy go after a spammer they have probably no chance of catching. The have plenty of spammers on there chat network and game rooms that post links to there sites every dayDefending your copyrightDoesn't a company have an obligation to defend their copyrighted property?...

Tags: Spam, spammer, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-27