SpamNEWS 09/17/2013
CAUCE posts regularly on topics related to spam. Here are our picks of the most interesting news items of the day. You can follow them in real time on Twitter on Google + or on LinkedIn "Rachel from Card Service's" real name(s) are Willy Plancher and Valbona Toska...
How not to sue spammers, a cautionary tale
Spam Arrest is a company that sells an anti-spam service. They attempted to sue some spammers and, as has been widely reported, lost badly. This case emphasizes three points that litigious anti-spammers seem not to grasp: Under CAN SPAM, a lot of spam is legal. Judges...
Abuse Forensic Resources
'Basics of Spam Forensics' Slides (PDF) LAB #1 UltraDNS Toolsethttps://www.ultratools.com/dashboard#...
Sexism in The Tech Sector : Time to Grow Up & Speak Out
These days, I’ve seen many breathless posts about how 'we' "need" to encourage girls to study math so eventually they become computer or other sorts of geeks. Personally, I don't think technology is the only valuable thing in the world; writing,...
Court rules that proxy registrations and flaky opt-out info violate CAN SPAM
A Utah court recently ruled in a CAN SPAM case Zoobuh vs. Better Broadcasting et al. The decision has two interesting aspects. The spammer used proxy registrations to hide the WHOIS contact information on the return addresses, which the court declared was...
Announcing CAUCE
Archive.org has the following press release announcing the formation of CAUCE. Happy birthday to us! Internet, May 9, 1997--The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) announced today that it is calling for a legal ban on unsolicited Email advertising....
How to wreck a top level domain with spam
The .PW domain is assigned to the tiny island nation of Palau, but they've rented it to a company that's rebranded it as "Professional Web" and signed up thouands of registrants, offering low prices and little oversight. Unsurprisingly, spammers...
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Boston Marathon Scams
Don't Be Scammed Predictably, within hours of the tragic bombings yesterday that took place in Boston, scam domains in their hundreds, and fake social media pages began to spring up. To profit from a tragedy is contemptible, and CAUCE officers are doing their...
The Spamhaus Distributed Denial of Service – How Big A Deal was it?
If you haven't been reading the news of late, venerable anti-spam service Spamhaus has been the target of a sustained, record-setting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack over the past couple of weeks. Al Iverson over at Spamresource has a great round-up of...
Dennis Dayman is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute
CAUCE Board member Dennis Dayman announces he was just named a Distinguished Fellow by the Ponemon Institute, a research center dedicated to privacy, data protection and information security policies. Ponemon Institute Fellows represent some of the top privacy and...
Updating the Electronic Communication Privacy Act
Back 1n 1986, the Congress passed and President Reagan signed the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), which set the rules under which the government could get copies of a relatively new-fangled medium called electronic mail. While it was a forward...
