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Welcome Back and Happy Holidays!

...for the sudden silence this blog has fallen into. Creative Weblogging did a little reorganizing and IGotSpam was put on hiatus for s short time. We're back now and dedicated to resuming our covera...

Major Cybercrime Site Shut Down

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5697450 The site, called DarkMarket, was kept secret and access was granted by invitation only. Its forum allowed cyberthieves to buy and sell stolen banking details and credit card numbers obtained via phishing scams and website hacks. It also served as a ...

Economic Crisis May Lead to Increase in Scams

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Marcela Barsse The growing financial crisis may lead to an even sharper rise in malicious spam as scammers exploit the grim headlines and prey on worried consumers. Troubled bank Wachovia has already been used as the subject of a phishing spam. In fact, as t...

Back on My Feet

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Paul Rosado Hi everyone! I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I've been under the weather. Posting will resume today so stay tuned!

BusinessWeek.com attacked by hackers

© Lachlan Hardy Businessweek's website has been hit by hackers. Security vendor Sophos discovered the attack last week. Hundreds of pages of the popular site have been infected with malicious Javascript that redirects users to a Russian website that attempts to download malware to their co...

Hitman Spammer Returns

5812863 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Brandon Rose Just when you thought spammers had thought of everything, the FBI is warning that a particularly disturbing spammer is back. Called the Hit Man Spammer, he first showed up back in 2006. Unlike most spam, which hawks such things fake pharmaceut...

Thnk a Firewall Isn't Important?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Tor Lindqvist If you think a firewall is just a nusiance and your anti-virus software is enough, think again. There is more t worry about that you think. Check out this recent log from my router: Mon, 2008-09-08 13:38:27 - UDP Packet - Source:80.50.125.22,1893...

Stormy Weather

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dmitriy Buyanskiy Hello everyone! Due to Tropical Storm Hanna ,posting has been delayed this week. We got hammered pretty hard with heavy rain and wind and my electricity was off and on. Apologies for the delay-posting will resume on Sunday. It looks like the ...

Stormy Weather

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dmitriy Buyanskiy Hello everyone! Due to Tropical Storm Hanna ,posting has been delayed this week. We got hammered pretty hard with heavy rain and wind and my electricity was off and on. Apologies for the delay-posting will resume on Sunday. It looks like th...

Spammers Exploit Georgia-Russia Conflict

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Peeter Viisimaa A new wave of spam appears to be exploiting the Georgia/Russia conflict and has a decidedly pro-Russia slant. According to a report in ComputerWorld , the spam started going out this morning and included such subject lines as ""Mikheil S...

Massive Fake CNN Spam Attack Continues

A massive new spam attack claiming to be Top 10 lists from CNN but is actually a link to a malware bonanza is getting worse. Security experts say the attackers are sending close to 11 million spams an hour. The sites hosting the malware appear to have been compromised by the attackers as many of...

Spammers Now Paying For Help Evading Filters

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Dernie Spammers targeting blogs have come up with a new technique. According to an article on NetworkWorld.com , they are now paying people to post for them. The apparent theory is that comment made by an automated system are easy to spot and block, while ...

Spam King Dies in Murder/Suicide

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas Spam King Edward Davidson was found dead at his home just days after forcing his wife to help him escape from the minimum security prison where he was serving time for his role in a penny stock spam scam. Davidson owned Power Promoters, a comp...

Spammer Faces 25 Years In Prison

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, jesse Karjalainen Notorious spammer Robert Alan Soloway is facing 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count each of mail fraud, email fraud, and tax evasion. He also faces nearly $300,000 in fines. He was originally indicted on over 40 criminal charg...

New Storm Worm Spam Delivers War Rumor

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Björn Kindler The Storm Worm's latest campaign wants you to believe the U.S has invaded Iran. Its newest spam messages spread malware using the following text: "Just now us army 's Delta Force and U.S. Air Force have invaded Iran. Approximate...

Anti-Spam Vendor Caught Spamming

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5721884 Popular anti-spam vendor AVG has come under fire for it's Link Scanner feature, which offers real time scanning of search engine results for suspect pages before the user clicks on them. The problem is AVG does this by faking it's user agen...

419 Spammers At It Again

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Pali Rao We've all gotten at least one in our inbox-an email from a foreign aristocrat of some sort, begging for your help in getting their multi million dollar fortune out of the country. In return for letting them use your bank account, they will give you ...

