Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 04:32pm admin
Brief respite from spam could be over as McColo hands off Command and Control of Botnets to a Russian network.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 11:48am admin
Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?
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Continue Reading Add comment November 18th, 2008 01:12pm admin
Here’s an interesting article on the BBC News website that shows that spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008 05:48pm admin
The recent big news is about the Washington Post being involved in the shutting down of a Co-Location hosting provider (McColo Corp.- AS26780) that has as customers some of the biggest spammers on the Internet – some reports are as high as 2/3rds or even 75% of all spam worldwide was associated with them.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008 01:27pm admin
Drug Administration and 6 other organizations under the direction of World Health Organizations’ International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce and the Permanent Forum on International Pharmaceutical Crime were successful in raid on Pharmacies operated out of Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 6th, 2008 02:02pm admin
Spammers continue to take advantage of anything ‘newsworthy’ or ’sensational’ like the recent US Presidential election
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Continue Reading 1 comment October 27th, 2008 10:42am admin
The recent release of the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 – Critical Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644) is predicted to be used by spammers shortly. Microsoft went to the extreme measure of releasing this patch ‘out-of-band’ because in their words ‘the vulnerability is potentially wormable’ which brings to mind the ‘Blaster’ worm of August 2003 or the Sasser worm of 2004.
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Continue Reading Add comment October 16th, 2008 11:55am admin
Well that didn’t take long … Less than a day after the announcement that there was a downward trend in spam because of the arrest and freezing of the accounts of Shane Atkinson, his brother Lance Atkinson and Roland Smits we get word that a botnet than was dormant for 9 month is now waking up.
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Continue Reading Add comment October 16th, 2008 07:21am admin
The US Federal Trade Commission along with their counterparts in New Zealand and Australia have finally made a dent in the spam volume. As reported by the The Register and IT Brief, a two month investigation involving international cooperation has resulted in the laying of charges against Shane Atkinson …
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Continue Reading Add comment October 8th, 2008 07:07am admin
The spammers are always quick to take advantage of any news story or trend and the latest is a great example as the following news article shows.
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Shaun Sturby is our Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security, and network security. |
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