April 6th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
The man behind the infamous Mega-D botnet is looking for a plea deal. Alleged “Spam King”, Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested in November of 2010 and pled not guilty last week. Federal prosecutors are looking for a 10 year prison sentence …
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Russian Spammer May Accept Plea Deal
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April 5th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Casper Manes
Well good morning recruits. Recruits? No, that’s not right. You’re not recruits anymore. You’re lean, mean, spamfighting machines! For the past nine weeks you’ve been trained, educated, molded, and formed. You now have the knowledge, the skills, mental skills, and intestinal …
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April 4th, 2012 → 8:20 am @ Sue Walsh
Several Tibetan activist organizations have been pummeled by spear phishing attacks. Security researchers have traced the origin of the attacks to China, which is not surprising. Tibet has been fighting for it’s independence from China for decades. The attacks arrived looking …
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Tibetan Activist Organisations Pummled By Spear Phishing Attacks
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April 3rd, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Malcolm James
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” – Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II. One of the few memorable lines from Shakespeare’s three part cycle recounting the history of Henry VI; Dick the butcher uttered …
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An Easy Solution to Your Spam Problem… Kill All the Users?
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April 2nd, 2012 → 8:22 am @ Jeff Orloff
According to a recent survey* of IT decision makers, the dangers associated with spam are just as big a concern as ever before. Some of the numbers spell this out rather clearly, despite what other studies claim: Almost three quarters …
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Why Spam Is Still a Real Threat
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March 30th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
Here’s a look at the top spam headlines for March: Commercial Spam Filters Getting Worse, Not Better: http://www.infoworld.com/t/anti-spam/report-spam-filters-are-getting-worse-189250 Canadian Businesses Worried About Anti-Spam Legislation: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/21/anti-spam-legislation-worries-businesses FCC Posts Voluntary Code of Conduct for ISPs In Bid to Fight Spam Spewing Botnets: …
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March 29th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Casper Manes
Out there, beyond that firewall, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes. We have an indigenous population of humanoids called spammers. They’re fond of emails full …
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Spamfighting Bootcamp Week 8: Forward Operations
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March 28th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Malcolm James
Spring is in the air! You can tell, without need of a calendar, that old man Winter has wheezed out his last stale breath of frigid air. The ground begins to thaw and grass, the guiltless victim of months of …
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IBM X-Force Report: Spam on Decline, Don’t Start Celebrating Just Yet
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March 27th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Jeff Orloff
The March 2012 report from Virus Bulletin doesn’t speak to highly of commercial spam filters. After a test of different email filtering solutions available for corporate users, the test director, Martijn Grooten had this to say: “This is a worrying …
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Are Spam Filters really that Bad?
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March 26th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
A new spam campaign is using fake DHL tracking notifications to deliver malware. The emails inform the recipient of a shipment that’s on the way to them and to check the attachment for details. In this zip file, there are two …
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DHL Brandjacked in New Malicious Spam Campaign
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