Spamhaus
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China's spam fight takes flight
News Anti-spam lobbyist Spamhaus takes its fight to China--the top spamming nation in Asia--but faces some resistance from telecom administrators unwilling to give up lucrative contracts.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Spam
Spamhaus hits out at ISPs, praises Microsoft
News ISPs put more firewalls around customer support than around customers, says Spamhaus CTO.
Tags: Spam filtering
China: No longer a spam haven
News The country, a haven for spammers, wakes up to the problem and blocks 127 servers identified as the sources of high volumes of unsolicited e-mail.
Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP
News Spamhaus.org says it's been telling Microsoft its sites are rife with spam, but nothing has been done and Redmond is now ranked No. 5 on the list of Top 10 worst spam service ISPs.
Tags: Spam and phishing, E-mail servers, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Security, Microsoft Windows Live, Anti-spam, RFC, McAfee Inc., Spamhaus
SecureWorks unmasks the Coreflood Trojan
News The average lifecycle of the Coreflood Trojan bot is about 66 days, according to research.
Tags: Security, Viruses and worms, Database, Bot, SecureWorks Inc., Password, software, Spamhaus, network, bank
Spamhaus domain name may be suspended
News After losing a court case against a mass-mailing firm, anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus may have its domain name suspended by ICANN.
Tags: Web sites, Spam and phishing, Legal
SpamHaus targeted by child-porn email attack
News The anti-spam service has been targeted by a scam that is designed to end up with it being sent angry emails by users who'd been told they were being sent pornography.
Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
News J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the lengths he went to keeping up appearances.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Legal, FBI, IP, Spammer, IP Address, Server, phone, agent
War on spam turns to open proxies
News The Exploits Block List at Spamhaus will let companies crack down on open proxies that let spam through, as well as on other popular spam exploits.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Spamhaus: Yahoo major phishing site host
News Anti-spam group Spamhaus says almost 5,000 sites on Yahoo use the words "bank," "eBay" and "PayPal" in their domain names.
Tags: Data security, Personal applications
E-mail meltdown claims take heat
News Although ISPs say they have had problems with a zombie mailing trick, antispam sellers say the warnings are overblown.
Tags: Spam filtering
FBI shuts down 'number one spammer'
News Michigan resident was believed to have the capacity to send up to one billion e-mails a day.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Legal
MCI accused of harboring spammers
News Telecommunications giant denies accusations by Spamhaus that it hosts a Web site distributing spamming tools.
International antispam crusades score big wins
News International efforts against junk-mail have recently intensified, with the news that the notorious Buffalo Spammer has been jailed and antispam organization SpamHaus gaining favor with the Chinese government.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering
Most spam generated by botnets, says expert
Insight Seventy percent of spam now comes from botnets--networks of zombie PCs captured in previous security attacks, according to a spam expert.
Tags: Spam and phishing
