MickC @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Eddie Davidson has escaped from a minimum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado. Since Florence also houses medium and high security (plus the Administrative Maximium Security or “Supermax”) prisons, I would expect that he might be changing houses when he is caught. The Denver Post, also 9news.com You can keep up with things (to a [...]
MickC @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rebecca Leib has an interesting read about inactive lists: Inactive E-mail List: Mail or Don’t Mail? I didn’t mention it yesterday, but you might want to also check out an article that was described by some of my colleagues in email delivery as “somewhat wierd”: Is It Spam?
MickC @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sophos report: Only one in 28 emails legitimate, reveals rising tide of spam in April – June 2008 By June 2008, research reveals that the level of spam had risen to 96.5% of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3% in the first three months of the year, corporations are now facing [...]
MickC @ July 11, 2008 # One Comment
Threat Level post: A central element to the agreement is a provision giving affected customers a one-year subscription to spam-blocking software. The Trend Micro Internet Security Pro retails for about $70. TD Ameritrade said it struck a deal with Trend Micro to service the settlement agreement for about $6 million, the parties told Walker in [...]
MickC @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Botnets winning spam wars, says report It’s an interesting, if somewhat depressing, article: The world’s antispam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed. According to the U.S. company’s zombie monitor, by the time that reputation and source analysis systems have identified compromised PCs [...]
MickC @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Dallas Morning News reports a new email scam making the rounds. The body of the e-mail says the AG is contacting everyone and includes the following paragraph: “We wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must [...]
MickC @ June 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Several places I’ve frequented lately have been up-at-arms over the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to grant a limited re-hearing on a question of standing in the Jeremy Jaynes case. So, here’s the lowdown: Jaynes (a/k/a Gavin Stubberfield) was convicted in 2005 of certain criminal offenses defined in Virginia’s anti-spam statute. He claimed a few problems [...]
MickC @ June 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An editorial today in the San Jose Mercury News by Seth Cooper argues that “Courts mustn’t stifle anti-spam efforts”.
MickC @ April 10, 2008 # 26 Comments
If you didn’t already know it, FUSSP stands for “Final and Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem”. And now Mark Mumma, made famous in the Mummagraphics v. Omega World Travel, Inc. case, has reinvented the wheel with his new website: http://optout1.com/. That’s right, kiddies, it’s a global, domain-wide opt out site! And yes, this really [...]
MickC @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So, Colorado has passed a new anti-spam bill. If their governor signs it, we Could See a Crackdown on Spam (says the email from Google Alerts). Or will we? What this bill does is replace Colorado’s existing anti-spam law with a new one that makes it a state criminal offense to violate the federal CAN-SPAM [...]
