Anti-Spam Spammers Leading The Way To Better AI -- Part II
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Anti-Spammers Don't Need CAN-SPAM
Anti-Spammers Don't Need CAN-SPAM
09/25/2004 12:00 AMWhile the CAN-SPAM act was meant to stop spam, it obviously hasn't
yet. Although it's pretty easy to point out some of CAN-SPAM's flaws,
it's perhaps better that some anti-spam activists are actually
taking
spammers to court -- though mostly citing pre-existing laws
regarding false advertising or deception. Armed with these older and
easier-to-understand laws, the Informal Coalition of Private Anti-spam
Litigants (ICPAL) and the Institute for Spam and Internet Public
Policy (ISIPP) have helped some businesses and devout anti-spammers
take some sleazy mass emailers to court and win a few sizable monetary
judgments. Still, the strategy for these anti-spammers is to remain
informal but organized, so that spammers can't retaliate. However,
these anti-spammers also say they're not in it for the money, and some
have refused to settle out of court on principle. Given that some of
the spammers are hard to actually find, much less extract damages
from, it looks like these vigilante organizations may remain small and
informal until perhaps some
bounties are
put out on spammers heads.
Spammers exploit anti-spam trap
Spammers exploit anti-spam trap
09/07/2004 03:37 AMSpammers have become enthusiastic adopters of technology designed to
spot and stop them.
IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop
Spammers
IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop
Spammers
03/22/2005 03:39 PMAnti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online
Spam Clubs
Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online
Spam Clubs
05/17/2004 04:20 PMAnti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
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More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers
More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers
06/11/2004 12:55 PMIt looks like the various spam laws that help legalize spam are making
the spammers extra litigious. Following a lawsuit in the US by a
spammer against an anti-spam operation for
still
block their email, some spammers in the UK are
threatening
Spamhaus with lawsuits for still having them on their blacklist.
The problem is that, just because the law now gives them the
permission to spam, it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to make
their own private efforts to block them. The laws may allow them to
send their spam, but there's nothing in these laws that require people
to receive it.
Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools
Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools
06/05/2005 11:14 PMSecure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™)
automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms,
Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a
managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam
Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam
09/04/2004 03:04 AMOlive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers
a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a
suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and
hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]
Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam
Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam
06/22/2004 09:17 AMThe Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include
Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today
unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by
presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical
recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the
scourge of spam.
Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1
Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1
01/06/2005 12:02 PMSymantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises
Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises
07/01/2004 10:20 PMSunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
12/06/2003 09:45 AMCanadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET
Anti-Mozilla Comment Spammers
Anti-Mozilla Comment Spammers
07/26/2004 10:36 AMI've noticed a weird thing lately. From this blog post we get this
comment: I don't know why you lied about the conference,...
Anti-spammers blacklist the competition
Anti-spammers blacklist the competition
01/22/2004 02:47 AMSPEWS, one of the spam blacklisters, has blacklisted DSL Reports,
which has been instrumental in running spammers to ground.
LinkAnti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious
Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious
04/29/2004 01:28 PMAren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam
legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't
wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy
Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal
ground, they're
moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing
attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to
break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.
Why do Spammers Spam?
Why do Spammers Spam?
05/14/2004 09:17 AMLadies and Gentleman that is the million dollar question and now we
have some insight into exactly what is happening...
A Look Into How Spammers Spam
A Look Into How Spammers Spam
05/14/2004 01:32 PMNothing all that surprising here, but some anti-spammers have managed
to get themselves into the various "spam clubs" where top spammers
trade tips with each other. From that they've learned, as we all
pretty much knew already, that the
state of the art in
spamming is using compromised machines that have had a trojan
installed on them. Lists of such controllable machines are offered to
other spammers, both for additional spamming capabilities and for
denial of service attacks. Basically, the spammers have built up
quite a distributed super computer - and those contributing cycles and
bandwidth don't even know about it.
AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology
AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology
11/19/2003 03:54 AMDoubleClick Nov 19 2003 3:21AM ET
Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent
Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent
11/16/2003 02:34 AMAn anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal
taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been
awarded a patent for ...
Misunderstanding The New Spam Law And
Spammers
Misunderstanding The New Spam Law And
Spammers
12/18/2003 04:35 AMThere are plenty of reasons to think that the new CAN-SPAM law that
was signed this week is terrible. We've been pointing a number of
reasons why this law is likely to make things worse, not better.
However, reading the following article, by someone who is apparently
an "analyst" makes me wonder about the writer's analytical skills. He
suggests that
the law is bad, because spam is good. He says that
occasionally, you get something good in the spam, and this law will
stop people from getting things they might want. Except, apparently,
this analyst hasn't read the law, because it actually
allows
spamming. The only thing it forbids is using false headers to spam.
Anyway, if you wanted to know who buys from spam, apparently, it's
this guy - because, occasionally, he sees something worthwhile in the
spam he gets. Second, this guy claims that spammers don't want to
spam people who don't want their spam, and would be happy with a
smaller list of interested parties. That's been proven wrong time and
time again. Spammers, these days, are making money based on the size
of their lists - which they sell to others. Therefore, they
do
want more names. These aren't sophisticated marketers we're talking
about who understand why targeted marketing makes more sense than
untargeted blasting. What they do understand is that when selling
their email lists or their ability to spam, the bigger numbers they
can show, the more money they believe they'll make.
Spammers undeterred by Can-Spam Act
Spammers undeterred by Can-Spam Act
12/30/2004 06:52 AMZDNet UK Dec 30 2004 10:43AM GMT
Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
01/07/2004 06:03 PMSpammers not deterred by Can Spam Act
Spammers not deterred by Can Spam Act
01/02/2004 12:04 PMSame old tactics
IBM aims to spam the spammers
IBM aims to spam the spammers
03/23/2005 08:01 AMChicago Tribune Mar 23 2005 12:02PM GMT
Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
01/11/2004 07:53 AMVirus seeks to disable and discredit
anti-spammers
Virus seeks to disable and discredit
anti-spammers
12/03/2003 04:09 AMNew Mimail variant attacks Spamhaus while spammers step up their
efforts to get their message through junk mail filters.
Report from the spam/anti-spam summit
Report from the spam/anti-spam summit
04/09/2004 04:05 PMDanny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers
and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.
Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching
the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this.
It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of
us seems to be a stalemate...
Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted
figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been
slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held
under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy,
have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and
commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially
in secret, these days the meetings are more public.
Link
(
via Oblomovka)
States Can Still Go After Spammers For
Deceptive Spam
States Can Still Go After Spammers For
Deceptive Spam
04/23/2004 10:59 AMWhen CAN SPAM first passed, one of the complaints against it was that
it wiped out every state anti-spam law - many of which were much
tougher than the federal law. However, Wired News is pointing out
that there was one loophole that many states are now trying to use.
States can still create and enforce
anti-sp
am laws that target "falsity and deception" in commercial emails.
Since an awful lot of spam does both, that gives them some leeway
(though, not very much). Still, it sounds like some states are trying
to take advantage of this (helped with a push from folks like AOL).
So, perhaps we will see some more state-level spam prosecutions. Of
course, it would seem that "falsity and deception" in any kind of
commercial announcement should already be illegal for a variety of
other reasons, whether or not it's spam, so it's a little unclear if
additional spam-specific laws are needed for just this aspect.
Feds Charge First Spammers Under CAN
SPAM
Feds Charge First Spammers Under CAN
SPAM
04/28/2004 06:44 PMWell, we've already seen
ISPs
file CAN SPAM lawsuits, but now the feds are stepping in and have
charged four people with spamming under the law. The four
are charged with hiding their identities while sending out weight loss
spam. Of course, all of these lawsuits don't seem to have done much
to slow down spam. Plenty of studies have shown that spam levels have
kept going up at about the same pace as they were before CAN SPAM.
