Spam Attack

This is rich.

Blue Security Shifted Attack, Brought Down Blogs

This is a wild tale of a denial-of-service attack, allegedly orchestrated by a big time spammer against an anti-spam security company that brought down a blogging site.

The denial-of-service attack that crashed TypePad and LiveJournal this week was caused by anti-spam company Blue Security, which pinned the target on the blog in an attempt to save its own servers, analysts said Thursday. Blue Security denied that it knew the attack would crash its blog host.

And this is richer.

Spyware pusher shut down and fined $4 million
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Just released by the FTC - Sanford Wallace (nicknamed Spamford for his history of spamming) and his company Smartbot.net have been ordered to shut down operations and give up $4,089,500 of their ill-gotten gains.

FTC Orders Wallace To Pay $4 Million For Spyware Scam

Users were duped into thinking they needed software being sold by "Spam King" Sanford Wallace because he exploited an Internet Explorer vulnerability to install real spyware on their PCs.

Spam is capitalism unleashed on the internet. Which is why I keep getting those emails about increasing my penis size, nasty russian girls willing to do anything and security updating of my Chase Manhattan bank account.


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