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How Spamhaus Cost-Effectively Eliminates Spam

If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that process large amounts of email. The problems caused by spam include annoyance, slower message delivery times and the like. However, the...

Tags: Spamhaus, Osterman Research, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2008-03-01

FTC shuts down four spam rings

FTC shuts down four spam ringsI hope this will teach spammers a lesson:Send unsolicited messages with unwanted advertisements and sexual images without labeling via the use of "zombie" / "spambot" PCs and you will have to pay anywhere from $5,000 to $500,000.Four down - forty million to go...Unless the FTC...

Tags: Spam, shawkin, judgement, spammer, Spamhaus, FTC

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Suspected spam king to appear in court

Man suspected of being "Rizler" is set to appear in court, following his arrest for allegedly violating a temporary restraining order. A 30-year-old man suspected of being the "Rizler" spam king is scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday, following his arrest last week when he flew into the...

Tags: Silicon.com, Security Expert, Spamhaus, Sophos Plc., Arrest, Pharmacy, Prescription Drug, Healthcare, Security, Dawn Kawamoto

News items 2005-07-06

Developing nations losing spam battle, report says

Developing nations losing spam battle, report saysRe: the Costa Rica and NigeriaSpamhaus is one of the least trigger-happy elements in the anti-spam spectrum. The fact that they blocked is newsworthy in itself. What got Costa Rica blocked was the attitude of their national ISP, who basically responded to...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spamhaus, Internet Service Provider, spammer, anti-spam, spam

Discussion threads 2005-05-27

Spamhaus hits out at ISPs, praises Microsoft

Spamhaus hits out at ISPs, praises MicrosoftThat is the problem w/ securityEveryone is an expert and everyone has a different opinion and solution. And a majority of the people on the Internet are so dang confused with all their ric-a-mor-role talk jive!I do agree with one point that ISPs need...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Internet Service Provider, Spamhaus, network, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-04-27

Law turns tables on anti-spam group

Law turns tables on anti-spam groupPoor SpammersWhat a joke. I guess the spammers don't realize WHY ISP's, end-users, and corporations use a DNS blacklist. I have never heard of anyone complaining that they aren't getting enough spam.Any spammer that complains or sues should be slapped. Twice.Somewhat Off-Topic, but......have any Webmasters...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, ID10T, anti-spam, Spamhaus, spammer, e-mail, violence, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2004-06-11

Anti-spammer rocked by porn attack

Anti-spammer rocked by porn attackThe link to Spamhauswill probably get it on Spamcop's block list.not sure if your reporting accuratelyI believe that if people are recieving an email about recieving child porn, that they are infected mimail.l http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.l@mm.htmlAnti-spammer AttackISPs and governments should take responsibility for ridding the Internet of spammer...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, message header, spam, Spamhaus, SpamCop

Discussion threads 2003-12-02

Yahoo stores added to spammers' list

Yahoo's storefronts site makes its way onto two more lists of suspected junk e-mailers. The portal giant says it plans appoint a new team to respond to the spam complaints. Yahoo's storefronts site has made its way onto two more lists of suspected junk e-mailers. ...

Tags: Spamhaus, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, List, Spews.org, Portals, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Troy Wolverton, Technology News

News items 2002-09-13

Additional Resources

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in Europe

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in EuropeBye MS... joinging GMXThanks ZDNet.. for setting us free.UIsn't interoperability one of Microsoft's pet words?The Microsoft definition of interoperability means to conform to one of their bastardized standards or suffer the "consequences". This may be a case of consequences suffered but...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, GMX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers

With the industry's eyes constantly monitoring the usual suspects' use of phony hosting providers, another market segment within the underground marketplace has been developing beneath the radar, aiming to build a malicious infrastructure (Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts; Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack) through...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Anti-spam, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP

Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISPShut them down! ntntLet's buy Yahoo?Bill should just code himself out of this one.Well.....if they can't deliver a secure OS, how do you expect them to deliver a secure network?Taking a VERY jaundiced view but......it makes me wonder if any traffic is good traffic in...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Internet Service Provider, spam, Microsoft Corp., spam-friendly ISP, Spam-friendly, e-mail server

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP

Spammers are abusing Microsoft's online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world's 5th most spam-friendly ISP Internet Service Provider. The latest update of Spamhaus.org's list of the world's worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because...

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWith the title of your article I was expecting you to name names...garyRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWell, the links and the details of the registrars are within the first sentence of...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, spam registrar, Top-Ten, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Straight Talking - Tighten Content Security

Spam has been with the author, in name at least, for some 15 years. According to the watchdog Spamhaus, 90 per cent of all email now sent is spam. Fortunately that does not mean 90 per cent of the inboxes are filled with the stuff. The problem has been contained...

Tags: Quocirca, Anti-spam, E-mail Security, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2008-05-01

Do switchers now rule the Mac?

Do switchers now rule the Mac?Hate to break it to you but it was a misprint[i]The most recent 'vert is Misprint, which points to a recent PC World review that says "the MacBook Pro outperformed the rest of the notebooks we tested, all of which claim Windows as their primary...

Tags: E-mail clients, Linux, Groupware, Notebooks, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, Exposé, switcher, Eudora, Apple Inc., misprint, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

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

Why spam can only be managed, not ended

Why spam can only be managed, not endedGates/Microsoft sued a lot of spammersGates/Microsoft sued a lot of spammers. That annoyed a few of the big dogs, but it didn't make much of a dent. The Russians murdered a few spammers no tear here, but that didn't make too...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, spammer

Discussion threads 2007-10-26

Operation Bot Roast: Too little too late

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dr Jose NazarioThe US FBI has kicked off Operation Bot Roast this summer with the goal of addressing the botnet problem. Hurray for them,it's good that something is being done. However, this is probably not going to stop the botnet problem, and maybe...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensive

Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensiveWant to eliminate BotNets and all this crap?It's really easy, it takes a router expert and the will to force ISPs to take control of their networks. It works, I have personally forced several ISPs to disable spammers from their networks, it just comes...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, distributed denial of service, CompuServe, spammer, Internet Service Provider, public email system, email system, network, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-06-11