Personally, since CAN SPAM has gone into effect in January, my daily
spam loads have more than doubled.
Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act
Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act
11/25/2003 10:22 PMMajor Spam ISP Kicks Off Spammers
Major Spam ISP Kicks Off Spammers
09/08/2004 12:32 PMApparently, Cable & Wireless US had absolutely no problem giving
access to many of the most major spammers out there. Savvis bought C&W
US earlier this year, and apparently had a big internal debate about
how to handle the spam accounts, which continued to grow until they
were hosting 148 of the world's largest spammers (how nice of them).
Apparently (as you might expect) some of the execs at Savvis didn't
want to do anything about these accounts since they were considered
quite profitable. One former Savvis employee wrote up a 200 page
report detailing all of the complaints about the spammers, and the
executive battle was on. While some continued to insist that the
spammers be left alone, executives realizing the potential damage to
Savvis' reputation (helped along by a Spamhaus threat to have Savvis
customers blacklisted)
have
apparently convinced the company to shut down the accounts of all 148
major spammers. While it's likely that they'll quickly find new
ISPs, shutting off such a major (and well-known) source of network
connectivity for spammers has to be seen as a good thing.
Leading Tutorial Provider Launches Free
Anti-Fraud Database for Web Hosts
Leading Tutorial Provider Launches Free
Anti-Fraud Database for Web Hosts
01/04/2005 04:14 AMCheapDemos.com, a leading flash tutorial provider that has supplied
over 500 webhosting companies with unique, inexpensive and effective
tutorials, announced this week that is has launched a new, free
service for webhosting companies. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]
More Rules On How To Spam... This Time
For Porn Spammers
More Rules On How To Spam... This Time
For Porn Spammers
01/29/2004 02:49 AMWait just a second. A month ago, we were hearing stories from our
elected officials about how spam was supposed to be dead dead dead by
now, thanks to the "CAN SPAM" law which would make it illegal to spam.
Of course, as we all know, the law wasn't really intended to stop
spam at all, but rather to give instructions on how you
can
spam. Further evidence of that comes today as the FTC is actually
releasing new rules for porn spammers
on how to spam. They're telling them they need to include a
special label. In other words, they can just keep on spamming - as
long as they include that one little label. Great way to "stop" spam,
huh?
Spammers using random words to stop spam
Spammers using random words to stop spam
01/16/2004 10:58 AMAny administrators worth their salt is going to go after spam on many
fronts. As I have stated 2-3 times...
Spammers Use Spyware To Trick You Into
Opening Spam
Spammers Use Spyware To Trick You Into
Opening Spam
06/22/2004 12:09 PMThe war over spam keeps escalating, and it's pretty obvious that the
spammers have been winning in many cases. Once they figured out how
to get Trojans onto computer, creating their own virtual spamming
super computer, spammers have
adopted
this method for most of the spam they send out. However, they're
now adopting another net.annoyance to piss everyone off. They're
usi
ng spyware to get personal details about you that they can then
use to get you to open their spam messages. In other words, they're
doing some keylogging, not necessarily to get your credit card and
bank account info (not that they wouldn't mind that info, of course),
but to put the name of your children or your dog into the subject
line, making it
much more likely that you'll open the spam
message. Of course, it seems they didn't consider the next step,
which is that it also makes it
much less likely that someone
will actually buy. By tricking them into opening such a message,
spammers will tend to both creep people out and piss them off. That's
usually not the best sales combination.
Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in
Spam
Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in
Spam
12/28/2004 04:55 PMEmail Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine
Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine
06/01/2004 10:55 AMIt's been quite clear for some time that many spammers have absolutely
no intention of paying attention to any spam-related laws, such as
CAN-SPAM. However, for (more) legitimate email marketers,
the new regulations are already quite
a hassle - with many of them failing to follow the requirements,
putting them at risk of getting sued. This is a bit amusing,
considering it was these so-called "legitimate marketers" who were so
adamant about having CAN-SPAM passed in a way that would let them
"legitimately" spam more easily. Now, what they're realizing is that
they've added more trouble for themselves without doing much of
anything to actually stop the spam that drowns out their own messages.
