The Spammer Agora
2008-03-16 21:52 - There's been a lot of use of the term "ecosystem" in the e-mail industry lately. It's a good description of the complex environment that has grown up ... >> read article
Blackhats and Grayhats
2008-02-15 02:20 - (From a discussion in a private anti-abuse industry workgroup list in November 2007 regarding the need for extensive restructuring of e-mail systems d... >> read article
The Spamhaus PBL, a one year old anti-spam heavyweight
2008-01-29 22:30 - One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now a year later we look back to see what effect it has had.... >> read article
US Feds arrest and book ROKSO spammer Alan Ralsky
2008-01-11 06:33 - As reported by the Detroit Free Press on January 9, 2008, spammer Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was brought into U.S. District Court in Det... >> read article
Spam King Alan Ralsky indicted
2008-01-03 23:41 - The US Department of Justice went public on January 3rd with the indictment of Alan Ralsky and 10 others who helped him. <a href="http://www.spamhaus.... >> read article
The increasing importance of registrars in the fight against spam
2008-01-01 01:21 - Anyone remotely involved in the fight against spam has heard of the Storm worm. While Storm has used a variety of social engineering tricks to propaga... >> read article
New York Times Makes Spam Headlines for the Wrong Reason
2008-01-01 03:34 - The New York Times, long known for its thoughtful and informative news coverage of spam issues, recently made itself part of the story when Spamhaus s... >> read article
RBN as Chinese as Caviar & Borscht
2007-11-16 05:39 - When the routes to the older IP address mapped to the Russian Business network began to no longer route on the internet, Spamhaus noticed a new set of... >> read article
ROKSO Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested
2007-05-30 20:00 - On May 30, 2007, one of the most persistent professional spammers, Robert Alan Soloway, was indicted by a grand jury in Seattle, Washington, on charge... >> read article
Summer Spam Suits Show Some Success
2006-09-08 00:00 - Microsoft Corporation has won what could be the largest award against a spammer in Europe thus far. Paul Fox, whose e-mail messages were intended to ... >> read article
Spamhaus helps Windows based spam filter systems
2006-07-01 00:00 - To help Windows based server administrators block spam, The Spamhaus Project has sponsored the conversion of a popular Unix open-source based tool to ... >> read article
Australian Spam Act Nails First Spammer
2005-06-23 00:00 - The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has taken action against a spammer in the first case to be brought under Australia's Spam Act.
Spamme... >> read article
The Threat from the Net
2005-04-27 17:45 - During two keynote speeches at the Infosecurity Europe conference at Olympia (London UK), Lord Harris of Haringey warned the UK government of the seri... >> read article
Increasing Spam Threat from Proxy Hijackers
2005-02-03 23:15 - Spam, now at 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers, has come mainly from two types of source - either sent directly by the spamm... >> read article
Jeremy Jaynes Gets 9 Years for Spamming
2004-11-04 00:00 - Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, North Carolina, a prolific spammer who operated using the alias 'Gaven Stubberfield' and was listed by Spamhaus' ROKSO datab... >> read article
Follow Australia!
2004-07-19 00:00 - United Nations - World Summit on the Information Society
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Geneva, Switzerland
The message conveyed by the ... >> read article
Spammer Arrests herald FTC Crackdown on Illegal Spamming
2004-04-29 09:41 - For many months the Spamhaus team have been working with teams from Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States and United Kingdom helping put toget... >> read article
Spamhaus Releases Exploits Block List (XBL) to Combat Illegal Spam Relaying
2004-01-01 06:00 - London, 1 January 2004
To help stop the rising tide of spam coming from illegal 3rd party exploits, the Spamhaus Project today released the Exploits ... >> read article
United States set to Legalize Spamming on January 1, 2004
2003-11-22 22:00 - Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the CAN-SPAM Act, a bill backed overwhelmingly by spam... >> read article
Spammers Release Virus to Attack Spamhaus.org
2003-11-02 20:00 - A new virus released by spammers on Saturday 1st November is infecting computers worldwide, and this time the purpose of the virus is to attack www.Sp... >> read article
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