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  • China steps up fight against spammers

    Blacklist aims to reduce massive spamming levels. Chinese web organisation the Internet Society of China (ISC) has announced the setting up of a central anti-spam blacklist, to allow service providers and filtering software to block known senders of spam. The list already contains 100,000 known-bad IP addresses, mostly gathered via reports from members of the…

  • Spammer enters guilty plea

    Admits to having spammed 1.2 million AOL customers. A Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to having sent spam messages to over 1.2 million AOL customers in August 2005. According to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 26-year-old Adam Vitale and his co-defendant Todd Moeller were caught out after having entered into…

  • Spam barrages take down filters, networks

    Report shows increase in spam bombardment attacks. MessageLabs ‘ monthly report on the latest trends in spam has warned of an alarming rise in ‘spam spikes’, targeted attacks which use high volumes of spam directed at a single company in an attempt to overwhelm gateway spam filters. The aim of the attack is to cause…

  • Another ‘Spam King’ arrested

    Spammer brought to book after 4-year campaign. A Seattle man was indicted yesterday on numerous charges of fraud and deception in relation to a campaign of spamming dating back to 2003. Charges include mail fraud, identity theft and credit card fraud, as well as violation of email regulations. Among his offences is charging companies for…

  • Anti-spam laws take hold in Hong Kong

    Tough new controls aim at stamping out spam. Hong Kong has become the latest place to see the introduction of anti-spam laws, with the first phase of a two-stage process coming into force there today. Phase one involves the banning of mass sending of commercial messages involving ‘unscrupulous activities’, as well as associated fraud. The…

  • IETF accepts DKIM specification as proposed standard

    Email authentication system moves to approval stage. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body overseeing the technical running of the Internet, has accepted a new system for identifying and validating legitimate email into the final stages of approval as an Internet RFC standards document. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a proposed system to apply…

  • New spam-fighting system for France

    Junk mail blacklisting project goes live. A group of public bodies and private companies have joined forces to implement a new system allowing French email users to report spam email to a centralised system for evaluation and blacklisting. The project, Signal Spam , also provides data to ISPs hosting spamming systems and opt-out information for…

  • Phishing moves into more new areas

    Surveys, phone lines, USB sticks and call girls the latest tactics for spammers and phishers. The latest social-engineering methods being put to use by phishers show no let up in the evolution of online scams, with several new twists on old ideas being sent via mass mail in the hopes of hooking yet more gullible…

  • Law to stop spam reaching kids dubbed a failure

    Utah registry to protect children’s email leaks cash and addresses. A law enacted in the state of Utah, as well as some other states, with the aim of preventing spammers from targeting the email addresses of children by compiling a registry of underage email users’ details and forcing email marketers to remove any addresses included…

  • Touchy mail blocker upsets Gay

    Content filter berates woman for using own name in mails. A woman has complained to the New Zealand ISP Telecom after an email she sent them was bounced back to her, with a message appended saying she had used inappropriate language for a business email. Content-filtering software was sparked after it detected 8 uses of…