Srizbi Botnet Unleashes "Recruitment" Blitz

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrey Volodin The volume of malicious spam has tripled in the past week, largely due to the Srizbi botnet. This botnet is currently responsible for 46% of all spam sent this month. The current flood of spam isn't selling anything-rather it's delivering a ...

CAN-SPAM Law Updated

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Konstantin Inozemtsev The FTC has made some key changes to the can-spam law: 1. Senders can now use a P.O. Box as their physical address. 2. Nonprofits are now required to comply with CAN-SPAM. 3. Senders can not require a recipient to pay a fee or vis...

New Types of Spam on the Rise

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6251275 Symantec has issued a warning about two new types of spam hitting the net. The first takes advantage of the disaster victims in China and myanmar . It pretends to be a solicitation letter asking for donations to help the victims. The link in...

Storm Worm Returns

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Clint Spencer The Storm Worm is back folks. That's right. The monster botnet security experts and researchers thought was dead has roared back to life. In the last 24 hours it has sent out over 8 million spam messages. Anyone who falls for one of them will...

MySpace Wins Again

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas MySpace has won yet another lawsuit against a spammer. This time it was an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and it's CEO, Scott Richter. His company was accused of sending over 100 million spam messages a day to MySpace memb...

FTC Weakens CAN-SPAM Act

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Steve Dibblee The FTC made changes to the can-spam act and at least one of them is a boon to spammers. The new rules regarding the required opt-out feature now dictate that only one of senders of a spam message need be designated as the official sender-th...

Victims of Internet Fraud Being Targeted By Spammers

A new wave of phishing spam is hitting the net. This time, it's targeting victims of Internet fraud. The emails. which claim to be from the UK Government and Internet Crime Complaint Center, offers refunds of thousands of dollars, and all the recipient has to do is sign a "funds release...

Microsoft's CAPTCHA Successfully Cracked

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 4598913 Researchers at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Englandm, have announced they've successfully cracked Microsoft's CAPTCHA system, which is used on services like Windows Live and Hotmail. The researchers claim an amazing...

40 Charged In Phishing Scheme

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Rich Legg U.S. and Romanian authorities have busted an international phishing scheme that is responsible for the theft of thousands of credit and debit card numbers. 40 people were indicted, 33 in California and 7 in Connecticut. Among the 65 charges the group i...

Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Yong Hian Lim Yahoo has filed suit against a group of scammers. The spam mails claimed the recipent had won a lottery run by Yahoo. In reality there is no Yahoo sponsored lottery and anyone who tried to claim the bogus prize had their personal information stolen...

FBI Issues Phishing Warning

© Yong Hian Lim The FBI has issued a warning about a new spam attack. The spams, which are phishing attempts are designed to look like official correspondence from the IRS. Here is their official statement: The FBI warns consumers of recently reported spam e-mail purportedly from the Interna...

Spammers Hit Google Docs

© Felix Möckel Blogger, Adsense, and Google's mail servers weren't enough. Now spammers have moved on and hit Google Docs as well. MessageLabs senior anti-spam technologist explains: What's happening with Google Docs is that Google Docs is a way to publish your documents online. ...

Anti Spam for MAC OS X Servers

Message Partners recently announced Anti Spam protection for Mac OS X email and collaboration servers. MPP provides services like spam filtering, anti virus protection, content filtering, and email archival, attachment filtering. MPP is designed to work with Postfix, the same technology...

TierOneAds Now Available!

I'd like to interrupt our regular programming for just a minute to tell you about Creative Weblogging's new ad network called TierOne ads. This network allows bloggers to register for free and set their own CPM rates. Advertisers are then able to chose the ones that best fit both t...

I Got Infected!

© dmuth Yes, that's right, your faithful I Got Spam?! blogger got hit with a nasty virus. Ironic I know. It started when my main PC suffered a hard drive failure (yes it's been a lovely week). While I waited for my new one to arrive, I fired up my trusty Eee PC (great little device by ...

Google Spams Adsense Members

© dannysullivan Google had to make a hasty apology after it inadvertently spammed its Adsense members. The gaff happened when they sent a mass email out to them asking them to agree to the new terms and conditions released in February. Problem is, most of the recipients of the email had alre...

Malware Infects Half a Million PC's in Seven Days

© mdornseif According to the Guardian , over half a million PC's were infected with malware in just 7 days. Users are being fooled into downloading a malicious trojan made to look like a video or mp3 download. Instead they get the trojan, which floods their desktop with ads. The trojan wa...

