GoDaddy Corals Hundreds of Thousands of Spam Domains

March 19th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

  GoDaddy.com, a popular and controversial domain registrar, has over a quarter of a million spam domains on a group of servers called SPAM-AND-ABUSE.com. This domain is non-resolving so the sites who have had their name servers pointed to it are …

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GoDaddy Corals Hundreds of Thousands of Spam Domains

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The Politics of Spam

March 16th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

As the political season ramps up into full swing, voters prepare to hear countless messages from candidates through radio advertisements, television commercials and robo callers. But politicians also know how well email marketing works to get a message out, and …

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A Feel Good Spam Story – Really!

March 15th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

  It started out as nothing particularly new. An Indian spammer sent out a email blast to thousands of people. It was written in a foreign language and was promoting an Indian website. It wound up in the inboxes of people …

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Less is More: Why Retail Spam Needs to Be Curtailed

March 14th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James

We (‘we’ meaning everybody) often speak about spam email as if it represents some demonic presence levied upon the world like a curse spawned in a Greek tragedy. Often, we tend to forget that not every spammer is a bearded, …

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Valentines Day Spam Helped Increase Overall Spam Volumes For February

March 12th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

A look at February’s spam reports shows that Valentine’s Day themed spam helped driveoverall spam volumes up to about 3 times higher than pre-Valentine’s Day volumes. This really isn’t surprising or unexpected. Holidays have always been peak times for spam …

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Spam is Alive, Well and Making its Way to Your Inbox!

March 8th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James

With a slew of high profile botnet takedowns in the past year or so, some have argued that we’d see a reduction in the amount of spam being slung around.  Some have even published stories about how the number of …

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Visa Cracking Down on Spammer-Friendly Banks

March 7th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Since the beginning of the year, Visa has been quietly applying pressure to banks that hold accounts belonging to spammers, particularly those who sell counterfeit goods. Reports of such spam are sent to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, an organization made up …

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New Spam Campaign Spreads Banking Trojan

March 5th, 2012 → 8:10 am @ Sue Walsh

Security researchers announced they’ve detected a new banking Trojan being spread via a massive spam campaign. Known as Cridex, it spreads through links or attachments in spam messages. When clicked or opened, the recipient is directed to a compromised website that …

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New Spam Campaign Spreads Banking Trojan

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California Court of Appeal’s Decision Against Spammer

March 2nd, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

  A California Appeals Court has ruledthat private domain registrations may violate the state’s anti-spam law and awarded a sizable judgement to a man known for his lawsuits against spammers. Just as the CAN-SPAM Act does, the law says that companies cannot hide …

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A Glimpse at Nigerian 419 Spammers

March 1st, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Malcolm James

Spam comes in a multitude of forms: from pleas to enlarge one’s penis immediately, to ones that let you stock up on perfectly legal prescription meds (because there are no active ingredients) sans prescription; from urgent requests by banks with which …

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A Glimpse at Nigerian 419 Spammers

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