Tag: lawsuit

  • Dutch ISP sues Spamhaus for ‘extortion’

    Blacklist entries ‘unfair and illegal’. Dutch ISP A2B Internet has sued The Spamhaus Project , claiming the project unfairly blacklisted its IP range. A2B provides the upstream connection for a number of data centres. Recently, Spamhaus , which runs a number of widely used IP- and URL-based blacklists, asked the provider to block traffic of…

  • Spam and ID theft attacked from all sides

    EU body issues warning, ICANN, Japan and Yahoo! take on spammers and phishers. Last week a series of major institutions took action highlighting the threat of spam and phishing, with a serious warning released by European Union web security body ENISA and more concrete actions taken by web management body ICANN, the Japanese government and…

  • Opening of a (spam) can of worms

    Hormel loses latest trademark battle. Hormel Foods Corp. , inventor and manufacturer of the world-famous canned meat product SPAM , has lost a lawsuit against Seattle-based company Spam Arrest in which it called for the company to drop the word ‘Spam’ from its name, arguing that it damages the trademark associated with the luncheon meat.…