Hackers Attack Epilepsy Site

© steveb_ohio Just in case you were wondering just how low hackers and spammers will stoop, here's your answer. The Epilepsy Foundation's website was attacked by hackers who flooded it with hundreds of links to flashing pictures. Such pictures trigger seizures and severe headaches in...

Malware Authors Fighting For Their Rights

© Ioan Sameli The Associated Press is reporting that malware authors are Fighting to protect their rights-their copyrights that is. Professional virus writers (imagine that on a resume!) are now distributing licensing agreements with their malware, promising stiff penalties for distribut...

Lending Tree Sues Over Security Breach

© Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Lending Tree has informed its customers that they may have had their personal information compromised in a security breach. Several former employees are believed to be responsible. The company believes they turned over company passwords to the lenders who then ...

Spam is 30 Years old

© Zesmerelda E-mail users first got a taste of spam on May 3 1978 when a marketer at DEC Computer send a email to 400 people on the west coast. You can learn more about this in a recent article by AFP,Washington at Yahoo.

Spam King Loses Again

© Claudecf "Spam King" Sanford Wallace has lost yet another lawsuit . This one was a brought against him by MySpace, which sued him after he used a phishing scheme to gain unauthorized access to thousands of MySpace accounts, then used them to spam other users with ads for hi...

Colorado Gov. Signs Tough New Spam Law

© Kamal H. Colorado Bill Ritter signed in to law a bill making spam and violation of the can-spam ACT a crime under state law and allowing recipients to recover damages of up to $10 million if they can identify the sender and prove financial loss. Sending spam to any Colorado resident...

Google Offers Tips on Fighting Spam

© Mzelle Biscotte Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, was at at the recent Web 2.0 Expo offering some tips to help users who manage websites fight back against spam. "Spammers are human," Cutts said. "You have the power to raise their blood pressure. Make them sp...

Beware of Reunion.com

© Lasse Havelund Popular social networking site Reunion.com has been outed as a spammer. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the site dupes people into joining by sending an email pretending to be from someone who's looking for them. Once the person signs up, their address book ...

Hackers Threaten to Attack CNN

PCWorld is reporting that Chinese hackers appear to be preparing for an attack on CNN scheduled for April 19th. The attack is being spurred by the recent pro- tibet coverage in the media. A Chinese site called Anti-CNN is protesting what it considers anti-Chinese propaganda and is callin...

Spam Sites Found On The Net Every 3 Seconds

© staryprd In case you weren't sure if the amount of junk mail on the net is increasing, a new study from sophos confirms it. According to the study, 92.3% of all email sent during the first three months of this year was spam. It also found that over 23,000 new spam sites were cre...

Why is there Spam

© TheeErin SpamStopsHere, Inc ., today launched a blog to inform and educate the public about security and spam issues. Ted Green at SpamStopsHere posted a very interesting blog post " Why is there Spam ", When you get a chance do read it. If you've got ideas, suggestions, quest...

Sharp Rise In Malware Predicted

© NOTICIAS-TIC Kaspersky is forecasting a huge rise in malware by the end of the year. The security lab is expecting over 1 million malware signatures to be added to its database this year. In comparison only 250,000 were added last year. "In addition to the quantity, the quality of m...

Verizion DSL's Spam Filter Failing?

© 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, debt reduction services and male enhancement , with subject lines like "weadmid Earbet ...

Sender Policy Framework

If you are administrator you must have got spam from your own email address. How does this happen? How do you stop this? If you have Sender Policy Framework published, you can specify that you only send email from certain IP addresses/servers. If any other machines send a email with your domain ...

Spam Isn't Free Speech

There's an article on Techdirt about how a spammer was convicted for violating Virgina's Anti-Spamming Law . Jeremy Jaynes, the spammer in question, tried to get the conviction overturned because their anti-spam law is unconstitutional. The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the verdict . ...

McAfee To Conduct Massive Spam Survey

© freezelight McAfee is conducting a massive experiment that involves volunteers using new laptops to respond to every single piece of spam they receive, sign up for competitions, make purchases online, and more. Called Spammed Persistently All Month , it will last 30 days. Records of their a...

U.S. Army Enters Spam Business

The U.S. Army entered the spam business recently when it sent out bogus emails to thousands of servicemen to test how susceptible they were to phishing attacks. The emails claimed to be from the Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command and promised free tickets to various theme...

