The End of the NDR

Opinion: SMTP e-mail errors these days are much more often malicious than informative. via Eweek - Original Story

Pink Sheets' signs rank risky stocks sold over the counter

"It has become easier to tap investor greed if you are a manipulator" The skull and crossbones symbol is a trendy fashion statement this fall for sneakers or scarves. via The Clarion-Ledger - Original Story

FTC stops e-mail marketing of weight-loss products

A U.S. district judge has ordered a company to stop sending unsolicited e-mail marketing weight-loss and anti-aging products that allegedly did not work, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. via Infoworld - Original Story

How to filter fake membership and e-card spam mails

The Internet community has been pestered with yet another wave of spam mails containing fake membership information and e-cards. The spammers use two attack vectors if you click on the ip that is listed in ... via GHacks - Original Story

Those dang spammers at IconBuffet

The gloves are off. It's not funny anymore. Really sick and tired of getting these stupid emails because someone couldn't actually test their own code, actually. via Life.firelace.com - Original Story

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman and Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit against ValueClick, Inc.

Legal Newswire - Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of ... via LawFuel.com - Original Story

E-cards: I delete them all unopened. ... You?

"Greeting card spam remains a spammer favorite. Symantec saw over 250 million of these spam messages being targeted towards a sample set of customers in July." Submitted by Paul McNamara on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 1:22pm. Send me an e-mail and chances are you'll get a reply. via NetworkWorld - Original Story

Spear Phishing: A Targeted Attack

One of the common, well known attempts at identity theft is phishing. You may received email asking you to do things like verify your PayPal account or your eBay account. via Flying Hamster - Original Story

Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale

"The availability of scam infrastructure is critical to spam profitability -- a single takedown of a scam server or a spammer redirect can curtail the earning potential of an entire spam campaign" August 10, 2007 Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale By Andy Patrizio A group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego offered up what they felt was a new and unique way to target ... via InternetNews - Original Story

Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it

"Google Custom Search, is the wonderful product from Google which many webmasters have been looking and dream for" Readers of Google Inc.'s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. via ITworld - Original Story

Behind the mask

Australian Federal Police agent Nigel Phair is one of Australia's most experienced online crime fighters. via The Age - Original Story

Spam filtering with qpsmtpd

Posted by Steve on Mon 30 Jul 2007 at 12:21 There are many methods used to fight spam which are tied to particular mailserver implementations. via Debian Administration - Original Story

The New Yorker on Spam

The New Yorker on Spam [9:25 am] A little history, and some scary statistics: Damn Spam [] "The amount of harm done by any of the cited - unfair' things the net has been used for is clearly very small,'' the ... via Furdlog - Original Story

How to avoid your automatic mails being marked as spam?

Posted by TommyCarlier // Tue, Jul 31, 2007 7:34 AM Our company is about to release a product we've been working on for more than 3 years, and we're running into this annoying problem. via MSBuild RSS Feeds - Original Story

Cyber crime low, but the red flag's up

"In India, strong family-oriented values act as a dampener for any cyber crime related to infiltrating computers with malware, spams and viruses" A research by US-based IT security and control firm SophosLabs shows that only 2.8 per cent of all spam or malware - software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system - comes out of India. via The Telegraph - Original Story

Spamford Wallace banished from MySpace

"Even under defendant's more restrictive interpretation, however, messages sent through MySpace.com fall within the definition of 'electronic mail message' sent to an 'electronic mail address,'" Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world's most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims ... via The Register - Original Story

Before the Call: Staying Secure Computing

Usually, I'm in favor of billions of anything. But that's not the case with spam. via Fool.com - Original Story

Cybercrime Poses Challenges for Government, Industry Says Report

Published: Monday, July 23 2007 @ 10:14 PM CDT Contributed by: Tommy Over 150 million U.S. citizens are connected to the Internet. via LinuxElectrons - Original Story

MX Lab detects first Excel based spam

MX Lab has intercepted the first Excel based stock spam messages! These messages appeared today in the afternoon local Belgian time. via Mxlab.be - Original Story

You've Got Mail... Way Too Much

"Our research shows that storage is the number one messaging-management problem" "We are trying to get out in front of this ongoing trend for e-mail inboxes to grow and grow and grow by reducing the e-mail people are sending. via Data Storage Today - Original Story