Justin Mason: How tightly linked are the top spam botnets?
Justin reviews some interesting recent findings from botnet researchers
CommentsCumberland Sentinel: The things that escape our spam filters
“I find it significant that smear e-mails originate only on one side of the [political] debate, and that’s why I wrote about it.”
Commentssudosecure.net: Comment Spam leads to rogue Security Applications/Scanners
While investigating the source of a recent run of blog comment spam, Jeremy discovered “trojan horse” malware disguised as anti-virus software.
CommentsThe Email Wars: You Are the Ones We Despise
“…people that mess with email marketers data with false names, fake names, friends names, or my favorite asdf@asdf.com (look at your keyboard) make our jobs hard.”
Since when was the recipient expected to make the marketer’s job easy?
CommentsSeth's Blog: The first law of mass media
“One by one, the mass marketers have insisted on robocalling, spamming, jingling and lying their way into our lives.”
Why? Who benefits?
CommentsWashington Post Security Fix: Thwarting Anti-Spam Defenses
Recently there were a whole bunch of blog articles crowing that “CAPTCHA is broken” at major webmail providers & such. But as Brian Krebs explains, “…automated programs that spammers use to thwart CAPTCHAs still aren’t nearly as successful as the practice of hiring thousands of people to do nothing but remotely solve the puzzles for clients.” This article highlights one such service, one of the many spam support services which have recently popped above-ground.
CommentsMacworld: Earthlink and the devil's spam filter
Yep, challenge/response still sucks for anyone you might want to correspond with.
(via intellectual intercourse and word to the wise)
CommentsCircleID: Thoughts on the Best Western Compromise
A Best Western hotel’s network was compromised, though there’s some debate as to the extent of the damage. John Bambenek sanely reviews the situation, and offers some lessons that any IT staff should take to heart — especially if you think your network isn’t a likely target for nefarious activity.
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