Usenix: 'Arms race' between spammers,
spam filters under way
Usenix: 'Arms race' between spammers,
spam filters under way
06/28/2004 04:24 PMClassifying e-mail as "good" or "junk" before it's sent to be scanned
by spam filters could speed up the delivery of legitimate e-mail,
according to a paper presented today at the 2004 Usenix Annual
Technical Conference.
Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?
Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?
12/18/2003 02:16 AMNow the CAN SPAM legislation has passed into law, will it actually cut
spam?
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MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist: MT Plugin Developers
Contest Grand prize
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist: MT Plugin Developers
Contest Grand prize
07/23/2004 08:00 PMJay Allen's MT-Blacklist for MT3 wins the Movable Type Developers
Contest grand prize .. Here’s his
reaction
jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/07/mtblacklist_mt_plugin_dev
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MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist v2.0e released
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist v2.0e released
08/17/2004 06:02 AMMT-Blacklist 2.0e is
released
jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/08/mtblacklist_v20e_released
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Nokia 6255
Nokia 6255
09/01/2004 10:38 PMTechTree Sep 2 2004 2:47AM GMT
Nokia 6255 is really great! where can i
buy this handphone in my place?
Nokia 6255 is really great! where can i
buy this handphone in my place?
09/01/2004 10:38 PMTechTree Sep 2 2004 2:47AM GMT
"Getting the most out of MT-Blacklist"
"Getting the most out of MT-Blacklist"
12/28/2004 04:58 AMMT-Blacklist bug
MT-Blacklist bug
12/19/2004 03:32 PMToday I got this error message when killing yet another spam in my
blog: "Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than
'max_allowed_packet'" Pretty interesting error message. It didn't
immediately dawn on me that this was a...
No more blacklist.txt
No more blacklist.txt
12/19/2004 03:14 PMRecently, I’ve noticed some very strange searches coming to this
site, most looking for porn, something I don’t keep at...
MT-Blacklist
MT-Blacklist
08/10/2004 04:26 PMMT-Blacklist - A
Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin: Well, a new salvo in the war
against comment spam has been launched. The idiot hawking tramadol
has forced me to install MT-Blacklist. He was coming in about 10
times a day from different IP addresses, so I couldn't ban him. He
seems to be locked out pretty securely now.
Great plugin. Required a little hacking to get it to work, but I'm
happy. It has a great "de-spam" feature that lets you retroactively
examine every past comment AND trackback for banned content. It found
seven comment spams that I missed in my daily grooming, then deleted
them, and rebuilt the pages. Very slick.
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"MT Blacklist plugin"
"MT Blacklist plugin"
05/20/2004 11:30 AMmt-blacklist 2.0e released
mt-blacklist 2.0e released
08/16/2004 07:51 PMfor users of MT3.0d and 3.01d. If you haven't upgraded, wait for MT3.1
in 2 weeks.
more screenshots of the new MT Blacklist
more screenshots of the new MT Blacklist
08/05/2004 04:13 PMjay's application is amazing, and these screens only show off part of
what it does
Blacklist 'BlackMal'
Blacklist 'BlackMal'
09/11/2004 02:07 AMAbcnews.go.com - Fri Sep 10, 10:49 am GMT
BLAcklist Manager
BLAcklist Manager
11/14/2003 04:40 AMWebsite finished
sa-blacklist 2004041803
sa-blacklist 2004041803
04/19/2004 04:19 AMA list of spammer domains for mutiple free software projects.
U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist
U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist
05/03/2004 10:46 AMCNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how a U.S. government agency
supposedly fighting Internet censorship is quietly doing the same
thing itself.
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.4
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.4
04/24/2004 02:04 AMA netfilter DNSBL filtering client.
