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from: Washington Post & Web Marketing & Industry News In the fallout resulting from knocking McColo Corp. offline, this past week may prove to be a missed opportunity in the prevention of a dramatic reappearance of junk e-mail, as a botnet that once controlled 40 percent of the world’s spam apparently has found a new home. The ...

A massive reduction in Spam has been witnessed since an alleged Californian based ISP was closed down last week. Industry bodies have long been raising awareness of the volume of Spam which appears to come from the San Jose based business, McColo Corp., but it is only now that the providers of Internet Connectivity to McColo have ...

If spam is getting past our filter system to your mailbox and you would like to submit it to our team for evaluation, please submit it with the mail headers to spamadmin@mxtoolbox.com. Oftentimes the only way to diagnose exactly what happened to get a specific message into your mailbox is to have you send us the entire raw message. Outlook ...

Spammers and hackers are turning to a new technique to defeat anti-spam appliances and, in some cases, knock email servers offline. Spam Spikes is an attack method where a domain's email servers are flooded with thousands and thousands of messages for a prolonged period of time. The spike messages are typically image spam. The combination of ...

In a variation on a classic social engineering spam scampaign (scam campaign), Spammers/Hackers (we call them ''spackers'' around here) are circulating two scams with emails purporting to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In one scam, the email claims to be from the IRS Business Complaint Arbitration Service. The message ...

A study by Forrester Research predicts that Spammers' use of Artificial Intellegence (AI) to automatically create endless variations of spam campaigns and delivery avenues to evade detection and stay ahead of many spam filters will increase in the coming months. Update: As of Feb, 5th 2009 the MxToolBox Forums have moved to ...

Robert Alan Soloway was arrested in Seattle on Wednesday. Dubbed ''The Spam King'' by authorities, Soloway allegedly spammed tens of millions of messages. Most of these contained links to websites where his company, Newport Internet Marketing, sold products and services. Soloway was once listed in SpamHuas's Top 10 list of spammers and is ...

France has launched a central platform for French internet users to report spam, which will be used to generate a blacklist, notify ISPs and prosecute spammers. French speaking Internet users can copy and paste a spam message (and presumably the message headers) into a form on the signal spam website, or they can install a plugin that ...

A survey of 400 small and medium sized business found that spam and malware infections have grown dramatically from 2006 to 2007. In January 2006, 64% of emails received by small businesses were spam. By December 2006, the number grew to 85%. Not surprisingly, the number of spam bot infections within small companies grew from 15% to 40% during ...

A new wave of image spam with subject lines like ''Find a Girl in Your Town'' touting a website that claims to help recipients find prostitutes in their area is making the rounds now. The messages contain a URL that must be typed into a browser. The URL links to an explicit web site with a search tool for prostitutes by region and city. ...