Silobreaker.com    Log In
   My Page    Help   
360° SearchNetworkHot SpotsTrends
 
Advanced Search Options >>
Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:54 AM

The Spamhaus Project

The Spamhaus Project - Click to view image in its original context
The Spamhaus Project
Type: Organization
Name: The Spamhaus Project
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Spam's new flavours
Filtering is keeping more unwanted messages from our inboxes – but provoking more sophisticated scams on social networks and elsewhereWhen Luis von Ahn gives talks on his work fighting spam, he likes to start by asking the audience a question. "How many ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
EC2 email blackout raises new concerns about security, reliability in the cloud
A 36-hour blacklisting by Spamhaus knocked EC2 users off their email. While the problem is fixed for now, questions remain about Amazon's lack of response to users. ... [CIO Decisions - 10/27/2009]
First Reported 10/29/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Messaging Architects Seeks To Defeat Dramatic Rise In Problematic Snow-Shoe Spamming
Messaging Architects, global experts in email risk management, announced today that M+Guardian, its award-winning platform for email security and acceptable use policy enforcement, will incorporate Spamhaus' newly announced Composite Snow-Shoe (CSS) block ... [Individual.com - 10/29/2009]
First Reported 05/27/2009 - Updated 05/27/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
MessageLabs Inc - Click to view 360-page
MessageLabs Inc
Levels of spam increase for a second consecutive month to reach a record high
More In Mobile/End Point SecurityThe amount of detected web-based spam has increased once again following a record level being hit in April.The May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed that there has been a further increase of 5.1 per cent ... [SC Magazine - 05/27/2009]
First Reported 06/23/2009 - Updated 06/23/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Notorious spammer Ralsky pleads guilty to stock scam
Notorious spammer Alan Ralsky faces up to 87 months' imprisonment after pleading guilty to participation in a pump-and-dump stock spam scam.Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Michigan and four accomplices pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiracy to various ... [The Register - 06/23/2009]
First Reported 06/24/2009 - Updated 06/24/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Convictions unlikely to end spam
News the U.S. Department of Justice has secured guilty pleas from five prolific spammers, including Alan Ralsky, may make other U.S.-based spammers pause for thought. And many of the most troublesome spammers are based in the U.S., although they use servers ... [The Hindu - 06/24/2009]
First Reported 07/01/2009 - Updated 07/01/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
China spam crisis provokes researcher's ire
A security researcher is calling for action against Chinese internet firms which are failing to protect their services from abuse by cybercrooks.Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama, singles out domain name ... [The Register - 07/01/2009]
First Reported 10/03/2009 - Updated 10/03/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam
Today Spamhaus announced they are releasing a new list of IP addresses from which they've been receiving 'snowshoe' spam unsolicited email distributed across many IPs and domains in order to avoid triggering volume-based filters. 'This spam is sent from ... [Slashdot - 10/03/2009]
First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Comcast serves notice on bots, viruses with new program
Comcast has started a trial that will alert its data subscribers when there are viruses and bots on their personal computers.The trial, which kicked off yesterday in Denver, is part of a new program called Constant Guard. Comcast said Constant Guard was ... [CED Magazine - 10/12/2009]
First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Telecoms reform tabled as EU plots spam clampdown
The European Commission is calling on tougher action to fight spammers and protect online privacy.A Commission-funded study found that enforcement action against junk mailers across the EU is inconsistent. It wants to see spam laws tightened up, alongside ... [The Register - 10/12/2009]
First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Comcast to alert customers if machines are botted
Comcast, the nation's largest internet service provider, has begun delivering browser alerts to a portion of its residential customers to notify them if their PCs are infected with malware.The pilot program, which began Friday, marks one of the first ... [SC Magazine US - 10/12/2009]
First Reported 10/14/2009 - Updated 10/14/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
AT&T Sends Controversial ?American Idol? Text Message
AT&T has offended some customers by sending a text promo for American Idol. The text message went to a significant number of its 75 million customers, reminding them of the premiere of American Idol on Fox Tuesday night.Twitter was abuzz with negative ... [Media Buyer Planner - 10/14/2009]

