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- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- $236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- How much is spam worth? In the case of a couple who sent millions of spams to a small ISP, $236 million. That's the judgment a federal judge in Iowa levied against the husband-and-wife spamming team of Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, IDG reports. Over four months in 2003,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- iPhone hits another security speedbump
- Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone. According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- againI'm all for shutting down...mail servers that are spamming. No matter how big they are. If my server started spamming, my ISP would give me one shot to clean it up. If I didn't or couldn't it would be blocked. Just because it's Microsoft doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Attacker: Hacking Sarah Palin's email was easy
- A college student identified as Rubico has claimed responsibility for hacking into Sarah Palin's personal email, and provided a detailed 1st person account of how he hacked into the email account using the password "popcorn" which he managed to reset by successfully answering her security question "Where did you meet...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Who hacked Sarah's email? And who is rubicon10?
- So, there was this post deleted on the 4chan.org /b/ board by rubico, which claimed responsibility for the break-in (warning: bad language ahead), via Michelle Malkin: rubico 09/17/08Wed12:57:22 No.85782652 Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palin's yahoo was "hacked"...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal DownloadsBlackmailThis is blackmail by the richest companies in the world.RICH STEALING AGAIN FROM THE POOR.No doubt they won't use it against Third world countries where people can't afford to eat, or WILL THEY?Personally I like to listen to tracks for week or two before...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First AmendmentYour point still fails...Freedom of expression doesn't extend to having a legislated, forced audience!By the logic you illustrate here, it would be "illegal" or "unconstitutional" to1) not answer the phone or door, if proven that you were home;2) turn away...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- The comments so far on the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of a state antispam law have been uniformly negative. One commenter, for instance, advocated spamming the opinion's author, Justice G. Steven Agee now on the federal bench. If he gets enough spam maybe he will...
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming serviceGo into a little more detail on MX and Ptr...records being defined. There will have to be a domain registered pointing to a start of authority. DNS servers query for the SOA. Then proceed to the SOA to get the DNS records you are referring...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityClearly a crimefighting imperativeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is such a nuisance.RE: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityHmmm, this is quite disturbing. While I can see the benefits in one hand I see abuses in the other. And the abuses I see...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Spammers are social, too
- Spammers are social, tooHow about the Plaxo Business Model"Plaxo" is a service allowing users to access their address book from any loction, or any piece of hardware with the ability to send/receive e-mail. The whole premiss of the Plaxo model for growth is spamming those people in your address book....
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain onlineLooks like SpamZa is down now...[as of 6:30am PT]...with this message..."SpamZa is currently down because some host has less balls than it said it did. We are currently actively looking for a new host. We WILL be back. We never give...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all agree that, like it or not, there's a direct correlation between it and social media, especially when we're talking...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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