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07-03-11-ACMQueue-SpamIsGoodTechnologyThatIsMisused.txt 07-04-27-AllThingsDigital-SuitFiledAgainstEmalAddressHarvestersButWeAreStillOnOurOwn.txt 07-05-22-CNET-IETFApprovesDomainKeysIdentifiedMailToDetectAndBlockFakeEmail.txt 07-05-31-AP-SpammerSolowayArrestedByFederalAuthorities.txt 07-05-31-InfoWorld-ImageBasedSpamAttacks-SignificantlyMoreSpam.txt 07-05-31-SeattlePI-SpammerSolowayArrestedByFederalAuthorities.txt 07-06-00-FTC-HackersAndSpammersMayBeUsingYourComputer.txt 07-06-02-InfoWeek-NewDigitalIdentitySystemsAreMoreComprehensive.txt 07-06-11-NYT-NewTestsFoolAutomatedSpammers.txt 07-06-13-AP-AccusedSeattleSpammerDeniedBail.txt 07-06-29-ChronHigherEd-CanInternetBeSavedFromConstantThreats.txt 07-07-18-PittsPostGaz-reCaptcha-CMUResearcherDevelopsBetterCaptchaTechnology.txt 07-08-06-UCSDNews-MostSpamAdvertisedOnlineScamsHostedOnIndividualWebServers.txt ==========> 01-02-00-ACMUbiquity-WhySpamIsBadAndWhatWeCanDoAboutIt.txt========== Sam Spam the flimflam man Shannon Jacobs February 2001 Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 46 You can't stop him -- No one can! (But we'd like you to try.) Spam is bad. But you knew that. Still, I'm going to write a bit about why it's bad and then consider what can be done to stop it. However, my sad conclusion is that we can't. Everyone complains about the weather too, but no one does ==========> 01-11-15-CNN-EU-Spam.txt========== Europe waffles on spam; holds the cookies By Paul Meller (IDG) -- A Europe-wide measure on direct marketing via e-mail appeared less likely than ever to win approval Tuesday, as the European Parliament failed to agree whether marketers should be allowed to send unsolicited messages to potential customers. "Neither side won this argument. A political ==========> 02-01-04-SJMerc-SPAM.txt========== Posted at 10:02 p.m. PST Friday, Jan. 4, 2002 `Anti-spam' law upheld by court Reuters A California appeals court has upheld a state ``anti-spam'' law protecting consumers from junk e-mail. Activists hailed the decision Friday as an important step toward regulating commercial pitches made through the Internet. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the state appeals court said ==========> 02-01-12-SJMerc-SpamLaws.txt========== Posted at 5:56 p.m. PST Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002 Fed up with unsolicited e-mail, computer users go to court NEW YORK (AP) -- Ellen Spertus was outraged when Kozmo.com still sent her e-mail after she declined such pitches. So she sued the online retailer under California's 1998 anti-spam law. Spertus is among a handful of individuals who have chosen to fight unsolicited e-mail in court. They've had mixed success so far in what many consider only ==========> 02-02-12-WashPost-FTC-AntiSpam.txt========== FTC To Announce Crackdown On Spam By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 12 Feb 2002, 9:00 AM CST The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce today a "three-point" crackdown on deceptive and misleading junk e-mail, also known as "spam." The anti-spam campaign would mark the first time the consumer agency has specifically targeted spam as the focus of a law enforcement investigation, ==========> 02-03-21-CNETNews-StepsAgainstSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html Companies taking desperate steps against spam By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 21, 2002, 4:00 AM PT http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html Spam flood forces companies to take desperate measures ==========> 02-04-03-SJMerc-PoliticalSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2994127. htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 03, 2002 Use of spam in political campaign spurs debate By Dion Nissenbaum Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - First, glossy political hit pieces were stuffed in mail boxes. Then came programmed pre-recorded phone messages from candidates at all hours ==========> 02-04-18-CSMonitor-WarOnSpam.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0418/p01s01-ussc.html from the April 18, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0418/p01s01-ussc.html War on e-mail spam ratchets up in courts, legislatures In-box junk mail: Is it free speech, or a threat to viability of the Internet? By Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK - Log on in the morning, and bam! There it is: spam – the bane of the electronic age, dozens of unsolicited commercial pitches for everything from ==========> 02-04-20-SJMerc-SpamOverview.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3108519.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 20, 2002 E-mail users plagued by rising tide of junk By Mary Anne Ostrom and Mike Langberg Mercury News Susan Guberman-Garcia dreads retrieving her e-mail. Every day, she wades through unsolicited messages pitching online gambling, get-rich schemes and sex sites. ==========> 02-04-20-SJMerc-WeakAnti-SpamLaws.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3107707.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 20, 2002 Weak anti-spam laws make fighting back hard BAY AREA MAN WINS COURT FIGHT OVER PERSISTENT SPAMMER By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News Everyone says they're getting more spam. But weak anti-spam laws and determined e-mailers make it hard to fight back on legal grounds. ==========> 02-05-28-EPIC-NYSuesSpammerMonsterHut.txt========== http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/5_02_release.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 28, 2002 FBI's CARNIVORE SYSTEM DISRUPTED ANTI-TERROR INVESTIGATION INTERNAL MEMO CALLS OVER-COLLECTION OF DATA PART OF "PATTERN" SHOWING "INABILITY OF THE FBI TO MANAGE" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE WIRETAPS WASHINGTON, DC -- An FBI anti-terrorism investigation possibly involving Usama ==========> 02-08-16-Felten-SpamCopCausesISPToShutDownWebsite.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000014.html#000014 Freedom To Tinker ... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own. August 16, 2002 Keystone SpamKops Earlier this week, my ISP shut off this site, because the site had appeared on a list of "spammers" published by an outfit called SpamCop. ==========> 02-08-20-SJMerc-DG-SpamIssues.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3904852.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 20, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Spam fighters shouldn't tread on the innocent By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Sometimes adjectives go naturally with subjects. One such case is ``unscrupulous spammers'' -- a near-redundancy if I've ever seen one. ==========> 02-09-16-CIOInsight-Lessig-P2PandSpamVigilantes.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,3668,a=31039,00.asp September 16, 2002 A Bounty on Spammers By Lawrence Lessig According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, a vigilante is "a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate)." He or she is "a self-appointed doer of justice." ==========> 02-09-19-CNETNews-SorkinInterview-IP-Privacy-DeepLinking-Spam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082-958576.html A cybersage speaks his mind By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 19, 2002, 12:00 PM PT For a law professor specializing in the Internet, David Sorkin takes a pretty dim view of cyberlaw. ==========> 02-11-13-SJMerc-FTCSuesSixForDecpetiveSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4511689.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 13, 2002 U.S. FTC sues six in ``spam'' e-mail round-up WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it had sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail filters that actually attracted more ``spam.'' ==========> 02-11-16-SJMerc-WaysToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4534594.htm Posted on Sat, Nov. 16, 2002 If we work together, we can win the spam battle By Mike Langberg Mercury News Only you can prevent spam fires. I'm putting on my park ranger hat and appearing today as Spammy the Bear to ==========> 02-11-26-CNETNews-FTCsSpamBlacklistServiceBlocksLegitimateEmail.txt========== CNET Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 26, 2002, 5:22 PM PT When Josh Tinnin tried to send e-mail to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this month, he received an unwelcome surprise: He couldn't. Tinnin's message to the FTC bounced back because the agency subscribes to a ==========> 02-12-05-NewScientist-SmartEmailAddressesCouldStopSpam.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993152 Smart email addresses could slice spam 16:58 05 December 02 Will Knight Software that generates a unique email address for every message sent could help cut down spam, a US computer scientist believes. This is because hidden in the address are encrypted rules determining who is ==========> 02-12-06-SJMerc-SpammerGetsSnailMailSpammed.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4677963.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 06, 2002 Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky , who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine. ==========> 02-12-10-Wired-PrposalForRecipientsToChargeSpammers.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56788,00.html New Plan for Spammers: Charge 'Em By Justin Jaffe 09:59 AM Dec. 10, 2002 PT Imagine if you could charge people for wasting your time. An IBM researcher has hatched a plan to make it possible. ==========> 02-12-11-MSNBC-SpamAndVirusesIncreasingProblem.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/846241.asp?0si=&cp1=1 Antivirus firm annual report paints bleak picture By Bob Sullivan MSNBC Dec. 11 — Some time next year, there will be more spam than real e-mail floating around the Internet. That’s the conclusion drawn from annual statistics gathered by British e-mail ==========> 03-01-08-CNETNews-Congress-DMCAChanges-Spam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979623.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed Congress to take on spam, copyright By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 8, 2003, 4:00 AM PT news analysis When the 107th Congress ended its work last November, politicians discarded dozens of technology-related bills that had been briefly ==========> 03-01-12-USAToday-TheSpamProblem.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-01-12-spam_x.htm Posted 1/12/2003 10:55 PM Updated 1/13/2003 9:08 AM Spam? No thanks, we're full By Janet Kornblum USA TODAY FREE mortgage quotes! Cheap printer cartridges! Free passes to thousands of XXX sites! "URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL!" ==========> 03-01-14-SJMerc-SpamAssassanDevelpersTakeCalmApproach.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4943148.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 14, 2003 Mike Cassidy: Cool head helps in battle against spam By Mike Cassidy Mercury News My favorite part of the recent news story about Network Associates buying SpamAssassin was the nugget about how five engineers in San Mateo developed the spam-stopping software. ==========> 03-01-15-Wired-HackersConveneToFightSpam.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57190,00.html Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue? By Justin Jaffe 02:00 AM Jan. 15, 2003 PT Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent. ==========> 03-01-17-SJMerc-MITHackersConfTakesAimAtSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4973610.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 17, 2003 MIT conference takes aim at spam By THEO EMERY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass - It's going to take the best and the brightest to slam the spammers. ==========> 03-02-09-NYT-RapidlyGrowingTideOfSpam.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09SPAM.html "Tangled Up in Spam" New York Times Magazine (02/09/03) P. 42; Gleick, James The rapidly growing tide of junk email, or spam, is inundating ISPs, infringing on email users' privacy, and eroding people's trust in the Internet, and thus far efforts to control it through grass-roots activism, spam filtering software, and legislation have been ineffective. Spammers have been aided by the email ==========> 03-02-12-Microsoft-MSN-StoppingSpam.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/issues/essays/2003/02-12spam.asp Spiking The Spammers Curbing junk e-mail will take industry collaboration, new laws and continuing advances in technology Posted February 12, 2003 The Internet is an amazing breakthrough in communications, but it has produced an irritating side ==========> 03-02-18-LATimes-CalifBillWouldBanSpam.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-spam18feb18001440,1,104460.story "Bill Would Ban Spam E-Mail in California" Los Angeles Times (02/18/03) P. B1; Vogel, Nancy California Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Ray) has authored a bill that would make it illegal to send spam email from California or to a California-based email address, a crime punishable by a maximum fine of $500. However, experts such as Jupiter Research's Jared Blank doubt that legislation will curb the growth of unsolicited commercial email. "Somebody sitting in China ==========> 03-02-21-InternetWeek-SomeSaySpamThreatensInternetViability.txt========== http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6400881 ISP Chief: Spam Is 'A Thousand Times More Horrible Than You Can Imagine' By Mitch Wagner Go on. Ask Barry Shein about spam. But be prepared for an earful. Shein is president of The World, a small, ==========> 03-02-21-SJMerc-AOLPlansToUseLegislationAndToolsToFightSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5231500.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 21, 2003 AOL plans new assault on spam Reuters NEW YORK - America Online on Thursday said it would form a task force and seek tougher legislation against spammers to bolster its efforts to cut the barrage of unsolicited junk e-mail. ==========> 03-02-28-Computerworld-TETFCreatesAntiSpamResearchGroup-ARSG.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,789 38,00.html IETF creates antispam research group By TODD R. WEISS FEBRUARY 28, 2003 Source: Computerworld As spam problems worsen for businesses and consumers, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is going on the offensive by creating a ==========> 03-03-06-SJMerc-AOLBlocksOneBillionSpamEmailsIn24Hours.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329381.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2003 AOL blocks a billion spam e-mails in 24 hours NEW YORK (AP) - In a single 24-hour period on Monday and Tuesday, America Online says it trashed a billion e-mails offering mortgages and organ enhancement, instead of letting them slip into customers' inboxes. ==========> 03-03-08-NewScientist-BayesianSpamFilter.txt========== "Spambusters" New Scientist (03/08/03) Vol. 177, No. 2385, P. 42; Schechter, Bruce Hackers despise junk email, or spam, with a vengeance, and programmer Paul Graham explains that this hatred stems from bruised egos. In the hopes of mobilizing hackers to combat spam, Graham issued "A Plan for Spam," an outline for a spam filter that is 99 percent effective. Rather than focus on spam giveaways in the email itself, which could lead to the deletion of ham (legitimate email mistaken for spam), Graham's proposed filter would ==========> 03-03-13-WashPost-AntiSpamLegislation-Issues.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A17754 -2003Mar12¬Found=true Spam's Cost To Business Escalates Bulk E-Mail Threatens Communication Arteries By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 13, 2003; Page A01 The flood of unsolicited messages sent over the Internet is growing so fast ==========> 03-03-14-CNETNews-TechCompaniesToWorkOnAntiSpamSpec.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032-992759.html Tech firms tackle spam By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 14, 2003, 3:59 PM PT SAN FRANCISCO--Several major technology companies convened here on Friday to discuss solutions to a frustrating common denominator among them: spam. ==========> 03-03-17-CNN-IETF-AntiSpamResearchGroupMeets.txt========== http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/17/halting.spam.ap/index.html Redesigning the Net to save it from spam SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- To stem the unrelenting tidal wave of unsolicited, unwanted e-mail, people and companies are going to extraordinary lengths -- at considerable expense. They mask their e-mail addresses, install filters, create white lists of ==========> 03-03-19-CNETNews-CDTProject-SimpleTechniquesCanStopMostSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1024-993333.html Study suggests spam-stopping tricks By Lisa M. Bowman Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 19, 2003, 1:52 PM PT Want to stop spammers from clogging your in-box with get-rich-quick schemes, invitations from hot girls and Nigerian money-laundering antics? ==========> 03-03-20-InfoWeek-IBMResearchersProposeCharityEmailFeeToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030320S0003 Making Senders Pay The Price For Spam March 20, 2003 IBM researchers say making spammers pay to send their messages could help stem the flood of unwanted E-mail. By Tony Kontzer Companies and consumers alike have been looking to two primary aids ==========> 03-03-22-SJMerc-IETF-ASRG-OrganizesToFightSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5455952.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 22, 2003 Forces of good linking their arms against spam By Mike Langberg Mercury News There is no shock and awe in the continuing war against spam, but the forces of good are at last linking arms to fight the scourge of unsolicited commercial e-mail. ==========> 03-03-24-EETimes-MailblockInternetServiceBlocksSpam.txt========== http://www.theworkcircuit.com/story/OEG20030324S0012 March 24 2003 Software developer rolls out "spam-free" e-mail service By Rick Merritt EE Times March 24, 2003 (9:16 a.m. EST) LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Less than a year after Congress quashed his last startup, software developer and serial entrepreneur Phil Goldman is back with a new ==========> 03-03-24-SJMerc-DG-MailblockerSpamBlocksTermsIncludeSpam.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000888.shtml#000888 March 24, 2003 Terms of Disservice • posted by Dan Gillmor 01:41 PM The arrogance of technology companies knows no bounds. Consider the Terms of Service at a new company called Mailblocks, which says it'll block spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) for you, for a ==========> 03-03-24-SJMerc-MailblocksChallengeResponseToWeedOutSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5469665.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 24, 2003 Subscription e-mail intended to weed out spam By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News WebTV co-founder Phil Goldman today is launching a subscription e-mail service for consumers that's intended to weed out spam. ==========> 03-03-25-PCWorld-AppealsCourtUpholdsJunkFaxRestrictionLaw.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109975,00.asp Antispam Crusaders Call for New Laws Court's decision to uphold ban on junk faxes seen as first step. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, March 25, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Antispam crusaders plan to use an appeals court ruling against unsolicited faxes last week to push harder for a U.S. federal law against unsolicited e-mail. ==========> 03-03-25-TheRegister-MSNLimitsEmailSendingToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29925.html Hotmail caps email By Tim Richardson Posted: 25/03/2003 at 11:38 GMT Microsoft is capping the amount of email punters can send using their Hotmail accounts in a bid to crack down on spam. In a statement, the company said: "In an effort to prevent spammers from using ==========> 03-03-27-Salon-TheDifficultyOfSpamBlocking.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/27/spam_fighter/print.html Salon’s Technology & Business content is brought to you by Infiniti FX45. A spam fighter's work is never done Suresh Ramasubramanian's job is to stop junk e-mail from ever getting to your in box. But for every spammer he blocks, a dozen more rise up. By Michelle Delio March 27, 2003 | It was the end of another 12-hour day filled with hostility, deception and confusion, and an exhausted Suresh Ramasubramanian, a systems ==========> 03-04-02-InternetNews-IndianaLegislaturePassesAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/2174451 April 2, 2003 Indiana Spam Bill Passes Legislature By Brian Morrissey Indiana's House of Representatives voted 90-0 to pass a bill With a number of anti-spam measures, including a Provision to penalize senders up to $500 per piece of unsolicited e-mail. ==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpamActivistSuesOverSpamBlockingPatents.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5565843.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003 Spam foe needs filter of himself By Mike Langberg Mercury News Phil Goldman, a veteran SiliconValley entrepreneur and co-founder of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's begun by attacking his coalition partners rather than the enemy. ==========> 03-04-05-SJMerc-AntiSpammerBuysChallengeResponsePatent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/mike_langberg /5565050.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2003 Spam foe puts his own interests first By Mike Langberg Mercury News Phil Goldman, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of WebTV, wants to become a leader in the war against spam, but he's begun ==========> 03-04-07-CNETNews-PornSpamPresentsLegalIssuesForEmployers.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed Porn spam--legal minefield for employers By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT WASHINGTON--Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. ==========> 03-04-08-WashPost-JudgeRulesAntiSpamWebsiteDoesn'tHarass.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed Porn spam--legal minefield for employers By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT WASHINGTON--Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. ==========> 03-04-10-CNETNews-FedAntiSpamBillReintroduced.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-996412.html?tag=nl Antispam bill gets a second go By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com April 10, 2003, 1:19 PM PT WASHINGTON--A pair of U.S. senators are trying once again to enact a federal law restricting spam. On Thursday, Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced a bill they first drafted in 1999, which would make it a federal ==========> 03-04-10-MSNBC-SenBurnsAndWydenIntroduceCan-SpamBill.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/898578.asp?cp1=1 Senate introduces bill to can spam Bill aims to reduce flood of unsolicited e-mail pitches By Jane Weaver MSNBC April 10 — Spam relief may be on the way. The long-awaited "Can-Spam" bill, designed to protect consumers from unwanted commercial ==========> 03-04-15-BBC-AOLTriesLawsuitsToStopSpam.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2949887.stm Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 April, 2003, 12:32 GMT 13:32 UK AOL targets spam e-mails The largest internet service provider in the US, America Online is taking legal action to try to stop the flood of spam that has infuriated many of its 27 million customers. AOL has filed lawsuits against more than a dozen individuals and companies who it says have sent millions of unsolicited messages through its ==========> 03-04-15-WashPost-Spam-AOLSues-BillsIntroduced.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26420-2003Apr14?language=printer washingtonpost.com Lawsuits by AOL Escalate Fight Against Junk E-Mail By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 15, 2003; Page A01 America Online Inc. has launched an intensified legal assault on junk e-mail by filing five lawsuits against more than a dozen ==========> 03-04-17-SJMerc-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubjects.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5655510.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2003 Federal regulators try to shut down deceptive spam e-mail operation WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators want to shut down a spam operation that allegedly used deceptive e-mail with bland subject lines like ``new movie info'' and ``did you hear the news'' to lure people to pornographic Web sites. ==========> 03-04-18-WashPost-FTCWantsToStopSpammerUsinfDeceptiveSubjects.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5664540.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 18, 2003 FTC files suit against purveyor of porn e-mails By Jonathan Krim Washington Post The Federal Trade Commission is suing one of the country's most active purveyors of pornographic junk e-mail, part of a stepped-up push by the agency to combat spam. ==========> 03-04-23-PCWorld-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110400,00.asp E-Mail Marketers Sue Antispammers Florida suit could reveal e-marketing tactics, defendant says. Daniel Tynan, special to PCWorld.com Wednesday, April 23, 2003 A group of Florida e-mail marketers have fired another round--in court--in the rapidly escalating spam wars. ==========> 03-04-23-TheRegister-SpammersSueAnti-SpamOrganizations.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30368.html Florida spammers sue anti-spam groups By John Leyden Posted: 23/04/2003 at 12:25 GMT A group of Florida-based porn peddlers, penis enlargement and Viagra spammers has united to file suit against anti-spam organisations. Under the newly-registered name EmarketersAmerica.org, a front set up ==========> 03-04-24-InternetNews-EmailAvertisersAnnounceAnti-SpamPlan.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/2196041 April 24, 2003 E-Mail Coalition Floats New Anti-Spam Plan By Alex Goldman BALTIMORE -- Hans Peter Brondmo, a noted technology author and Digital Impact fellow, has announced a multi-year plan by the Network Advertising Initiative's Email Service Provider Coalition (NAI ESPC) to change the architecture of e-mail in ==========> 03-04-26-SJMerc-LessigLofgrenBill-BountyOnSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5725404.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 26, 2003 New weapon for spam: bounty By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Spammers beware. Larry Lessig wants to put a price on your head. The Stanford law professor will team with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San ==========> 03-04-26-SpamHaus-ROKSO-DatabaseOfSpammers.txt========== http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso ROKSO collates information and evidence on known hard-line spam operations that have been thrown off Internet Service Providers 3 times or more. The search field above will cross-reference information including names, aliases, zip codes, parts of street addresses, towns, domains, IP addresses, netblocks, hosts, etc. 90% of all spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe is sent ==========> 03-04-28-SJMerc-AOL-MS-YahooToFightSpamTogether.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5735555.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 28, 2003 E-mail giants joining forces to battle spam By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Three of the nation's largest e-mail account providers, normally bitter rivals, will announce today a joint assault on spam, vowing to Collaboratively hunt down unsavory e-mailers and explore industry ==========> 03-04-29-FinTimes-ApproachesToStoppingSpam.txt========== "The War Against Spam" Financial Times (04/29/03) P. 11; Morrison, Scott Jupiter Research estimates that the number of unsolicited commercial emails users receive annually has skyrocketed from 140 billion in 2001 to 319 billion in 2003, while the average email recipient is expected to have to wade through more than 3,900 pieces of spam each year by 2007. Meanwhile, Ferris ==========> 03-04-29-FTC-StudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt========== http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/04/spamrpt.htm For Release: April 29, 2003 FTC Measures False Claims Inherent in Random Spam At Least One Form of Deception Found in Sixty-Six Percent of Random Sample In a random sample of 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) from three Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data sets, 66 percent contained false "From" lines, "Subject" lines, or ==========> 03-04-29-SJMerc-FTCStudyShowsMuchSpamDataIsFalse.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5744010.