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Leader According to Spamhaus, there are thousands of dodgy sites connected with phishing scams hosted on Yahoo! With the growing number of email scams out there, you would assume a company as widely used as Yahoo! [07 Sep 2005]
Yahoo! accused of hosting thousands of phishing sites
News is hosting thousands of fraudulent websites that have domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay", according to a leading anti-spam group Spamhaus. Spamhaus claims Yahoo! Richard Cox, CIO at Spamhaus, said: "They are hosted on Yahoo! [06 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up Earlier this year, Spamhaus director Steve Linford said: "It's looking like he [Richter] made a real turnaround. Richter's company, OptInRealBig.com, dominated Spamhaus' Register of Known Spam Operations (Rokso) longer than Bryan Adams' (Everything... [12 Aug 2005]
Leader: UK soft on spam
Leader As a result, Spamhaus, one of the world's most active anti-spam campaigners, has said the UK is one of the safest places to send spam. Spamhaus and a number of other anti-spam organisations have noticed a significant reduction in the amount of spam... [11 Aug 2005]
UK stops 13 fax marketers - but no spammers
News Anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus has hit out at the ICO for failing to control spammers. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, told silicon.com: "If I was a spammer I'd love Britain. Linford explained that Spamhaus and ISPs are the only ones stopping... [11 Aug 2005]
Spam King gives up spamming
News According to anti-spam campaign group Spamhaus, Richter has been removed from ROKSO - an authoritative list of the world's most notorious spammers - after he decided to go straight earlier this year. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, said: "It's... [21 Jul 2005]
UK spam scandal update: Deeper and messier than feared
News Anti-spam campaigner Steve Linford from SpamHaus told silicon.com he had numerous conversations with Timms around the time of consultation, during which he was told the majority of businesses wanted to receive spam. [06 Jul 2005]
Spammer arrested in airport on return to US
News Christopher Smith, originally from Minnesota, has moved his operation around the world to locations such as China and Malaysia, according to Spamhaus. According to Steve Linford from Spamhaus, who traces the movements of the world's worst spammers... [06 Jul 2005]
Leader: Spam laws shame the UK
Leader This pointless and one-sided consultation is compounded by the fact Steve Linford at Spamhaus claims his organisation, and others like it, weren't initially consulted as their opposition was clearly taken for granted. [03 Jun 2005]
Spam shame of the UK exposed
News Steve Linford, from Spamhaus, told silicon.com the process was "shameful". The UK is still dogged by the persistent problem of spam email and for all the government rhetoric there have been few real signs of any effective legislative easing of the... [02 Jun 2005]
'Developing nations drowning in spam deluge'
News That's just what happened in Costa Rica a few years ago, when anti-spam campaign group Spamhaus blocked email from the country for two whole days. Developing countries are being overwhelmed with spam - a situation that threatens to widen the global... [01 Jun 2005]
Spam: ISPs must crush zombies, say trade groups
News Steve Linford, director of anti-spam group SpamHaus, said: "We're all for this. International trade associations are urging internet service providers (ISPs) to stamp out networks of computers used for sending junk email. [25 May 2005]
Election '05: MPs' tech promises fall on deaf ears
News Anti-spam campaigner Steve Linford, from Spamhaus, told silicon.com he blames Timms for taking advice from parties whose best interests, he claims, were served by legitimising spam sent in to businesses rather than outlawing it. [25 Apr 2005]
Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?
Comment And SpamHaus estimates suggest 50,000 new zombie systems may be appearing each week. Online crime is growing at breakneck speed while law enforcement, try as they might, have a hard time keeping up. Simon Moores reports on the state of cybercrime... [11 Apr 2005]
One of world's top spammers jailed for nine years
News Jeremy Jaynes - also known by his alias, 'Gaven Stubberfield' - is believed to have raked in between $500,000 and $750,000 a month through sales of products from the spam emails and was rated as the eighth most prolific spammer in the world by... [11 Apr 2005]