Quotes

..."It's not insoluble – there are various things that can be done that will reduce the risk and reduce the impact," he says. "If the UK and US would actually follow the Australia and New Zealand example, this would set up a pretty strong coalition across the world … all of a sudden there would be a standard."
Spam's new flavours [Guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009]
...The author references a conversation he had with an employee from one of these providers: "... I replied that I expected it to mean the more legitimate clients of the sneakier gray and black-hat spammers would migrate to more legitimate ESPs suggesting that it was, in the long run, a good thing, because ESPs with transparency and a reputation to protect will educate their new clients. His reply was essentially that this would be a problem for them in the short run, because it would swamp their new customer vetting processes and so on."
Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam [Slashdot - 10/03/2009]
...and researchers at the University of Alabama, the Shadowserver Foundation, the Spamhaus Project, and Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus. "It is groundbreaking that the FTC would present and package such a good case for the takedown" said Andr DiMino, co-founder and director of the Shadowserver Foundation. 'They did their homework...
FTC persuades court to shutter rogue ISP [SecurityFocus - 06/05/2009]

More Content

All (32) | News (18) | Reports (0) | Blogs (2) | Audio/Video (0) | Fact Sheets (12)
sort by: Date | Relevance
Spam's new flavours [Guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009]
In Depth: Why hasn't spam been stamped out yet? [TechRadar.com - 11/02/2009]
Messaging Architects Seeks To Defeat Dramatic R... [Individual.com - 10/29/2009]
Comcast Unveils Comprehensive “Constant Guard” ... [Internet Ad Sales - 10/28/2009]
EC2 email blackout raises new concerns about se... [CIO Decisions - 10/27/2009]
CA MAAWG meeting [TMC Net - 10/15/2009]
Air Force General to Outline New Cyber Security... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - 10/15/2009]
Welcome to the Murky World of E-mail List Sales [Direct - 10/15/2009]
AT&T Sends Controversial ?American Idol? Te... [Media Buyer Planner - 10/14/2009]
Comcast to alert customers if machines are botted [SC Magazine US - 10/12/2009]
Comcast serves notice on bots, viruses with new... [CED Magazine - 10/12/2009]
Telecoms reform tabled as EU plots spam clampdown [The Register - 10/12/2009]
Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam [Slashdot - 10/03/2009]
China spam crisis provokes researcher's ire [The Register - 07/01/2009]
Convictions unlikely to end spam [The Hindu - 06/24/2009]
Notorious spammer Ralsky pleads guilty to stock... [The Register - 06/23/2009]
FTC persuades court to shutter rogue ISP [SecurityFocus - 06/05/2009]
Levels of spam increase for a second consecutiv... [SC Magazine - 05/27/2009]
1
In Focus
  •  
Jeffrey Peters, Leo Kuvayev, Alex Blood, [more]
  •  
Comcast Corporation, Yambo Financials Ltd, AT&T Inc, [more]
  •  
Register of Known Spam Operations, Pavka/Artofit, Federal Bureau of Investigation, [more]
  •  
Spam, Virus, Criminal, [more]
  •  
Denver (Colorado, United States), Fresno (California, United States), Seattle, [more]
  •  
China, Russia, United Kingdom, [more]
  •  
Internet & IT, Internet Crime, Court Cases, [more]
  •  
IT, Internet & Online, Telecom
Able2Act, The Register, The Hindu, [more]
Content Volume
Network
Trends

Blogs

sort by: Date | Relevance
Comcast to begin alerting customers that they m... [WPNI Blogroll - Technology Gadgets Blog - 10/14/2009]
Section: Computers, SecurityComcast has announced a new program that will alert customers when suspicious activity is detected coming from their computers.  The ...
CYBER WARFARE : Project Grey Goose Phase II Rep... [IntelliBriefs - 03/28/2009]
Source: Sources and Methods___________________NOTE on INDIA Eastern Railways Website hacked by Pakistanis December 24 2008IndiaThe Eastern Railway Web Site DefacementActionOn ...
1

  •  
  •  
  •