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2003 Study: Two-thirds of junk e-mails contain claims that are probably false WASHINGTON (AP) -Internet users skeptical of junk e-mails promising easy money, miracle cures and dream dates are right to be wary: The government says two-thirds of the ``spam'' messages clogging online mailboxes probably are false in some way. ==========> 03-04-29-Virginia-GovernorSignsToughestAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.governor.state.va.us/Press_Policy/Releases/2003/Apr03/0429b.htm April 29, 2003 Ellen Qualls (804) 786-2211, x 2379 cell: (804) 393-9429 Governor Warner Signs Toughest in the Nation Anti-"SPAM" Bill — SB 1139 and HB 2290 make high volume unsolicited bulk e-mail a felony — DULLES — Governor Mark R. Warner today ceremonially signed two bills to raise the penalty to a felony for high volume unsolicited bulk e-mail, known as "spam." The new anti-spam ==========> 03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html "Sending of Spam With Fraud Is Now Felony in Virginia" New York Times (04/30/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul Growing public anger toward unsolicited commercial email and the deceptive methods that spammers use is causing Congress and U.S. states to consider tough solutions, and one of the harshest anti-spam measures was passed into ==========> 03-05-07-PCWorld-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110627,00.asp EarthLink Wins $16 Million in Spam Case Judge rules against absent defendant, who sent e-mail by millions. Paul Roberts, IDG News Service Wednesday, May 07, 2003 A district court in Atlanta has awarded EarthLink $16 million in damages against a New York state man that it alleged used illegal means to send out more than 825 million ==========> 03-05-07-PFIR-TripoliProj-NewEmailEnvironment.txt========== http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-overview "TRIPOLI" An Empowered E-Mail Environment Putting E-Mail Users in Control While Enhancing Security and Controlling Spam Overview May 7, 2003 Updated August 22, 2003 ==========> 03-05-07-SJMerc-ISPsGetDamages-InjunctionsAgainstSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5810373.htm Posted on Wed, May. 07, 2003 Judge awards EarthLink $16 million, bans spammer ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge awarded the Internet service provider Earthlink damages of $16.4 million Wednesday and a permanent injunction against a Buffalo, N.Y.-based sender of junk e-mail. Howard Carmack, identified as the leader of a ring that used ==========> 03-05-08-PFIR-TripoliProj-NewEmailEnvironment.txt========== http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-announce PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility TRIPOLI Project Press Release May 8, 2003 PFIR Announces the "TRIPOLI" Project A Call to Arms to the Internet and Open-Source Communities! It's Time to Secure E-Mail, Control Spam, and Empower E-Mail Users! ==========> 03-05-08-USAToday-TheSpamProblem.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030508/5139591s.htm Companies, e-mail users fed up with 'relentless,' often inappropriate junk By Jon Swartz and Paul Davidson USA TODAY Stephen Smith can't escape spam. The junk e-mails, about 300 a day, show up on his home PC. His work PC. His cellphone. ==========> 03-05-13-WashPost-DraftAntiSpamBillCalledWeakAndVague.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47350-2003May12?start=15&per=13 Draft of Bill On Mass E-Mail Is Called Weak A Key Point: Is It 'Spam' If Sender Is Legitimate? By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 13, 2003; Page E01 Lobbyists for the marketing, retailing and Internet service industries have been working closely with two ==========> 03-05-15-CNETNews-AntiSpamPlan-IdentifyOpenRelays.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1001868.html Feds prime new antispam weapon By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 15, 2003, 11:08 AM PT Federal and state law enforcement agencies pledged to take an aggressive new approach to fighting spam: identifying "open relay" mail servers that serve as conduits for massive quantities of junk e-mail. ==========> 03-05-18-BostonGlobe-SeveralMethodsToStopSpam.txt========== http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/138/business/Leave_me_alone_+.shtml Leave me alone! With junk e-mail out of control, Internet experts want to redesign the whole system By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 5/18/2003 You think the dozen or two spam e-mails you delete every day are a lot? That's nothing to Paul Judge, chief technology officer of CipherTrust, an ==========> 03-05-20-NYT-SpammersUseUnprotectedComputersToRoute.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/20/technology/20SPAM.html "Email's Backdoor Open to Spammers" New York Times (05/20/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul Routing junk email through unwitting third parties, usually home and office Internet users, is the No. 1 distribution method spammers use, and ISPs such as America Online estimate that over 200,000 computers around the world ==========> 03-05-21-Microsoft-GatesSuggestionsToControlSpam.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/misc/billgspam05-21-03.asp Letter from Bill Gates to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Regarding Spam Hearings Wednesday, May 21st, 2003 Dear Chairman McCain and Ranking Member Hollings: Thank you for holding this important and timely hearing on spam. I greatly appreciate the leadership of both you and your Commerce ==========> 03-05-22-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110837,00.asp Will Taxing E-Mail Stop Spam? Congress considers international treaty, tough laws, opt-out registries, and more. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Thursday, May 22, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers, antispam activists, and even a self-professed spammer are ==========> 03-05-22-SJMerc-Spam-GovtAndIndustryEffortNeeded.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5920220.htm Posted on Thu, May. 22, 2003 Tech experts ask for international effort to control spam By David Ho Associated Press WASHINGTON - A broad international effort by government and industry is needed to stop the torrent of junk e-mail that threatens Internet commerce and ==========> 03-05-23-CNETNews-FedOptOutAntiSpamBillIntroduced.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-1009467.html?tag=nl Antispam measure gains steam in House By Declan McCullagh and Jim Hu CNET News.com May 23, 2003, 12:57 PM PT Antispam sentiment on Capitol Hill is growing, with a new proposal in the House of Representatives promising to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and ==========> 03-05-23-SJMerc-CASenateBarelyPassesAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5929361.htm Posted on Fri, May. 23, 2003 State Senate OKs spam ban E-MAIL ADS MEASURE BARELY PASSES SACRAMENTO (AP) - Legislation banning unsolicited e-mail Advertisements commonly known as spam was approved Thursday by the California Senate without a vote to spare. ==========> 03-05-25-NYT-SeveralTechnicalAntiSpamProposals.txt========== "How to Unclog the Information Artery" New York Times (05/25/03) P. 3-1; Hansell, Saul The growing headache of spam has prompted proposals to rigorously control it, some of which aim to be effective without repressing the libertarian spirit of the Internet. Hans Peter Brondmo of Digital Impact advocates Project Lumos, which requires mass emailers to include an encrypted digital certificate in the ==========> 03-05-27-LATimes-USSpamFloodingEurope.txt========== "American Spam Is Flooding Europe" Los Angeles Times (05/27/03) P. C3; Moore, Matt Experts claim that most of the unsolicited commercial email swamping European ISPs originates in the United States, and partially blame disparate enforcement policies and lenient penalties for spam's proliferation. Anti-spam enforcement is the responsibility of individual nations, and the European Union ==========> 03-05-27-PCWorld-CongressConsidersAntiSpamOptions.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110881,00.asp Antispam Law Likely Congress considers many plans, but will any solve the problem? Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, May 27, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Amid a chorus of voices calling on the U.S. Congress to do something about spam, lawmakers appear to be ready to pass antispam legislation this ==========> 03-06-00-ACMNetworked-AntiSpamLawsUnlikelyToBeEffective.txt========== Ending spam's free ride Aaron Weiss June 2003 netWorker, Volume 7 Issue 2 Spam is now a felony in the state of Virginia, as long as the unsolicited messages contain falsified information about the sender. With the harshest anti-spam law in the United States recently passed, Virginia—home to major ISPs such as America Online—is hoping to prove that legislation is finally providing the tools needed to cap the flow of bulk e-mail advertising. But to skeptics ==========> 03-06-00-ACMNetWorker-ComputerUsersComplainAboutAnyMassMailings.txt========== The last word: Spam I am?! Aaron Weiss June 2003 netWorker, Volume 7 Issue 2 Several months ago I sent out an e-mail to a couple of thousand people and nearly lost my broadband access as a result. I maintain a personal Web site of a satirical nature which has attracted a good deal of traffic and consistently positive feedback over the years. Eventually I tried to market a modest product based on the Web site. Far from a major retail launch, this was more akin to ==========> 03-06-00-ACMNetworker-TheProblemWithSpamIsMoreThanMoney.txt========== Editorial: Canning spam Ken Korman June 2003 netWorker, Volume 7 Issue 2 Of all the digital-age bones of contention covered here at netWorker magazine, the unfortunate phenomenon known as spam may be the most pervasive in our culture—yet it's also the one least likely to be taken seriously. But as revealed by Aaron Weiss in his insightful cover story, "Ending Spam's Free Ride," American companies' efforts to fight spam during 2003 are expected to ==========> 03-06-06-WSJ-UtahAntiSpamLawResultsInManyLawsuits.txt========== "Putting a Lid on Spam" Wall Street Journal (06/06/03) P. B1; Mangalindan, Mylene Thirty-three U.S. states have enacted anti-spam legislation, but Utah's stands out for the amount of litigation it has spurred. The Utah statute classifies spam as any commercial email sent to people with no prior business relationship with the sender, and requires spammers to clearly mark spam in the ==========> 03-06-09-Reuters-KidsReceiveInappropriateSpam.txt========== http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59164,00.html Kids Bombarded With Spam, Porn By Reuters Page 1 of 1 10:32 AM Jun. 09, 2003 PT SEATTLE -- Four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials, according to a study released Monday by an Internet security company. ==========> 03-06-11-CNETNews-FTCProposesSweepingAntiSpamPowers.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1015517.html FTC seeks powers to smash spam By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com June 11, 2003, 5:01 AM PT The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday asked Congress for sweeping new powers that would let it cooperate closely with governments abroad and prosecute domestic and overseas spammers more readily. ==========> 03-06-15-AmSci-AllAboutSpam.txt========== http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail?assetid=18916 Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam Brian Hayes I used to feel forlorn whenever I checked my e-mail and found nothing waiting for me. Not much risk of that these days. There's always someone who wants to help me lose 32 pounds, or clean up my tarnished credit report, or get me that college ==========> 03-06-16-ComputerWorld-UseAIToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,82025,00.html Captchas: Computer Tests Can Defeat Spam Ingenious computer tests may also advance machine vision and AI. By JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN JUNE 16, 2003 On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Or a rogue robot program stealthily gathering personal information from chat rooms or registering for thousands of free e-mail accounts from which to blast ==========> 03-06-17-SJMerc-MS-SuesAllegedSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6109149.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 17, 2003 Microsoft files 15 lawsuits against alleged ``spammers'' in US, UK REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has filed 15 lawsuits accusing the defendants of collectively flooding its systems and customers with more than 2 billion deceptive unsolicited e-mail messages. The lawsuits address some of the most misleading, deceptive and ==========> 03-06-17-WashPost-TougherAntiSpamBillsIntroduced.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2497-2003Jun16.html Anti-Spam Proposals Get Tougher By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 17, 2003; Page E01 A bipartisan group of legislators and some citizen groups, concerned that current legislative proposals to combat e-mail spam are inadequate, are engaged in a ==========> 03-06-18-SJMerc-Spam-MSWantsItBothWays.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6113665.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 18, 2003 Microsoft sends a message to spammers By Kristi Heim Mercury News Seattle Bureau Microsoft filed 15 suits Tuesday against senders of unsolicited e-mail in the United States and Europe, seeking potentially billions of dollars in damages. ==========> 03-06-20-SJMerc-DG-OptOutSpamBillIsNoGood.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001106.shtml#001106 June 20, 2003 "More Spam" Bill Makes Progress • posted by Dan Gillmor 12:26 AM Washington Post: Anti-Spam Bill Gains In Senate. The bill was quickly endorsed by major providers of e-mail accounts, including Microsoft Corp., America Online, ==========> 03-06-20-WashPost-CanSpamActGainsInSenate.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14366-2003Jun19.html Anti-Spam Bill Gains In Senate Big Internet Firms Endorse Measure By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 20, 2003; Page E05 The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved legislation yesterday to combat unwanted ==========> 03-06-23-NYT-SenateUnifiedInOppositionToSpam.txt========== http://nytimes.com/2003/06/23/technology/23SPAM.html "Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point" New York Times (06/23/03) P. C1; Lee, Jennifer 8. Congressional members, interest groups, and industry are largely agreed that legislation is required to stop the rising tide of spam, which is estimated to account for 40 percent of all email. Because the debate focuses on ==========> 03-06-25-CNETNews-MichPassesToughAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1021169.html Michigan Senate passes antispam bill By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 25, 2003, 7:55 PM PT Modeling itself on a federal bill that would create a national spam opt-out list, the Michigan Senate passed what one member described as the nation's toughest antispam bill. ==========> 03-06-25-SJMerc-MSCreatesAntiSpamTaskForce.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6165116.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 25, 2003 Microsoft creates new anti-spam task force SEATTLE (AP) - A week after filing 15 lawsuits against alleged junk e-mailers, Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has created a specialized group of researchers and programmers to develop new technological tools to fight spam. ==========> 03-07-01-CalDemos-CALegKillsSpamBillInFavorOfMSBill.txt========== http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/servlet/gov.ca.senate.democrats.pub.members.memDispl ayPress?district=sd28&ID=1765 . . . And On The 1st Day Of July, Assembly Committee Proclaims: “Let There Be Spam!” 7/1/2003 COMMITTEE TAKES CUE FROM MICROSOFT, KILLS NATION’S TOUGHEST ANTI-SPAM PROPOSAL SACRAMENTO – Urged on by Microsoft, the Assembly Business & Professions Committee today unceremoniously killed SB 12 (Bowen), a measure to create the ==========> 03-07-02-SacBee-CALegKillsSpamBillInFavorOfMSBill.txt========== http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/6960914p-7910017c.html Critics slam surviving spam bill A measure touted as tougher dies in committee; Microsoft backs the remaining proposal. By Jim Sanders -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Legislation that had been touted as California's strongest offensive against unwanted e-mail died quietly Tuesday in an Assembly committee, replaced by a ==========> 03-07-02-SJMerc-CALegKillsSpamBillInFavorOfMSBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6217094.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 02, 2003 Consumer-backed spam bill canned TECH INDUSTRY-SUPPORTED MEASURE PASSES COMMITTEE By Kristi Heim Mercury News A bill that would have created what supporters called the nation's toughest anti-spam law was rejected by a California Assembly committee Tuesday, while a ==========> 03-07-03-NewSci-MultipleApproachesNeededToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993891 Multiple attack only hope in spam battle 17:43 01 July 03 Will Knight A multi-stranded approach is the only hope of stemming the rising tide of junk email, the UK's first ever "spam summit" was told on Tuesday. Together, new laws, new technology and better-educated users could combine to combat the spam choking the internet and flooding inboxes, delegates in London were told. ==========> 03-07-08-PCWorld-ControversyOverAntiSpamBills.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111487,00.asp Antispam Legislation Hits Rocky Road No one is pleased: Is it too tough, too soft, or entirely unwarranted? Leonadis McKinney, Medill News Service Tuesday, July 08, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You probably know that spam is sometimes obscene, often annoying, and rarely welcome. You might not know that it makes up roughly 40 percent of all e-mail and costs businesses about $10 billion annually. And ==========> 03-07-10-SJMerc-USAntiSpamBillsNotConsumerFriendly.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6271422.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 10, 2003 Spam bills have chance in Congress ADVOCATES TRY AGAIN AS THE PROBLEM WORSENS By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Unsolicited e-mails plugging get-rich schemes, hair-growth concoctions and bare-breasted women are becoming more than just a nuisance. ==========> 03-07-18-ACM-PrivacyCoalitionSpamLetter.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/Letters/spam_letter.htm The Privacy Coalition http://www.privacycoalition.org/ POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE SPAM LEGISLATION July 18, 2003 Dear Members of Congress, We write to you on behalf of a wide range of consumer, civil liberties, ==========> 03-07-21-InfoWorld-StrategiesToReduceSpam.txt========== # "Canning Spam" InfoWorld (07/21/03) Vol. 25, No. 28, P. 40; Udell, Jon The optimal strategy an organization can follow to effectively reduce the amount of junk email it receives combines sender ID-based and message content-based antispam solutions whose deployment models can also be integrated. DNS-based blacklists (DNSBLs) track down the sender's IP address in databases that archive incorrectly configured mail servers and documented unsolicited bulk emailers, but implementing DNSBLs alone is not a good idea, because it can lead to false positives. DNS-based white lists and Reverse Mail ==========> 03-07-23-TechRev-ProblemsWithSpamSolutions.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/dialog0703.asp Don't Break E-Mail To Save It By Vipul Ved Prakash July 23, 2003 Spammers aren't superhuman: they have to operate under some pretty severe constraints. There's no need for radical measures that would undermine the vitality of the medium. ==========> 03-07-23-ZDNet-AustraliaPlansSpamBanLaw.txt========== http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20276494,00.htm AU government to ban spam By Josh Mehlman, ZDNet Australia 23 July 2003 The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today. ==========> 03-07-28-NWFusion-Sieve-ScriptingAntiSpamTechSeeksAcceptance.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0728sieve.html Spam technology seeks acceptance By John Fontana Network World, 07/28/03 A proposed standard filtering technology originally developed to help end users organize messages in overstuffed in-boxes instead is gaining favor as a niche tool to help in the effort to stem the onslaught of spam. ==========> 03-07-30-Wired-ProblemsWithSpamSolutions.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59840,00.html Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam? By Ryan Singel 03:55 PM Jul. 30, 2003 PT While no one has sympathy for the devils that fill inboxes with promises of lower mortgages and larger members, not everyone is supporting the new movement to banish spammers from the Internet. ==========> 03-08-00-CACM-WeWillDrownInSpamIfSomethingNotDone.txt========== Inside risks: Spam wars Lauren Weinstein August 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 8 In the June 1997 edition of this column, Peter Neumann and I asked if you were being "flooded" with spam. At the time, spam was already annoying, but as it turns out the real torrent hadn't even begun! Fast-forward to 2003, and spam now threatens the Internet's stability and reliability—not only of email systems, but potentially of the network infrastructure itself. Spam is quite ==========> 03-08-00-CommACM-WeWillDrownInSpamUnlessSolutionsCanBeFound.txt========== Inside risks: Spam wars Lauren Weinstein August 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 8 In the June 1997 edition of this column, Peter Neumann and I asked if you were being "flooded" with spam. At the time, spam was already annoying, but as it turns out the real torrent hadn't even begun! Fast-forward to 2003, and spam now threatens the Internet's stability and reliability—not only of email systems, but potentially of the network infrastructure itself. Spam is quite ==========> 03-08-00-IEEESpectrum-UsingBayesianFilteringToStopSpam.txt========== * Saving Private E-mail" IEEE Spectrum (08/03); Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. Winning the war against spam requires eliminating--or at least dramatically reducing--the likelihood of false positives, which no automatic filtering or blacklisting technique currently in use is able to do. However, some programmers are hoping that Bayesian filtering strategies will be an effective solution. A Bayesian filter uses statistics and probability theory to analyze the entire message instead of focusing on key terms, and it does not rely on an artificial scoring system. The user teaches the filter to recognize ==========> 03-08-01-CNETNews-CanSMTPStopSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5058610.html End of the road for SMTP? By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 1, 2003, 4:00 AM PT The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you. ==========> 03-08-11-BusWeek-AntiSpamApproaches.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_32/b3845079.htm AUGUST 11, 2003 Out, Out, Damned Spam Junk e-mail accounts for roughly half of all network traffic. Here are five ways to beat it back It was May, 1978. Lauren Weinstein was among those developing an early version of the Internet when an e-mail popped into his box. It was the first spam ever -- a pitch from Digital Equipment Corp. sent, literally, to everyone on the ==========> 03-08-11-NYT-Spam-DoNotSpamList.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/technology/11SPAM.html * "The Bandwagon to Fight Spam Hits a Bump" New York Times (08/11/03) P. C1; Hansell, Saul The latest congressional wrangling over proposed anti-spam measures revolves around Sen. Charles E. Schumer's (D-N.Y.) bill to deploy a do-not-spam list modeled after the do-not-call registry the FTC started implementing in June. Jerry Cerasale of the Direct Marketing Association argues against such a measure, claiming that the most notorious spammers show no regard for any kind ==========> 03-08-15-TechNewsWorld-SieveSpamFiltering.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31350.html Spam Technology Seeks Acceptance By John Fontana August 15, 2003 "E-mail overload has not been the result of receiving too much legitimate e-mail. It has been because of spam," says Tim Showalter, the author of Sieve and a member of the technical staff at Mirapoint." ==========> 03-08-20-WashPost-FTCHeadOpposesAntiSpamBills.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17156-2003Aug19.html Head of FTC Opposes Bills To Curb Spam Muris Says Efforts Would Be 'Largely Ineffective' By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 20, 2003; Page E01 The head of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday criticized several federal legislative efforts designed to combat junk e-mail, remarks that could cloud ==========> 03-08-22-NYT-DMAToAssistAntSpamFight.txt========== http://nytimes.com/2003/08/22/technology/22SPAM.html * "Marketers Say They Intend To Join Effort To Fight Spam" New York Times (08/22/03) P. C1; Schwartz, John; Markoff, John The Direct Marketers Association (DMA) is appealing to members for extra funds for Operation Slam Spam, which would provide federal, state, and local law enforcement with reinforcements in their fight against spammers. In the letter to members, the DMA says the $65,000 "participation fee" will help the progress of more favorable spam legislation as opposed to more far-reaching ==========> 03-08-25-Daum-KoreanISPSuccessfullyChargesForSendingEmail.txt========== http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:XPIIRpxDOYQJ:www.apcauce.org/meetings/03082 5/proceedings/Jaewoong_Lee.pdf+daum%2Be-mail+postage&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 [Daum] 25th August 2003 This is the html version of the file http://www.apcauce.org/meetings/030825/proceedings/Jaewoong_Lee.pdf. G o o g l e automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. ==========> 03-08-31-SJMerc-DG-SpammersRuiningEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6661839.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 31, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Spamming sleazebags ruining e-mail By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Last week, I called the organizer of an upcoming conference at which I'm scheduled to speak. I needed an answer to a question I'd sent him by e-mail a week earlier. ==========> 03-08-31-USACM-TexasAntiSpamBillBecomesLaw.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/update78.htm ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ August 31, 2003 Vol. 7.8 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= USACM Prepares FY2003 Report of Activities and Achievements ==========> 03-09-00-ACMQueue-FTCForumSaysSpamWillGetWorseWithoutIntervention.txt========== Features: Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, the FTC, and Spam Eric Allman September 2003 Queue, Volume 1 Issue 6 A forum sponsored by the FTC highlights just how bad spam is—and and how it’s only going to get worse without some intervention. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a forum on spam in Washington, D.C., April 30 to May 2. Rather to my surprise, it was a really good, content-full ==========> 03-09-01-InfoWeek-FightingSpamCostsBusinesses.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14200138 Outsmarting Spam Sept. 1, 2003 Junk E-mail is a frustrating fact of life. For business-technology execs, fighting it is, too By Tony Kontzer The fight against spam doesn't promise to ring up more revenue or slash the costs of doing business. But make no mistake: Fighting spam has become a priority for most businesses, and the backlash is leaving business-technology ==========> 03-09-09-CNETNews-ChinaBlocks127SpamServers.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5073441.html?tag=nl China blocks spam servers By Will Sturgeon Special to CNET News.com Story last modified September 9, 2003, 12:42 PM PDT China has woken up to the problem of spam e-mail and blocked 127 servers identified as sources of high volumes of unsolicited e-mail. ==========> 03-09-10-IDGNews-ChinaFingersSpammerISPsToThwartBlocking.txt========== http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/printstory.asp?aid=20030910006 Updated: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:25 pm China joins global fight against spam By Sumner Lemon IDG News Service, Taipei Bureau The Internet Society of China (ISC) is hoping to bring the problem of spam under control in the world's most populous country by blocking e-mails sent from 127 servers that have been identified as sources of spam, according to a statement released by the group. ==========> 03-09-18-Reuters-BritrainPassesNewAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3468269 Britain Cracks Down on Spammers with New Privacy Law Thu September 18, 2003 11:03 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Britain Thursday became the second country in Europe to criminalize spam, the unwanted barrage of e-mail and mobile phone text messages promising riches, cheap home loans and a better sex life. The unsolicited messages, which industry groups say account for more than half ==========> 03-09-18-TheReg-UKSpamBillCriticized.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32914.html UK Govt fouls up anti-spam plans, say experts By John Leyden Posted: 18/09/2003 at 17:34 GMT The UK Government's plans to tackle the spam nuisance have received a hostile initial response from industry experts. Communications Minister Stephen Timms today outlined measures to update ==========> 03-09-18-WashPost-ControversialSelfPolicingAddedToSpamBill.