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.52
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.52
06/26/2004 04:00 PMA netfilter DNSBL filtering client.
Phishing Blacklist Thoughts
Phishing Blacklist Thoughts
04/17/2004 05:47 PM
These are some of the thoughts I had recently about phishing
blacklists which is going
to play a major role against phishing in the near future.
-
False reports can be submitted by phishers and pranksters.
To prevent this,
anonymous reports should not be allowed. Unfortunately,
the user is not likely
to be logged in when a report is made. Solution is to
queue the report until
the reporting user successfully logs in. Once the
user is identified and
associated with the report, filters and weights can be
applied to rate the report.
Queueing reports with client-software is no problem. For
server-side only, file
the report under a cookie which can be claimed when the user
logs in. Unclaimed
reports are removed after a time limit.
-
Maintenance, particularly the removal of entries, will be a big
headache as domains
are reused and websites are cleaned up. Current
maintainers are not equipped
to handle this properly IMHO.
-
Companies should also be able to prevent some domain names from
being reused independent
of domain name registrars. Ultimately, domain name
registrars and blacklist
maintainers will have to work things out. This will likely
lead to registrars
taking over maintenance of blacklists and extending the service
to provide 'howis',
'whatis', and 'whereis' information as well as
'whois'.
-
Beyond correlating reports, suspected URLs can be crawled to a)
see if it is indeed
a phishing site, b) warn the phisher into running and thus
abandoning the phishing
site, and possibly c) spoofback bogus information.
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.53-rc1
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.53-rc1
07/30/2004 03:00 AMA netfilter DNSBL filtering client.
Blacklist Alert Service
Blacklist Alert Service
02/18/2004 10:49 PM
A banker from downunder and a wee to the right just informed me
that he can't read
my blog because WebSense,
used by his bank, is
blocking the Docuverse domain. I know where to go for regular
checkup of my
credit ratings. Where can I go to find out whether I am on
blacklists
and how can I get myself off them? Is there a notification
service and correction
procedures for blacklists? If not, I think there is a need
for such a service
so I'll help in putting one together.
Americans Flock to Get on NRA Blacklist
Americans Flock to Get on NRA Blacklist
10/29/2003 05:01 PM Getchya Blacklist on "Actor Dustin Hoffman
was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy
19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news organizations
seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the
powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included. "
You can
join too!!
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.51
DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.51
06/05/2004 02:40 AMA netfilter DNSBL filtering client.
China's internet blacklist
China's internet blacklist
09/03/2004 09:43 PMTelegraph Sep 4 2004 0:47AM GMT
Modified MT-Blacklist URL finder
Modified MT-Blacklist URL finder
06/02/2004 08:44 AMI've modified the Outlook script I posted so that now it finds all (?)
the urls in a selected set of messages in your inbox. This is useful
if you receive dozens or hundreds of comment spams and want to paste
all the offensive links into Jay Allen's mahvelous MT-Blacklist
utility for MovableType. The copy-and-paste version is here. Please
note the warnings listed in my original blogpost....
Blog spammers and MT-Blacklist
Blog spammers and MT-Blacklist
04/09/2004 04:09 PMI know it was mentioned to me before, but I didn't install
MT-Blacklist until today. The blog spam just was...
"MT-Blacklist v2.03-beta released"
"MT-Blacklist v2.03-beta released"
12/26/2004 04:29 AM10 Days Of Running MT-Blacklist 2
10 Days Of Running MT-Blacklist 2
09/22/2004 03:07 PMSo, its been 10 days today since I installed MT-Blacklist 2.01b onto
the MT 3 installation. Some statistics to prove...
"MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam
Clearinghouse"
"MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam
Clearinghouse"
11/10/2003 11:14 PMIsrael will be on US intellectual
property blacklist as of May 1
Israel will be on US intellectual
property blacklist as of May 1
04/15/2004 02:21 PMIsrael Business Arena Apr 15 2004 6:52PM GMT
Anti-Spam Spammers Leading The Way To Better AI -- Part II
