Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on April 11, 2008
© dampeebe 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,...
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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive Spam
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,...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on March 06, 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...
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Filed in archive Spam
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,...
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Filed in archive Spam
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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Filed in archive Spam
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...
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Filed in archive Spam
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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Filed in archive Spam
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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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 15, 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...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 13, 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...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 08, 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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Filed in archive Spam
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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Filed in archive Spam
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...
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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...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on December 30, 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...
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Filed in archive Spam
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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