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A26599 -2003Sep17¬Found=true Self-Policing Added to Spam Bill By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 18, 2003; Page E01 One of the primary bills in Congress to crack down on spam e-mail contains a new provision that would shield bulk e-mailers from penalties if they agree to ==========> 03-09-19-TheAge-AustraliaPlansAntiSpamLaws.txt========== http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/18/1063625153011.html Spammers could face $1 million fines By Garry Barker Technology Editor September 19, 2003 Companies that clog your inbox with unsolicited emails could face fines of $1.1 million a day under proposed anti-spam legislation. ==========> 03-09-23-SJMerc-CalifGovSignsToughAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6845129.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 23, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Davis signs nation's toughest anti-spam bill MEASURE FACES CHALLENGES, WILL BE DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE By Aaron Davis Mercury News Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday signed the toughest anti-spam law in the nation, declaring it illegal to send Californians unsolicited e-mail advertisements. ==========> 03-09-24-LSTimes-CalGovSignsAntiSpamBill.txt========== Davis Signs Bill to Ban Online Spam" Los Angeles Times (09/24/03) P. A1; Ingram, Carl California Gov. Gray Davis signed Sen. Kevin Murray's (D-Calif.) anti-spam legislation into law Sept. 23, thus criminalizing the sending of unsolicited commercial email to Californians and allowing state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, ISPs, and individual residents to file civil suits against spammers and their advertisers. Spam marketers and advertisers exempt from the law, which imposes a $1,000 fine for every unsolicited message, are those who get specific requests from recipients to send them email or who have previous ==========> 03-09-25-Reuters-AntiSpamWebsitesShutDownByAttack.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=20LSJQRTR5QLECRBAEZSFFA?type =technologyNews&storyID=3510971 Anti-Spam Web Pages Shut Down by Attacks Thu September 25, 2003 08:44 PM ET By Elinor Mills Abreu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three Web sites that provide spam blocking lists have shut down as a result of crippling Internet attacks in what experts on Thursday said is an escalation in the war between spammers and opponents of unsolicited ==========> 03-09-25-TheReg-AntiSpamWebsitesShutDownByAttackLinedToSobig.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33059.html Sobig linked to DDoS attacks on anti-spam sites By John Leyden Posted: 25/09/2003 at 19:22 GMT A senior anti-spam activist is calling on law enforcement authorities to track down the perpetrators behind a widespread and sustained attack on anti-spam sites. The call, from Steve Linford of Spamhaus, comes along with fresh evidence that the assaults have been enabled by the infamous Sobig worm. ==========> 03-09-29-NWFusion-BetterFiltersOutwitSpammers.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2003/0929spam.html Outwitting spammers Clever, self-learning methods such as Bayesian filters and neural networks are the latest anti-spam buzz. But some fall frustratingly short for corporate use. By Julie Bort Network World, 09/29/03 Spam, the four-letter word of the virtual world, seems to be on everyone's lips these days, from rank-and-file workers to Congress and the British Parliament. ==========> 03-10-00-CACM-DoUnsolicitedCommunications-Spam-ViolateTrespassLaws.txt========== Legally speaking: Unsolicited communications as trespass? Pamela Samuelson October 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 10 Rare is the person who wants to receive unsolicited commercial email (aka spam). Unsolicited noncommercial email is often equally unwelcome. Due to a growing consensus that technology alone cannot solve the unsolicited email problem, various legal approaches to regulating unsolicited email have been proposed or adopted. ==========> 03-10-02-Salon-NetPioneersSayEmailBroken.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/02/e_mail/index_np.html E-mail is broken Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess. By Katharine Mieszkowski Oct. 2, 2003 | Somewhere between that spam promoting spyware disguised as a chipper e-greeting and the latest e-mail-borne virus masquerading as an urgent software upgrade, something got lost. ==========> 03-10-06-EWeek-Lofgren-CongressAtImpasseOnSpamDRMDatabaseProtection.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1307551,00.asp Anti-Spam Bills Losing Time By Caron Carlson October 6, 2003 One of silicon valley's key voices in Congress, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said last week that lawmakers have reached a logjam on several technology-related legislative initiatives, including spam, digital rights and, to some extent, database protection. With just a few weeks left before members ==========> 03-10-06-NYT-EmailExpertsTurnToVerificationSchemes.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/technology/06SPAM.html # Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail" New York Times (10/06/03) P. C1; Hansell, Saul Many email experts think that a system to identify legitimate email rather than spam will be a more effective strategy for controlling the spread of unsolicited commercial messages. This would entail the development of an email version of caller ID that allows the sender's identity to be verified by the receiver, which is a weighty challenge from a technical point of view. America ==========> 03-10-14-PCWorld-ManyImperfectAntiSpamBills.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112934,00.asp Lawmakers Hammer on Spam Everybody has ideas, but nobody has a sure cure for spam--yet. Rita Chang, Medill News Service Tuesday, October 14, 2003 WASHINGTON -- "What are we going to do about spam?" It was a deceptively simple question posed by CNN's Lou Dobbs to a panel of ==========> 03-10-17-InvestBusDaily-NoSpamListWontFlyWithAdvertisers.txt========== # "Anti-Spam List Wouldn't Fly, Experts Warn" Investor's Business Daily (10/17/03) P. A5 Experts argue that fundamental distinctions between phone and email systems and the marketers who use them will be insurmountable barriers to the usability of a do-not-spam list, while even antispam advocates admit that such a measure would not cure the spam problem. The FTC is skeptical that a do-not-spam list run by the government would be effective: The phone network is strictly regulated and features central control and strong anti-spoofing measures, but email systems are decentralized and information about spammers is not difficult ==========> 03-10-22-PCWorld-PewInternet-ReportSaysSpamIsUnderminingEmail.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113061,00.asp Could Spam Kill Off E-Mail? Some users avoid their in-boxes because of the onslaught, report says. Rita Chang, Medill News Service Wednesday, October 22, 2003 WASHINGTON--A majority of the United States' 126 million e-mail users say they are losing trust in e-mail, and one in four has cut back usage because of the daily onslaught of spam. ==========> 03-10-22-SeaTimes-PewInternet-ReportSaysSpamIsUnderminingEmail.txt========== http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001772631_spam23.html Survey: Spam threatens death of e-mail, 'the killer app' By Charles Bermant Special to the Seattle Times "Spam — How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet" on Pew Internet & American Life Project site 0 While unsolicited commercial e-mail takes a considerable toll on businesses and ==========> 03-10-23-SFChron-SenateApprovesDoNotSpamRegistry.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/23/MNG UK2H8EA1.DTL Senate votes unanimously for do-not-spam list A registry would block unwanted e-mail solicitation Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau Thursday, October 23, 2003 Washington -- The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to build on the new do-not- call registry's success by adopting a plan for a national do-not-spam list to block the tidal wave of e-mail solicitations for everything from ==========> 03-10-23-SJMerc-AOLChangesWindowsSettingsToBlockPopUps.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7086508.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 23, 2003 story:PUB_DESC AOL quietly changes Windows settings to combat pop-up spam NEW YORK (AP) - Even more annoying than junk e-mail are all the spam messages that ``pop up'' through a little-used feature in Windows. As part of its spam-fighting efforts, America Online has been turning off that feature for its customers without telling them. ==========> 03-10-23-SJMerc-PewInternet-ReportSaysSpamIsUnderminingEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7082702.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 23, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Spam glut ruins e-mail for many By David Whelan CONTRA COSTA TIMES Spam that hawks drugs, smut and dubious investments may not lead to many sales, but it has succeeded in driving a wedge between people and their e-mail accounts, according to a new study. ==========> 03-10-23-SJMerc-SchumerBillWouldHaveFTCNoSpamRegistry.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7082588.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 23, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Senate OKs do-not-spam plan FTC WOULD CREATE REGISTRY LIMITING UNWANTED E-MAIL By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, points to a computer screen displaying the unsolicited junk e-mail he receives during a news conference, Sunday, April 27, ==========> 03-10-23-WashPost-SenatePassesCompromiseAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3243-2003Oct22.html Senate Votes 97-0 To Restrict E-Mail Ads Bill Could Lead to No-Spam Registry By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 23, 2003; Page A01 The Senate approved the nation's first federal anti-spam legislation last night after reaching a compromise that also opens the door to a national no-spam ==========> 03-10-23-Wired-PewInternet-ReportSaysSpamIsUnderminingEmail.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60935,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 Survey Confirms It: Spam Sucks By Katie Dean 02:00 AM Oct. 23, 2003 PT To the surprise of no one, regular avalanches of spam are driving people away from using their e-mail and making their online time less enjoyable. A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project documents how this ==========> 03-10-24-Wired-SpammersAttackWebLogs-Blogs.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60912,00.html Spammers Clog Up the Blogs By Chris Ulbrich Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60912,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 24, 2003 PT If the maturity of a Web technology can be measured by the amount of attention spammers pay to it, then blogging has definitely come of age. ==========> 03-10-25-SJMerc-JudgeOrdersLASpammersToPay2M.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7101397.htm Posted on Sat, Oct. 25, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Judge orders spammers to pay $2 million fine BUSINESS RESTRICTIONS ALSO IMPOSED By Elise Ackerman Mercury News A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Friday ordered two Los Angeles-area spammers to pay $2 million, the largest judgment to date won by government ==========> 03-10-30-BusWeek-BetterCanSpamActNeeded.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031030_1290_tc073.htm OCTOBER 30, 2003 • Editions: Edition Preference PRIVACY MATTERS By Jane Black Needed: A Beefier CAN-SPAM Bill Recipients of unwanted e-mail should have the right to sue, and law enforcement needs more muscle to put the pests out of business ==========> 03-11-02-PewInternet-ReportSaysSpamIsUnderminingEmail.txt========== http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/reports.asp?Report=102&Section=ReportLevel1&F ield=Level1ID&ID=438 Summary of findings Spam is beginning to undermine the integrity of email and degrade life online. The huge increase in email spam in recent years is beginning to take its toll on the online world. Some email users say they are using electronic mail less now because of spam. More people are reporting they trust the online environment less. Increasing numbers are saying that they fear they cannot ==========> 03-11-03-BusWeek-CalifAntiSpamLawSlamsSmallBusiness.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/nov2003/sb2003113_4527.htm NOVEMBER 3, 2003 • Editions: Edition Preference By Christopher Kenton Christopher Kenton is president of the marketing agency Cymbic A Spam Law That Slams Small Business New legislation in California won't hinder offshore operators and professional e-mail pests. What it will do is hobble startups and reputable marketers ==========> 03-11-04-Salon-CanSpamActWontReallyHelp.txt========== http://salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/04/can_spam/index_np.html Making the U.S. safe for spam By a vote of 97-0, the Senate passed a bill to stop junk e-mail. Too bad it won't do anything of the sort. By Mathew Honan Nov. 4, 2003 | Spam is more than a mere annoyance. Forrester Research estimates that spam costs U.S. businesses $10 billion a year. Brightmail, a San Francisco anti-spam technology company, found that as of July 50 percent of all ==========> 03-11-06-FTC-OrderObtainedBarringPopUpSpamScam.txt========== http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0323223.htm FTC v. D Squared Solutions, LLC, a California limited liability company, Anish Dhigra, individually and as an officer of D Squared Solutions, LLC, Jeffrey Davis, individually and as an officer of D Squared Solutions, LLC (Northern District of Maryland) Civil Action No.: AMD 03 CV3108 File No. 032-3223 November 6, 2003 ==========> 03-11-09-NYT-SpamhausTracksSpammers.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/yourmoney/09spam.html Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide By SAUL HANSELL Published: November 9, 2003 TAGGS ISLAND, England AS Steve Linford walks his German shepherd, Zen, across the gangway from his houseboat into his prim little garden on this small island in the Thames, he hardly looks like a man in a battle over the future of cyberspace. He has a ==========> 03-11-10-InfoWeek-InterviewsWithSpammers.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000624 Spam Nation Nov. 10, 2003 It's a [bad] part of our everyday lives. Who's behind this stuff? By Thomas Claburn For lunch, Scott Richter ordered ham--a meat of uncomplicated origins, as opposed to Hormel's mysterious jumble. His choice seems somehow appropriate for a person who says he's a legitimate bulk E-mail marketer, rather than a spammer. ==========> 03-11-10-InfoWeek-SpamFiltersConflictWithAccessToGovernment.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000625 State Affairs: Filters Conflict With Government Openness Nov. 10, 2003 By Larry Kahaner Government agencies got a bit of a free ride from spammers, who worried that the government might go after them if they blasted their workers' in-boxes. No more. Now the public sector faces a similar onslaught, yet it needs to allow unrestricted, large-scale public E-mail access while filtering out junk ==========> 03-11-13-CNETNews-DirectMarketersLobbyForAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5107059.html?tag=nl Ad groups lobby for antispam law By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified November 13, 2003, 2:29 PM PST A triumvirate of influential advertising groups is pushing Congress to pass a federal spam law before the holidays, cautioning that without it, unwanted e-mail will hamper e-commerce. ==========> 03-11-17-IntlHeraldTrib-EUAntiSpamDirectiveNotLikelyToBeEffective.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/117855.html Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com The end user: EU leads spam fight Victoria Shannon International Herald Tribune Monday, November 17, 2003 But it needs global allies to prevail PARIS On Nov. 1, Europe outlawed spam - surely you noticed? Two weeks ago, a European Union directive took effect requiring senders of commercial e-mail to ==========> 03-11-18-SJMerc-MSAntiSpamPlansMayHarm3rdPartyFirms.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7292663.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 18, 2003 Microsoft Anti-Spam Move May Harm Rivals MATTHEW FORDAHL Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp.'s move to offer stronger anti-spam technology for its e-mail server software could spell trouble for companies that are trying to build businesses on products that filter out unwanted ==========> 03-11-21-InetWeek-PerfectSpamBlockingTechNotReady.txt========== http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16400308 Proposed Spam-Blocking Technology Is A Long Way Away By Antone Gonsalves, InternetWeek Nov 21, 2003 (6:00 PM) One of the main tactics used by spam filters is to try to identify the source of spam, and then block e-mail coming from the source. But spammers have gotten wise to that trick, and use fairly simple techniques, known as "spoofing," to hide the sources of their messages. ==========> 03-11-21-NYT-CongressToVoteOnAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/politics/21CND-SPAM.html November 21, 2003 Congress Poised for Vote on Anti-Spam Bill By DAVID STOUT ASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — House and Senate negotiators reached agreement today on a law to crack down on the floods of unsolicited e-mail messages that clog the nation's cybermail boxes. ==========> 03-11-21-SJMerc-HouseReachesCompromiseOnAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7321229.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 House reaches compromise on bill to limit unwanted e-mails WASHINGTON (AP) - The House announced a surprise compromise Friday to impose tough new limits on sending unwanted commercial e-mails, moving Congress closer to its first-ever protections against irritating offers for prescription drugs, cheap loans and herbal remedies. ==========> 03-11-22-CNETNews-HouseReachesCompromiseOnAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5110622.html?tag=nefd_top House passes antispam bill By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5110622.html Story last modified November 22, 2003, 6:28 AM PST The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam ==========> 03-11-22-SJMerc-CongressPassesAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7328519.htm Posted on Sat, Nov. 22, 2003 Congress Passes Bill That Will Limit Spam TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON - Congress moved significantly closer to the first-ever federal protections against unwanted commercial e-mails with the House passing a bill Saturday that would impose new limits on sending irritating offers on the ==========> 03-11-22-SJMerc-SpamCausesManToMakeDeathThreats.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7326032.htm Posted on Sat, Nov. 22, 2003 Spam sends local man into rage HE'S ARRESTED FOR DEATH THREAT By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Charles Booher said he is normally a non-violent person. In his spare time, he writes software programs that he likens to Andy Warhol art projects. The last ==========> 03-11-22-Yahoo-SpamCausesManToMakeDeathThreats.txt========== http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031121/325/eemvr.html Saturday November 22, 04:47 AM Man gets "spam rage" over penis ad By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Call it spam rage: A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his penis. ==========> 03-11-24-SpamHaus-USMakesSpamLegal.txt========== http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=150 United States set to Legalize Spamming on 1 January 2004 Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the CAN-SPAM Act, a bill backed overwhelmingly by spammers and dubbed the "YOU-CAN-SPAM" Act because it legalizes spamming instead of banning it. Spam King Alan Ralsky told reporters the passage of the House bill "made my day". Spammers say they will now pour money into ==========> 03-11-24-WSJ-AntiSpamBillLacksMuscle.txt========== # "Spam Pact Toughens Penalties, But Critics See a Lack of Muscle" Wall Street Journal (11/24/03) P. A3; Fole, Ryan J.; Clark, Don;Angwin, Julia Although the House has passed a compromise anti-spam bill that imposes tougher penalties against spammers and authorizes the FCC to create a no-spam list similar to the do-not-call registry, the commission reports that it has neither the technology nor the personnel to set up such a registry. The FCC could be ordered to establish such a registry with additional legislation, but the effort could run afoul of litigation; furthermore, FTC officers such as Howard Beales and Chairman Timothy Muris are highly skeptical that such a list would ==========> 03-11-25-CNETNews-SenateApprovesAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5111893.html Senate approves antispam bill By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5111893.html Story last modified November 25, 2003, 5:16 PM PST The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday for a historic antispam bill, capping more than ==========> 03-11-25-DMNews-EMailMarketersApplaudUSAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=25720 DMers Applaud Federal Spam Bill Nov. 25, 2003 By: Brian Morrissey Senior Editor bmorrissey@dmnews.com With California's anti-spam bill looming, e-mail marketers breathed a sigh of relief that federal spam legislation is expected to override it. ==========> 03-11-26-InetNews-MarketersRelievedAtCanSpamProgress.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3113961 November 26, 2003 Marketers Relieved At Can Spam Bill's Progress By Susan Kuchinskas "It's the biggest turkey the President will see all week and he should stuff it the moment it lands on his desk." That's how California State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) described the anti-spam bill which cleared the U.S. Senate floor Tuesday. ==========> 03-11-26-SJMerc-SenatePassesAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7355252.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 26, 2003 Senate passes spam bill FINAL OK NEAR FOR NATIONAL LAW By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Federal legislation aimed at curbing the explosion of unsolicited e-mails clogging computer networks cleared its last major hurdle in Congress on ==========> 03-11-27-Economist-FightingSpamAndWorms.txt========== http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2246018 Fighting the worms of mass destruction Nov 27th 2003 | SAN FRANCISCO From The Economist print edition Hooligans are trashing our online space. How can they be stopped? WHEN Microsoft released its latest monthly batch of software patches on November 11th, it included one designed to repair a previously unknown flaw in ==========> 03-12-00-ACMQueue-ProblemsWithSpamFiltring.txt========== Problems with Spam Filtering Departments: Curmudgeon, Eric Allman, December 2003 ACM Queue, Volume 1 Issue 9 You know what I hate about spam filtering? Most of what we do today hurts the people who are already being hurt the most. Think about it: Who pays in the spam game? The recipients. That’s what’s wrong in the first place—the wrong folks pay for this scourge. The recipients have to actually store the data, which takes disk space, plus ==========> 03-12-04-SVMetro-NotGuiltyPleaInSpamRage.txt========== http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.04.03/booher-0349.html Raging Against The Machine Charles Booher was arrested for emailing death threats to a company he thought was spamming him with penis pill popups. DM Contact's Doug Mackay swears he's not behind the Internet spam plague, and that enlargement potion pusher Leading Edge Marketing is just a client. But a Metro investigation reveals that Leading Edge Marketing registered in the same province as DM Marketing, under his brother's name: Geoffrey Mackay. So maybe Booher harrassed the right guy after ==========> 03-12-05-PCWorld-YahooAntiSpamTechVerifiesSender.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113789,00.asp Yahoo Takes Aim at Spam New technology can verify the true source of an e-mail, company says. Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service Friday, December 05, 2003 Yahoo has developed a system that will go a long way toward curbing spam, the company claims. But the technology's success is dependent on its widespread industry adoption beyond the borders of Yahoo's e-mail servers, it says. ==========> 03-12-05-Reuters-YahooAntiSpamTechVerifiesSender.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3947934 Yahoo Proposes New Internet Anti-Spam Structure Fri December 5, 2003 05:25 PM ET By Ben Berkowitz LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Internet services company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender. ==========> 03-12-05-SJMerc-EUMembersPressedToComplyWithSpamBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7423459.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 05, 2003 EU presses members to comply with spam ban BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union has asked nine member nations that have failed to adopt a privacy law intended to help the fight against unwanted e-mail to describe how they intend to comply with the law. Belgium, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, ==========> 03-12-09-SJMerc-FTCObtainsOrderBarringPopUpSpamScam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7451780.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 09, 2003 Small company fights government over pop-up ads WASHINGTON (AP) - Those flashy pop-up ads that annoy millions of Internet users each day are getting a legal test, thanks to a pair of 20-year-old college students who are challenging the government's effort to regulate the advertisements. ==========> 03-12-11-SJMerc-VirginiaChargesTwoUnderAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7469455.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2003 Virginia charges two under new anti-spam law STERLING, Va. (AP) - Two North Carolina men were indicted Thursday for flooding the Internet with e-mail pitches for investments, software and other products in what Virginia prosecutors billed as the nation's first felony charges under the state's new anti-spam law. ==========> 03-12-11-Virginia-FirstFelonySpamArrest.txt========== http://www.oag.state.va.us/media%20center/Current%20AG%20News%20Releases/121103_ Spam_Arrest.htm For Release: Thursday, December 11, 2003 Website: www.vaag.com Contact: Tim Murtaugh or Carrie Cantrell Phone: (804) 786-3518 or (804) 786-4596 E-Mail: tmurtaugh@oag.state.va.us or ccantrell@oag.state.va.us Kilgore Announces Nation’s First Felony Spam Arrest ==========> 03-12-12-NYT-VirginiaIndictsTwoUnderAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/technology/12spam.html Virginia Indicts 2 Under Antispam Law By SAUL HANSELL Published: December 12, 2003 irginia announced yesterday the indictments of two people on criminal charges involving unsolicited e-mail, the first case to be brought under an antispam law that took effect in June. Virginia is one of the few states with laws that include criminal penalties for sending unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam. ==========> 03-12-12-RichTimesDisp-VirginiaIndictsTwoUnderAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_Ba sicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031772578834 2 men charged under spam law Virginia calls it the nation's first felony case over junk e-mail FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS Friday, December 12, 2003 Richmaon Times Dispatch STERLING - Two North Carolina men were indicted yesterday for allegedly ==========> 03-12-12-SJMerc-NotGuiltyPleaInSpamRage.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/7474945.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 12, 2003 Man pleads not guilty in spam rage By Howard Mintz Mercury News The Sunnyvale man arrested last month for raging against the spam machine pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that he threatened to kill or injure employees of a Canadian company he believed had been bombarding him with ==========> 03-12-15-TorStar-2003SpamAndIPCourtCases.txt========== http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T ype1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1071443408466 Dec. 15, 2003. 01:00 AM `D' is for disputes that shape our lives Court cases affected spam, copyright, music and much more in 2003 Toronto Star MICHAEL GEIST LAW BYTES ==========> 03-12-16-CNETNews-BushSignsAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5124724.html Bush OKs spam bill--but critics not convinced By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified December 16, 2003, 7:05 AM PST President Bush signed the "Can-Spam" bill Tuesday, creating the first federal law regulating spam, a move backers say will be a major step in the war against e-mail solicitations for pornography, Viagra, diet pills, get-rich-quick ==========> 03-12-16-CNETNews-ConsumersLooseWithAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5125192.html It's not called 'Can' Spam for nothing By Ray Everett-Church Story last modified December 16, 2003, 10:30 AM PST After six years of wrangling over legislative ways to stop spam, Congress was still faced with a fundamental choice: Give consumers control over the growing flood of unwanted spam e-mail that fills their in-boxes, or give in to the powerful advertising and marketing industries who want to be the ones filling ==========> 03-12-16-SJMerc-BushSignsAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7505263.