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Troublesome 'dong' leads to VSO email overhaul
News We also have an office in Vanuatu which at one time was on everybody's blacklist as spammers. This meant some emails within the organisation were wrongly being fingered as spam or inappropriate content. [11 Jun 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News In the long run, DomainKeys is more promising than existing anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies, which rely on techniques such as assembling a "blacklist" of known fraudsters or detecting such messages by trying to identify common... [23 May 2007]
Is Spit set to soar?
News The software also includes a policy tool to whitelist or blacklist callers by caller ID or IP address. Networking vendor NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar. Telephony spam could soon comprise more than half of... [29 Jan 2007]
PayPal users to get pass-code device
News In a recent survey of Google's public blacklist of phishing sites, security researcher Michael Sutton found that nearly half of all the active phishing sites targeted either eBay or PayPal. The Google blacklist is used in Google's Toolbar for... [12 Jan 2007]
Spamhaus beats off the lawyers
News It was taken to Court by e360 Insight, an email marketing company, which Spamhaus had added to its spam blacklist.e360 told an Illinois court earlier this month that the spamhaus.org domain should be suspended, after it won a claim for damages... [23 Oct 2006]
Implementing and Configuring Blacklist Support in Exchange Server 2003
White Paper With the new release of Exchange, Microsoft implemented the functionality to filter every incoming email whether the sender is on a blacklist or not. Nowadays spam emails are a big problem for a company. [20 Oct 2006]
BT busts zombies and spammers
News BT can also track down professional spammers operating within their network and terminate or blacklist these rogue accounts. BT has launched a new 'spam buster' system which it hopes will clamp down on junk email within the telco's broadband network. [12 Oct 2006]
Anti-spam champion slapped with $11.7m damages
News The manager of a popular blacklist used to block spam was hit with a multimillion-dollar judgment on Wednesday but the order may not be enforceable. The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered Spamhaus to pay $11,715,000... [15 Sep 2006]
Telewest responds to virus problems
The company was recently forced to blacklist around one million customers over fears a great many of them were unknowingly running compromised PCs which were pumping out spam. UK cable company Telewest has responded to recent concerns about the... [23 Aug 2005]
Understand how various spam software works
Whitelist and blacklist There are a number of blacklist services-called RBLs, for RealtimeBlackhole Lists, that compile lists of known spammer addresses. If, on the other hand, an address or domain is on a blacklist, it's blocked while all other... [24 Jun 2005]
Internet marketeer faces spam charges
Mansfield claimed that McNicol's actions resulted in a blacklist of his online marketing operations. The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) alleges Wayne Mansfield and his company, Clarity 1, sent at least 56 million commercial emails in the... [23 Jun 2005]
Notorious spam man of Oz to face federal court
News Mansfield claimed that McNicol's actions resulted in a blacklist of his online marketing operations. The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) alleges Wayne Mansfield and his company, Clarity 1, sent at least 56 million commercial emails in the... [23 Jun 2005]
Netscape parades security features
The initial whitelist that ships with the browser contains 150,000 sites, and the blacklist has thousands, according to Netscape. The attacks typically combine spam that lures victims to fraudulent Web pages that look like legitimate sites, though... [19 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up Or to put it another way, that means there are around 900,000 innocent IP addresses on that list which are unable to send email to addresses whose own spam controls reference the SPEWS blacklist. SPEWS is wrong to blacklist the other 900,000 or so... [13 May 2005]
Leader: Telewest, how did it come to this?
Leader But with those believed to number just 17,000 addresses it means there are around 900,000 innocent IP addresses on that list which are unable to send email to addresses whose own spam controls reference the SPEWS blacklist. [10 May 2005]
