link spammers in comment and analysis

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 Europe. [10 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06

Round-Up Spamhaus said on its website: "As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organisation to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the... [22 Sep 2006]

Devil's Advocate: How to catch a spammer

Comment One reader evidently got the impression that I was thinking of murdering spammers. But I do find that legal or simple practical mechanisms are entirely inadequate when it comes to link spamming. In a recent column, I wrote of my frustration at link... [09 Aug 2005]

Devil's Advocate: Death to spammers?

Comment Spammers are no longer an undifferentiated group, and wiki sites attract the 'link spammers'. Now the temptation that comes my way is that when the link spammers mess up my wiki, they leave a record of the IP address from which they operated. [02 Aug 2005]

Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers

Comment In other words they are not taking steps to ensure that their servers cannot be used for malicious purposes and are in fact aiding the hackers/spammers of this world. One of our UK competitors is using 'BIW' as a keyword to prompt the appearance of... [27 Apr 2005]

Leader: Spam - your brand, your problem?

Leader One of the greatest problems in stopping spammers at source is actually having the law power and enforcement in place to prosecute and convict those sending the email. One mail security expert recently told silicon.com that the identities of many... [25 Oct 2004]

Leader: Oh, hello... the police have woken up

Leader Firstly there is the ignorance of the approach taken by spammers, and the methods they employ to get email addresses. However, this is exaggerated by the fact few have made the link between cybercrime and the fact it often funds far more serious... [16 Aug 2004]

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