CAUCE Director Neil Schwartzman Wins Prestigious MAAWG Award
CAUCE Executive Director Neil Schwartzman won the prestigious Mary Litynski award on June 08, 2011 for his contributions to Internet anti-abuse efforts, including the passage of Canada's Anti-Spam Law. Here is his acceptance speech. This is not the first award...
Introducing the Inbox Project
For many years, the Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII) has been a premier source of reference information about laws in the US and elsewhere. One day last year, LII director Tom Bruce and CAUCE president John Levine were talking over breakfast, and noted that...
Best Buy and Air Miles notify Alberta, Canada Privacy Commissioner of Epsilon Data Breach
The Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner for the province of Alberta issued a decision [PDF] on May 16, regarding the Epsilon breach that affected the customer lists of 150 different companies, including Best Buy and Air Miles. Both companies operate in...
Osama bin Laden is Still Alive!
Actually, no, he isn't. End-users should be extremely careful clicking on any link, from both know and unknow sources (including this one) offering to show you gruesome pictures, proof of him being alive and so on. Spammers have followed their precitable pattern...
33 Years of Spam? No, Not Really.
Scattered around the Internet today (and every May) you’ll find various articles heralding the 33rd anniversary of spam, counting the years from Gary Theurk’s message. They’ll remark that spam has been with us a long time, maybe quote a few anti-spam vendor statistics, and say spam isn’t going anywhere. But that’s just bad research.
The world’s wealthiest countries the main source of spam?
It would certainly appear so, according to these charts, comparing listings at Spamhaus to GDP. CAUCE thanks furio ercolessi who thought to do the comparison. update: Rob Szarka rightly points out that these are the largest economies, not the world's richest...
What next for Email Service Providers?
It's been a very bad month for ESPs, companies that handle bulk mailings for their clients. Several of them have had internal security breaches, leaking client information, client mailing lists, or both. Many have also seen clients compromised, with the compromised...
Continued Data Leaks: The Game is Rigged
If the ESP breaches we’ve been reporting are Godzilla, Gamera, and other residents of Monster Island, then the PlayStation breach is the larger and more powerful MechaGodzilla. If the ESP breaches are planets in the solar system, the PlayStation breach is Jupiter — and the New York Yankees’ mistaken exposure of 20,000 ticketholders is poor, downgraded Pluto.
Emailvision France hit by the ESP Gang
There's not too much to say about this, except it is Thursday, so it must be Emailviion's turn in the barrel, they are leaking Adobe spam. No word yet as to whose list this is. a spample can be found here CAUCE President John Levine blogs about...
Oh, Poo! Diapers.com & Optivo GmbH the latest victim of the ESP Adobe Gang
Diapers.com is the latest in a long series of ESP breaches by way of optivo.de. Optivo were alerted to this breach on April 14. UPDATE: While Responsys is the current ESP of record for Diapers.com according to their website (and have been since 11/2009, according to...
Here we go again: The Children’s Place is Compromised via Cheetahmail
Today's breach is brought to you by Cheetahmail. Their 63.146.96.248/29 range is apparently spewing the same Adobe spam that has plagued the ESP industry since November 2009. This has been confirmed at three receiving sites. Senderbase indicates that this range is...
Epsilon: An Updated List Breached Companies
Financial Services Companies Ameriprise American Express Barclay's L.L. Bean Visa card Barclays Bank of Delaware BJ's Visa Capital One Catherine's card Citi Express card ExxonMobil card Home Depot card JPMorgan Chase MoneyGram MyPoints Reward Visa NTB card...
