Facebook, their Walled Garden, and McAfee Anti-Virus – What Really Happened
On Sunday, a number of Facebook users reported being locked out of the system. When they attempted to log in they were presented instead with the a series of screens, informing them that their computer was infected, and providing a link to a free scanning service by...
What happens when people respond to pharma spam?
NPR's Planet Money did a remarkable piece yesterday, based on research by reporter Brian Krebs and UCSD professor Stefan Savage, looking at pharma spam (black market pharmacies selling prescription drugs), who sends it, and what happens when people respond. The most...
Are You Donating to a Real Charity?
Please share this post. After a tragedy, many of us want to donate to funds and charities to show our support for a community. However, scam charities immediately pop up, looking to steal your well intentioned donations. There are at least 30 newly-registered domains...
TEN STEPS : What To Do if Your Data is Being Held for Ransom
We have your data. Fork over the money! For the past few months, so-called 'Ransomware' has been very popular among online criminal gangs. A computer is infected with malware which encrypts some or all of the data on the computer, and the...
The CAUCE J.D. Falk Memorial Kiva Team
A year ago today, one of our founders, J.D. Falk, passed away. CAUCE, and the anti-spam community, will never be the same without him. Over the past year we have seen many touching tributes to J.D. pour in and take place, such as at least two memorial services with...
FBI Agent Thomas X. Grasso Receives First J.D. Falk Award
News Release For Immediate Release FBI Agent Thomas X. Grasso Receives First J.D. Falk Award for Establishing DNS Changer Working Group and Protecting End-Users Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 25, 2012 – Convincing competitors,...
CAUCE, MAAWG, London Action Plan release “Best Practices to Address Online and Mobile Threats” Report
New Online and Mobile Best Practices Clarify Business and Governmental Security Tactics Baltimore, Oct. 24, 2012 – A cooperative international report available today outlinesInternet and mobile best practices aimed at curtailing malware, phishing, spyware, botsand...
Changes to the CAUCE Board of Directors & New Member
Over the past months, there have been a few changes and it is fitting that we acknowledge them here Directors Matt Sergeant and Mike 'der mouse' Parker have both resigned, moving on to new ventures outside of the anti-abuse world. We thank them both for their...
CRTC Issues CASL (Canada’s Anti-Spam Law) Regulation Guidelines
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today issued two important guideline documents related to their previously-published RegulationsGuidelines on the interpretation of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC)Compliance and...
Spam Reporting Centres
People often ask about where to report spam, sometimes even sending it directly to CAUCE (please don't, we can't do anything with it). Here are a few places where you can send your spam. Remeber to forward the entire spam, including the full headers. Directly to your...
Inbound Email Filtering Sued Over Privacy Issues, This Time in Canada
In a case that parallels many of the aspects of the three cases filed in July 2012 in California, against Google & Yahoo!, retiree Wayne Plimmer of Sechelt, British Columbia filed a class action suit against Google on October 4, 2012. Here is a copy of the...
Dutch Anti-spam Legal Action
OPTA, the anti-spam Regulator today announced a fine of 100,000 euroes was levied against Companeo SA for sending 15,000,000 spam messages in 2009 Here's a translation of the news release, from the original Dutch: The OPTA, the Independent Post and...
