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Seen that? - Today, I stumbled upon a
in I got Spam?!, on November 29, 2009
...his surprised me because it was the first non-static spam I got, so I guess this is the new way for spammers to bypass filters. Also, I think we will be seeing more of these from now on. Scott Berinat...
Seen that? - Sophos daily Top 10 hoaxes
in I got Spam?!, on November 10, 2009
...ou were ever tempted to answer any of those e-mails which appeared in your spam inbox, remember: #1 Spammers lie #2 If you think that a spammer is not lying, go back to rule #1 #3 [...] Read More ...
Seen that? - AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service
in I got Spam?!, on October 21, 2009
...card number, and birthdate, yet they treat me like [...] Read More Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers at I got Spam?! Photo courtesy of iStockphoto...
Heroes Season 4 : Ep. 4 - Hysterical Blindness
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-15
...house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch
• WinExt
• iTunesLP.net
• Status Address Bar
• Netvibes Allows Publishers To Push Updates At You, But You Can Shove Them Back
• Fa...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
...pam emails urging you to visit the 'adult' website with 'special' content? It seems spammers no longer push porn, they are busy advertising drugs, stocks and real-estate. As SC Magazin...
Seen that? - Botnet hacker pleads guilty
in I got Spam?!, on October 2, 2009
Botnet hacker pleads guilty at I got Spam?! CNN: Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, California, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to four felony charges for crimes, including infecting machines at two U.S. military sites, that earned him ...
Wikia to launch applications around search
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...on the fact that ultimately its the choice of users that would weigh in the rankings of results and spammers would not have a long term impact. The model has been successful across Wikipedia. But in s...
Economic Crisis May Lead to Increase in Scams
in I got Spam?!, on October 6, 2008
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...
More on the BusinessWeek Attack
in I got Spam?!, on September 26, 2008
Here's another video about the recent hacker attack on BusinessWeek's website.
Financial Crisis A Boon For Phishers
in I got Spam?!, on September 25, 2008
The financial crisis is a prime target for phishers who are using it in their latest scams. Here's an interesting video that explains the new scam and how to protect yourself.
Protecting Your Email Address From Spammers
in I got Spam?!, on September 20, 2008
...e's a great video showing how you can protect your email address from email harvesting bots and spammers.
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Hitman Spammer Returns
in I got Spam?!, on September 16, 2008
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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...
Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 3
in I got Spam?!, on August 20, 2008
Here is part 3 of this very informative presentation!
Spammers Exploit Georgia-Russia Conflict
in I got Spam?!, on August 15, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on August 9, 2008
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...
A Look At a Malware Site
in I got Spam?!, on August 8, 2008
Here's a very interesting video that takes a look at OtherHomePage.com, a known malware site. Watch and learn!
BBB Warns of New Work at Home Scam
in Home Based Business, on August 4, 2008
...hat is all "Get Paid To..." opportunities are-a sneaky way to harvest email addresses for spammers. Users are encouraged to plaster referral links all over the net with promises they ...
Spammers Now Paying For Help Evading Filters
in I got Spam?!, on August 4, 2008
... 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...
Spam King Dies in Murder/Suicide
in I got Spam?!, on July 28, 2008
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...
Twitter durch eigenem Anti-Spam Bot im Chaos
in web2weblog, on 24.07.08
...we display on your profile page are not always up-to-date. For example, when we remove spammers from the system (which we've been doing a lot lately), the follower counts are not updated in real-t...
Spammer Faces 25 Years In Prison
in I got Spam?!, on July 11, 2008
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...
Anti-Spam Vendor Caught Spamming
in I got Spam?!, on July 5, 2008
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!
in I got Spam?!, on July 4, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on July 3, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on June 28, 2008
Here's a great documentary from SophosLabs that examines botnets from the inside out. Very interesting stuff!
CAN-SPAM Law Updated
in I got Spam?!, on June 26, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on June 21, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on June 21, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on June 16, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on June 13, 2008
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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 ...
Victims of Internet Fraud Being Targeted By Spammers
in I got Spam?!, on June 10, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on May 31, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on May 30, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on May 29, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on May 24, 2008
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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
in I got Spam?!, on May 22, 2008
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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:
W...
Google Spams Adsense Members
in I got Spam?!, on May 14, 2008
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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 ...
Hackers Attack Epilepsy Site
in I got Spam?!, on May 8, 2008
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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...
Spam King Loses Again
in I got Spam?!, on May 1, 2008
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"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...
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in Wangtam, on 2008-04-29
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Tool gegen Twitter-Spam
in Das CIO Weblog, on 28.04.08
Carlo Zottmann , Programmierer bei Yahoo! Deutschland, hat mit Twitter Twerp Scan ein kleines Tool geschrieben, dass die Follower beim Microblogging-Dienst Twitter etwas genauer unter die Lupe nimmt.
Der "Twitter Spammer Detector" durchsucht die Kontaktliste nach Leuten, die deutli...
Colorado Gov. Signs Tough New Spam Law
in I got Spam?!, on April 26, 2008
...h and replaces a previous state law regarding commercial email. The bill's sponsors claim that spammers cost U.S. businesses about $70 million annually in lost productivity and IT costs.
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Google Offers Tips on Fighting Spam
in I got Spam?!, on April 25, 2008
... 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 th...
30 Years of Spam and Counting!
in I got Spam?!, on April 24, 2008
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...