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 16, 2003 Bush signs legislation against spam WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed legislation Tuesday meant to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail pitches that irritate Internet users and drain the economy. ``Spam, or unsolicited e-mails, are annoying to consumers and costly to our ==========> 03-12-18-INetNews-MSAndNYAGFileSpamLawsuits.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3290671 December 18, 2003 Target Spam: NY AG, Microsoft File $38M Suits By Ryan Naraine In partnership with Microsoft (Quote, Chart), New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced a massive legal offensive against a spam network allegedly responsible for sending more than 250 million junk e-mails daily. ==========> 03-12-18-Microsoft-MSAndNYAGFileSpamLawsuits.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/dec03/12-18NYSAGandMicrosoftPR.asp New York Attorney General and Microsoft Uncover and Sue Spam Network New York, Washington, Texas and Colorado Spammers Targeted for Allegedly Sending Billions of Deceptive, Illegal E-Mail Messages NEW YORK -- Dec. 18, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. announced today that, as a result of a six-month investigation and collaboration with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the company has filed parallel lawsuits against a New York-based spamming ring allegedly responsible for sending billions of illegal ==========> 03-12-18-NewAntiSpamLawJustAStart.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1218panel.html Anti-spam law just a start, panel says By Jeff Caruso Network World Fusion, 12/18/03 NEW YORK - While it’s an important first step, the federal anti-spam law signed this week is unlikely to reduce spam noticeably, and companies will have to find other ways to fight it, a panel of experts agreed Wednesday. ==========> 03-12-18-NYT-MSAndNYAGFileSpamLawsuits.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/technology/18spam.html?pagewanted=print&positi on= December 18, 2003 New York and Microsoft Expected to File Civil Suits in Spam Case By SAUL HANSELL liot Spitzer, the New York state attorney general, and Microsoft plan to file civil suits today charging one of the nation's most prominent e-mail marketers with fraud stemming from sending unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known ==========> 03-12-18-SJMerc--MSAndNYAGFileSpamLawsuits.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7523700.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 18, 2003 Spitzer, Microsoft sue alleged spam network NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. and the state of New York went after what they termed a sprawling e-mail spam ring Thursday, saying they hoped to drive it into bankruptcy by exposing its schemes of deception and seeking up to $20 million in fines. ==========> 03-12-27-NYT-CongressMembersSpamConstituents.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/politics/28EMAI.html December 28, 2003 We Hate Spam, Congress Says (Except Ours) By JENNIFER 8. LEE WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — Even as Congress was unanimously approving a law aimed at reducing the flow of junk e-mail, members were sending out hundreds of thousands of unsolicited messages to constituents. ==========> 03-12-28-WashPost-SpamSpywareVirusesAndWorms.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33688-2003Dec27.html Big Intrusions, Tiny Pictures and Patented Problems By Rob Pegoraro Sunday, December 28, 2003; Page F07 This is the year the Internet officially stopped being fun. The festering problems of spam, spyware, viruses, worms and pop-ups boiled over, making the online experience merely annoying at best, financially and emotionally destructive at worst. ==========> 03-12-31-SJMerc-AOLSuitAgainstSpammersDismissed.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7608155.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 31, 2003 Judge dismisses spam suit by AOL NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by America Online against a group of Florida computer technicians who allegedly helped senders of junk e-mails. Chief Judge Claude Hilton at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District ==========> 04-01-00-Governing-USCanSpamActOverridingStrongerStateLaws.txt========== http://www.governing.com/articles/1spam.htm From Governing’s January 2004 issue A new federal law is riding roughshod over tough state efforts to stop unwanted — and often indecent — spam. By ELLEN PERLMAN Jason Heckel was a spammer. In 1998, he sent out between 100,000 and 1 million unsolicited commercial e-mails a week. Many of them were about how to spam ==========> 04-01-06-WashPost-SpamStillFlowing.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57315-2004Jan5.html Spam Is Still Flowing Into E-Mail Boxes Senders Evade Federal Law Banning Junk Messages By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 6, 2004; Page E01 Computer users hoping that a new federal law would help cut the spam flowing to their in-boxes so far have been disappointed. ==========> 04-01-07-USAToday-AllNetProblemsCanBeSolvedWithoutGovernmentInvolvement.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-01-08-downes_x.htm Posted 1/7/2004 9:22 PM Internet cleans its own house By Larry Downes Now is the winter of our Internet discontent: the blight of spam, annoying pop-up ads and disturbing privacy invasions. The avalanche of consumer complaints has spurred the government to respond. ==========> 04-01-08-MXLogic-SpammersNotComplyingWithUSAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.mxlogic.com/news_events/01_08_04.html MX LOGIC FINDS NEARLY 100 PERCENT OF SPAM NOT COMPLIANT WITH NEW CAN-SPAM LAW Leading Email Defense Provider Reports Only Three in 1,000 Unsolicited Commercial Emails Meet CAN-SPAM Law DENVER, Jan. 8, 2004—MX Logic, a provider of advanced email protection and security solutions including spam and virus filtering, today announced that more than 99 percent of a recent sample of unsolicited commercial email failed ==========> 04-01-08-SpamButch-BeginsMeasuringAntiSpamLawEffectiveness.txt========== http://www.spambutcher.com/spamindex.html Brought to you by SpamButcher - the next generation in anti-spam software. Solve Your Spam Problem Now: Current Spam Index: 8,920 points Is CAN-SPAM Working? - Inconclusive The SpamButcher Spam Index is an effort measure the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act which went into effect January 1st. ==========> 04-01-09-TheReg-SpammersNotComplyingWithUSAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34790.html CAN-SPAM means we can spam By John Leyden Posted: 09/01/2004 at 12:45 GMT A miniscule proportion of unsolicited commercial email complies with US Federal anti-spam laws introduced this month, according to a survey published yesterday. Email security firm MX Logic found that of a random sample of over 1,000 ==========> 04-01-13-Wired-SpammersTryToFoolBayesianFilters.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61886,00.html Random Acts of Spamness By Michelle Delio 02:00 AM Jan. 13, 2004 PT "Daphnia blue-crested fish cattle, darkorange fountain moss, beaverwood educating, eyeblinking advancing, dulltuned amazons...." This is not a failed attempt at free-form prose. It's a snippet of a spam ==========> 04-01-16-PCWorld-MITSpamConferenceLooksAtFiltersAndLegalIssues.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114369,00.asp Spam Fighters Compare Notes Annual conference covers tips for litigation along with technological weaponry. Paul Roberts, IDG News Service Friday, January 16, 2004 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- Leading researchers into unsolicited e-mail, along with some of its victims, compared notes on a spectrum of spam-fighting tools and lawsuits against spammers. ==========> 04-01-21-ACMUbiquity-ChangingWaysWeUseTheInternet.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i46_downes.html 2004: The Turning Point An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet By Stephen Downes Jan. 21, 2004 I am usually hesitant to write predictions of the future, not because I think it's risky (I have a great deal of confidence in what follows) but because it's hackneyed. Especially at this time of the year, everybody is making ==========> 04-01-21-MSNBC-IdentityThievesUsingFakeEmailsToGetInfo.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3784331&p1=0 Consumers deluged as fake e-mails multiply Even experts say telling real mail from phish can be difficult Internet identity theives are getting better at their trade: This fake Earthlink site actually shows "WWW.EARTHLINK.NET in the address bar. By Bob Sullivan Technology correspondent MSNBC Updated: 1:27 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2004 ==========> 04-01-24-SJMerc-NewFederalAntiSpamLawNotStoppingSpamFlood.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7787192.htm Posted on Sat, Jan. 24, 2004 Little hope seen for spam relief NEW FEDERAL LAW NOT STOPPING FLOOD OF BULK E-MAIL By Dan Lee Mercury News E-mail users should be ready to keep zapping unwanted messages because more spam is on the way. ==========> 04-01-25-NYT-MITSpamConferenceLooksAtFiltersAndLegalIssues.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/weekinreview/25john.html January 25, 2004 SP@M SHEN@NIG@NS!! That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be Good News By GEORGE JOHNSON If you could sit back with Zen-like detachment and observe the dross piling up in your electronic mailbox, the spam wars might come to seem like a fascinating electronic game. Like creatures running through a maze with constantly shifting ==========> 04-01-26-Wired-USAntiSpamLawGeneratesConfusion.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62031,00.html Spam Law Generates Confusion By Chris Ulbrich 02:00 AM Jan. 26, 2004 PT SAN FRANCISCO -- These ought to be golden times for commercial e-mailers. Since the first of the year, the e-mail marketing industry has operated under the Can-Spam Act (full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited ==========> 04-01-28-SJMerc-DG-StupidSpamFilters.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7814718.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 28, 2004 Stupid Spam Filters By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 04-01-29-PCWorld-FTCFinds1MServersOpenToSpammers.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114528,00.asp Vulnerable Servers Warned FTC seeks to secure more than a million servers that can be spoofed by spammers. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Thursday, January 29, 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Trade Commission has identified more than 1 million IP addresses that provide open proxies or open relays, which spammers can tap to hide their identities, and is alerting server owners that they might ==========> 04-01-30-SJMerc-SenderPaysEmailWouldEliminateSpamProblem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7833519.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 30, 2004 Make spammers pay, in money or time, to send bulk e-mails By Mike Langberg Mercury News Imagine a world where the government paid all the bills for the postal service, and the cost of mailing a letter was zero. ==========> 04-01-31-SJMerc-DG-FraudulentSpamNeedsProscecuting.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001738.shtml#001738 January 31, 2004 118 Spams, 8 Legit Messages • posted by Dan Gillmor 07:30 AM • permanent link to this item That's the ratio I found this morning in my inbox. Laws? The spammers are laughing. Technological solution? They have us blocking real mail and getting theirs. ==========> 04-01-31-USACMWashUpdate-USEnactsNewFederalSpamLaw.txt========== Subject: ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.1 January 31, 2004 From: Lillie Coney Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:06:59 -0500 To: WASHINGTON-UPDATE@ACM.ORG ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.1 January 31, 2004 ==========> 04-02-00-ACMQueue-DesigningSensibleAuthentication.txt========== Features: Sensible Authentication Bruce Schneier February 2004 Queue, Volume 1 Issue 10 According to the author of Beyond Fear, it’s not enough to know who you are; you’ve got to prove it. The problem with securing assets and their functionality is that, by definition, you don’t want to protect them from everybody. It makes no sense to ==========> 04-02-02-CompWorld-ITMgrsBiggestProblems-VirusesAndSpam.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,896 37,00.html Dual Curses: Viruses and Spam By Jeff Ubois and Mitch Betts FEBRUARY 02, 2004 Slammer. Bugbear.B. Blaster. Sobig.F. 2003 was the worst year for virus outbreaks in the 20-year history of computer viruses, declares a report by F-Secure Corp. in San Jose. It was a growth year for spam, too, and by ==========> 04-02-02-InfoWorld-OECDCallsForInternationalCooperationOnSpam.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/02/HNoecd_1.html OECD calls for cooperation on spam Official suggests coordinated international effort By Paul Meller, IDG News Service February 02, 2004 BRUSSELS - Governments around the world were urged to cooperate more in their fight against the proliferation of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, at a conference Monday organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). ==========> 04-02-02-NYT-ChargingForEmailWouldReduceSpam.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/technology/02spam.html?ex=1076302800&en=0e704b f974741f6d&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE February 2, 2004 Gates Backs E-Mail Stamp in War on Spam By SAUL HANSELL Should people have to buy electronic stamps to send e-mail? Some Internet experts have long suggested that the rising tide of junk e-mail, ==========> 04-02-03-SFChron-MyDoomPropagatesAttacksAndSpam.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/03/BUG OL4ND9D1.DTL&type=tech Why this one is scarier Mydoom brings computer viruses to new level of sophistication, damage Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, February 3, 2004 After "zombie" computers infected with the Mydoom worm knocked a small Utah company's Web site off the Internet on Sunday, Microsoft Corp. is bracing for a ==========> 04-02-03-WSJ-EUBlamesUSAntSpamLawForSpamSurge.txt========== # "Europe Blames Weaker U.S. Law for Spam Surge" Wall Street Journal (02/03/04) P. B1; Mitchener, Brandon Brightmail estimates that more than half of all email in the European Union is spam, and Europeans claim U.S. anti-spam laws, which are far more lax than European regulations, are chiefly to blame. Eighty percent of EU spam is written in English, and that same percentage apparently originates from North America. EU law subscribes to an opt-in policy, in which email marketers cannot send unsolicited commercial email unless recipients specifically ask for it; U.S. law follows an opt-out policy, whereby spammers do not have to obtain ==========> 04-02-04-OECD-OECDWorksOnSpam.txt========== http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_22555297_1_1_1_1_1,00.html Feb. 4, 2004 OECD Work on Spam Spam undermines user trust online, reduces firm productivity, and increases costs for Internet service providers. Spam implicates data privacy and consumer protection laws, and spreads computer viruses. A variety of measures and initiatives have been undertaken to address spam by OECD countries, but it is recognised that no single approach will likely succeed without close ==========> 04-02-04-TechRev-SpamNotStopping.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel020404.asp False Hope for Stopping Spam Sure, there's a new federal law, and e-mail filtering tools are getting better. But a growing alliance between spammers, hackers, and organized crime bodes poorly for the future of e-mail. Net Effect February 4, 2004 The spam wars are taking a turn—and right now, the good guys are losing. New ==========> 04-02-07-NewSci-IETFsDomainKeysCouldStopSpam.txt========== # "Spam-Busters Sort Out the Fakes" New Scientist (02/07/04) Vol. 181, No. 2433, P. 26; Biever, Celeste Email authentication strategies announced to delegates at the annual Spam Conference could be a more effective measure against the growth of unsolicited commercial email than content filters or anti-spam laws. Most spammers resort to spoofing, a tactic in which their junk email pretends to originate from the addresses of innocent senders; this technique thwarts blacklisting measures, and makes owners of spoofed addresses the targets of angry spam recipients, as well as any spam bounced back by content filters. Authentication schemes ==========> 04-02-09-NWFusion-SPIM-InstantMessagingSpam.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0209carrspecialfocus.html Coming soon to your IM client: Spim By Cara Garretson Network World, 02/09/04 Instant-messaging spam - or spim, as it's often called - is beginning its march into the corporate world. Spim isn't nearly the headache that e-mail spam has become, largely because instant messaging isn't as ubiquitous as e-mail in corporate settings and IM spammers are easier to catch with the closed nature ==========> 04-02-12-EWeek-SMTP-SPF-SenderPolicyFramework.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1526251,00.asp New Anti-spam Initiative Gaining Traction February 12, 2004 By Dennis Callaghan A grass-roots movement to improve the SMTP protocol that governs e-mail traffic is gaining acceptance, and its lead developer hopes to get fast-track approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force to make the emerging framework a standard. ==========> 04-02-16-SJMerc-SpammersExploitHighSpeedInternetConnections.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7966797.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 16, 2004 Spammers exploit high-speed connections ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press NEW YORK - Next time you're looking for a culprit for all that junk mail flooding your inbox, have a glance in the mirror. Spammers are increasingly exploiting home computers with high-speed Internet connections into which ==========> 04-02-17-PCMag-CanEmailSurvive.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1464011,00.asp Can E-Mail Survive? February 17, 2004 By Cade Metz Last year was not a good year for e-mail. In spring 2003, the steady flow of unsolicited and unwanted messages reached a tipping point. According to Postini, a California company whose e-mail– filtering service processes 150 to 200 million messages a day, spam finally accounted for more than half of all ==========> 04-02-18-PCMag-USAntiSpamLawIsIneffective.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1529243,00.asp Spam: A Reality Check February 18, 2004 By Lance Ulanoff The CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) act recently became law in the United States, and with just a little over a month of it under our belts, people are already passing judgment on this broad and, some might say, groundbreaking law. ==========> 04-02-19-SJMerc-USAntiSpamLawNotEffective.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7992347.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 19, 2004 Poll: Do-not-call list works, anti-spam law doesn't WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's do not call registry is a resounding success, according to an Associated Press poll that found three-quarters of the people who signed up reported fewer telemarketing calls. The news was not so good for the government's efforts to reduce unwanted ==========> 04-02-23-ECommTimes-MultipleApproachesNeededToStopSpam.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32931.html Want To Stop Spam? Multiple Techniques in Unison Is the Answer By John Korsak February 23, 2004 One of the most effective ways to stop spam is to educate end users. Informed users are less likely to fall into common traps that spammers use to acquire e-mail addresses and sustain their business. ==========> 04-02-23-WSJ-ComputerSecurityEffortsIntensify.txt========== # "Computer-Security Efforts Intensify" Wall Street Journal (02/23/04) P. B4; Clark, Don; Wingfield, Nick; Hanrahan, Tim An annual conference hosted by RSA Security will be held this week, with email fraud, spam, and new ways to hinder such practices through the authentication of company and user IDs being major topics of discussion. Bolstering information has increased in importance because corporations may now be liable for lost or compromised data thanks to new legislation. One proposed solution is Sender Permitted From (SPF), in which senders' servers post their IP addresses so that email recipients can verify that incoming messages are from ==========> 04-02-24-CNETNews-JohnLevineOnSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1032-5164246.html Finding a way to fry spam By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified February 24, 2004, 12:00 PM PST If John Levine were a superhero, his nemesis would be a group of evil-doing spammers around the globe. ==========> 04-02-24-MS-MSAntiSpamTechnologyRoadmap.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/Feb04/02-24CallerID.asp Q&A: Microsoft's Anti-Spam Technology Roadmap REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 24, 2004 -- In his keynote address at RSA Conference 2004 in San Francisco, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today outlined Microsoft's technological vision for addressing the spam problem, including the company's Coordinated Spam Reduction Initiative (CSRI) and a technical proposal for e-mail that's being likened to the phone industry's caller-ID system. ==========> 04-02-24-SJMerc-ManNamedCockburnHasEmailTroubles.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8026783.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 24, 2004 Sending e-mail can be a struggle if your name has a 4-letter word By Mike Cassidy Mercury News I almost never heard from Craig Cockburn, which would have been a shame. He's a nice guy with some interesting thoughts about technology and whether ==========> 04-02-25-BosGlobe-MSWillShareAntiSpamTool.txt========== http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/02/25/microsoft_will_sha re_new_way_to_can_spam/ Microsoft will share new way to can spam By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 2/25/2004 Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., is taking up arms against a sea of spammers. Gates yesterday unveiled a campaign to establish technology standards that could make it easier to filter out the billions of unwanted e-mail messages ==========> 04-02-25-SJMerc-DG-SomeSpamFightingIdeasNotGood.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8035672.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 25, 2004 Latest ideas for fighting spam not the greatest By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 04-02-26-Wired-NewOpenSourceSpamFilters.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62421,00.html New Spam Filters Cut the Noise By Amit Asaravala Feb. 26, 2004 PT Open-source spam filter developers are claiming that their software can now block 99.97 percent or more of incoming spam on a network, thanks to new techniques. ==========> 04-02-27-SJMerc-OptimismInTheFightAgainstSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8055138.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 27, 2004 Optimism grows in fight against torrent of spam By Mike Langberg Mercury News I've got good news if you have no desire to share in the wealth of deposed African dictators, enlarge body parts or look at pictures of naughty cheerleaders: The scourge of spam could hit its high-water mark later this year ==========> 04-02-28-SJMerc-HackersAndSpammersWorkTogether.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8066749.htm Posted on Sat, Feb. 28, 2004 AFP/File/Joel Saget Hackers have developed a new version of powerful Mydoom Internet worm that attempts to use infected computers to launch attacks aimed at shutting down Microsoft's main website, experts said. On guard against hackers SECURITY CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON MISCREANTS AND THEIR MOTIVES By Dan Lee ==========> 04-03-01-CompWorld-BusinessUsesManyAntiSpamTechnologies.txt========== http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,90549,0 0.html Winning Ways to Stop Spam These IT organizations took different approaches, but they all successfully controlled spam. Here's how they did it. Case Study by Mark Hall MARCH 01, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - After two failed attempts to control spam, Lyndon Brown thinks he's finally licked the problem. The manager of property ==========> 04-03-01-NWFusion-AntiSpamAppliancesBetterThanSoftware.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0301faceoffyes.html Anti-spam appliances are better than software By Tim Chiu Network World, 03/01/04 Appliances are a much better choice than software for spam protection because they address the broad range of security threats facing large companies, small businesses, service providers, and educational and government institutions. Deployed at the edge of a customer's network, gateway appliances provide the ==========> 04-03-02-TechNewsWorld-IETFDebatesAntiSpamProposals.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33011.html IETF Conference Debates Antispam Proposals By John P. Mello Jr. TechNewsWorld March 2, 2004 "The spam issue has created enough urgency and even desperation, so ... there's been a rush to market to get solutions into place and experiment with them and let their strengths and weaknesses come out through real-world trials," Gail ==========> 04-03-04-SJMerc-MeteredEmailMightSolveSpamProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8106743.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 04, 2004 Is metered e-mail a viable anti-spam tactic? By Anick Jesdanun AP Internet Writer NEW YORK - If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit card offers, sweepstakes entries and supermarket fliers. ==========> 04-03-08-PCWorld-ApproachesToSecureAndSpamlessEmail.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115100,00.asp Competing Technologies Shake Up E-Mail How will rival authentication schemes change the way we communicate online? Paul Roberts, IDG News Service Monday, March 08, 2004 Microsoft's recent announcement of a host of initiatives to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, highlighted some tectonic shifts taking place in the once staid world of Internet messaging. The company's announcement was made ==========> 04-03-10-CRN-SixSueSpammersUnderCanSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=48531 AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, Yahoo Tag Team On Antispam Suits E-mail elite use CAN SPAM Act to take their cases to federal courts By Barbara Darrow CRN 11:54 AM EST Wed., Mar. 10, 2004 America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo have collectively filed six lawsuits in four federal courts against companies and individuals that they say ==========> 04-03-10-SJMerc-SixSueSpammersUnderCanSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8151747.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 10, 2004 Internet giants slap hundreds with spam suits San Jose Mercury-News WASHINGTON (AP) - Leading Internet companies, in an unusual joint effort among corporate rivals, announced six lawsuits Wednesday against hundreds of people accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new federal law against ``spam.'' ==========> 04-03-14-BaltoSun-SpammersAreWinning.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-te.spam14mar14,0,3015793.story In e-mail warfare, the spammers are winning By Scott Shane Sun Staff March 14, 2004 By all accounts, Bob Morse is a solid citizen who runs a small wedding video and Web design business in northern California. So why did he send an e-mail peddling hard-core Russian pornography to Francis Uy at the Johns Hopkins ==========> 04-03-15-NewsFact-EmailClusteringCoefficientsAidSpamBlocking.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Can_Social_Networking_Stop_Spa m_&story_id=23355 Can Social Networking Stop Spam? By Mike Martin SCI:TECH March 15, 2004 12:54PM "In social networks, if A knows B, and B knows C, A often knows C also," says UCLA professor P. Oscar Boykin. "Clustering coefficients measure this ==========> 04-03-22-CNETNews-AntiSpamTechCoalitionNotMakingProgress.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5176415.html Technology solution to slicing spam lags By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 22, 2004, 4:00 AM PST Lawsuits filed by some of the Web's biggest players against junk e-mailers have portrayed an industry united in the war against spam--but there are few signs of collaboration in developing technology standards that could be more ==========> 04-03-22-NWWorld-InterviewsWithSpamFighters.