Spamhaus
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White Paper If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that process large amounts of email. [20 Jun 2009]
Straight Talking - Tighten Content Security
White Paper According to the watchdog Spamhaus, 90 per cent of all email now sent is spam. Spam has been with the author, in name at least, for some 15 years. Fortunately that does not mean 90 per cent of the inboxes are filled with... [01 Mar 2009]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment According to the watchdog Spamhaus, 90 per cent of all email now sent is spam. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. But before splashing out on content security, CIOs... [02 May 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The Spamhaus Project has been collecting information on known professional spam operations for years and its weekly top 10 most-wanted list of most prolific spammers is dominated by spam gangs from Russia and eastern... [10 Dec 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News A simple means of identifying systems legitimately delivering email was proposed by Spamhaus over three years ago. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. [24 Jul 2007]
Spamhaus beats off the lawyers
News Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline last week. Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling... [23 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up Spamhaus routinely exposes their customers and volunteers to extreme legal risk by continuing to engage in improper blacklisting, defamation, extortion and blackmail in the name of fighting spam. However, somebody the... [22 Sep 2006]
Anti-spam champion slapped with $11.7m damages
News The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered Spamhaus to pay $11,715,000 in damages to e360insight and its chief, David Linhardt, who had sued the anti-spam organisation earlier this year over... [15 Sep 2006]
US court upholds anti-spam law
News At the time of his arrest, Jaynes was regarded as the eighth-worst spammer by spam watchdog Spamhaus, the statement added. The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state anti-spam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction... [07 Sep 2006]
Major spammer pays $1m settlement
News At the peak of his spamming activity, the 24-year-old Texas resident was listed as the world's fourth most prolific spammer by anti-spam group Spamhaus. A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million emails... [05 Jun 2006]
Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Comment Though much US spam has traditionally travelled via China, the US does certainly harbour some of the most prolific spammers in the world, as well as the world's three worst ISPs for relaying spam, says Spamhaus. [09 May 2006]
Data thief gets eight years in the clink
News The company's now-defunct domain shows up on the Register of Known Spam Operations compiled by the Spamhaus Project, and dozens of sightings of spam from Snipermail.com appear on Usenet's news.admin.net-abuse.sightings... [23 Feb 2006]
China plans spam crackdown...
News According to Spamhaus, China is the world's second worst offender in terms of spam, though it is still several orders of magnitude behind the US. However, Richard Cox, senior investigator for Spamhaus,... [22 Feb 2006]
Spamhaus hits out at paid-for email delivery plan
News On Monday, Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, said that "an email charge will destroy the spirit of the internet". A leading anti-spam agency has hit out at moves to charge... [07 Feb 2006]
Leader: Is justice really being meted out to spammers?
Leader Then there is the case of Peter Francis-Macrae, cited by Spamhaus as the UK's most prolific spammer. This past week has seen three high-profile cases hit the headlines in which spammers have been sentenced to prison. [21 Nov 2005]
