Yesterday, August 1, someone pumped 1900+ spam emails to CCIM Designees through our member search system. First, I’d like to apologize to our members for letting that spam through. Second, here’s a bit about how it happened and what we’re going to do about it.
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I’ve been using Akismet on this blog to filter out comment spam. So far, it’s filtered over 24,500 fake comments, over 100 on the typical day. I recently installed another anti-spam plugin, httpBL, which compares the IP address of the commenter with Project Honeypot’s database of spammers and spam harvesters. It’s been in [...]
Project Honeypot has been collecting data about spam harvesters for a long time. Today, they announced that they’re suing harvesters.
I’ve noticed a recent upsurge in stock related spam. Our anti-spam filters have been tweaked and they’re keeping out more of the mail. This story in EWeek dissects a network of compromised computers that can easily pump out 1 billion stock spam messages in a day.
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It’s been a while since I checked in with them. It looks like Project HoneyPot is doing a good job of collecting data about spam, spammers, and the way they collect email addresses.
In brief, the project asks webmasters to embed non-visible links on their websites. These links generate pages with non-visible [...]
How does one enable end-user training of a site-wide Bayesian spam filter for SpamAssassin when the users are reading mail through Microsoft Exchange and the filtering takes place on several Linux MX servers?
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Until I put up this blog, I had no idea what blogspam was. Now, I get 15-20 “comments” posted each week to items on this blog. Usually, they’re a list porn sites or sites for erectile disfunction. (I guess you use the latter if the former doesn’t help.)
Thanks to the good people at Akismet, [...]
Continuing with yesterday’s theme –
John Dvorak’s Second Opinion: Conviction of ‘botmaster’ is tip of the iceberg
Few people reading about this guy have a clue as to what any of this means. I thought it would be a good idea to dedicate this column to explaining it since many people, I can assure you, have a [...]
If you’ve ever wanted to be a spammer, you can learn from the indictment (PDF) of Jeason James Acheta. Who? Check this article from the BBC.
“Mr Ancheta was responsible for a particularly insidious string of crimes,” said a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles, Thom Mrozek.
“He hijacked somewhere in the [...]
Three porn spammers have been indicted on charges of fraud, criminal conspiracy, money laundering, and other charges.
This follows on the news that the guy who sold 92,000,000 AOL screen names is going to jail.
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