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0322spam.html Spam-busters By Steve Ulfelder Network World, 03/22/04 Matthew Prince MIT recently brought together the nation's top spam fighters at its annual anti-spam conference. Network World caught up with some of the speakers and participants. Here are their stories. ==========> 04-03-25-NYT-InstantMessagingUsedToSendSpamAndViruses.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/25/technology/circuits/25mess.html March 25, 2004 When Instant Messages Come Bearing Malice By SANDEEP JUNNARKAR New York Times ICK GROLEAU, a 40-year-old technical manager from Mountain View, Calif., received a message last month from a friend on his AOL Instant Messenger buddy list alerting him that Osama bin Laden had been captured. When he clicked on a ==========> 04-03-26-TechRev-ImposingAComputationalCostOnEmail.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_johansson032604.asp A Better Way To Squelch Spam? An open-source scheme would impose a computational "cost" on junk mailers while leaving legitimate users of e-mail alone. By Eric S. Johansson and Keith Dawson March 26, 2004 Over the past few months, major players in the world of e-mail have proposed ==========> 04-03-30-SJMerc-AOLToGiveAwayPorscheSeizedFromSpammer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8312182.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 30, 2004 AOL to give away 2002 Porsche seized from spammer NEW YORK (AP) - Finally, some payback for all that spam: It's a 2002 Porsche Boxster S that will be the grand prize in an America Online sweepstakes launching Tuesday. ==========> 04-03-31-PennState-NewDigitalPostmarkingInvention.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/ps-nmp033104.php Public release date: 31-Mar-2004 Contact: Barbara Hale bah@psu.edu 814-865-9481 Penn State New marking process traces spammers, pirates and hackers Penn State researchers have proposed a new marking process for Internet ==========> 04-04-00-TechRev-SpemInvadesTextMessaging.txt========== # "Spam to Go" Technology Review (04/04) Vol. 107, No. 3, P. 22; Roush, Wade Spam is invading text messaging, with the volume of spam text messages originating in North America outstripping legitimate messages last year, according to messaging firm Wireless Services. The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and California have all passed laws to try to stem the tide, and Congress has told the Federal Communications Commission to create rules to protect cell phone users from unsolicited text messages, which can cost users money if their carrier charges for messaging. Both wireless companies and ==========> 04-04-01-EUOrders8NationsToAdoptSpamAndCookieLaws.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8330290.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 01, 2004 EU orders eight nations to adopt laws on spam, cookies BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union ordered eight countries Thursday to enact privacy legislation governing ``spam'' e-mail and Internet ``cookies.'' It was the second warning sent to the countries, which have two months to comply or face lawsuits before the European Court of Justice. ==========> 04-04-01-SJMerc-SpammerCarmackConvictedOnFraudCharges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8330264.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 01, 2004 Spammer convicted on fraud charges BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A 37-year-old Buffalo man was convicted by a state court jury of illegally sending more than 825 million junk e-mail messages and using stolen identities to thwart attempts to stop him. After a four-day trial, a jury found Howard H. Carmack guilty on Wednesday of ==========> 04-04-04-SJMerc-TheRiseOfAntiSpamCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/business/8352706.htm Posted on Sun, Apr. 04, 2004 The rise of the spam exterminators By Dan Lee Mercury News Spammers aren't the only ones who see profits in the torrent of unsolicited e-mail pitches sent around the globe each day. ==========> 04-04-04-USAToday-MSNAndHotmailJoinIronPortBondedSenderProgram.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-05-04-msoft_x.htm Posted 5/4/2004 9:58 PM Updated 5/5/2004 5:57 AM MSN, Hotmail fight spam using Bonded Sender By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Microsoft (MSFT) wants spammers to pay a financial penalty for the junk cluttering up your inbox. The Redmond, Wash., giant will endorse a plan today that aims to cut down on spam and help pave the way for legitimate e-mail to get through. ==========> 04-04-07-InfoWeek-SpamhausPlansDotMailDomain.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18900517 Spamhaus Proposal Aims To Stop Spam The spam-figthting organization has applied to ICANN for a .mail top-level domain name it feels would eliminate a large amount of unwanted electronic junk mail. By W. David Gardner, TechWeb News , InformationWeek April 7, 2004 Spamhaus, a leading spam-fighting organization, believes its application for a ==========> 04-04-12-CNETNews-SpamIs10YearsOld.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5189340.html Happy spamiversary By Paul Festa and Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified April 12, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet. ==========> 04-04-12-NetWorld-IETF-MARID-DNSBasedEmailAuthentication.txt========== http://nwfusion.com/news/2004/0412marid.html IETF to lead anti-spam crusade By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 04/12/04 The Internet's premier standards-setting body is making its first attempt to develop messaging technology aimed at reducing the amount of spam flooding corporate e-mail servers. ==========> 04-04-14-SJMerc-MDPassesToughAntiSpamBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8427059.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 14, 2004 Maryland lawmakers approve tough anti-spam bill ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Senders of junk e-mail would face up to a decade in prison and fines as high as $25,000 under a stiff anti-spam bill approved by Maryland lawmakers. The bill, approved late Monday in the final hours of the General Assembly, ==========> 04-04-16-InfoWorld-ExpertsSuggestEmailChanges.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/16/16FEfuturemail_1.html Can e-mail be saved? Battered by junk and reeling under makeshift fixes, e-mail is ripe for reinvention. Here's how six of the industry's most provocative thinkers envision a brighter day By Paul Boutin April 16, 2004 E-mail is the victim of its own backward economics. Anyone can send a message to anyone else postage due; the sender pays almost nothing, while the recipient ==========> 04-04-19-Newsday-SpamKingReadiesClothesLineAndNYLawsuit.txt========== http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-bzspam193764207apr19,0,2393876.s tory?coll=ny-linews-headlines FROM SPAM TO SKIVVIES Will clothing click? BY MARK HARRINGTON STAFF WRITER Newsday April 19, 2004 ==========> 04-04-21-Wired-SendmailsOffersMoneyToComputerOwnersWhoSendSpam.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63146,00.html Cash Cow or Spam Sow? By Amit Asaravala Wired 02:00 AM Apr. 21, 2004 PT A marketing firm that offers people cash in exchange for letting their computers be commandeered to distribute bulk e-mails has come under fire from antispam activists, who say the program is just a cover for a high-tech ==========> 04-04-21-ZDNet-MarketersNotReconcilingEmailListsUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5196362.html Marketers falling short on Can-Spam, study says By Dinesh C. Sharma CNET News.com April 21, 2004, 8:14 AM PT Marketers are not complying fully with a new law designed to stop spam, a Jupiter Research survey has found. ==========> 04-04-27-NYT-SpamProbe-BayseanFilterSpamCatcher.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/science/27ESSA.html April 27, 2004 ESSAY Cognitive Rascal in the Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam By GEORGE JOHNSON The New York Times In Richard Powers's postmodern science fiction "Galatea 2.2," a young novelist, very much like the author, returns from the Netherlands to a Midwestern ==========> 04-04-29-BCentral-SNAM-SpamFromSocialNetworks.txt========== http://www.bcentral.com/articles/fc/article.asp?newsid=4292004techsupport&cobran d=msn&LID=3800&MSID=bb744f302d7b443a88ade5634c8fc02f Networking Overload Scott Kirsner, Fast Company magazine 4.29.2004 Meet "snam," the junk email generated by social networking. I don't know Kenneth Norton, but he's a mere two degrees of separation from me. ==========> 04-04-29-CNETNews-USFindsAndChargesFourUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5201906.html?tag=nefd.top First complaint filed under Can-Spam By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified April 29, 2004, 7:31 AM PDT The Justice Department has filed a criminal complaint against four Detroit-area men under the federal Can-Spam Act, marking the first case sparked by the legislation. ==========> 04-04-29-DetroitNews-FordAndUnisysComputersUsedInIllegalSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8546422.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 29, 2004 MIKE WENDLAND: Ford, Unisys computers had unwitting role BY MIKE WENDLAND Detroit Free Press Four Oakland County, Mich., men have become the first people in the nation to face criminal charges of violating the new federal law against sending spam. ==========> 04-04-29-DetroitNews-USFindsAndChargesFourUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0404/29/a01-137416.htm Thursday, April 29, 2004 Feds charge 4 under spam law Oakland men are first in U.S. accused under new rules. By David Shepardson / The Detroit News Prosecutors charged four West Bloomfield men Wednesday with sending more than a million illegal e-mail messages, the nation’s first case under a new federal law aimed at preventing spam. ==========> 04-04-29-SJMerc-IllegalSpammersCaughtByMoneyTrail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8550909.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 29, 2004 U.S. 'Spam' Sleuthing: Follow the Money TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON - The government's first criminal case under a new law outlawing some types of spam e-mails was based on low-tech investigative methods: Authorities followed the money. ==========> 04-04-29-SJMerc-USFindsAndChargesFourUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8543317.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 29, 2004 U.S. charges four under new anti-spam law TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON - Federal authorities say they managed to pierce the murky underworld of Internet spam e-mails, filing the first criminal charges under the government's new "can spam" legislation. ==========> 04-04-30-DetFreePress-CompanySecurityLapsesAllowedIllegalSpamToBeSent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8556729.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 30, 2004 Spam charges just raise more security questions BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Federal officials were jubilant Thursday about the criminal and civil charges they filed this week against four alleged spammers from Oakland County, Mich. But the spam war has only just begun. ==========> 04-04-30-SJMerc-CompanySecurityLapsesAllowedIllegalSpamToBeSent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8556729.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 30, 2004 Spam charges just raise more security questions BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Federal officials were jubilant Thursday about the criminal and civil charges they filed this week against four alleged spammers from Oakland County, Mich. But the spam war has only just begun. ==========> 04-05-00-ACMQueue-WillSenderPaysStopEmailSpam.txt========== Departments: Letters Sender Pays? May 2004 Queue, Volume 2 Issue 3 Eric Allman, the Curmudgeon author of “The Economics of Spam” (ACM Queue 1(9), December/January 2003-2004), has it just about right regarding why we are deluged in spam: it costs no more for a sender to put out a million messages than one. Given recent statistics (spam allegedly passed 50 percent of all e-mail traffic some time ago), I suspect that the time isn’t too far off before ==========> 04-05-00-IronPort-BondedSenderProgramStandards.txt========== https://www.bondedsender.com/standards.jsp Email Standards Accountability I. Participating Senders must ensure that the mail infrastructure used to send Email Messages is well maintained and operated in a responsible manner. 1. There must be a dedicated IP address(es) for sending Email Messages through the Bonded Sender Program. ==========> 04-05-05-EWeek-MSJoinsIronPortBondedSenderProgram.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1584669,00.asp Microsoft Joins Bonded Sender Program to Stem Spam May 5, 2004 By Dennis Fisher Searching for a way to stem the tide of spam flooding its customers' inboxes, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce that it has joined a program that certifies e-mail senders as legitimate and requires them to post a financial bond guaranteeing their continued good behavior. ==========> 04-05-05-Slashdot-IronPortBondedSenderProgramMayBeTooRestrictive.txt========== http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106463&cid=9062428 The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Good luck getting bonded... I tried! (Score:5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 05, @09:01AM (#9062428) I am an engineer in charge of a large email system. We send millions of emails per week to our members. I have contacts in the top 10 ISP's and we're on no RBL's of consequence (the big 10 RBL's are clean, we are not concerned about ==========> 04-05-07-NewsFact-SecureEPostmarkAtBorderRoutersMightSolveSpamProblem.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=E-Postmark-May-Thwart-Cyber-Cr ooks&story_id=23940 E-Postmark May Thwart Cyber Crooks By Mike Martin SCI:TECH May 7, 2004 6:00PM "Right now, none of the ISPs or router vendors is motivated to act, because Microsoft has promised to solve the spam problem by 2006," Penn State professor ==========> 04-05-10-PittsPostGazette-IssuesInStoppingSpam.txt========== http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04131/314021.stm Drowning in spam: New techniques focus on identifying senders Monday, May 10, 2004 By Byron Spice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Everyone on the Internet used to be friends. Take it from Dave Farber, a computer networking guru who was on the scene when the forerunner of today's Internet was being established. ==========> 04-05-11-ZDNet-IronPortReceivesTempRestainingOrder.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5210518.html Judge ties antispammer's hands By Stefanie Olsen CNET News.com May 11, 2004, 2:30 PM PT A Northern California District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an antispam operation, from interfering with messages sent by alleged junk e-mailer OptInRealBig.com. ==========> 04-05-14-TheReg-SpamFightersInfiltrateSpamClubs.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/14/spam_club/ Spam fighters infiltrate spam clubs By John Leyden Published Friday 14th May 2004 15:10 GMT Spam fighters are gaining vital clues in the battle to keep in-boxes clean of junk mail by infiltrating spammer clubs. Online spammer forums like the Pro Bulk Club the Bulk Club and bulkmails.org ==========> 04-05-18-TechNewsWorld-SpamFilteringNeedsNewTechniquesToStopBlockingWantedEmail.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/networking/33843.html Fine-Tuning Spam Filtering By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld 05/18/04 6:30 AM PT The spam crackdown is causing headaches for companies, such as newsletter publishers, that ship large volumes of legitimate e-mail. Because of the crackdown on spam, these companies are seeing spikes in the number of ==========> 04-05-20-CBROnLine-FBIPlansCanSpamActProsecutions.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/287e0ff7c880917b80256e9b0032e26a CAN-SPAM Not Working, But FBI Poised to Bust Gangs By Kevin Murphy Spammers and anti-spammers don't think the US CAN-SPAM Act is working, but for different reasons, it emerged during a Congressional hearing yesterday, at which the FBI also said it is closing in on spam gangs with potential ties to organized crime. ==========> 04-05-20-ZDNet-FBIPlansCanSpamActProsecutions.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5217299.html FBI plans spammer smackdown By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com May 20, 2004, 3:55 PM PT It's been nearly six months since President Bush signed the first federal spam law with criminal sanctions--and not one bulk e-mailer has been criminally charged under it so far. ==========> 04-05-21-WashPost-SenateCommHearsMixedReviewsOfUSAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43622-2004May20.html Senate Hears Mixed Reviews of Anti-Spam Law Some Say Consumers Need More Protection By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 21, 2004; Page E05 Since he first testified before Congress a year ago, bulk e-mailer Ronald Scelson has been driven literally underground. ==========> 04-05-24-CNETNews-ComcastUsersMajorSpammersViaCompromisedComputers.txt========== http://news.com.com/Attack+of+Comcast's+Internet+zombies/2010-1034_3-5218178.htm l?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies By Declan McCullagh Story last modified May 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers have long been rumored to be an unusually persistent source of junk e-mail. ==========> 04-05-26-CNetNews-PornSpammersIgnoreCanSpamLaw.txt========== http://news.com.com/Porn+spammers+ignore+new+rule/2100-1028_3-5220850.html?tag=n efd.top Porn spammers ignore new rule By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified May 26, 2004, 9:10 AM PDT Spammers flooding the Internet with pornographic solicitations apparently are not abiding by a new federal rule that took effect last week. ==========> 04-05-27-SJMerc-SpammerCarmackSentencedTo7YearsInPrison.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8776461.htm Posted on Thu, May. 27, 2004 Spammer sentenced to seven years in prison BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced to up to seven years in prison on Thursday. Atlanta-based Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. said it hoped the ==========> 04-05-31-LATimes-SpamCloggingIM-InternetLogs-CellPhones.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-spam31may31,1,5026247.story May 31, 2004 Spam's Assault Going Beyond Annoying E-Mail Unwelcome e-ads now clog instant messaging systems, Internet logs and cellphones. By Chris Gaither, Times Staff Writer Within weeks of Ed Harwood's fatal motorcycle crash, the memorial website for the charismatic copywriter from England who called himself "Fatso" was filled ==========> 04-06-00-CACM-EmailMarketingIsGoodButSpammersLootItsPotential.txt========== Should spam be on the menu? Janice C. Sipior, Burke T. Ward, P. Gregory Bonner June 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 6 Email marketing is an excellent, low-cost way to reach consumers, but spammers are currently looting much of its potential. The challenge is to develop an email marketing process that is consensual, efficient, and constitutional. For direct marketing, email is a unique medium, offering a low-cost means to ==========> 04-06-00-Discover-TimeToStartChargingToSendEmail.txt========== http://www.discover.com/issues/jun-04/departments/emerging-technology/ Emerging Technology Winning the War on Spam Digital environmentalists devise a clever strategy for bankrupting junk mail purveyors By Steven Johnson DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 06 | June 2004 | Technology If you’ve maintained the same e-mail address for more than a few months, you ==========> 04-06-08-Salon-SpambotsAttack-IM-Blogs-Chat-CellPhones.txt========== # "Invasion of the Spambots" Salon.com (06/08/04); Williams, Sam Spambots are mutating into numerous varieties that relentlessly penetrate new areas, such as instant messaging, blogs, chat rooms, and cell phones, and these mutations are being driven by two antithetical online publishing trends: Growing homogeneity in the use of Google and other basic software tools, and increasingly specialized content. These new, indirect techniques are designed for the purpose of enhancing visibility rather than solicitation or receipt confirmation, in the hopes that popular search engines such as Google will ==========> 04-06-08-UMich-ABMProposalWouldChargeSpammersToReceiveEmail.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/uom-pog060804.php Public release date: 8-Jun-2004 Pay or go away: What would spammers do? ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A penny for your thoughts would take on a new meaning if spammers were charged for every e-mail message they sent. University of Michigan researchers have a proposal to do just that. Here's how it would work: Internet users would be allowed to set a price at ==========> 04-06-09-WSJ-ISPsProposeEmailAuthenticationSchemes.txt========== # "Subject: No More Spam From Fakes" Wall Street Journal (06/09/04) P. D9; Richmond, Riva Spammers, malware authors, and ID thieves' notorious practice of tagging bogus names to their emails in order to entice users into opening them as well as circumvent block lists could be stymied by a collaborative effort between Microsoft, Yahoo!, America Online, and others to devise standard sender authentication technologies. Internet companies note that an authentication scheme would enable them to filter out suspicious names for closer examination or blocking, as well as help them trace and prosecute miscreants. Technologies ==========> 04-06-10-WashTimes-MSSues200AccusedSpammersUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://washingtontimes.com/business/20040610-105844-5169r.htm Microsoft sues 200 accused 'spammers' By Tim Lemke THE WASHINGTON TIMES Microsoft Corp. has filed suit against nearly 200 people accused of sending millions of fraudulent, unwanted e-mail messages, including one Florida man considered to be among the worst "spammers" in the world. The Redmond, Wash., company, in an effort to slow the a barrage of junk ==========> 04-06-11-TheReg-MSSues200AccusedSpammersUnderCanSpamAct.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/11/200_spammers/ MS sues 200 for spamming By Lucy Sherriff Published Friday 11th June 2004 10:10 GMT Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits in the US against nearly 200 accused spammers, saying that the defendants had used false information to conceal themselves, and had deceived consumers. Each of the lawsuits "names" at least 20 unidentified defendants, as well as one John Hites, identified by anti-spam ==========> 04-06-14-USAToday-FutureOfEmailInDoubt.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-14-email_x.htm Posted 6/14/2004 10:19 PM Updated 6/15/2004 12:53 AM Is the future of e-mail under cyberattack? By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — For years, consumers and corporations raved about e-mail's potential. Now they're fretting about its future. ==========> 04-06-15-FTC-FTCSaysDoNotSpamListNotCurrentlyFeasible.txt========== http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/canspam2.htm For Release: June 15 , 2004 New System to Verify Origins of E-Mail Must Emerge Before “Do Not Spam” List Can Be Implemented, FTC Tells Congress The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress that, at the present time, a National Do Not Email Registry would fail to reduce the amount of spam consumers receive, might increase it, and could not be enforced effectively. In a report filed in response to a statutory mandate, the FTC also said that ==========> 04-06-15-InfoWorld-FTCSaysDoNotSpamListNotCurrentlyFeasible.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/15/HNdonotspam_1.html FTC won't create do-not-spam list List would likely cause more spam, FTC chairman Timothy Muris claims By Grant Gross, IDG News Service June 15, 2004 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will not immediately start a national do-not-e-mail list, despite a law passed last year that calls for the agency to develop a plan for such a list. ==========> 04-06-15-NYT-FTCSaysDoNotSpamListNotCurrentlyFeasible.txt========== http://nytimes.com/2004/06/16/technology/16spam.html June 16, 2004 Federal Agency Declines to Create Do-Not-Spam Registry By SAUL HANSELL The Federal Trade Commission declared yesterday that a "do not e-mail list" modeled after the immensely popular "do not call list" would not be effective, suggesting such a list might help spammers find legitimate e-mail addresses. ==========> 04-06-16-WashPost-FTCSaysDoNotSpamListNotCurrentlyFeasible.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44642-2004Jun15.html FTC Rejects Creation of No-Spam Registry Agency Says List Would Be Ineffective By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 16, 2004; Page A01 The Federal Trade Commission yesterday rejected as unworkable a do-not-spam list to stop unwanted e-mail, despite the popularity and success of a similar ==========> 04-06-17-CNETNews-VintCerf-EmailAuthenticationNeededToStopSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5238202.htmlNet visionary urges e-mail ID standard By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified June 17, 2004, 3:55 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO--Making mass e-mailers identifiable is the first step toward curing the epidemic of spam, said Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the Internet. ==========> 04-06-18-ITMgmt-MostITManagersSaySpamIsAMajorProblem.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3370431IT and End Users Differ on Spam Severity June 18, 2004 By Sharon Gaudin IT Management While slightly more than half of end users say spam isn't a problem, nearly 80 percent of IT managers say it's a problem that they're struggling with, according to a new study. ==========> 04-06-21-PCWorld-SpammersFindALotToLikeInAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116557,00.asp Spam Slayer PC World Senior Writer Tom Spring discusses the latest trends in spam and gives you the tips and tools for getting rid of it. Spammers Find More to Love in Antispam Law Do Not E-Mail registry was doomed from the start, because it faces different hurdles than the Do Not Call registry. Tom Spring, PC World Monday, June 21, 2004 ==========> 04-06-22-MSNBC-MostSpamSentFromHijackedComputers-SpywareUsedToPersonalizeSpam.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5269732/Spam-sending PCs could be kicked offline Meanwhile, spammers now personalize e-mails, thanks to spyware By Bob Sullivan Technology correspondent MSNBC Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET June 22, 2004 On a day when a spam-fighting firm revealed it had discovered a disturbing new tactic used by spammers, the nation's largest ISPs announced a set of radical ==========> 04-06-23-INetWeek-ISPsPlanToVerifyEmailSenderIdentity.txt========== http://www.internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22101438 Major ISPs Look To Sender Authentication To Block Spam By Mitch Wagner, Security Pipeline An alliance including Microsoft, America Online, Yahoo and Earthlink on Tuesday endorsed sender authentication as part of an array of best practices for fighting spam. "Really, what this is about is taking the anonymity out of e-mail," said Ken Hickman, senior director for mail platforms at Yahoo. ==========> 04-06-23-SJMerc-AOLEmployeeSells92MScreenNamesToSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8994846.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 23, 2004 Two charged with selling 92 million AOL screen names San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. ==========> 04-06-23-SJMerc-ISPsPlanToVerifyEmailSenderIdentity.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8992322.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 23, 2004 Anti-spam plan forged by e-mail firms TWO METHODS WOULD VERIFY IDENTITY OF SENDER By Dan Lee Mercury News An alliance of some of the world's largest e-mail providers unveiled a plan Tuesday to slow the torrent of spam that now accounts for well more than half ==========> 04-06-28-MS-GatesToutsMSAntiSpamTechnology.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2004/06-28antispam-print.asp June 28, 2004 Preserving and Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A Progress Report I'd like to update you on the progress that Microsoft and our industry are making to curb the epidemic of junk email. Since I sent a message to customers on this subject a year ago, we've made significant advances against spam. It's still a major problem — an invasion of privacy, a costly drain on time and resources and, as a carrier of worms and viruses, a significant threat to ==========> 04-06-29-CNETNews-ComcastSpamDrops35PercentAfterBlockingPort25.txt========== http://news.com.com/Comcast+reports+35+percent+decline+in+spam/2100-1038_3-52519 09.html?tag=nefd.hed Comcast reports 35 percent decline in spam By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified June 29, 2004, 12:27 PM PDT Cable giant Comcast on Thursday said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 percent since it blocked an e-mail loophole weeks ago. ==========> 04-06-30-MSNBC-FTCConsidersBountySystemToCombatSpammers.