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Protecting Your Email Address From Spammers

Here's a great video showing how you can protect your email address from email harvesting bots and spammers.

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...

Update on the Storm Botnet

Here is a video from Black Hat 2008 that provides an update on the infamous Storm Worm and it's botnet.

Understanding and Fighting Malware-Conclusion

Here's the finale! Hope you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 7

Here's the next to last part of this outstanding video series on malware:

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 6

Here is part 6 of this terrific presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 5

On to Part 5!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 4

Here is part 4 of this very informative presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 3

Here is part 3 of this very informative presentation!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 2

Here is part 2 of this outstanding presentation. Watch and learn!

Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 1

Here's part one of an excellent presentation from David solomon on understanding and fighting malware. Here's an excerpt from the summary: Today's Internet is fraught with peril in the form of undesirable and malicious software. These types of software continue to evolve new ways of...

A Look At a Malware Site

Here's a very interesting video that takes a look at OtherHomePage.com, a known malware site. Watch and learn!

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...

Vacation!

Hi everyome! I am currently out of the country on vacation. Posts will resume on July 25th. Thank you for your patience and have a great week!

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...

Happy 4th!

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jon Helgason Happy 4th to all our American readers! Take a minute away from the fireworks, food and fun and give thanks for the freedoms you enjoy thanks to the brave men who fought for our independence all those years ago, and to the ones who continue to defend...

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 ...

Inside Botnets

Here's a great documentary from SophosLabs that examines botnets from the inside out. Very interesting stuff!

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...

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...

Wenn das Smartphone krank wird..

...arbeitet genauso wie die Virenschutzprogramme auf Computern. Es gibt eine Firewall, einen Antispam-Filer für die SMS und natürlich den Virenscanner. Es ist für einen Preis von 30 Euro, so denke ich zu...

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...

iPhone SDK beta 6

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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...

New Tool To Fight Comment Spam

...oded with. Fear not! SixApart has introduced a new spam fighting tool for bloggers called TypePad antispam . Don't let its name fool you-the software is Open Source and available for a varie...

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...

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...

30 Years of Spam and Counting!

May 3rd will mark spam's 30th anniversary. It was on that day in 1978 that a marketing rep at a computer firm called DEC emailed an invite to every single west Coast user on the Arpanet, the precursor to what we know today as the Internet. Here is the Monthy Python skit that lead to the nami...

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...

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 ...

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?

How is the war on spam looking from your inbox? I still get a dozen or so 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 the war against spam! ...

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...

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...

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...

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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 ...

DH Attacks!

As I mentioned in my previous blog post that I would discuss other harvesting techniques used by spammers, one popular among them is Directory Harvesting Attacks or DHA. So what is DHA? Wikipedia :-A Directory Harvest Attack or DHA is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find valid...

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Ransomware Trojan Attempts To Extort Victims

A new Trojan making the rounds offers a new twist-it takes over your desktop and won't go away unless you pay $35! Call it ransomware. The Trojan, called Backdoor.Win32.Delf.ctk, locks the user out of their desktop and displays this full screen, poorly spelled warning: "ERROR: Browser S...

BitDefender Announces 2007 Top 10 Lists

BitDefender has released it's Top Ten Spams of 2007: 1. penny stocks spam 2. Drug spam 3. Pornography 4. Replica watches 5. Loans 6. Phishing spam 7. Pirated software 8. Fake job ads 9. Dating site spam 10. Fake diplomas

FTC Issues Report on Malicious Spam and Phishing

Today the FTC released a new report describing findings from its July 2007 workshop "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions". It also includes actions that can be taken to fight the harmful effects of malware and phishing, and the results of its Harvesting and Filteri...

Happy New Year from IGotSpam?!

We at IGotSpam?! would like to wish all our readers and their families a very happy and healthy new year filled with peace and prosperity. Stay with us throughout 2008 for breaking news, tips, tricks and tools to help you and your users fight back against spammers and cybercriminals. We also want...

