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28 Apr 2011
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 credentials
used to send spam.
The sequence of events sugests all the ESPs whose clients were compromised
were themselves compromised first. (That's how the crooks knew who to
attack.)
The Online Trust Alliance published some guidelines, that offer mostly good
advice.
So what should ESPs do now?
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/espnext.html
21 Apr 2011
Emailvision is a bulk mail company in the suburbs of Paris, France. They are,
in my experience, almost uniquely inept. Nearly all of the mail they send to
my users is clearly spam, sent to addresses on stolen, scraped, or resold lists,
which is pretty impressive in France, a country where selling individuals' personal
information is illegal.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/emailvis.html
19 Apr 2011
When last we saw the Holomaxx case,
in which a bulk mailer in Pennsylvania sued Microsoft and Yahoo in
separate cases for not delivering their mail on the legally absurd theory
that Microsoft and Yahoo are required to deliver mail from random spammers
who claim to be CAN SPAM compliant,
the judge threw the case
out, but gave them the option to amend their complaint and try again.
They've refiled against Yahoo, with the main difference being that
they added out of context quotations from a MAAWG document that doesn't say what
Holomaxx wishes that it said.
At this point, the main question is how
much more of his time the judge will allow them to waste before he
shuts them down for good.
Word to the Wise has a more detailed analysis and a link
to the amended complaint.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/holo4.html
This spam showed up in one of my user's mailboxes earlier today. It was
sent from Cheetahmail, a large Email Service Provider, easily
verified by checking the sending IP address It is not an ad for Adobe
and the URL, which you should definitely not visit, is located in
China, and shows a fake Adobe web page which invites you to download a fake
Adobe Reader update which is in fact malware. The headers in the message
suggest that someone used a Cheetamail client's credentials to log in
and create and send this spam in large quantities. (My tiny network
got four of them, three of them to spamtrap addresses.)
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/chspam.html
07 Apr 2011
I've belonged to LinkedIn for
a long time, long enough to have collected over 500 connections, all
to people I at least sort of know. It's sometimes useful. So why am I
about ready to block all their mail as spam?
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/linkspam.html
03 Apr 2011
I didn't get to the San Francisico ICANN meeting, but my friend
J.D. Falk did.
Don't miss Impenetrable Processes and Fool's Gold at ICANN, his report of what he found there.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/jdsf.html
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