Via Reuters: NY man pleads guilty to spamming AOL subscribers. Adam Vitale has pleaded guilty to sending email spam to more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers. He faces up to 11 years in prison. His partner, Todd Moeller, faces the same charges.
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Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribers

A New York man who was snared in federal investigators’ sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers.
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Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribersA New York man who was snared in federal investigators’ sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers.Original post by Dougal and plugin by Elliott Back
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Spammers have launched another DDoS attack, targeting a number of anti-spam sites including Spamhaus, URIBL and SURBL. The attack is being attributed to the spam gang behind the Storm Worm (aka Zhelatin) malware, a Trojan that supports the installation of a number of purpose-built components including a dedicated DDoS tool. Earlier this year, the Storm Worm spam gang launched a similar attack that targeted several anti-spam sites (including spamnation.info) as well as download sites for the Warezov Trojan, spam-related malware developed by a rival gang.
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“I’m sorry to let you know that I have disabled the automatic and instantaneous sign-up and blog creation due to the number of “spam blogs”

Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif , who manages Bahrain Blog Central , has had it with spammers. via Global Voices Online
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I’ve recently received a few requests regarding blackholes.intersil.net. According to this message to news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting, this blacklist was retired in July, 2006.

Confusingly, the zone still contains a test entry. Regardless, I’ve seen no hits against it in a very long time. Therefore, if you are using this DNSBL for spam blocking, I recommend you cease doing so.

If you have any further information about this blacklist, please feel free to contact me.

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“This doesn’t mean blast e-mail is dead. It only means we’ll see more localized attacks from now on.”

View more Voices columns Read, hear or watch interviews with a galaxy of tech thought leaders conducted by Joaquim P. Menezes, online editor, IT World Canada. via ITWorld Canada
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Monday to sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company’s spam-filtering system.Adam Vitale, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to breaking anti-spam laws. He was caught making a deal with a government informant that sent spam e-mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the product’s profits, prosecutors said.According to prosecutors, Vitale and another man, Todd Moeller, defeated AOL’s filter system by using several different computer servers to relay the e-mails and changed the e-mail header information to ensure the spam e-mails could not be traced back to them. Read more
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“We’re gonna personalize everything we can.”

Submitted by Jordan McCollum on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 15:54. Despite the session’s title, the Q&A quickly devolved into less of a discussion of “Fear or Not” and more into “Why did you do this to us, Google?!” … via Webpronews
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