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5326107/ FTC mulls bounty system to combat spammers Plan would pay citizen detectives at least 20 percent of civil penalty By Mike Brunker Reporter MSNBC Updated: 10:04 a.m. ET June 30, 2004 With no indication that a six-month-old federal spam law is lowering the tide of unwanted commercial e-mail, the Federal Trade Commission is considering a ==========> 04-07-06-SJMerc-UN-ITUAimsToControlSpamWithinTwoYears.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9090561.htm Posted on Tue, Jul. 06, 2004 U.N. aims to bring spam under control within two years GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations is aiming to bring a ``modern day epidemic'' of junk e-mail under control within two years by standardizing legislation to make it easier to prosecute offenders, a leading expert said Tuesday. ``(We have) an epidemic on our hands that we need to learn how to control,'' ==========> 04-07-07-SJMerc-BusinessCommunityNeedsToBeMoreInvolvedInSpamFight.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9096128.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 07, 2004 Businesses must lead spam fight By Miguel Helft Last year, Congress promised to get tough on spam and passed the CAN-SPAM Act. It may as well be called the You Can Spam Act. This paper tiger gives spammers a license to spam, as long as they follow a few ==========> 04-07-09-SJMerc-MortgageIndustryShouldFightSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9114572.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 09, 2004 Mortgage industry should fight spam By Mike Langberg Mercury News Mortgage brokers and bankers are waist-deep in a pit of spam, and they're not doing anything to climb out. ==========> 04-07-20-DenverPost-NewYorkAGSettlesSuitAgainstSpammerRichter.txt========== http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2282328,00.html Article Published: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 N.Y. AG settles spamming suit By Julie Dunn Denver Post Staff Writer New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Monday quietly settled his lawsuit against Westminster e-mail advertiser Scott Richter for $50,000 - after originally seeking $20 million. ==========> 04-07-30-SJMerc-FTCSettlesWithPopUpAdCompanyDSquaredSolutions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9283573.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 30, 2004 FTC settles with pop-up ad company GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A San Diego company has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. D Squared Solutions LLC, a company created by two college students, reached a ==========> 04-07-31-EWeek-InaugralMSAcademicConferenceOnEmailAndSpam.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1629929,00.asp Academics Enlist in Spam Battle July 31, 2004 By Matt Hicks EWeek MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Watch out spammers. Academic researchers are raring for battle. ==========> 04-08-04-CNETNews-FCCRulesMobilePhoneSpamNeedsConsent.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5296649.html Wireless spam draws regulators' wrath By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com August 4, 2004, 10:34 AM PT The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to outlaw spam sent to mobile devices, but warned that unsolicited text messages would not be covered by the ban. ==========> 04-08-04-InetNews-IETFPlansToNominateMSsSenderIDAsAStandard.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3390221 IETF Prepares To Forward Sender ID By Jim Wagner August 4, 2004 Internet News The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is set to nominate Sender ID -- a consolidated e-mail address anti-spoofing technology -- as an Internet standard during its working group meeting Wednesday. ==========> 04-08-05-InfoWeek-FCCRulesMobilePhoneSpamNeedsConsent.txt========== http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806218 FCC Tries To Make Mobile Spam Opt In By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Aug. 5, 2004 The commission ruled that senders of commercial E-mail messages need to get consent to send them to mobile phones and pagers. The FCC ruled Wednesday that senders of unsolicited commercial E-mail may not ==========> 04-08-05-InfoWeek-MXLogicSaysCan-SpamLawMassivelyIgnored.txt========== http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806194 Can-Spam Isn't Doing The Job Data compiled by MX Logic says less than 1% of all unsolicited E-mail complies with the law. By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News, InformationWeek Aug. 5, 2004 Compliance with the Can-Spam Act has fallen to a new low, according to recent data collected by MX Logic. In July, compliance fell for the first time to less ==========> 04-08-05-NYT-SpamFilterFalsePositivesCreateProblems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/technology/circuits/05filt.html August 5, 2004 Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby. By KATIE HAFNER New York Times LIKE many people these days, Jason Kim and Linda Crasco rely heavily on e-mail for their work, running a small educational research and evaluation company in Norwood, Mass. And like many people, they get plenty of spam, some 400 pieces ==========> 04-08-05-Wired-FCCRulesMobilePhoneSpamNeedsConsent.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64470,00.html FCC Takes on Spam, Copying By Michael Grebb 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2004 PT Wired WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission moved Wednesday to excise some spam messages from wireless devices and approved 13 technologies to work with the new "broadcast flag" protections planned for digital TV signals. ==========> 04-08-11-INetNews-MSFacesLawsuitOverCallerIDForEmail.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3393891 August 11, 2004 Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Caller ID for E-Mail By Jim Wagner A new patent battle is brewing -- this time over Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) claim over Caller ID for E-Mail. F. Scott Deaver, owner of Failsafe Designs, says Microsoft is guilty of the ==========> 04-08-18-TechNewsWorld-SpamAndVirusesBeingCombined.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/35925.html Convergence Quagmire: Viruses with Spam By Jay Lyman TechNewsWorld 08/18/04 10:52 AM PT MessageLabs said that while the motivations of virus writers and spammers have historically been very different, the two have come together with one purpose: profit. "Virus writers and spammers are combining their skill sets to produce a ==========> 04-08-19-NewSci-DNASearchingTechniqueIdentifiesSpam.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996292 DNA technique protects against 'evil' emails 11:34 19 August 04 A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam. ==========> 04-08-23-CNETNews-EmailAuthenticationTechniquesWillStopSpammers.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5316964.html Stopping spam at the source By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified August 23, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT New antispam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most--their wallets. ==========> 04-08-23-PCWorld-LatestSpamTrendsAndSolutions.txt========== http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117464,00.asp Spam Slayer PC World Senior Writer Tom Spring discusses the latest trends in spam and gives you the tips and tools for getting rid of it. The Fog of Spam War Assessing our progress in the battle for control of our in-boxes. Tom Spring, PC World Monday, August 23, 2004 ==========> 04-09-00-ACMNetWorker-SMSMessagesAndSpam.txt========== NetNews: The more things change... Dennis Fowler September 2004 netWorker, Volume 8 Issue 3 SMS and Spam But then, maybe as the Chinese get a handle on monitoring SMS traffic, they will come up with a solution for SMS spam, now that it is becoming more and more of a problem in areas where cell phone text messaging is popular. ==========> 04-09-00-InetWeek-ApacheDeclinesMSLicensingDemandsForSenderID.txt========== http://www.internetweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=46200901 Apache Balks At Microsoft's Licensing Demands For Anti-Spam Standard By TechWeb.com Sept. 2004 The Apache Software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web server, said on Thursday that it wouldn't support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID, because the licensing terms set by Microsoft Corp. are too strict. ==========> 04-09-08-SJMerc-DG-S2603WouldEnableJunkFaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9607090.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 08, 2004 Bad legislation threatening privacy, innovation, accounting By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Uh-oh. The U.S. Congress is back in session this week, and it's up to serious mischief in the arenas of privacy, innovation and corporate accounting. In each case, powerful interests are backing bad legislation. ==========> 04-09-11-SPF-SenderPolicyFrameworkForEMailAntiForgery.txt========== http://spf.pobox.com/ SPF: Sender Policy Framework The Anti-Forgery solution That's making the world a Safer place for email. Sept. 11, 2004 SMTP + SPF Sender Policy Framework ==========> 04-09-21-WSJ-ReportsOnSpamLevelsPaintDifferingViews.txt========== # "Reports on Spam Levels Paint Differing Views of the Problem" Wall Street Journal (ONLINE) (09/21/04); Bialik, Carl; Creighton, Deborah S. Accurately measuring the extent of the spam problem and the effectiveness of strategies to combat it is complicated by inconsistent statistical reports on the volume of junk email, and the fact that the most oft-cited reports are furnished by antispam software vendors. An August estimate by MessageLabs determined that spam constituted 84 percent of all email, while a report from Brightmail indicated 66 percent. Meanwhile, FrontBridge Technologies and Brightmail claim that the spam problem continues to expand, while AOL contends ==========> 04-09-22-EWeek-DisagreementsCauseIETFToDissolveAntiSpamWorkingGroup.txt========== "Internet Task Force Shuts Down Anti-Spam Working Group" eWeek (09/22/04); Seltzer, Larry The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has dissolved the MTA Authorization Records in DNS (MARID) working group because of disagreement on fundamental issues, such as Microsoft's claims of copyright over technologies in mail authentication standards the group was considering. Creating such a standard as a countermeasure against spam, mail worms, and other forms of email exploitation was MARID's goal. Open source proponents and others refused to agree to the licensing terms Microsoft proposed, calling them excessive and ==========> 04-09-24-ChronHigherEd-IsOpenSourceSoftwareASolutionToSpam.txt========== # "Is Open-Source Software a Solution to Spam?" Chronicle of Higher Education (09/24/04) Vol. 51, No. 5, P. B8; Kiernan, Vincent Many higher-education institutions are adopting open-source antispam software because it is free and easy to adapt and integrate with other software already in use. Analyst Fred Cohen observes that research-intensive institutions often opt for open-source software because they have the technical expertise to deploy and support the software, while larger institutions with less technically savvy staff are more inclined to purchase commercial antispam products. Some college officials prefer outsourcing the installation and ==========> 04-09-24-DMNNews-MSSuesCheapBulletProofForHostingSpammers.txt========== http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=30503 Microsoft Spam Suit Targets 'Bulletproof' Hosting Service Sept. 24, 2004 By: Brian Morrissey Senior Editor DMN News bmorrissey@dmnews.com Microsoft expanded the scope of its spam litigation with a lawsuit against a ==========> 04-09-24-TheReg-MSSuesCheapBulletProofForHostingSpammers.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/ms_anti-spam_lawsuit/ MS fires armour-piercing suit at 'bullet-proof' spam host By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 24th September 2004 11:47 GMT The Register Microsoft has fired off nine new lawsuits against spammers including an action against a web hosting firm that allegedly offered so-called "bullet proof" hosting to junk mailers. ==========> 04-09-30-USACM-OECDCreatesSpamTaskForce.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.9 (September 30, 2004) =================================================== The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently created a task force to coordinate the fight against spam. OECD countries have set up the task force to "marshal the efforts of government, business and civil society in the most comprehensive, strategic and inclusive response to date to the problems posed by unsolicited e-mail messages, or spam. Spam undermines user trust ==========> 04-10-00-IEEEComp-RejectionNotificationMightSlowSpam.txt========== http://www.computer.org/computer/homepage/1004/whitworth/index.htm Spam and the Social-Technical Gap Brian Whitworth, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Whitworth, Carleton University IEEE Computer October 2004 A Ferris Research report estimated that in 2003, unsolicited and unwanted e-mail, or spam, cost US companies $10 billion in lost productivity. A Sunbelt ==========> 04-10-05-NewsShopper-HornimanMuseumConfusedWithPornSpam.txt========== http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/lewgreennews/display.var.533121.0.name_of_muse um_is_confused_with_porn.php Name of museum is confused with porn 11:43am Tuesday 5th October 2004 NewsShopper By Adrian Kwintner HUNDREDS of emails from the Horniman Museum have been bounced back by computer servers misreading the sender as the horny-man museum. ==========> 04-10-18-BaltoSun-TechFirmsAndLawmakersTargetSpamAndFraud.txt========== # "Tech Firms, Lawmakers Target Spam, E-Mail Fraud" Baltimore Sun (10/18/04) P. 1A; Bishop, Tricia Spam and email fraud have entered the crosshairs of legislators and technology companies, making Bill Gates' prediction that spam would be eliminated by 2006 seem less unlikely now. "I think you'll see some real changes within three years," declares Pew Internet and American Life Project researcher Deborah Fallows. The general consensus among experts is that spam now accounts for 70 percent to 80 percent of all email, compared to approximately 10 percent three years ago. Meanwhile, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that ==========> 04-10-28-SJmerc-AolSuesInstantMessagingSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10038927.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 28, 2004 AOL sues IM spammers San Jose Mercury News SEATTLE (AP) - America Online Inc. said Thursday it had filed a federal lawsuit accusing numerous unnamed defendants of violating federal and state laws by sending bulk messages known as ``spim'' to instant message accounts and Internet chat rooms. ==========> 04-11-01-NetWorld-SenderIDAuthenticationHitsRoadblocks.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/110104emailside.html Sender authentication hits roadblocks By Cara Garretson Network World, 11/01/04 Sender authentication won't completely rid e-mail in-boxes of spam and phishing. Yet technology has emerged as a useful tool in fighting e-mail abuses by giving recipients some clue as to who is sending them messages. ==========> 04-11-01-NetWorld-SpamAndPhishingThreatenEmail.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/110104email.html E-mail at a crossroads Spam, phishing and other abuses are threatening to undermine confidence in the Internet. What will it take to solve the crisis before it's too late? By Cara Garretson Network World, 11/01/04 E-mail is arguably the most pervasive application on the Internet, but it's under attack by an onslaught of abuses that are eroding its usefulness. If not ==========> 04-11-11-WashPost-EmailAuthenticationWillNotEndSpamAndFraud.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41460-2004Nov10.html E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page E01 For consumers and businesses increasingly shaken by the growing onslaught of unwanted e-mail and the computer viruses and other nefarious hacking spam can bring, any hope for quick relief was soundly dashed yesterday during a ==========> 04-11-14-SJMerc-VirginiaSuccessfullyProsecutesSpammer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10182453.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 14, 2004 Trial Shows How Spammers Operate MATTHEW BARAKAT San Jose Mercury Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. - As one of the world's most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed ==========> 04-11-15-SJMerc-YahooOffersEmailVerificationAntiSpamService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10186677.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 15, 2004 Yahoo rolls out anti-spam technology IT'S ALSO INCREASING SIZE OF MAILBOXES By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Yahoo is flipping the switch today on a homegrown anti-spam technology that will help verify the origin of e-mail messages. ==========> 04-11-30-CNETNews-LycosEuropePlansSpamDDoSCounterattacks.txt========== http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39126203 ,00.htm Spammers targeted with DDoS attack Dan Ilett ZDNet UK November 30, 2004 Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' websites - a tactic more commonly ==========> 04-12-00-CACM-SpammingPhishingAuthenticationAndPrivacy.txt========== Inside risks: Spamming, phishing, authentication, and privacy Steven M. Bellovin December 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 12 It isn't news to most readers that email is becoming almost unusable. Unsolicited commercial email (spam) peddles a variety of dubious products, ranging from pharmaceuticals to abandoned bank accounts. The so-called "phishers'' try to steal user names and passwords for online banking. And then, we have viruses, worms, and other malware. Although there are would-be ==========> 04-12-01-ZDNet-LycosEuropePlansAntiSpamDDoSCounterattacks.txt========== http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39175584,00.htm Lycos should send its zombie army home Leader ZDNet UK December 01, 2004, 13:25 GMT We all hate spammers, and few of us would shed a tear should some unfortunate fate befall them. Our knee-jerk reaction, therefore, is to laud Lycos for developing its screen saver that launches distributed denial-of-service attacks ==========> 04-12-03-SJMerc-LycosEuropeHaltsAntiSpamDDoSCounterattacks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10333807.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 03, 2004 Lycos Europe halts anti-spam counterattacks San Jose Mercury NEW YORK (AP) - The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility. ==========> 04-12-06-NetCraft-LycosEuropeLaunchesSpamDDoSCounterattacks.txt========== http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/01/spam_sites_crippled_by_lycos_screen saver_ddos.html Lycos should send its zombie army home NetCraft Dec. 6 ,2004 Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS Performance A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by users of Lycos Europe's MakeLoveNotSpam.com screensaver has succeeded in crippling several ==========> 04-12-13-NetWorld-USAntiSpamLawHasMixedResults.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/121304canspam.html Federal anti-spam law gets mixed results A year after CAN-SPAM's passage, unsolicited e-mail has not been reduced. By Cara Garretson Network World, 12/13/04 The first federal law targeting spam has done little to unclutter in-boxes, dissuade spammers or make the Internet a safer place; in fact the problem is only getting worse. However, the law has created a framework for prosecuting ==========> 04-12-14-SJMerc-MDAntSpamLawOverturned-ViolatesCommerceClause.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10414601.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 14, 2004 Judge rules Maryland's anti-spam law unconstitutional ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A state judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law -- the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail -- is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders. Last week's ruling, which threw out a lawsuit against a New York e-mail ==========> 04-12-21-SJMerc-JudgeRejectsGuiltyPleaInAOLSpamCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10468604.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 21, 2004 Judge rejects guilty plea in AOL spam case NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge refused to accept a guilty plea Tuesday from a former America Online software engineer accused of stealing 92 million e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers. Judge Alvin Hellerstein of Manhattan federal court said he was not convinced ==========> 04-12-27-PCWorld-2004WasGoodAndBadForSecurity.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119031,00.asp 2004: Good and Bad for Security From a sharp increase in phishing scams to high-profile arrests, here's what made news this year. Paul Roberts, IDG News Service Monday, December 27, 2004 PC World Experts agree: 2004 was the best of times and the worst of times for those ==========> 04-12-28-SJMerc-AOLReports50PercentDropInSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10512618.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 28, 2004 AOL reports drop in junk e-mail TURNAROUND CLAIM AS SPAM VOLUME GROWS GLOBALLY By Michael Bazeley Mercury News America Online said Monday that the amount of junk e-mail flowing into its network and landing in its users' mailboxes dropped dramatically this year, ==========> 05-01-03-InvestBusDaily-SecurityRemainsInternetTroubleSpot.txt========== # "Security Issues Linger as Net's Trouble Spot" Investor's Business Daily (01/03/05) P. A9; Howell, Donna IT security teams employ stronger defenses against threats, but viruses, spam, phishing schemes, and other Internet-borne attacks are growing more dangerous. Spam now makes up nine out of 10 email messages compared to just seven out of 10 messages one year ago, according to FrontBridge Technologies. Firms have begun using spam-filtering services instead of spam-filtering software hosted on their own servers because such services are updated to new threats faster; outsourced spam filtering providers are able to view all their customers' email ==========> 05-01-03-MXLogic-USAntiSpamLawHasMixedResults.txt========== http://www.mxlogic.com/news_events/01_03_05.html ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CAN-SPAM ACT, MX LOGIC REPORTS 97 PERCENT OF 2004 SPAM FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW MXLogic Jan. 3, 2005 -Spam, Other Email Threats Will Continue to Increase in 2005- DENVER—January 3, 2005—MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for businesses, ==========> 05-01-03-WashPost-USAntiSpamLawHasMixedResults.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44124-2005Jan3?language=printer One Year After Law, Spam Still Out of the Can By David McGuire washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Monday, January 3, 2005; 8:50 AM The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages. ==========> 05-01-04-SJMerc-SpamKingAgreesToStopPendingFTCLawsuit.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10563242.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 04, 2005 'Spam King' agrees to stop until FTC lawsuit is resolved CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the ``Spam King'' will stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved. Stanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net Inc. of Richboro, Pa., and ==========> 05-01-04-WashPost-USAntiSpamLawHasMixedResults.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2005Jan3.html A Year After Legislation, Spam Still Widespread Technology Seen as Best Deterrent By David McGuire Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, January 4, 2005; Page E05 The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail produced mixed results after a year on the books, inspiring some Internet service providers to take ==========> 05-01-06-MS-MSOffersFreeVirusAndAntiSpywarePrograms.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta): Overview Published: January 6, 2005 Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware, including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your ==========> 05-01-11-SJMerc-FTCWinsApprovalToShutDownPornSpammers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10618466.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005 FTC moves to stop X-rated spamming WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won a court order to shut down illegal advertising for six companies accused of profiting from thousands of X-rated e-mails directing people to their online pornography sites in the government's first legal case involving adult Internet spam. ==========> 05-01-14-SJMerc-TexasAGSuesStudentSpammer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10645433.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 14, 2005 Texas Attorney Gen. Sues Student Spammer BRANDI GRISSOM Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas - The state attorney general filed a lawsuit against a 22-year-old college student and his business partner, accusing them of illegally sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited, misleading e-mails. ==========> 05-01-25-SJMerc-SpammersSettleWithEarthlinkForUndisclosedSum.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/10730432.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 25, 2005 EarthLink wins agreement to end spam operation San Jose Mercury ATLANTA (AP) - Two members of an alleged spamming ring paid Earthlink an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit, agreeing also to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the Internet service provider said. ==========> 05-02-01-NYT-USAntiSpamLawHasPoorResults.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/210161_spam01.html Tuesday, February 1, 2005 Despite U.S. law, the spam flows on Up to 80 percent of all e-mail might be junk; offshore firms targeted By TOM ZELLER JR. THE NEW YORK TIMES A year after a sweeping federal anti-spam law went into effect, there is more junk e-mail on the Internet than ever, and Levon Gillespie, according to ==========> 05-02-02-SJMerc-StoppingSpamAtEmailAddressCollectionStage.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10797707.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 02, 2005 Spam fighter has a Honey Pot of an idea STOP SCOURGE AT THE SOURCE INSTEAD OF YOUR IN-BOX By Miguel Helft San Jose Mercury Matthew Prince apologized that he couldn't hang around for long after his presentation. He had to catch a plane back to the Sundance Film Festival. Yet ==========> 05-02-04-WashPost-SendingSpamFromISPComputersDefeatsBlacklistUse.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61901-2005Feb3.html Spammers' New Strategy Unsolicited E-Mail Sent Using ISP Computers By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 4, 2005; Page E01 An advanced spamming technique could push the volume of unwanted e-mail to new heights in coming months, straining the integrity of the online communication ==========> 05-02-05-SJMerc-ExAOLEmployeePleadsGuiltyInSpamCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10827690.htm Posted on Sat, Feb. 05, 2005 Ex-AOL worker pleads guilty in spam case By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press San Jose Mercury NEW YORK - A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling ==========> 05-02-07-NewSci-HoneypotToCatchSpamEmailAddressHarvesters.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6955 Project Honeypot aims to trap spammers 10:29 07 February 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Celeste Biever, Boston A blow-by-blow account of how one of the world's most prolific senders of spam email was tracked down and prosecuted had an audience of spam fighters on the edge of their seats last week. ==========> 05-02-07-SJMerc-EUCountriesToCoordinateAntiSpamActivities.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10839026.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 07, 2005 EU countries to coordinate anti-spam activities San Jose Mercury BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union head office called for closer coordination Monday among all member governments to hunt down and prosecute those illegally spreading unsolicited e-mails across the 25-nation bloc. ==========> 05-02-10-InetNews-MSAndPfizerJoinToBattleOnlineDrugSales.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3482321 February 10, 2005 Microsoft and Pfizer After Viagra Spammers By Tim Gray INternet News Pfizer (Quote, Chart) and Microsoft (Quote, Chart) have filed parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy rings hawking generic versions of the pharmaceutical giant's erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. ==========> 05-02-10-InfoWeek-MSAndPfizerJoinToBattleOnlineDrugSales.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60300237 Microsoft, Pfizer Sue Viagra Spammers Microsoft and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer join forces to file 17 lawsuits against a pair of pharmacy spam rings running sites that allegedly sell generic Viagra. By TechWeb News Feb. 10, 2005 Microsoft and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer joined forces Thursday to file 17 ==========> 05-02-10-WashPost-MSAndPfizerJoinToBattleOnlineDrugSales.