Experts: Spammers are on the run
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Tech experts say spammers are on the run
Tech experts say spammers are on the run
01/26/2004 05:16 AMBoston Globe Jan 26 2004 8:16AM GMT
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.
Referer spammers are comment spammers
too
Referer spammers are comment spammers
too
02/01/2005 10:08 PMIs there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy,
and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?
"spammers"
"spammers"
01/04/2004 03:27 PMSpammers
Spammers
09/07/2004 02:49 AMI haven't said anything about spam in a while. I've stopped keeping
track of my monthly intake, no longer look...
Everyone Sue Some Spammers
Everyone Sue Some Spammers
02/18/2004 12:07 PMWho knew? Apparently, today is a "sue a spammer day" (though, perhaps
it should be every day) as both Earthlink and AOL have announced
lawsuits filed against spammers. Earthlink is going after
an Alabama spam ring. Instead of relying on weak
anti-spam laws, Earthlink is charging them with violating racketeering
laws. It sounds like a fairly sophisticated operation, using a
variety of fake identities and rapidly changing websites to avoid
detection. Meanwhile, AOL is
going after a Florida company who they had sued once before,
but which was thrown out over questions about jurisdiction. This
time, the lawsuit was filed in Florida, rather than in Virginia.
Take My Spammers... Please...
Take My Spammers... Please...
09/09/2004 10:39 AMInteresting
story from the BBC about giant service provider Savvis’
internal debate over whether to expunge spammers from their network.
The article details their angst over hosting spammers vs their love of
that sweet green cash.
Alif Terranson, a former Savvis employee who was responsible for
keeping the network clean, objected to the spammers and wrote a
200-page report detailing his complaints about the spammers.
He told the BBC: “One of the Vice Presidents told me,
‘Take no action against any Cable & wireless customer - they
are profitable and they are off limits.’
“He was talking specifically about that 200-page report
which at the time was 95 spammers. When I left Savvis in April it was
almost 100, today it is 148.
Two hundred pages? I don’t like spam, but I doubt I could
write that much on it. Maybe he should have mailed it a page at a time
with subjects like ‘H3RE’5 TH4T B1G SP4M RE.PoRT!!!
F4NTASTIC REEDING!!!’
After being threatened with blacklisting by anti-spam groups, they
finally decided to give the spammers their walking papers, but it goes
to show you just how hard spam is to get rid of. The lost profits of
these customers is small potatoes to the world’s second largest
provider, but Mom & Pop providers would probably be loathe to get
rid of them.
Via Multiple Sources.
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How much will the Bounty be for Spammers
How much will the Bounty be for Spammers
05/23/2004 07:52 AMBack when America had a true wild wild west their where bounty posters
for murder's, bank robbers etc. Well the...
Spammers given boot
Spammers given boot
09/23/2004 12:38 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Wed Sep 22, 09:41 am GMT
Big Bounties Only Way To Take Down
Spammers
Big Bounties Only Way To Take Down
Spammers
09/16/2004 10:41 PMThe idea of "bounties" for anyone who can track down a spammer is not
a new idea. Larry Lessig has been
suggest
ing it for a while and the FTC has been
conside
ring whether or not to add it to CAN SPAM. While they've said in
the past that they doubted it would work, today they reported their
findings, which claim the only way to make a spam hunting bounty
system work is to
pay some serious cash to spam
hunters: $100,000 to $250,000. Note that this is more than what
the FBI pays for tips on its 10 Most Wanted list. While the report
claims such a bounty would have to come from taxpayer funds, perhaps
they should talk to some companies. Large ISPs already pay plenty
trying to weed out all the spam clogging their network. Perhaps
they'd be willing to toss a few hundred thousand dollars into a bounty
system, hoping that taking down spammers would relieve some of their
network congestion.
Will China Really Go After Spammers?
Will China Really Go After Spammers?
