http://spamkings.oreilly.com/ The Spam Kings blog en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:22:55 -0500 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:45:58 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Three years ago, around the end of April 2003, I started getting hammered with annoying spams from a mysterious company called Amazing Internet Products, which was advertising human growth hormone, government grants, and penis pills. Those hundreds of spams led... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/moving_on.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/moving_on.html Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:22:55 -0500 Some people are warning about a security flaw in the popular Barracuda spam firewall. The vulnerability in how Barracudas handle zoo archives potentially could enable a remote attacker to gain control of the firewall program using a buffer overflow exploit.... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/detoothing_a_ba.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/detoothing_a_ba.html Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:21:06 -0500 A settlement has been proposed in the class action lawsuit over Verizon's aggressive spam blocking. Under the deal, affected Verizon Internet Services customers may receive up to $49 if they failed to receive "legitimate email" between October 2004 and May... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/verizon_pays_fo.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/verizon_pays_fo.html Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:02:17 -0500 April Fool's Day brings us a tacky spam apparently designed to ignite Muslim anger rather than humor. The message, sent late Friday night to a variety of Islamic groups, announces the upcoming release of "four Muslim themed adult films." A... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/hardcore_islam.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/hardcore_islam.html Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:32:13 -0500 Former employees and business associates of Minnesota spam king Christopher William Smith ("Rizler") can breathe a little easier. Authorities confirmed today that Smith, 26, has been moved to a super-maximum security prison, following his indictment last week for allegedly trying... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/supermax_lockup.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/supermax_lockup.html Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:02:16 -0500 Streaming video of the 2006 Spam Conference, held today at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now available on the web. (Requires RealPlayer version 8.) The morning session video is here, with the afternoon session here. The conference agenda can help... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spam_conference_1.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spam_conference_1.html Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:16:29 -0500 Just when it seemed his case couldn't get any weirder, new charges have been filed against spam king and online drugstore operator Christopher Smith, aka "Rizler." According to a WCCO-TV report out of Minnesota, Smith was indicted yesterday for threatening... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_attorney_say.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_attorney_say.html Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:19:02 -0500 Send-Safe, a notorious developer of spamming software, has updated its program to include a remove-list feature from the controversial Blue Security anti-spam service. The latest build (803) of the Send-Safe Mailer v2.20b includes an option designed to prevent spammers from... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spamware_vendor_1.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spamware_vendor_1.html Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:35:23 -0500 I recently received a spam on my America Online account advertising "Super H0T Se11ing Quality Meds." To my surprise, the hyperlink in the message appeared to lead to Autotrader.com. AutoTrader.com is an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that calls itself "the internet's... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spammers_hitch.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/spammers_hitch.html Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:02:39 -0500 Television New Zealand's "One News" program has obtained an on-camera interview with Brendan Battles, in which he admitted to being the American spam king who had apparently retired last year. Rumors of the Florida spammer's relocation started last October, when... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_spam_king_co.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_spam_king_co.html Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:08:30 -0500 Almost a year ago, I received a juicy anonymous email tip regarding a piece I wrote about George Merwin (aka George Merwyn). As you may recall, Merwin is the Florida Viagra spammer who eluded Microsoft's lawyers for years, before getting... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/on_the_trail_of.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/on_the_trail_of.html Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:32:34 -0500 Illegal spammers and their sponsors got a rare court victory last week. An unaccredited university that used the service of proxy-abusing, header-forging, hash-busting spammers has successfully fended off a federal lawsuit from a small California ISP. The U.S. District Court... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/judge_flunks_la.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/judge_flunks_la.html Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:05:21 -0500 Open letter to Florida spammer Glen Mccausland: Dear Glen, are you missing several gigs of data? Lance James of Secure Science Corporation tells me that the files he recently found containing millions of customer records were named 1ibill.rar, 2ibill.rar, 3ibill.rar... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/florida_spammer.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/florida_spammer.html Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:09:49 -0500 This week, Wired News published a story about a massive security lapse apparently affecting data owned by iBill, the payment processor for many porn sites. But a follow-up article published yesterday reports that the cache of 17-million-plus records may not... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/stolen_ibill_da.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/stolen_ibill_da.html Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:39:52 -0500 Turns out the porn-spam mom isn't a mom after all. MommyJobs.com operator Jennifer Clason has posted a detailed entry at her site about her stint in the porn-spam business. One of her "come clean" revelations: she doesn't actually have any... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/pornspam_moms_plea.html http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/pornspam_moms_plea.html Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:31:26 -0500