“The success of blogs, forums, etc, has not gone unnoticed to cyber crooks, who use them to try to infect as many people as possible”

Script kiddie tool foils captchas Virus writers have created a malicious tool capable of automating the publication of spam and links to sites hosting malware on forums and blogs. via Channel Register
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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
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“Cloudmark Authority for SpamAssassin enables all service providers to benefit from the same high level of accuracy and performance as tier-one service providers.”

Cloudmark, the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced Intergenia, a provider of hosting and broadband services, as its first European customer to deploy Cloudmark Authority for … via Light Reading
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced the process he will use to fill three new judgeships on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. via HometownSource
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“It is common that spammers will use large events, such as film premiers, wide scale media stories, or holidays to coerce e-mail users into a scam. We are hoping to avoid having our users fall victim to these scams by filtering away these e-mails”

Spammers are once again taking advantage of a blockbuster film, The Simpsons Movie. via Customer Interaction Solutions
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“By breaking the communication cycle, the botnets are rendered harmless without affecting other services.”

A security tool that identifies botnets and blocks attacks from these zombie networks is being made available by Trend Micro online in the software-as-a-service model. via PC World
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A Marina del Rey man believed to be the first to plead guilty or be convicted at trial under a federal anti-spam law passed four years ago was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention. via KNBC
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“It’s something of a mystery as to why it has taken three years for Tombros to be sentenced. And compared to other convicted spammers, he seems to have gotten away relatively unscathed”

A California man who pled guilty to going war driving — seeking out unprotected wireless access points — to send out pornographic spam won’t be going to jail. via InformationWeek
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As security threats from viruses and spam continue to grow and plague Internet and email users, LinuxMagic, a British Columbia based Linux support and product development company, recently launched its latest … via Earth Times
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The purpose of the spam is a throwback to the early days of e-mail abuse July 31, 2007 — Spammers are jumping on the success of The Simpsons Movie to trick e-mail users into validating their addresses, so they … via ComputerWorld
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Well, today I’m off to the Conference on Email and Antispam, in Mountain View, California. It’s on Aug 2-3, 2007. I’m not speaking or presenting anything this, but maybe next year I’ll present a topic like “How to write an antispam blog.”
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The guys at rustylime describe how they are using a honey pot form fields to detect spam bots.This method is interesting, since the false positive rate will be close to zero - any decent browser will not show the ‘honey pot’ fields and a human won’t be able to enter information there accidentally. The false […]
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced the process he will use to fill three new judgeships on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. via HometownSource
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