Archive for July, 2008
Spammer walks away from slammer
Eddie Davidson has escaped from a minimum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado. Since Florence also houses medium and high security (plus the Administrative Maximium Security or “Supermax”) prisons, I would expect that he might be changing houses when he is caught. The Denver Post, also 9news.com You can keep up with things (to a [...]
A Couple of Quick Links
Rebecca Leib has an interesting read about inactive lists: Inactive E-mail List: Mail or Don’t Mail? I didn’t mention it yesterday, but you might want to also check out an article that was described by some of my colleagues in email delivery as “somewhat wierd”: Is It Spam?
Lessons from the spam wars!
Cory Doctorow: Lessons from the bloody war on spam Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. For example: say you’re an entertainment executive looking to stop some incredibly popular kind of online information transmission – infringing music copyright, say. Where would you look to find a rich history of this kind of online [...]
Sophos: 96.5% of business email is spam
Sophos report: Only one in 28 emails legitimate, reveals rising tide of spam in April – June 2008 By June 2008, research reveals that the level of spam had risen to 96.5% of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3% in the first three months of the year, corporations are now facing [...]
Ameritrade Hack Settlement
Threat Level post: A central element to the agreement is a provision giving affected customers a one-year subscription to spam-blocking software. The Trend Micro Internet Security Pro retails for about $70. TD Ameritrade said it struck a deal with Trend Micro to service the settlement agreement for about $6 million, the parties told Walker in [...]
Botnets winning spam wars, says report
Botnets winning spam wars, says report It’s an interesting, if somewhat depressing, article: The world’s antispam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed. According to the U.S. company’s zombie monitor, by the time that reputation and source analysis systems have identified compromised PCs [...]
Texas AG: “That’s NOT from me!”
The Dallas Morning News reports a new email scam making the rounds. The body of the e-mail says the AG is contacting everyone and includes the following paragraph: “We wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must [...]
Infoworld wants what?
Infoworld Wants My Data It seems a bit strange to me, but upon visiting Infoworld’s website I’m confronted by this browser security popup telling me Infoworld would like to be able to “read private data from any site or window”. What makes them think they need this information? handbook
And your passwords, too!
Utah’s state sex-offender registry appears to be getting an upgrade: A new state law, which took effect Tuesday House Bill 34, requires Utah’s nearly 7,000 registered sex offenders to turn over certain Internet information, including screen names and passwords to social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace. Passwords, too? While I can sympathize with [...]
ESPC: Simplicity is so complicated
Ken Magill has a new article with quotes from the ESPC’s Trevor Hughes including this gem: The FTC’s opt out clarification “complicates things in that it demands simplicity when simplicity may not be the status quo,” said Hughes. The FTC is demanding simplicity? Well, DUH! CAN-SPAM is a law that is supposed to protect consumers [...]
