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Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer

May 18, 2006 Eran Reshef, who asked people to bury spammers simply by replying to spam e-mails, falls victim to mass online attack. TAGS: spammer, anti-spam, denial of service, attack, e-mail, server

Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam

November 14, 2003 Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warns. TAGS: Think Computer, spammer, e-mail server, guest, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server, spam, information system, administrator, server, consultant, Microsoft Corp., e-mail, security

MCI accused of harboring spammers

February 7, 2005 Telecommunications giant denies accusations by Spamhaus that it hosts a Web site distributing spamming tools. TAGS: Spamhaus, MCI Inc., spammer, MessageLabs Ltd., Sobig, e-mail server, spam, Internet Service Provider, service provider, telecommunications, server

ISP wins $1 billion in spam suit

December 20, 2004 An Internet service provider filed suit against 300 spammers after its servers received up to 10 million spam e-mails a day in 2000. TAGS: judgment, spammer, Internet Service Provider, Internet service, service provider, server, e-mail

Black Frog leaps into fight against spam

May 25, 2006 Okopipi project aims to continue antispam campaign launched by now-defunct Blue Frog effort, which suffered a DOS attack. TAGS: Wiki, denial of service, spammer, anti-spam, spam, project, fight, server, e-mail

Comcast goofs in Russian spam blockade

March 3, 2004 Since Friday, Comcast subscribers have found themselves unable to send e-mail to Russian addresses thanks to an overactive spam filter. TAGS: Comcast Corp., spam filter, Internet Service Provider, subscriber, spammer, spam, e-mail, Time Warner Inc., server

Stopping spam at the source

August 23, 2004 New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work. TAGS: spammer, e-mail authentication, anti-spam, spam, Cisco Systems Inc., authentication, e-mail server, spam filtering, proposal, phishing, e-mail, server

Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high

February 2, 2005 New spammer scheme uses ISPs to get around blacklists, leading one expert to predict "e-mail meltdown." TAGS: Internet Service Provider, spam, blacklist, zombie, spammer, Spamhaus, e-mail server, MessageLabs Ltd., anti-spam, trojan horse, malware, e-mail, server, broadband, U.S., PC

Comcast takes hard line against spam

June 10, 2004 Blocking ports of suspect PCs draws criticism, but customers send 665 million e-mails daily. TAGS: Comcast Corp., spam, spamming, broadband Internet, spammer, block, SMTP server, subscriber, broadband, Internet Service Provider, e-mail server, Internet service, e-mail, service provider, server, PC

Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies

May 24, 2004 CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how spammers are hijacking Comcast's network to transform subscriber PCs into spambots. TAGS: Comcast Corp., zombie, spam, subscriber, spammer, junk e-mail, anti-spam, message, technique, server, e-mail, PC

Antispam methods aim to merge

October 24, 2003 A new group will try to settle the differences among competing methods of thwarting spam with a kind of caller ID for e-mail. TAGS: Meng Wong, Pobox.com, spammer, spam, anti-spam, e-mail server, protocol, domain, method, caller ID, e-mail, Internet Service Provider, e-mail address, service provider, server

IronPort to rate Web links in spam fight

January 24, 2006 Web reputation scoring added to catch more unwanted e-mail messages, including those with links to malicious Web sites. TAGS: Ironport Systems Inc., reputation, check, spammer, spam, anti-spam, spam filter, link, message, e-mail, attack, server

Brainier networking gear to the rescue

February 27, 2004 Smarter networking devices are helping network operators to better protect their resources from spammers, denial of service attackers and peer-to-peer bandwidth hogs. TAGS: TurnTide, packet, denial of service, spammer, spam filter, traffic, networking gear, Cisco Systems Inc., router, TCP/IP, e-mail server, P2P, anti-spam, resource, networking, message

Year in review: Spam can't be canned

January 2, 2004 Unwanted e-mail filled in-boxes by the billions in 2003, as legal and technical efforts to stop the scourge were ineffective. TAGS: anti-spam, scourge, Sobig, e-mail gateway, spammer, spam, virus, e-mail server, e-mail, power, server, security, PC, Microsoft Corp.

Police blotter: Mortgage 'spammers' sued by ISP

July 14, 2006 California Internet provider sues over mortgage spam, saying lenders violated Can-Spam Act, state laws. TAGS: mortgage company, spamming, Quicken, Police Blotter, spammer, CAN-SPAM Act, Internet Service Provider, Internet service, complaint, damage, spam, e-mail server, service provider, law, California, e-mail address

Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes

May 4, 2006 DDoS attack on antispam campaigner redirected to blog-hosting firm Six Apart, forcing it offline, security firm says. TAGS: distributed denial of service, Six Apart Ltd., blog, LiveJournal, anti-spam, TypePad, spammer, blog posting, spam, traffic, attack, server

Spam may sprout viruses in home PCs

June 27, 2003 An e-mail security company says that junk e-mailers are making use of viruses to turn home computers into spam generators. TAGS: MessageLabs Ltd., relay, e-mail security company, correlation, virus, Sobig, home PC, e-mail security, spam, Networks Associates Technology Inc., spammer, security company, variant, e-mail, analysis, server
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