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by Sue Walsh on April 11, 2008
If you have Verizon DSL like I do, you've probably noticed a sharp increase in spam. The messages are the same old thing, purposely misspelled messages promoting online pharmacies, debt reduction ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 8, 2008
I have been spammed several times over the past several weeks by a service called Naymz. Several people it seems have wanted me to "join their reputation network." Bah. Like I need another w...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on April 4, 2008
Backscatter is a problem that arises when an email server receives bounced messages that come from remote site to a non-local recipient. In simple terms non-delivery reports or delivery status notific...
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by Sue Walsh on March 20, 2008
A number of compliance and operational risk acts and frameworks including SOX, hipaa, GLBA, PCI, ISO, BASIL, BASIL II, FFIEC, SEC, NFPA, BC, DR to name a few prescribe the storage of information, whic...
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by Sue Walsh on March 6, 2008
Dameon over at the VOIP blog has an interesting post about spam via IM on Skype. Users receive an IM from some with a sexy name and picture asks to be added to your contact list. Of course it isn'...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
A new peer to peer botnet is on the scene, and it's even more powerful than Storm. It's begun attacking U.S. based enterprises, educational institutions and ISPs. Named the MayDay botnet, it&#...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
McAfee is warning that the number of spammers using the out of office or "vacation" functions of web-based email services to send spam is in the rise. These auto-responders are configured to...
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by Sue Walsh on February 25, 2008
A new study by the European Network and Information Security Agency(ENISA) is reporting that spam is posing an increasing threat to corporate security and bandwith costs. Even though only 6% of all sp...
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by Sue Walsh on February 17, 2008
Here is an interesting and informative talk given by a Systems Administrators about BGP prefix hijacking and how spammers use it to evade RBL's. Here is an excerpt from the description:
BGP prefix...
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by Sue Walsh on February 17, 2008
Modern Mechanix recently featured an article from one of it's 1934 issues that reveals something shocking-spam existed even then! That was more than 70 years ago! It's true! The article talks ...
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by Sue Walsh on February 16, 2008
We're Back in business folks. The past week has been fraught with DDoS attacks and cranky servers and I apologize. Please bear with us as we get caught up and back into the swing of things, and st...
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by Sue Walsh on February 14, 2008
You may have noticed that IGotSpam has been unavailable for much of the last two days. This is because Creative Weblogging became the victim on a DDoS attack, presumably from a botnet, and quite likel...
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by Sue Walsh on February 8, 2008
Here's an interesting talk about spammer economics and behavior and how to fight spam using connection management from the 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference. It provides an ...
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by Sue Walsh on January 28, 2008
PDF spam has returned. According to management services vendor MX Logic, PDF spam accounted for .5% of all spam volume last week.
"It could be somebody testing the waters or it could be the calm...
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by Sue Walsh on January 25, 2008
According to a researcher at Websense Inc, spammers are now using thousands of Google accounts to get past spam filters. Instead of including links to the website they want people to visit, they inser...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 18, 2008
Here at IGotSpam, we report on the various trends related to spam, malware, porn popups, and what have you. Rarely do we see someone write an entertaining song about it and put it up on the Internet f...
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by Sue Walsh on December 31, 2007
Stock spammers have armed themselves with a new tool to get around spam filters-video. It joins past filter fooling schemes like pdf and image spam. Symantec reports that they had samples of spam that...
Read more of Stock Spammers Using Video to Dodge Filters
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by Sue Walsh on December 22, 2007
Just when we thought spammers had moved on to new delivery methods like mp3 and search engine spam, PDF spam seems to be on the rise again. Most PDF spams seem to have subject lines targeted toward fi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 15, 2007
In order to get a copy of this program called Stuffit Expander, you have to agree to give your email address, which is then added to an "opt-in" mailing list where the manufacturer, Smith Mi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 7, 2007
Let's face it, if you work for an employer or have a job that demands that you be reachable anywhere, anytime, chances are you've been given some kind of access to email from your mobile hands...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 16, 2007
Network Information Security & Technology News brings us word of a new phishing scam that goes against the grain of many scams: there's no link to click anywhere in the message.
Phishing has...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 14, 2007
Do you realize that 96% of all email is SPAM? That means for every 25 emails you receive, only one of them is a real email. At least that's what Ken Rutkowski, host of KenRadio's World Technol...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 3, 2007
Every once in a while, I have to sift through the spam filters here for my Creative Weblogging blogs and my other blogs. I occasionally run across these what appear to be nonsensical comments that, at...
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by Ivy on April 5, 2007
Except from filtering, reporting, fighting against, loathing and cursing spam which comes to your inbox everyday, there is, as it proves again an again a ton of fun stuff you can do with unsolicited e...
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by Ivy on March 21, 2007
We already know how many spammers there are, and now Discover shows us where there are hiding.
Discover Magazine posted a nice map of spam hotspots, which was made by pinpointing origin of over 1 bil...
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by Ivy on February 26, 2007
Don't you just hate receiving text spams? I kind of got used to email spam, but when I get it on my mobile it really pisses me off. How did they even get my number? I'm not listed anywhere.
V...
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by Ivy on February 13, 2007
I remember times, some years ago, when people with little morals and a big urge for a high page rank and keyword search position included white on white (yellow on yellow, black on black and so on) te...
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by Ivy on January 31, 2007
In this brave new world there really are companies who cherish their reputation, and more importantly for us, care enough to get their newsletters, offers and other subscribe adverts out into your inb...
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by Ivy on January 30, 2007
Frantic Industries says that 94 per cent of email is in fact unsolicited, which leaves us with 6 per cent of emails which we in fact want to read. Although this is nothing new to us all, the author th...
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by Ivy on January 11, 2007
Andrew Graydon from SC Magazine likes his spam raw, so he doesn't implement any spam-filters to one of his addresses in order to track down what's happening in the spam sending world.
In his ...
