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A U.S military botnet in the works: Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...; Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-13
POPFile (zip): POPFile is an automatic e-mail classification and spam-fighting tool that uses Bayesian mathematics to automagically filter e-mail into any number of categories. It works with all POP3-based e-mail and features a Web-based interface for administration. Version 1 includes unspecified updates.; Tags: POPFile, E-mail, Online Communications; Software downloads 2008-01-02
Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics: Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economicsI thought regulations were bad?When I watch a certain cable news channel, one of their sponsors is a big magazine chain that tells how certain politicians want to impose regulations and that's bad.The US *did* legalize and regulate spamThe US's...; Tags: Cyberthreats, spammer, regulation, spam; Discussion threads 2007-12-08
News to know: Apple's notebook strategy; Talking malware; Vista SP1: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking malware with Eugene Kaspersky. David Morgenstern: Do switchers now rule the Mac? Jason O'Grady: An analysis of Apple's notebook strategy. Russell Shaw: New solution enables really, really cheap intl. calling from your iPhone OR iPod Touch. Gallery: The Big...; Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software; Blog posts 2007-12-07
Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics: Guest post: Gadi Evron is Security Architect for Afilias global registry services and recognized globally for his work and leadership in Internet security operations. He is the founder of the Zero-Day Emergency Response Team ZERT, organizes and chairs worldwide conferences, working groups and task forces. He is considered an...; Tags: Spammer, Regulation, Client, Nothing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-07

Knujon spam fighting made possible by open source: Knujon spam fighting made possible by open sourcedoing what the police can't / won'tDr. Bruen has created a business niche in crime fighting, apparantly because our law enforcement officials seem unable or unwilling to do so. I applaud his efforts! As a fellow spam-fighter, I would like to...; Tags: Spam, Bruen, KnujOn, open source; Discussion threads 2007-11-17
Knujon spam fighting made possible by open source: Within sight of Mt. Snow in Vermont retired programmer Bob Bruen is using the economics of open source to fight spam in a new way. KnujOn takes spam apart and then shuts spam landing sites down for violating ISP policies. "We figure out where...; Tags: Spammer, KnujOn, Spam, Cyberthreats, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-14
Six Apart rolls out beta of Movable Type 4: Six Apart is revamping its leading Movable Type blogging software and turning it into a componentized platform with new enterprise and social media capabilities. I talked to Chris Alden, executive vice president and general manager of Movable Type, about the new version, MT 4, which is being rolled out in...; Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, Blogging; Blog posts 2007-06-05
Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposal: Craigslist's Craig Newmark weighs in on the recent anti-spam/phishing debate. The Goodmail/AOL proposal, which Esther Dyson has written about, is built around a pay-to-send email certification scheme. The DearAOL Coalition rejects it as an "email tax." Here's what Craig proposes on his blog:Here's what seems to be a great alternative...; Tags: e-mail, Goodmail/AOL; Blog posts 2006-03-23
10 things you should know about fighting spam: Understanding a few key facts about how spam fits into the IT landscape will help you marshal the necessary resources to combat it. This list offers a look at a selection of interesting details about spam. Spam is one of the biggest problems facing e-mail administrators and...; Tags: Sender Policy Framework, Internet E-mail, TechRepublic Inc., IM, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Internet, Instant Messaging, Spam, Productivity, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing; Download resources 2006-02-14
Web word processor adds PDF conversion: Web word processor adds PDF conversionNice feature but....Nice feature and I can see it being used by the average user who doesn't have to worry about installing and paying for huge costs of software.However, Open Office eliminates that cost factor.I am curious though about the security of using such a...; Tags: Channel management, Upstartle, Web, Single Source, Writely, Adobe PDF, word-processor, Web Word-Processor; Discussion threads 2005-12-12
Microsoft to fight crime with spammer's money: Microsoft to fight crime with spammer's moneyHmmm I wonderI know I know, I trolling but I wonder how many "Talkbacker's are gonna take this point of view?"Then, Richter said: "We told them where they could go stick it. It's nothing but harassment. It's free publicity for them. They pay a...; Tags: Spam, Microsoft Corp., spammer; Discussion threads 2005-08-10
CounterSpy is cool, FavoriteMan is not: Last month, I reviewed CounterSpy, a program from Sunbelt Software, and am pleased to find another capable utility for ferreting out spyware. I have become very skeptical about new spyware-removal programs, because so many of them are scams, but I already had an idea CounterSpy would work since I'm familiar...; Tags: Favoriteman, CounterSpy; Blog posts 2005-01-04
Hotmail to wean users from free export tool: Hotmail to wean users from free export toolHotmail Bozo'sThey think this will curb Spam? All this will do is make more Spammers legitimate. Spam clowns are not afraid to fork over $19.95 a month for an account to hide behind while they Spam. What idiots MS and...; Tags: E-mail providers, tool, MSN Hotmail; Discussion threads 2004-09-27
Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?: Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?That is a danger...But, unfortunately, I don't see a good way around it I think repeal would do more harm than good. Besides, this has had enough publicity that any company doing business in Australia has good reason to tread lightly when doing business by...; Tags: Spam Fighting, e-mail, spam; Discussion threads 2004-04-07
Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuits: Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuitsSpam Question for MSI think it's kind of funny and ironic that Microsoft suffers from so much spam, when some of the blame can probably be traced to how easy they've made it to create these mass mailings - But my question is this: ...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., spammer, spam, e-mail; Discussion threads 2003-12-18