In more good news on the spam front, a spammer from New York goes to jail for spamming to AOL. He was order to pay 180k to AOL in restitution. I don’t see that as a good enough amount, but at least he gets 30 months in the slammer. Maybe this will make spammers think twice […]
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If you have ever wondered why you get so much spam, this article will take that question away.
“Our research has revealed a smoking gun that shows that Storm and other botnet spam generates commissionable orders, which are then fulfilled by the supply chains, generating revenue in excess of $150 million per year.”
That’s Million. With an […]
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Finally, someone is doing something about spam!
You have to hit them where it hurts. Put these guys in jail for a long time, and cost them a lot of money. This should be the same way we deal with gun crimes, and illegal immigration. Hit the businesses that are breaking the law with hefty fines […]
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Filed under: Spam, Tech Law
This article claims that most of malware (spyware and such) comes from a very few Web Hosting providers. The top four being:
Number of infected sites:
iPowerWeb                    11,000
Layered Technologies 2500
ThePlanet.com              2000
Internap                          1400
The report puts China far behind with their top ranked malware hosting provider being at 800. This part of the study is somewhat surprising. I think most people in the industry would guess […]
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Filed under: Spam, Open Source, Web, News, Security
A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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Filed under: Spam, News, Computing, Tech Law