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12618-2005Feb9.html Microsoft, Pfizer Join to Battle Online Drugstores By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Thursday, February 10, 2005; Page E01 Politics, it seems, is not the only thing that spawns unusual couples. E-mail spam is having a similar effect. ==========> 05-02-11-BosGlobe-MSAndPfizerJoinToBattleOnlineDrugSales.txt========== http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/11/microsoft_pfizer_t arget_fake_viagra_spammers/ Microsoft, Pfizer target fake Viagra spammers Firms launch legal battle against sellers By Christopher Rowland, Boston Globe Staff | February 11, 2005 Looking to put a dent in illegal Internet commerce, Pfizer Inc. and Microsoft Corp. teamed up yesterday to target elusive e-mail spammers who peddle phony Viagra. ==========> 05-02-13-NYT-SenderPaysCouldStopSpam.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/business/yourmoney/13digi.html? February 13, 2005 DIGITAL DOMAIN How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp By RANDALL STROSS New York Times COMPARE our e-mail system today with the British General Post Office in 1839, and ours wins. Compare it with the British postal system in 1840, however, and ==========> 05-02-18-SJMerc-ArrestMadeInLASpamCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10934901.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 18, 2005 New York man arrested in L.A. spamming case Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - A New York man who allegedly sent more than a million spam e-mails to members of a networking Web site was arrested for investigation of hacking, authorities said Thursday. ==========> 05-02-25-SJMerc-SpamFiltersStopLegitimateEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10993009.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 25, 2005 E-mail reliability at risk as spam controls get aggressive Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - Sometimes the only way to know whether an e-mail got through is to call. Just ask Ashley Friedlein, who runs E-consultancy Ltd. in London. He never ==========> 05-03-04-CompBusRev-SenderAuthenticationStandardsDelayedByDisagreements.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=44D2955C-3C04-4BA1-AC45-AF8277B8B 455 Sender authentication hops off the standards track 4 Mar 2005, 10:35 GMT - CBR Online After a falling out last fall, email authentication movements from Microsoft Corp and the Sender Policy Framework community are, for now, going their separate ways within the Internet Engineering Task Force's standards process. ==========> 05-03-09-SueASpammer-SmallISPSuedForIdentifyingSpammer.txt========== http://www.sueaspammer.com/press/adbumb151%5B1%5D.html WEDNESDAY, March 9th, 2005 issue #151 When Spammers Bite Back ADBUMb Given all the press Spamhaus gets these days, it?s easy to believe that they?re the only organization out there fighting against spammers. That, however, is far from true. There are any number of individuals who spend their days and nights trying to combat spam in this industry?and a guy named Mark Mumma is one ==========> 05-03-14-CNETNews-CompromisedComputersThreatenInternet.txt========== http://news.com.com/Zombie+PCs+being+sent+to+steal+IDs/2100-7349_3-5616202.htmlZ ombie PCs being sent to steal IDs Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs By Robert Lemosl CNET News Story last modified Mon Mar 14 13:31:00 PST 2005 Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft ==========> 05-03-14-SJMerc-GetReadyForSpamOnVoIP-SPIT.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11132503.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 14, 2005 Get ready for spam on your Net phone By Sam Diaz and Dean Takahashi Mercury News SPIT - that is, SPam over Internet Telephony -- is the new buzzword for what could potentially happen if phone service over the Internet, commonly known as VoIP, takes off as expected. ==========> 05-03-16-ArsTech-SmallISPSuedForIdentifyingSpammer.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050316-4712.html Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million Ats Technia 3/16/2005 9:34:09 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher Can you imagine trying to get someone to stop spamming you, only to be sued for a whopping US$4 million? That's exactly what has happened to Mark Mumma, after he took his displeasure with Cruise.com to the web, and started threatening to collect the fines he believed he was due. Between December 29, 2004 and January ==========> 05-03-16-CircleID-Auerback-CertifyDevicesThatAttachComputersToInternet.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/975_0_1_0_C/ Protecting the Internet: Certified Attachments and Reverse Firewalls? By: Karl Auerbach From CircleID Security March 16, 2005 In many respects the internet is going to hell in a hand basket. Spam, phishing, DNS poisoning, DDoS attacks, viruses, worms, and the like make ==========> 05-03-17-eMediaWire-SmallISPSuedForIdentifyingSpammer.txt========== http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/3/emw218457.htm Spammer Sues Spam Victim, Continues Spamming Him eMediaWire March 17, 2005 It is a nightmare come true. A spammer exacts revenge on you by suing you 3 states away. All you wanted was for them to stop emailing you but they filed a lawsuit in an effort to cost you money and scare you off! ==========> 05-03-18-CNETNews-CleaningSpamFromP2PNetworks.txt========== http://news.com.com/Cleaning+spam+from+swapping+networks/2100-1032_3-5623848.htm l Cleaning spam from swapping networks By John Borland CNET News Story last modified Fri Mar 18 04:00:00 PST 2005 What if every other time you brought a book home from the library, you opened it up and it turned out to be a pop-up advertisement for a local dry cleaner? ==========> 05-03-22-WSJ-IBMEndorsesReverseSpamming.txt========== # "IBM Embraces Bold Method to Trap Spam" Wall Street Journal (03/22/05) P. B1; Forelle, Charles Efforts to block spam are getting more aggressive, as the fight moves from passive spam filters to counterattacking measures such as "teergrubing," where spammers are trapped by tying up their servers. Although open-source counterattacking software has been available for a while, new products from IBM and Symantec have made the practice less problematic for corporate users. A new service from IBM that sends junk email directly back to the machine identified as the spammer is scheduled to debut on March 22. The system, which is based on ==========> 05-03-28-SciAmerican-WhatCanBeDoneAboutStoppingSpam.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000F3A4B-BF70-12 38-BF7083414B7FFE9F March 28, 2005 Stopping Spam What can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages? By Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman and Robert Rounthwaite Scientific American In 1978 the first spam e-mail--a plug from a marketing representative at ==========> 05-04-00-CommACM-Cerf-AbolishingSpamWillTakeMuchWork.txt========== Viewpoint: Spam, spim, and spit Vinton G. Cerf April 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 4 Abolishing spam, and its morphing forms, will take more than public protest and current filtering and legislative quick fixes. I hate spam! No, not the canned meat product; unwanted email! I've spoken against this (ab)use of the Internet for many years. Eliminating it, however, ==========> 05-04-08-SJMerc-SpammerGetsNineYearPrisonSentence.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11345981.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 Judge imposes nine-year prison term on spammer San Jose Mercury News LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison Friday in the nation's first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail, though the sentence was postponed while the case is appealed. ==========> 05-04-11-SJMerc-PewInternetStudy-UsersAcceptSpam-PornMessagesDown.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11364931.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 11, 2005 Spam hatred subsides -- it's just part of life FEWER GET PORN MESSAGES, SURVEY FINDS By Dan Lee Mercury News That curse of the online age, e-mail spam, is getting worse a year after the federal CAN-SPAM law was enacted to stop it. But a new survey finds computer ==========> 05-05-02-SJMerc-AOLBlocksCountyEmergencyEmailMessagesAsSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11545717.htm Posted on Mon, May. 02, 2005 AOL dumps county's emergency weather e-mail alerts as spam San Jose Mercury News VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Emergency managers in Indian River County, hard-hit by hurricanes last year, thought the best way to get out weather alerts was by e-mail -- until they learned that AOL was tagging the messages as spam. ==========> 05-05-11-InetNews-MassAGSeeksWorldWideSpamGangToShutDown.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3504486 May 11, 2005 Suit Filed Against Spam Ring By Jim Wagner Internet News The Massachusetts Attorney General's office announced it filed suit and an injunction to stop an alleged spam ring with operations around the globe, officials announced at a press conference Wednesday. ==========> 05-05-11-MassAG-MassAGSeeksWorldWideSpamGangToShutDown.txt========== http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=986&id=1416 AG REILLY FILES LAWSUIT, OBTAINS EMERGENCY ORDER SHUTTING DOWN INTERNET SPAM GANG BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SPAM OPERATIONS Spammers use elaborate network to sell counterfeit prescription drugs, pirated software, and pornography May 11, 2005 CONTACT: SARAH NATHAN (617) 727-2543 ==========> 05-05-12-SJMerc-MassJudgeOrdersWorldWideSpamGangToShutDown.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11628584.htm Posted on Thu, May. 12, 2005 Worldwide `spam gang' is shut down MICROSOFT AIDED PROBE BY MASSACHUSETTS OFFICIALS By John Boudreau Mercury News A Massachusetts judge Wednesday ordered what authorities are calling one of the world's largest ``spam gangs'' to shut down. ==========> 05-06-00-CACM-SuggestionsForImprovingCAN-SPAMAct.txt========== Technical opinion: The CAN-SPAM Act: a silver bullet solution? Younghwa Lee June 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 6 Several recommendations for improving the effectiveness of anti-spam legislation are presented. On December 16, 2003 President Bush signed the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) to counter ==========> 05-06-06-InvestBusDaily-ConsortiumWorksForEmailAntiPhishingAuthentication.txt========== # "Big Tech Outfits Unite to Try to Hook Phish" Investor's Business Daily (06/06/05) P. A4; Howell, Donna A consortium of major tech corporations has organized to create an effective email authentication standard by combining Cisco's Internet Identified Mail technique with Yahoo!'s DomainKeys strategy; the hybrid method, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), promises to deliver backward compatibility and simple ungradeability from DomainKeys. Sent email messages would be coded with DKIM, which establishes a message's legitimacy by encryption and other measures, and ISPs would then employ special procedures to see if incoming email messages ==========> 05-06-22-AP-MSPushingEmailSendersToAdoptItsSenderIDTechnology.txt========== http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8ASSQM02 Microsoft Pushing Spam-Fighting System By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer June 22, 2005 NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. is stepping up the pressure on e-mail senders to adopt its "Sender ID" spam-fighting technology despite problems that could send up to 10 percent of legitimate messages to junk folders. ==========> 05-06-29-CNETNews-AntiSpamProposalsAdvanceAtIETF.txt========== http://news.com.com/Antispam+proposals+advance/2100-1032_3-5768498.html Antispam proposals advance By Paul Festa Story last modified Wed Jun 29 12:27:00 PDT 2005 CNET News An Internet standards group approved two "experimental" antispam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its e-mail competitors. ==========> 05-06-30-SJMerc-AccusedSpammerMoshouToPleadGuilty.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12024983.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 30, 2005 Accused spammer to plead guilty to illegally soliciting millions San Jose Mercury News ATLANTA (AP) - A man known as ``The Timeshare Spammer'' said Thursday he will plead guilty to one count of violating anti-spam laws, marking one of the first prosecutions using the federal statute. ==========> 05-07-03-WashPost-MSPatentAttemptOnSenderIDEndsCooperation.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201360. html Alliance Raised Hope in Fight Against Spam Mistrust of Microsoft Ended Effort to Use Single Standard By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 3, 2005; A01 In 2003, Meng Wong and a friend wrote a program with the bold goal of helping ==========> 05-07-08-EWeek-SummitWillHighlightEmailAuthenticationTechnologies.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835292,00.asp Industry Looks into Cloudy Future for Authentication July 8, 2005 By Paul F. Roberts eWeek ISPs, large enterprises and e-mail security companies are hoping that an industry meeting in New York this week will breathe life into a flagging effort to thwart spam and e-mail viruses through the adoption of e-mail sender ==========> 05-07-11-EWeek-DomainKeysIdentifiedMailSpecSubmittedToIETF.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835589,00.asp New E-Mail Authentication Spec Submitted to IETF By Paul F. Roberts July 11, 2005 E Week A group of leading technology companies that includes Microsoft Corp., IBM, Yahoo Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. has submitted a new e-mail authentication standard to the Internet Engineering Task Force for consideration, eWEEK has ==========> 05-07-20-ITMgrsJ-OATHProjectOnOpenAuthenticationTech.txt========== http://networking.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/14/1857256&tid=33&t id=32 IT Manager's Journal Tracking the Evolution of IT Open authentication initiative gaining ground 2005.07.20 8:01 Jay Lyman Backers of open standards-based interoperable authentication technologies are ==========> 05-07-22-NewScientist-IBMAndCornellTeamProposesSMTPTrackingoHaltSpam.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7718 Retracing spam steps could halt mass emails 18:38 22 July 2005 NewScientist.com news service Will Knight The deluge of spam that pours into email inboxes each day could by curtailed using software that learns to identify the routes taken by unwanted messages, researchers say. ==========> 05-07-25-MosNews-RussiasBiggestSpammerMurdered.txt========== http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Created: 25.07.2005 13:14 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:29 MSK MosNews Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. ==========> 05-07-25-SJMerc-YahooAndCiscoTeamUpOnDomainKeysEmailSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12217432.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 25, 2005 May I have your identification, please? YAHOO, CISCO TEAM UP ON DIGITAL E-MAIL SIGNATURES TO SCREEN OUT FORGED MESSAGES By Dan Lee San Jose Mercury News Hit the send button and your e-mail flies into cyberspace carrying your unique signature. ==========> 05-08-09-SJMerc-SpamKingSettlesMicrosoftLawsuitFor7MillionUSD.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12339482.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005 `Spam king` to pay $7 million to settle Microsoft spamming lawsuit San Jose Mercury News REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - A man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers has agreed to pay $7 million in a settlement with Microsoft Corp., the software maker announced Tuesday. ==========> 05-08-10-SJMerc-MSSpamLawsuitSettlementIsAWinInSpamWar.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12348341.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 10, 2005 Microsoft has a win in the war on spam SUIT SENDS A SIGNAL TO E-MAIL MARKETERS Mercury News Editorial Every time a spammer gets clobbered by the legal system, e-mail users everywhere have a reason to cheer. So we say ``hurray'' to news that Scott Richter and his company, OptInRealBig.com, have agreed to pay $7 million to ==========> 05-08-15-NewsFactor-EmailAuthenticationIssues.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=100000028OJW NewsFactor Top Tech News E-Mail Authentication: Holy Grail or Lost Cause? By Jack M. Germain August 15, 2005 10:00AM In response to ongoing e-mail abuses, many Internet experts have called for an e-mail authentication system that would immediately reduce spoofing, phishing and fraud. However, opponents argue that e-mail authentication would take too long to create and ultimately have little impact on the problem. ==========> 05-09-02-CompWorld-TrevorBarrBelievesChaosWillRuleInternetIn2010.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=949860093 Chaos to rule Internet in 2010 Michael Crawford ComputerWorld 02/09/2005 08:10:34 Chaos will rule the Internet in 2010 as spam, viruses and fraudulent e-mails continue to cause havoc, according to Professor Trevor Barr, user environments program manager at Swinburne University of Technology. ==========> 05-09-07-SJMerc-CalifAssemblyPassesBillCurtailingJunkFaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12579125.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 07, 2005 Assembly passes bill curtailing junk faxes By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila Mercury News The California Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation strengthening consumer protections against junk faxes, long the bane of residential and small-business fax owners. ==========> 05-10-00-ACMQueue-BookReview-SlammingSpamForSystemAdministrators.txt========== Reviews: Review of "Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Adminstrators by Robert Haskins and Dale Nielsen", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004, $44.99 ISBN: 0131467166 J. S. Edwards October 2005 Queue, Volume 3 Issue 8 First of all, before reading this book, you must realize there is no magic bullet to counteract spam. As the authors point out, “The problem is largely based upon your perspective.” One person’s spam is another’s legitimate mass ==========> 05-10-13-CompWorld-USShareOfSpamDropsTo26Percent.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1536889173 US still world's top spammer Robert McMillan, IDG News Service 13/10/2005 13:41:02 The U.S. is still the world's top spammer, but the percentage of unsolicited commercial email originating from within its borders is dropping, according to a report published Wednesday by security vendor Sophos. ==========> 05-10-25-StanfordCIS-AZCourtRulesCellPhoneTextMessagesCoveredByTCPA.txt========== http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_1/003458.shtml Arizona Appeals Court Says SMS Messages Covered by TCPA Stanford Center for the Internet and Society Oct. 25, 2005 In a case of first impression, the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, ruled that the term “call,” as used in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA,”) is broad enough to encompass emails sent to cellular phones via Short Message Service (“SMS”). SMS messages are text of up to 160 characters that are ==========> 05-11-00-ACMQueue-UsingDistributedSystemsToFightSpam.txt========== Q focus: social computing: Fighting spam with reputation systems Vipul Ved Prakash, Adam O'Donnell November 2005 Queue, Volume 3 Issue 9 Spam is everywhere, clogging the inboxes of e-mail users worldwide. Not only is it an annoyance, it erodes the productivity gains afforded by the advent of information technology. Workers plowing through hours of legitimate e-mail every day also must contend with removing a significant amount of illegitimate e-mail. Automated spam filters have dramatically reduced the amount of spam ==========> 05-11-00-EETimes-MetcalfOnTheInternet-SecurityAndSpam.txt========== http://www.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/2005NOV/C/2005NOV_INT_WK4.HTM Ethernet's inventor sounds off By Patrick Mannion EE Times Nov. 2005 So, what about Bob? Engineer-scientist, early Internet developer, Ethernet inventor, entrepreneur, pundit, a man who eats his own words-and, now, a venture capitalist: Bob Metcalfe has seen it all in 40 years on the front lines ==========> 05-11-04-SJMerc-ArrestInZombieNetworkCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13082458.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 04, 2005 Man charged with creating powerful zombie network Marcury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 20-year-old man was arrested on charges of spreading viruses to almost 400,000 military and other computers, letting him put ``armies'' of electronics under his control. ==========> 05-12-15-CNETNews-BillWouldIncreaseFTCPolicingOnNet.txt========== http://news.com.com/Senate+panel+approves+more+Net-policing+powers/2100-1028_3-5 996703.html Senate panel approves more Net-policing powers By Anne Broache CNET Networks, Story last modified Thu Dec 15 09:35:00 PST 2005 The Federal Trade Commission would gain expanded policing powers and could share information about spammers and other miscreants with foreign governments ==========> 05-12-20-NetWorld-FTCSaysCAN-SPAMActHasDecreasedSpam.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/122005-ftc-spam.html This story appeared on Network World FTC: Computer users seeing less spam, law helped By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 12/20/05 Computer users are seeing fewer unsolicited commercial e-mail messages in their inboxes two years after the U.S. Congress passed an anti-spam law, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday. ==========> 05-12-21-SJMerc-FTCSaysJunkEmailDeclining.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13457237.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 21, 2005 Junk e-mail declining, FTC says By Jennifer C. Kerr Associated Press Mercury News WASHINGTON - Those annoying ``spam'' e-mails for Viagra or low-rate mortgages that clog computer users' mailboxes appear to be on the decline, federal ==========> 06-01-15-SJMerc-RussianOilTycoonIsSpammersNewTarget.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13634573.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 15, 2006 Russian tycoon is spammers' new target ALEX NICHOLSON Associated Press Mercury News MOSCOW - Russia has more in common with Nigeria these days than just oil. ==========> 06-01-23-SJMerc-HackerPleadsGuiltyToProvidingAttackNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13693354.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 23, 2006 Hacker pleads guilty to building, renting attack network Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A 20-year-old hacker admitted Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers, using the zombie network to serve pop-up ads and renting it to people who mounted attacks on Web sites and sent out spam. ==========> 06-01-26-SJMerc-AOLWins5MJudgementAgainstSpammer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13719713.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006 AOL wins $5 million judgment against 'poster boy' spammer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A man who sent billions of junk e-mails hawking online college degrees, sexually explicit Web sites and ``generic Viagra'' must pay more than $5 million in penalties to America Online Inc., a federal judge ruled. Christopher William Smith, of Prior Lake, Minn., was considered one of the ==========> 06-01-27-SJMerc-StateCourtRulesMDSpamLawConstitutional.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13728469.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 27, 2006 Maryland spam law can be enforced, judge rules Mercury News ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Those annoying e-mails offering home financing deals or other offers can violate Maryland law, even if they're sent from another state, a state appeals court has ruled. ==========> 06-01-30-Clickz-AOLToStartChargingForCommercialEmailCertification.txt========== http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3581301 AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program By Kevin Newcomb January 30, 2006 Clickz In a bid to protect its members from e-mail fraud and phishing, and to offer consistency to commercial e-mail senders, AOL today will begin implementing Goodmail's cryptographic CertifiedEmail program and phasing out its IP-based ==========> 06-02-05-NYT-AOLAndYahooToStartChargingForCommercialEmailCertification.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&oref=s login&oref=slogin February 5, 2006 Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail By SAUL HANSELL The New York Times Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their ==========> 06-02-05-USAToday-AOLToStartChargingForCommercialEmail.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-02-05-aol-yahoo-email_x. htm Posted 2/5/2006 7:37 PM Updated 2/5/2006 10:09 PM AOL to charge fee as way to cut spam By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — America Online will begin charging businesses to send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by the plan, set to start in ==========> 06-02-06-GizModo-WhyChargingToStopSpamWontWork.txt========== http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/aolyahoo-email-tax-to-stop-spam-why-it-wo nt-work-152917.php AOL/Yahoo Email Tax to Stop Spam: Why It Won’t Work Feb. 6, 2006 Gizmodo arizona.jpgThere’s been quite a bit of media play about AOL and Yahoo’s plans to adopt a quarter-cent “email tax” or “stamp” or whatever you want to call it, and we’re here to tell you it’s horseshit. While this utopian vision of data ==========> 06-02-06--SJMerc-AOLAndYahooPlanToChargeToBypassSpamFilters.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13804989.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006 Yahoo, AOL plan premium e-mail for a fee SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc. and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies said Sunday. ==========> 06-02-07-WashPost-AOLAndYahooPlanToChargeToBypassSpamFilters.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601539. html Paid E-Mail Seen as Sign of Culture Change Guaranteed Delivery Plans by AOL, Yahoo Viewed as Part of End to Openness By Mike Musgrove Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2006; D05 Maybe this is where it starts to change. ==========> 06-02-13-SJMerc-VoIPCallsCanBeHackedSpammedAndSavedOnServers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13860853.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 13, 2006 Like e-mail, calls via Internet can be hacked, spammed, saved on servers By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News The allure of Internet phone calling is understandable -- dirt-cheap calls to anywhere in the world, sound quality that's at times superior to the traditional land-line and the ability to take your phone number with you when ==========> 06-02-15-UCSantaCruz-ResearchersDevelopAntiSpamSystems.txt========== http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060215.090541&time=10% 2011%20PST&year=2006&public=0 Wed Feb 15 10:11:28 2006 Pacific Time UC Santa Cruz Computer Scientist Fights Spam on Two Fronts SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A "do-not-spam" registry developed as a student project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has now been implemented in two states as part of child protection legislation. Designed to shield minors from e-mails with adult content, the ==========> 06-02-21-AP-ChinaPlansCrackdownOnJunkEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13926020.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 21, 2006 China to crack down on junk e-mail, 'illegal' mobile phone messages BEIJING (AP) - China is cracking down on junk e-mail and ``illegal'' mobile phone text messages, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. A new regulation will ban sending e-mail for advertising purposes to people without their permission, and all advertising e-mail must be titled ==========> 06-02-22-StanfordCIS-StateCourtReinstatesMDEmailAct.txt========== http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_6/003809.shtml Maryland Court Reinstates Maryland Commercial Electronic Mail Act SCIS Packets, Vol. 3, No. 6, Feb. 22, 2006 The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland reinstated the Maryland Commercial Electronic Mail Act (MCEMA), reversing a Circuit Court ruling holding that MCEMA violated the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. The Court also reversed the lower court’s holding that Maryland lacked personal jurisdiction over defendant First Choice Internet, Inc. (First Choice), a New ==========> 06-02-23-InfoWorld-NonprofitsAndSmallBusinessTryToStopPlansToChargeForEmail.