Domain Reputation
[acp author=”The Spamhaus DBL Team” title=”Changes in Spamhaus DBL DNSBL return codes” id=”DBL_1″ media=”blog” url=”http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/713/” year=”2014″ month=”June” day=”15″ year_access=”2014″ month_access=”June” day_access=”16″]{author}[/acp] is making some change to their Domain Block List. The new changes will seek to emphasize domains associated with malware and bots, and allow administrators to more easily filter out entries related to legitimate
BT Transitioning Away From Yahoo! Mail
British Telecom (BT) announced last year that they would be [acp author=”Christopher Williams” title=”BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims” media=”website” id=”Williams_01″ publisher=”The Telegraph” url=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/btdota/10089355/BT-dumps-Yahoo-email-after-hacking-claims.html” year=”2013″ month=”May” day=”30″]transitioning away[/acp] from Yahoo! Mail’s service for their customers after a decade. The concern at the time was over account security. Many BT customers were reporting that they were losing
Proper Assumptions
I’m at the Messaging, Malware, & Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting this week. After all of the sessions on Tuesday were over, I was speaking with a colleague from another company about how I handle some aspects of providing client advice and he suggested that I write that down in a blog post. When dealing
If ESPs were like ISPs…
Everyone wants to protect users and trap data. As a result, people like to send redacted complaints to email service providers (ESPs). Generally, I’m pretty happy to work with redacted data. I need to be able to tell which client sent mail. I need to be able to tell when they sent the mail (the
Spammer escapes slammer (Updated)
The Lompoc Record is reporting that Jeffery Kilbride has escaped from the minimum security federal lockup. Kilbride was convicted in 2007 of offenses primarily related to the CAN-SPAM Act. Among the things that were apparently included was an allegation that Kilbride and his partner had impaired the ability to track them down by using false
Make money that’s worth it…
Was that Day Off Worth his Life^ – NARA – 534698 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m in the midst of putting some old posts back up. That means searching through the Wayback Machine, looking for interesting posts (like many other writers, I think that a lot of what I’ve put out in the past is drivel), and then copying and pasting it into the blog platform, and then altering the date (so that the URL doesn’t change). I came across this postfrom December 14, 2006. In re-reading it, it occurred to me that with
just a few edits, it’s all still relevant today. So, rather than put it back in its old place, I’m putting up a new post (with appropriate edits), exactly 7 years after posting it the first time.
“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
Lots of folks have been talking recently about a September [acp author=”Federal Court” title=”Judgment of the First Civil Senate of 12.09.2013 – I ZR 208/12″ year=”2013″ month=”September” day=”12″ id=”GFC-01″ url=”http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=2013-9&Seite=5&nr=65732&pos=170&anz=263″]German Federal Court ruling[/acp][acp footnote]I found an HTML version that I could run through Google Translate here.[/acp] that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function
Don’t opt-out of spam?
Yesterday, [acp author=”Laura Atkins” media=”blog” title=”Don’t unsubscribe from spam!!” id=”Atkins-01″ url=”http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2013/11/dont-unsubscribe-from-spam/” month=”November” day=”18″ year=”2013″]{author}[/acp] wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam. I know that this is a project that she’s been working on for at least a month, and I don’t have any reason to doubt
Wherein Zoominfo causes spam
Zoominfo, DiscoverOrg, and Lead411 are popular lead generation sources. Every once in a while someone comes along and tries to defend the use of crowd sourced list generation services (of which ZoomInfo and Jigsaw seem to be the largest). These systems work by allowing people to download contact information for third parties in exchange for the