March Spam Statistics

Security vendor Softscan has released its March spam statistics. It found that spam accounted for 96.63% of all email in March, but noticed a sudden 45% drop at the end of the month: "Although there was a significant drop in spam levels at the reputation filter, we didn't see any dro...

Backscatter

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 notifications are sent to a mail server that never originated the emails. Backscatter can be a big IT a...

McAfee Launches SPAM Experiment

McAfee launches global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students to retirees - will surf the Web, make online purchases and register for promotions. Participants ...

Microsoft Open to Spammers?

That's what some folks are saying about Microsoft's new partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook. Calling it a new commitment to openness and data portability, the partnerships allow users of those sites to import their Windows Live contacts and vice versa . While ...

How Goes The War on Spam?

... spams a day, mostly those annoying Nigerian scams and there many variations. How about you? IGotSpam?! wants to know! Take a minute to vote in our poll and let us know how your ISP is doing in...

MIT Spam Conference 2008

Two Day Spam conference, on March 27 and 28, 2008, on campus at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts , USA. Topics Include Game Theory of Botnets, Black Market Botnets, Major ISP Botnet fighting, The Malware Ecosystem, Multilayer Filtering, Neural Networks for Image Spam and Advanced Filterin...

Mobile phone spam attack in china

BBC is reporting that China is investigating a spam attack where 200 million mobile phone users through china have received unwanted text message from advertisers. China Mobile has blocked text messages from seven online advertising firms. The latest attack on mobile phone spam came to ...

Apple's Distribution Plan for Safari Compared to Malware

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, are accusing Apple of bad business regarding the distribution of its Safari browser to Windows Users. Mozilla claims Apple's tactics are "borderline malware distribution practices". Apple users are also infuriated, all as a result of Apple's de...

4 Ways to Prevent Cell Phone Spam

by IamSAM. Text messaging has become indispensible to many people, especially the teenage set. Unfortunately it also means it has become a big target for spammers, and what makes SMS spam even worse than the kind filling up inboxes is that the receiver gets charged for each one they get, unles...

Interview with Michael Katz founder Message Partners

Michael Katz Founder of Message Partners agreed to do an e-mail interview with me regarding anti spam solutions. Michael Katz has worked with some of the most prominent customers in finance, banking, insurance as well as leading ISP's to implement Anti Spam and Archival strategy. The...

Sponsored Post: Spam Archived For Five Years?

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, which includes electronic documents of all nature, including email for a minimum number of ye...

E-mail Archiving

According to a Wall Street Journal article last year "Qualcomm was put at great risk by poor email archival strategy who found damaging emails after their disclosure deadline in their ongoing patent dispute with Broadcom", this is covered more in detail by Mike at MPPNews blog and WSJ...

Mailinator?

Do you want create a throw- away email address that will help your control spam? Here is a solution for you, create an email address at Mailinator . It's so easy to create an email address, send a email to yourname@mailinator.com your temporary account is created, now you are ready to rece...

Scamming a Scammer

We get them on a daily basis, sometimes even more. They promise us we've won a foreign lottery, offer us a high paying job, or promise us a huge reward if we'll just help them get their family fortune out of their war torn country-or perhaps they discovered a long lost relative left you m...

Spam King Pleads Guilty

"Spam King" Robert Soloway pled guilty in a Seattle court to felony mail fraud, fraud in connection with Electronic mail , and failing to file a tax return in 2005. He was set to go on trial to face a 40-count indictment that included 13 counts of money laundering and seven coun...

Cybercriminals Create Malware Maze

ITNews is reporting that McAfee has discovered a maze of over 10,000 websites that have been hijacked by cybercriminals with the intent of using them to take over unsuspecting visitor's PCs. The hijacked sites include travel, government and even hobby sites. It's suspected that the page...

Help A Spammer for $3 a Day!

The New York Times is reporting that previous studies from various Internet security firms claiming spammers have devised a program capable of cracking Google's CAPTCHA system may be off the mark. Brad Taylor, a Google software engineer known as the "Spam Czar" is claiming that th...

What is Greylisting?

Greylisting is a method of defending email server against SPAM emails and it is usually implemented at a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Greylisting is very simple to understand, send a temporary failure message to every new SMTP client. A legitimate email server will retry all their messages after a ...

Controlling Spam

Here is an interesting and informative video from the University of Washington Although it's a few years old I think it's still provides some good information, and an interesting comparison of the spam problem then (2005) and now. Here's an excerpt from the summary posted on Google Vi...