Beware of Reunion.com
in I got Spam?!, on April 19, 2008
© 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 ...
Spam Sites Found On The Net Every 3 Seconds
in I got Spam?!, on April 17, 2008
... roughly one every 3 seconds. There's also a new country joining the ranks as one of the top 5 spammers. Turkey has take over the number 3 spot. Russia and the good ol USA are still second and fir...
Sharp Rise In Malware Predicted
in I got Spam?!, on April 12, 2008
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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...
McAfee To Conduct Massive Spam Survey
in I got Spam?!, on April 5, 2008
...leaving their computers unprotected."
Is this a good idea or will it just serve to encourage spammers? Drop us a comment and let us know what you think!
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U.S. Army Enters Spam Business
in I got Spam?!, on April 4, 2008
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
in I got Spam?!, on April 4, 2008
...pam filters," explains Diego d'Ambra, CTO of SoftScan. "This leads us to believe that spammers are cleaning up their infrastructure and are possibly starting to stop sending spam mails t...
Backscatter
in I got Spam?!, on April 4, 2008
...atter can be a big IT administrative headache, if it's not fixed it can bring down a server and spammers can use this to create a DoS style attack. Best way to prevent Backscatter to prevent bounc...
Microsoft Open to Spammers?
in I got Spam?!, on March 29, 2008
... users to invited their contacts to the social networking service of their choice, it may also give spammers a new tool. I wouldn't be surprised to see a wave of fake invites from spammers. Micros...
How Goes The War on Spam?
in I got Spam?!, on March 28, 2008
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!
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Google Tech Talk
in I got Spam?!, on March 27, 2008
...b 2.0. more and more people are relying on websites and web based apps and this has been a boon for spammers and malware distributors. This talk discusses ways to better secure websites and web based ...
4 Ways to Prevent Cell Phone Spam
in I got Spam?!, on March 21, 2008
...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 g...
Scamming a Scammer
in I got Spam?!, on March 15, 2008
...background. Why? Because he studies spam for a living and wanted to find out what makes the Nigeria spammers tick. To find out what happened, check out the podcast here!
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Spam King Pleads Guilty
in I got Spam?!, on March 15, 2008
...Solway claims he's broke.
His spam activities revolved around a package deal he sold to other spammers. For $495, Soloway promised to spam 20 million addresses for 15 days or sell them 80,000 ad...
Help A Spammer for $3 a Day!
in I got Spam?!, on March 14, 2008
...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 mar...
What is Greylisting?
in I got Spam?!, on March 12, 2008
...MTP client. A legitimate email server will retry all their messages after a temporary failure; most spammers will never retry after a failure. Implementing greylisting will cause delay in delivery of ...
Spam Getting Sneaky
in I got Spam?!, on March 11, 2008
...ial engineering are on the rise. The report also noted that the size of spam mails is increasing as spammers use pdfs, images and multimedia files such as MP3's and videos to evade spam filters. T...
DH Attacks!
in I got Spam?!, on March 6, 2008
... 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?
Wikipedi...
Spam Over IM Hits Skype
in I got Spam?!, on March 6, 2008
...ne who has AOL's instant messaging service has experienced being spammed over it at least once. Spammers use bots to send out huge amounts of IM's. The same technique is used in chat rooms-mos...
Have an Anti Spam Strategy?
in I got Spam?!, on March 5, 2008
...ave 99% spam email filtering accuracy, most of the time they are correct, but have you wondered how spammers get your email address and how they are able to fill your support@yourcompanyname.com or co...
Spammers Conviction Upheld
in I got Spam?!, on March 2, 2008
...amming law and sentenced to 9 years in prison. He was once considered one of the world's top 10 spammers. He was responsible for sending 10 million spam messages a day and grossed up to $750,000 a...
Spammers top 10 report: US Leading the Axis of Evil!
in I got Spam?!, on February 29, 2008
...do.
Countries are ranked according to percentage of global spam relay.
10. Spain - 3.1%
Spanish spammers have gained notoriety for the way they spam their male Spanish-speaking victims by seducing...
Auto-responder Spam on the Rise
in I got Spam?!, on February 29, 2008
... McAfee is warning that the number of spammers using the out of office or "vacation" functions of web-based email services to send spam is in the rise. These auto-responders are configured...
Spammers Use Lunar Eclipse to Deliver Malware
in I got Spam?!, on February 23, 2008
... The latest newsworthy event being exploited by spammers is the recent lunar eclipse. According to a security alert issued by Websense , a new wave of spam has emerged, promising videos of the ecli...
Prefix Hijacking and the Spam Wars
in I got Spam?!, on February 17, 2008
...teresting and informative talk given by a Systems Administrators about BGP prefix hijacking and how spammers use it to evade RBL's. Here is an excerpt from the description:
BGP prefix hijacks tak...
Spammers in 1934
in I got Spam?!, on February 17, 2008
Modern Mechanix recently featured an article from one of it's 1934 issues that reveals something shocking-spam existed even then! That was more than 70 years ago! It's true! The article talks about a pirate radio station that took over a popular spot on the dial and began broadcasting a...
Technical Difficulties
in Home Based Business, on February 17, 2008
...res and a malicious event called a Dedicated Denial of Service or DDoS attack . They are caused by spammers, those folks we all love to hate.
CW is back now, so please bear with me as we get the 2Min...