09/15/2004 01:39 PMFor quite some time, it's been known that many spammers use Chinese
servers to send out spam. The Chinese government hadn't paid much
attention to spam, preferring to do more important things online like
blockin
g out Google. However, after realizing that (uh oh) political
activists might start using spam to get their message out, they
announced plans earlier this year to
crack
down on spam. It looks like it took them a few months to realize
it wasn't as easy as they've expected, so they've now
agreed to work with foreign anti-spam firms to try to
tackle the problem. These anti-spam firms are excited about this,
because they think with some cooperation from the Chinese government
and Chinese ISPs they'll be able to do a lot more in stopping spam
coming from China. Of course, it won't be long until spammers move on
to some other country (or to various zombie systems). Still, for all
the talk about how China is now interested in stopping spam, it is
worth remembering that the only reason they got interested originally
was to block political speech. So, is it really a coincidence that
Symantec's anti-virus software is suddenly deciding that a program to
route around Chinese government censorship is
a trojan that should be blocked? It makes you wonder what
kind of deal these security firms struck with the Chinese government.
First spammers charged under new US law
First spammers charged under new US law
04/30/2004 03:25 AMZDNet UK Apr 30 2004 7:53AM GMT
Can The US Can Spammers Outside The
Country?
Can The US Can Spammers Outside The
Country?
04/30/2004 12:16 PMIt turns out that not only did the feds
charge
some American spammers under CAN SPAM this week, but they also
went after some Australian spammers as
well. The article is unclear, but it sounds like they're not
using CAN SPAM for the complaint against the Australian spammers, but
are instead going after them for fraudulent advertising. Still, it
does raise the question about how far the arms of US law can reach in
going after spammers. I imagine it's not so difficult to go after
Australian spammers, since the two countries are closely aligned and
are likely to cooperate. However, as spammers migrate to less closely
allied countries, will the feds be able to do anything?
FTC Settles With Spammers
FTC Settles With Spammers
05/07/2004 02:58 PMLast year (before CAN-SPAM was even in place), the FTC
sued a
couple of spammers for using deceptive subject lines and spoofed
email addresses to send people to a porn site. The spammers have now
settled with the FTC and agreed to
give back $112,500 that they received from the spam. Of course, I
wonder if that's all they really received from the spam. Besides, if
they just are giving back what they made from the spam, then there
seems to be no actual punishment on top of that for spamming. Also,
if the FTC could go after people for misleading subject lines and
spoofed return addresses, why did we need CAN-SPAM in the first place?
Spammers in the slammer?
Spammers in the slammer?
12/12/2003 12:01 AMThe Virginia Attorney General announces the first felony indictments
of spammers in the U.S. under VA's new anti-spam law.
AOL Spammers Scram?
AOL Spammers Scram?
12/28/2004 03:17 PMThe Internet service provider claims drastically reduced spam. How
good is this news?
Commentary: Spammers must pay
Commentary: Spammers must pay
12/16/2003 11:19 AMCNET Dec 16 2003 10:49AM ET
Spammers are giving up, AOL says
Spammers are giving up, AOL says
12/29/2004 08:44 PMNational Post Dec 30 2004 12:44AM GMT
This Week's Top 10 Spammers
This Week's Top 10 Spammers
06/14/2004 04:15 PMSpam is a continuing (and annoying) presence in our e-mailboxes. But
who's sending the junk messages? Here's a list of the top culprits and
what you can do about them.
Spammers 'repent'
Spammers 'repent'
05/06/2004 12:17 AMUSA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT
Down with Blog Spammers
Down with Blog Spammers
11/10/2003 11:39 PMAdam Kalsey says it: Now spammers have turned their attention to
weblogs and comment forms. In order to increase search engine rankings
you are posting advertisements to our Web pages. What you failed to
understand is that bloggers are smarter, better connected, and more
technologically savvy than the average email user. We control the
medium that you are now attempting to exploit. You've picked a fight
with us and it's a fight you cannot win. And you know what? He's...
Microsoft Goes After 8 More Spammers
Microsoft Goes After 8 More Spammers
06/11/2004 07:15 PMIn its latest salvo against unwanted e-mail flooding customer
mailboxes, Microsoft has filed lawsuits against eight more spammers.
The company claims the spammers deceived customers and attempted to
hide the source of the spam. Redmond is now pursuing over 80 lawsuits
against spammers around the world. Last March, Microsoft
joined forces with AOL, EarthLink and Yahoo! to
sue hundreds of spammers under the new CAN-SPAM act.
Spamming spammers?
Spamming spammers?
03/22/2005 03:49 PMIBM unveiled a service Tuesday that sends unwanted e-mails back to
the spammers who sent them.