Stock Spammers Using Video to Dodge Filters

Stock spammers have armed themselves with a new tool to get around spam filters-video. It joins past filter fooling schemes like pdf and image spam. Symantec reports that they had samples of spam that included a link to a high quality video hawking stocks from a uranium exploration company...

Storm Worm Strikes Again With New Year's Attack

The Storm worm has once again made its presence known, this time with a New Years themed attack. Victims receive emails with such subject lines as: "As you embrace another New Year" "Blasting New Year" "Happy 2008" "Joyous new year" "New Hope and New B...

A Look At PDF Spam

Just when we thought spammers had moved on to new delivery methods like mp3 and search engine spam, PDF spam seems to be on the rise again. Most PDF spams seem to have subject lines targeted toward finances, such as "Account Statement" "Invoice" and "Dividend Report" He...

Verizon Customers Hit With Wave of Text Message Spam

Verizon Wireless customers were hit with a wave of text message spam this week. The messages asked receivers if they were looking for a date and included a link to an adult website. You have kids with cell phones," said Dan Shaffer of Wireless Solutions. "Some of this material, object...

McAfee Releases GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange

McAfee has announced the release of GroupShield 7 For Microsoft Exchange. GroupShield provides threat protection and security management solutions including anti-virus and content security. It scans for viruses and malicious code and manages any outbreaks, preventing disruption of end user system...

Botnets-How They Work and What They Can Do

Botnets are big news these days, thanks to the Storm worm, this week's massive botnet attack, and other internet security issues. Users whose computers have been infected and joined to a botnet usually never even know it. Here is an eye-opening video from Symantec . In it, a Symantec Int...

December State of Spam Report

Symantec has released it's December State of Spam Report. In it they note that in November spam increased to 72% of all email traffic. The report also notes some seasonal spam trends: Penny stocks use Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject line - spammers using common personal Thanksgiving...

BotNet Hitting Networks Hard

This past week saw a new botnet attack, increasing spam traffic by 600 percent. The botnet responsible is believed to have over 5 million nodes and interesting enough, only works from 9-5. It appears to originate in Poland. It's attack is so over the top experts are considering it akin...

Hackers Attack U.S. Military Labs

Hackers have attacked two of the U.S.'s most important science labs, New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oakridge National Laboratory. At the Oak Ridge lab, the hackers broke into a database that contained the birthdates and social security numbers of everyon...

Computer Security 101

Here's an interesting video from the Department of Justice about Computer Security. It's hosted by John Walsh, who you may of heard of via his show "America's Most Wanted". Although it's roughly 10 years old (check out the floppy disks! Remember those?) it's interesting...

Spam Filters-Desktop or Server Based?

Here is an interesting video that discusses spam fighting software and whether it's more effective when run via the desktop or server side at ISP's. It's a great roundtable discussion the looks at the pros and cons of both types of Spam filtering. One thing that is easily agreed on is th...

Successful Spammers To Get More Time in the Slammer

A federal judge's recent decision may mean more jail time for spammers who profit greatly from their crimes. The case tackled the matter of determining the actual financial harm done to an ISP by a spammer. The CAN-SPAM act allows a spammer's profits to be considered in sentencing when th...

Protecting Your Server From Rootkits

Here is a great video I found. It's from LiveSecurity's Malware Analysis series. This video talks about rootkits, what they do, and how to protect your server from someone using one. This video shows how the rootkit looks from both the hackers view and the victims! This is a must view...

FBI's "Operation Bot Roast" Nets Eight Arrests

Seven FBI offices participated in the second phase of "Operation Bot roast ", leading to the execution of 13 search warrants and 8 arrests, including that of 21 year old Ryan Brett, who allegedly lead a DDoS attack on the University of Pennsylvania. The operation uncovered an es...

Yoggie Gatekepper Pro

This device brings me into the realm in which I cover in my day job: network security. Or rather, network security for your personal computer. The Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro is a device that serves as a network security device, incorporating many security features commonly implemented in software o...