Nomenclatura
7 November 2014
“Nomenclatura” is a Latin word that refers to the “assigning of names to things.” Merriam-Webster, Nomenclature, Word History, Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary (2024), https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomenclature#word-history (last visited Jun 2, 2024). It’s something that we often overlook, but it is very important. The names that we assign to things tell us something about them and sometimes also tell us something
Domain Reputation
16 June 2014
[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
8 April 2014
British Telecom (BT) announced last year that they would be transitioning away from Yahoo! Mail’s service for their customers after a decade. Christopher Williams, BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims, The Telegraph (2013), http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/btdota/10089355/BT-dumps-Yahoo-email-after-hacking-claims.html (last visited May 27, 2024). The concern at the time was over account security. Many BT customers reported losing control of
Proper Assumptions
20 February 2014
This week, I’m at the Messaging, Malware, & Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting. After all of the Tuesday sessions were over, I spoke 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. For instance, when dealing
If ESPs were like ISPs…
12 February 2014
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)
28 December 2013
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…
14 December 2013
I’m 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 post from 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
27 November 2013
Many folks have been talking recently about a September BGH decision holding that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function are considered spam unless the recipient had given prior express consent. Federal Court of Justice, Empfehlungs-E-Mail (I-ZR-208/12) (2013). (A very unofficial Google Translate version of the decision is available here.) This is a
Don’t opt-out of spam?
19 November 2013
Yesterday, Laura Atkins wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam (Atkins 2013). 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 her results. Additionally, she links to (Magill 2013), (Pogue 2013),