The new IBM (Research) service, known as FairUCE, essentially uses a
giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. E-mails
coming from a computer on the spam database are sent directly back to
the computer, not just the e-mail account, that sent them. "Spam
has become a high priority security issue for businesses today,"
Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of corporate security strategy, said
in a prepared statement.
"By creating a multi-layered defense that proactively repels spam
at its source, companies can get ahead of spammers and malicious
hackers who are always looking for new ways of penetrating IT systems
through e-mail." IBM said the new solution effectively minimizes
the growing threats of "phishing and spoofing -- tactics used to
trick people into disclosing information that can lead to identity
theft."
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CNNRead full story...Damn spammers!
Damn spammers!
10/28/2003 11:06 PMThose spammers have really sunk to new lows now! They're now posting
spams to my blog! So I've had to...
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.
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...
Can You Slow Spammers Down?
Can You Slow Spammers Down?
02/16/2004 10:53 PMYet another anti-spam company is making news for their slightly
different take on how to stop spam. The company, TurnTide, is
offering a router for ISPs that watches over email traffic, and if the
traffic is consistent with that of spam,
the
system slows down the traffic to a crawl, making spamming less
lucrative, in theory. This is, basically, a more commercial means of
offering a greylisting solution. The company, which showed up with a
new $1 million in funding today at DEMO 2004, claims they have no
competitors - but that (as always) is untrue (and whoever invested in
them needs to tell them that). My guess, though, is that it won't
take spammers too long to figure out ways to get around this sort of
blocking maneuver. At their own end, they'll simply find
spam-sympathetic ISPs (as they do now) that would never use such a
system. Then, they'll probably just hijack more machines and have
them each send out limited amounts of email to trick the system into
believing they're legitimate.
Comment spammers
Comment spammers
10/30/2003 10:25 PMI have been spared the invasion of the comment spammers because my
weblog was offline this summer. But to pre-empt them, now that
comments are back, I installed Blacklist. I then did a Google query on
blacklist.txt, and pasted the...
Spammers, I Salute You
Spammers, I Salute You
04/13/2005 05:58 PMFor both your creative ways to get around spam blockers and your
incredible stupidity in doing so. I saw this in my mail box,...
How Spammers Find You
How Spammers Find You
02/15/2004 09:10 PMMacleans Online Feb 16 2004 1:13AM GMT
Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own
Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own
12/19/2004 03:44 PMWould you be surprised to know that some people who work in the search
engine "industry" know who is responsible for a lot of the comment
spam out there? I met some of them recently. And some of them even
have blogs of their own. Seriously. I haven't written much about this
yet, but with the recent problems that have been exposed in
MovableType (see: Comment Spam Load Issue, More on Comment Spamming,
and Spam and the Tragedy of the...
Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
01/11/2004 07:53 AMWhy Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
01/07/2004 06:03 PMSpammers given boot by net host
Spammers given boot by net host
09/08/2004 10:52 AMA campaign by anti-spam groups has persuaded a large US net service
provider to ban spammers using its network.
Net firms set sights on spammers
Net firms set sights on spammers
08/19/2004 07:34 AMBritish net firms are starting to get tough with firms that drum up
trade using junk e-mails.
Spammers Top Microsoft Hit List
Spammers Top Microsoft Hit List
01/06/2004 05:42 AMThe Redmond behemoth is talking tough about cutting down spam in 2004,
and it's willing to go to court to do it. By Michelle Delio.
Spammers Hijacking Servers Is Nothing
New
Spammers Hijacking Servers Is Nothing
New
11/10/2003 11:02 PMWhile there are plenty of stories these days about spammers hijacking
computers around the world to send out more spam, you might not
realize that this is nothing new. A story published five years ago
said that, at the time,
one in five corporate servers was being hijacked for spam.
In other words, five years later and we haven't done much to solve the
sneaky methods spammers use to send out their junk mail.
Spammers target home PCs
Spammers target home PCs
03/06/2004 02:00 AMBBC Mar 5 2004 9:22AM GMT
AOL, Earthlink sue alleged spammers
AOL, Earthlink sue alleged spammers
02/19/2004 12:04 AMTwo major Internet service providers, EarthLink Inc. and America
Online (AOL), have filed civil complaints against two alleged spam
rings this week in an attempt to save their subscribers from unwanted
commercial e-mail.
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