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/23/75843_HNemailfee_1.html Political rivals unite against giants' e-mail plan Nonprofits and SMBs form coalition to stop plans to charge fees to mass e-mailers By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Information World, February 23, 2006 Both sides of the U.S. political spectrum have found an issue to unite them: Free e-mail. ==========> 06-02-27-AP-CoalitionFormsToOpposeAOLChargeForEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/13976702.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006 Diverse groups team up to fight e-mail fee WILL LESTER Associated Press WASHINGTON - A variety of interest groups have joined forces to fight a proposed bulk e-mailing fee they claim strikes at the heart of online communication - a level playing field for rich and poor. ==========> 06-02-27-AP-NonprofitsAndSmallBusinessTryToStopPlansToChargeForEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13977134.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006 Diverse groups join forces to fight bulk e-mail fee WASHINGTON (AP) - A variety of interest groups have joined forces to fight a proposed bulk e-mailing fee they claim strikes at the heart of online communication -- a level playing field for rich and poor. America Online plans to introduce a service that would charge businesses and ==========> 06-02-27-SJMerc-AOLAndYahooPlanToChargeToBypassSpamFilters.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13973749.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006 E-mail with a stamp of legitimacy CERTIFICATION GIVES MARKETERS A BETTER CHANCE IN THE IN-BOX, FOR A PRICE By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Daina Avizonis has learned to approach her inbox with a wariness normally characteristic of members of a bomb squad. The 41-year-old Redwood City ==========> 06-02-28-DearAOL-LetterProtestinAOLPlanToChargeToBypassSpamFiltering.txt========== http://www.dearaol.com/ From: all@dearaol.com To: postmaster@aol.com Date: Tue Feb 28 13:00:00 EST 2006 Subject: An Open Letter To America Online What's This About? In February 2006, AOL announced that it would accept payment for incoming emails. For these certified emails, it would skip its usual anti-spam filters ==========> 06-03-01-ArsTech-CoalitionFormsToOpposeAOLChargeForEmail.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060301-6291.html Opposition forms to AOL's plan to charge for e-mail 3/1/2006 10:33:32 AM, by Nate Anderson Ars Technica AOL has kicked up a ferocious cloud of controversy over its plan to start charging for the guaranteed delivery of bulk e-mail. We thought it was a bad idea at the time, and it turns out that we weren't alone. A new coalition has formed with the goal of stopping AOL's "e-mail tax," and they've launched a ==========> 06-03-25-AP-JumpstartTechTpPay900KInAntiSpamCharges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14179356.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 24, 2006 S.F. company to pay $900,000 to settle anti-spam charges SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An Internet marketing company that offered free movie tickets in exchange for friends' e-mail addresses agreed to pay a $900,000 fine to settle charges it violated federal anti-spam laws, authorities said Friday. Jumpstart Technologies LLC of San Francisco was accused by the Federal Trade ==========> 06-04-04-AP-VerizonCouldOfferSettlementsOverEmailBlockedBySpamFilter.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14262946.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 04, 2006 Verizon could offer settlements over blocked e-mails PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing refunds to Internet customers who found legitimate e-mail from friends and businesses blocked by the company's spam filters. In announcing a tentative settlement of a class-action lawsuit, both companies ==========> 06-04-13-DearAOL-AOLBlocksCriticalEmail.txt========== http://www2.dearaol.com/node/view/51814#comment Posted by Adam on Thu, 04/13/2006 - 20:51 AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents--Won't Deliver Emails Mentioning www.DearAOL.com Proves DearAOL.com Coalition Correct: AOL Cannot Be Trusted To Put The Free and Open Internet Above Its Own Self-Interest AOL is blocking delivery to AOL customers of all emails that include a link to ==========> 06-04-13-EFF-AOLQuitsBlockingSiteCriticalOfAOL.txt========== http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004556 AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents Won’t Deliver Emails Mentioning www.DearAOL.com EFF, April 13, 2006 UPDATE After this press release was sent out Thursday afternoon, AOL stopped blocking email with links to www.DearAOL.com. Officials at the company stated that problems of this nature generally take three to five working days to fix. However, this was fixed after 24 hours of undeliverability - and approximately ==========> 06-04-21-CNETNews-AuthenticatingEmailCanBreakIt.txt========== http://news.com.com/Danger+Authenticating+e-mail+can+break+it/2100-7349_3-606295 3.html Danger: Authenticating e-mail can break it By Joris Evers CNET Networks Story last modified Fri Apr 21 05:25:39 PDT 2006 CHICAGO--The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company's mail system instead of ==========> 06-04-27-UCalgary-NewWeaponsNeededInWarOnSpam.txt========== http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/april06/virus.html New weapons needed for the war on junk email UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY April 27, 2006 Next generation of spam could be camouflaged as email from your colleagues, friends Today’s spam filters are highly effective, but they may be no match for ==========> 06-05-16-Wired-AntiSpammerGivesUpSpammingSpammers.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70913-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1 Under Attack, Spam Fighter Folds Wired By Ryan Singel 19:30 PM May, 16, 2006 A startup whose aggressive antispam measures drew a blistering counterattack from spammers two weeks ago that brought down the company's servers along with a wide swath of the internet is shuttering its program targeting junk e-mailers. ==========> 06-05-17-WashPost-AntiSpammerGivesUpSpammingSpammers.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601873. html In the Fight Against Spam E-Mail, Goliath Wins Again By Brian Krebs Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, May 17, 2006; A01 Eran Reshef had an idea in the battle against spam e-mail that seemed to be working: he fought spam with spam. Today, he'll give up the fight. ==========> 06-05-21-NYT-TheFightAgainstSpam.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/business/yourmoney/21spam.html?_r=1&oref=slogi n May 21, 2006 The Fight Against V1@gra (and Other Spam) By TOM ZELLER Jr. The New York Times TO the antispam researchers at MessageLabs, an e-mail filtering company, each new wave of a recent stock-pumping spam seemed like a personal affront. ==========> 06-05-31-WSJ-WebUsersGrowAngryOverComplexCaptchas.txt========== Codes on Sites 'Captcha' Anger of Web Users Wall Street Journal (05/31/06) P. B1; Kesmodel, David Web sites such as Yahoo.com protect themselves from mischief-making programs by having users who wish to gain access solve puzzles known as "captchas," which often take the form of a visually distorted code that must be correctly typed. Keeping pace with new spamming techniques and strategies has prompted some Web sites to make these codes trickier to solve, irritating more and more Web users. "We know there's no perfect panacea, but we think this is a great tool to prevent malicious activity," says Google engineering director David Jeske. ==========> 06-06-21-DallasMornNews-Captchas-DistortedLetterTestNoLongerProtectingUsers.txt========== http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/062206dnbusCaptcha.12dbe da.html Net defenses may be in danger As computers get better at text tests, Web sites need new ideas 11:54 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 By CRAYTON HARRISON / The Dallas Morning News Computers are better than humans at a lot of complex calculations, but we still have them beat on some small problems. ==========> 06-07-13-eWeek-MSResearchAutomatingDefenseAgainstSearchEngineSpammers.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C1988674%2C00.asp Microsoft Research Automates Hunt for Search Engine Spam By Ryan Naraine, EWeek, July 13, 2006 Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers. The Redmond, Wash., software giant's Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group has taken the wraps off Strider Search Defender, an experimental ==========> 06-07-13-TechNewsWorld-SpammersNowUsingSpyware.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51709.html Threats From Hackers 'Converging,' Researchers Say By Gene J. Koprowski ECommerce Times News Network, 07/13/06 5:00 AM PT "We have seen more evidence of spammers employing spyware to make their campaigns more effective," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer, MessageLabs. "This leaves businesses with the increasingly complex challenge of securing company data and intellectual property without sacrificing important ==========> 06-08-00-IEEEComputer-CollaborativeSpamFilteringUsingEmailNetworks.txt========== http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/index.jsp Collaborative Spam Filtering Using E-Mail Networks IEEE Computer (08/06) Vol. 39, No. 8, P. 67; Kong, Joseph S.; Rezaei, Benham A.; Sarshar, Nima UCLA and University of Florida researchers have come up with a distributed, message-based system for filtering spam that allows users to query all their email clients to see if another user in the system has already flagged a suspect email as spam. This scheme permits users to make information queries ==========> 06-08-16-AP-LawyersWantToSearchSpammersParentsHomeToSatisfyJudgement.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15284794.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 16, 2006 Lawyers want to dig for gold at home of spammer's parents WASHINGTON (AP) - Dig this: AOL believes a renegade Internet spammer buried gold and platinum on his family's property in Massachusetts and wants to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won in federal court. ==========> 06-09-00-Wired-Splogs-SpamBlogsAreLatestOnlineScamAndInternetOverload.txt========== http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html Spam + Blogs = Trouble Splogs are the latest thing in online scams – and they could smother the Internet. By Charles C. Mann, Wired, September 2006 I am aware that spending a lot of time Googling yourself is kind of narcissistic, OK? But there are situations, I would argue, when it is efficiently – even forgivably – narcissistic. When I published a book last ==========> 06-09-12-GeorgiaTech-ResearchersSayISPsCouldBetterAttackSpamAtNetworkLevel.txt========== http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/spam-data.htm September 12, 2006 Stemming Spam: Internet Routing and Spam Data Reveal Trends to Help Researchers Build Better E-mail Filters A database of more than 10 million spam e-mail messages collected at just one Internet “spam sinkhole” suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk e-mail by addressing it at the network level, rather than using currently available message content filters. ==========> 06-10-00-CACM-UsersOfWebBBasedEmailGetTheMostSpam.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 10 (2006), Pages 83-87 Who gets spammed? Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, S.Y.T. Lee, I.P.L. Png Spam is no random event, but specifically targets those with purchasing power. Email users all over the world are being swamped by unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Even the world's richest person has not been spared: ==========> 06-10-09-AP-SpamFighterSpamhousPreparesToLooseItsDomainName-CitesIncreaseInSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15721150.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 09, 2006 Anti-spam group fights for legal life CHICAGO (AP) - The anti-spam group Spamhaus Project warned more junk e-mail could be on the way as it prepares to lose its domain name thanks to a company it has accused of sending spam. Executives at the U.K.-based Spamhaus Project said Monday they expect a federal ==========> 06-10-20-AP-JudgeDeniesRequestToSuspendSpamhousDomainName.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15809546.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 20, 2006 Judge denies request to suspend anti-spam group's domain name CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge presiding over a spam dispute rejected a marketing company's request to suspend the domain name of an anti-spam group that ignored an $11.7 million judgment against it. U.S. District Court Judge Charles P. Kocoras denied a proposed motion from e360 ==========> 06-11-00-ACMQueue-LearningToEnjoyTheMaliciousBeautyOfSpam.txt========== The Joy of Spam From Cybercrime ACM Queue, Vol. 4, No. 9 - November 2006 by Phillip A. Laplante, Penn State University Embracing e-mail's dark side Not a day goes by that a large amount of spam doesn't get past the two filters that I have in place (one on the server and one on my mail client). Most of this e-mail is annoying and some of it dangerous. But I have finally come to peace with spam and it no longer bothers me. How did I do that, you ask? I have ==========> 06-11-15-CNET-SpammerOutblazeExecDiscussesSpamCountermeasures.txt========== http://news.com.com/Exterminating+the+nuisance+of+spam/2008-7349_3-6135649.html Exterminating the nuisance of spam By Declan McCullagh, CNET Networks, Nov 15 08:46:22 PST 2006 ATHENS, Greece--Suresh Ramasubramanian must be a spammer's worst nightmare. As the India-based head of antispam operations at Outblaze, which handles mail for large sites such as Mail.com and Register.com, Ramasubramanian has overseen the development of junk e-mail countermeasures for tens of millions of Internet ==========> 06-11-27-AP-EuropeanCommissionSaysMoreThanHalfEmailsAreSpam.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16107813.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 27, 2006 EU says more than half e-mails are spam, Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium - Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80 percent of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday. EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding called on EU governments to step up their ==========> 06-12-12-NewSci-SpamRisingAsSpammersDidgeFilteringSystems.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10745-spam-choking-the-internet-again.html Spam choking the internet again Dec 12 21:46:32 GMT 2006, New Scientist The tide of unwanted email is rising as spammers find new ways to dodge filtering systems, experts say. A study released in November 2006 by email filtering firm Postini, based in California, US, found that spam now accounts for 91% of all email and that over ==========> 06-12-17-SJMerc-BoxbeOffersUsersIncentivesToReadMarketingEMail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16263492.htm Posted on Sun, Dec. 17, 2006 Getting paid to open an e-mail START-UP BOXBE WANTS TO MAKE TRANSACTION By Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News Wanted: Your eyeballs. Reward: 15 cents. That's what many big-name companies will pay you to open an e-mail, and San ==========> 06-12-27-AP-AntiSpamOpenRelayDatabaseIsCeasingOperations.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16328498.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 27, 2006 Anti-spam tool ceases as spammers evolve ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press NEW YORK - The Open Relay Database, a tool e-mail service providers used for years to help curb the spread of spam, is ceasing operations, a death partly attributable to its own success. It was 5. ==========> 06-12-27-WashPost-2006SawMoreSophisticatedCriminalAcitvityOnComputers.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600922. html Cybercrooks Deliver Trouble With Spam Filters Working Overtime, Security Experts See No Letup in '07 By Brian Krebs, Washington Post, December 27, 2006; D01 It was the year of computing dangerously, and next year could be worse. That is the assessment of computer security experts, who said 2006 was marked ==========> 07-01-03-SJMerc--2006SawMoreSophisticatedCriminalAcitvityOnComputers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16374909.htm Hackers' infections slither onto Web sites ONLINE SECURITY EXPERTS ISSUE WARNINGS ABOUT ORGANIZED INTERNET CRIME EFFORTS By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News, Jan. 03, 2007 It was the year when cybercriminals targeted everything from MySpace to Wikipedia, and even a Web site maintained by a Kentucky Boy Scout troop wasn't safe for casual browsing. ==========> 07-01-04-AmSocTechnion-ResearchersUseWikipediaToFilterSpam.txt========== http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=154 Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology., January 4, 2007 Contact: Kevin Hattori (212) 407-6319 Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. ==========> 07-01-07-NYT-ZombieComputersAGrowingThreat.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, January 7, 2007 Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat By JOHN MARKOFF In their persistent quest to breach the Internet’s defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower. With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that ==========> 07-01-17-AP-FirstConvictionUnderUSAntiSpamLaw.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16482581.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 17, 2007 L.A.-area man first in nation convicted under anti-spam law LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man faces a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison after being the first person in the U.S. convicted under a federal anti-spam law, authorities said. Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was found guilty Friday of running a ==========> 07-01-21-AP-SpammersUseEuropeanStormInterestToSendVirus.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16515223.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007 Virus exploits interest in Europe storm, Associated Press HELSINKI, Finland - Spammers are exploiting the public's interest in this week's European storm to spread a computer virus that sends junk e-mail, computer security experts said Friday. The malicious program, dubbed "Storm Worm," has infected at least 10,000 PCs ==========> 07-01-22-AP-MySpaceSuesSpammerForUInauthorizedAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16520621.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 22, 2007 MySpace sues Colo. man for alleged spam, GARY GENTILE, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins. ==========> 07-01-22-InfoWeek-MySpaceSuesAllegedSpammerForUInauthorizedAccess.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196902597 MySpace.com Sues Alleged Spammer Lawsuit seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction barring Scott Richter from the online community. By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, Jan. 22, 2007 MySpace.com has filed a federal lawsuit against a man who allegedly sent millions of spam "bulletins" advertising Web sites where users of the popular online social network could buy ring tones, polo shirts, and other products and ==========> 07-01-31-ChicSunTimes-SpamalotUnleasesResponsesOnSpammers.txt========== http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/236135,CST-FIN-ecol31.article UIC team ready to get medieval on spammers January 31, 2007, BY SANDRA GUY Chicago Sun-Times Columnist The story of how a University of Illinois professor led an anti-spam effort is as ironic as its Monty Python namesake, Spamalot. Pete Nelson, head of the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, believes the best way to fight spammers, phishers and ==========> 07-02-00-CACM-InSpiteOfCriticismCAN-SPAMActIsGoodStartOnTheProblem.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 2 (2007), Pages 56-62 Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 Galen A. Grimes Studying the application of the CAN-SPAM Act and its effect on controlling unsolicited email messages. In December 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (S.877), ==========> 07-02-00-CACM-SpamResearchersStayAheadOfSpammers.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 2 (2007), Pages 24-33 Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox Joshua Goodman, Gordon V. Cormack, David Heckerman Even as spammers and phishers try evermore sophisticated techniques to get past filters and into users' mailboxes, anti-spam researchers have managed to stay several steps ahead, so far. Since August 1998, when Communications published the article "Spam!" by Lorrie ==========> 07-02-02-AP-DutchSpammerFinedForSending9BSpamEmails.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16608875.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 02, 2007 Dutch spammer fined $97,000 for sending 9 billion unwanted e-mails AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements for products like erection pills faces a hefty fine: If he needs headache medication or debt relief there's probably an unsolicited ad in his own inbox. ==========> 07-02-12-CompWorld-WillSpamVirusesAndBotnetsDestryTheInternet.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Id=16&articleId=279934&intsrc=hm_topic Spam, viruses, botnets: Can the Internet be saved? Gary Anthes February 12, 2007 (Computerworld) Advances in IT over the decades have come mostly in small increments — Release 2.3 yields to 2.4, transistors shrink a few more nanometers, Ethernet gets another speed boost, bugs are fixed, and algorithms get tweaked. That kind of evolutionary approach has served users ==========> 07-03-08-AP-SECSuspends35StocksInCrackdownAgainstSpamHyping.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16862092.htm Associated Press, Posted on Thu, Mar. 08, 2007 SEC suspends 35 stocks in crackdown against spam hyping WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday suspended trading in 35 companies whose shares were touted in e-mail spam campaigns. The SEC said it took the action to protect investors from fraud, because the accuracy of information in e-mails about the companies was questionable. The ==========> 07-03-11-ACMQueue-SpamIsGoodTechnologyThatIsMisused.txt========== Spam is simply very good technology in the hands of very bad people. From Developer Tools, Vol. 1, No. 6 - September 2003 by Michael Mayor, NetCreations, ACM Queue [Accessed 3/11/07] The war on unsolicited e-mail continues to be fought on many fronts. On the attack are spammers looking to infiltrate your inbox. The front line of defense is made up of millions of consumers armed with filtration software and, of course, the ever-powerful delete button. Capitol Hill is promising these ground troops air support in the form of anti-spam legislation. However, the battlefront I find the most intriguing these days is the escalating weaponry of ==========> 07-04-27-AllThingsDigital-SuitFiledAgainstEmalAddressHarvestersButWeAreStillOnOurOwn.txt========== http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=79&ak_action=printable Nobody Expects the SPAMish Inquisition! Our Chief Weapon Is Surprise … and Fake Email Addresses AllThingsDigital, Published on April 27, 2007, by John Paczkowski There are some jittery email harvesters out there today, and it’s not because they’ve been popping herbal stimulants. Anti-spam outfit Unspam Technologies filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the cretins who collect email addresses on the Web and pass them on to spammers. ==========> 07-05-22-CNET-IETFApprovesDomainKeysIdentifiedMailToDetectAndBlockFakeEmail.txt========== http://news.com.com/Promising+antispam+technique+gets+nod/2100-1029_3-6185904.ht ml?tag=nefd.lede Promising antispam technique gets nod Internet Engineering Task Force approves a technique designed to put junk e-mailers out of business forever. By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, May 22, 2007 Spammers, phishers and other Internet bottom-feeders, be warned. ==========> 07-05-31-AP-SpammerSolowayArrestedByFederalAuthorities.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6028627 Man described as top spammer arrested by feds in Seattle Associated Press, 05/31/2007 08:09:07 AM PDT SEATTLE - A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" ==========> 07-05-31-InfoWorld-ImageBasedSpamAttacks-SignificantlyMoreSpam.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/31/Spammers-use-of-AI-only-just-begun_1.h tml Spammers' use of AI only just begun Security industry experts: Image spam tip of iceberg; tech, enterprise must target roots of problem, rather than individual campaigns, to drive back new forms By Matt Hines, InfoWorld, May 31, 2007 Though security industry experts were openly referring to the death of spam ==========> 07-05-31-SeattlePI-SpammerSolowayArrestedByFederalAuthorities.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/317795_soloway31.html Seattle PI, Thursday, May 31, 2007 Spam King' suspect seized Feds say arrest may lead to sharp drop in illegal e-mail By PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND VANESSA HO Note: This article has been altered. The quantity of e-mail that John Reid of The Spamhaus Project estimates were allegedly sent daily by Robert Soloway was misstated in the original version. ==========> 07-06-00-FTC-HackersAndSpammersMayBeUsingYourComputer.txt========== http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt132.shtm FTC Consumer Alert, June 2007 Botnets and Hackers and Spam (Oh, My!) Hackers and spammers may be using your computer right now. They invade secretly and hide software to get access to the information on your computer, including your email program. Once on your computer, they can spy on your Internet surfing, steal your personal information, and use your computer to send spam — potentially offensive or illegal — to other computers without your knowledge. ==========> 07-06-02-InfoWeek-NewDigitalIdentitySystemsAreMoreComprehensive.txt========== URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199900170 Web Credibility: Hard Earned, Harder To Prove Digital identity and "reputation" systems are evolving into more comprehensive and transportable ID managers. By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek, June 2, 2007 Nobody knows you're a dog on the Web--or a mechanic, athlete, hacker, marketing whiz, zealot, or SQL programmer. That is, unless you tell them. In which case, they may or may not believe you, and they have few options for verifying your ==========> 07-06-11-NYT-NewTestsFoolAutomatedSpammers.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/technology/11code.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, June 11, 2007 A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers, By BRAD STONE On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a human — until you fill out a captcha. Captchas are the puzzles on many Web sites that present a string of distorted letters and numbers. These are supposed to be easy for people to read and retype, but hard for computer software to figure out. ==========> 07-06-13-AP-AccusedSeattleSpammerDeniedBail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6134356 Bail denied for Seattle man described as one of world's top spammers Associated Press, Article Launched: 06/13/2007 07:36:13 PM PDT SEATTLE - A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said Robert Soloway, 27, of Seattle, should remain in jail until his trial scheduled for Aug. 6 because he has ==========> 07-06-29-ChronHigherEd-CanInternetBeSavedFromConstantThreats.txt========== Can the Internet Be Saved? Chronicle of Higher Education (06/29/07) Vol. 53, No. 43, P. A25; Fischman, Josh The Internet is bowing under constant pressure from spam, malware, mobile devices, a lack of security, and spotty connections, and the National Science Foundation officially launched the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project to reinvent the Net in May. The biggest problem with the Internet is security, and at the root of this problem is the lack of authenticated identity and the erroneous assumption that every network insider is to be trusted; Princeton professor Larry L. Peterson thinks one solution is ==========> 07-07-18-PittsPostGaz-reCaptcha-CMUResearcherDevelopsBetterCaptchaTechnology.txt========== http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07199/802310-96.stm Latest weapon against spam also enlists computer users to assist the Internet Archive July 18, 2007, By Laura Yao, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Luis von Ahn's office is a welcome burst of color and playfulness in an otherwise dull and stodgy building. Save for his computer chair, his room in CMU's Wean Hall offers only beanbag chairs and bouncy balls as visitor seating. Stuffed animals and Legos line the shelves on the walls. ==========> 07-08-06-UCSDNews-MostSpamAdvertisedOnlineScamsHostedOnIndividualWebServers.txt========== http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-07InternetScamsDK-.asp UC San Diego Computer Scientists Shed Light on Internet Scams 94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers August 6, 2007, UCSD News, By Daniel Kane Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages. This discovery should aid in the fight to reduce spam volume and shut down illegal online