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Spam Continues to Drop

• Comment posted Aug 24, 2011 2:49 am PDT — by Terry Zink
  But you're missing the fact that not all kinds of spam are the same. I'm not, I just didn't mention it in my original post.  I am planning on doing a follow up discussing what you've mentioned.  I agree with…

• Comment posted Aug 23, 2011 6:03 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  The main reason I commented at all is exemplified by your very last comment: "Spam is down, but the abuse problem is not over".  It's as if you're saying that the spam problem is ending, but other forms of abuse…

• Comment posted Aug 23, 2011 4:11 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  I said that spam is down, but the abuse problem is not over.  It's simply shifting (agree completely with Chris) from "send tons of garbage in email" to diversifying into other things that Chris spoke about, and they are more…

• Comment posted Aug 17, 2011 11:51 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  Neil, in response to your comments: Well, the decapitation of several well-known botnets like Coreflood, Mariposa Botnet, Rustock and Bredolab may well mean spammers aren't spamming as much in the past because they can't, for the moment. But, we have…

Bit.ly Gets You Blocked

• Comment posted Jun 30, 2011 5:02 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  One reason that Spamhaus lists bit.ly on their DBL is because they are seen in so much spam.  However, they are not listed in DBL’s “block” zone but in their “URL shortener” zone.  Their own documentation says that you shouldn’t…

ESP Compromises and Their Lack of Security

• Comment posted Apr 08, 2011 5:39 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  I did get the point, but the point of my article was that even if you do all sorts of security procedures, you are not completely hardened. > What would have prevented Epsilon is they, and every other ESP and…

Spam Volumes In 2010

• Comment posted Jan 11, 2011 6:25 am PST — by Terry Zink
  I've heard that the Rustock botnet has moved to click fraud.  If so, then that would explain the drop off in spam since Rustock was the largest spam-sending botnet.

United States Is the Most Bot-Infected Country. Right?

• Comment posted Oct 18, 2010 4:34 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  Yes, that is correct… although I allude to that possibility in my comment/question "</i>do more users in the US dial home to the MSRT than in other countries?</i>" A greater rate of compliance with auto-updates could explain it, but even…

Why Aren't There More Spam Lawsuits?

• Comment posted May 07, 2010 8:47 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  Excerpt from my own blog post. I would add another reason to the mixture and that it can be difficult to actually arrest and charge spammers, let alone prosecute.  I will speak of the case of Dmitry Golubov, now the…

Closing in on the Google Hackers

• Comment posted Feb 27, 2010 7:55 pm PST — by Terry Zink
  I'm planning to read Menn's book as it naturally dovetails with my above article.

Oh, Spammer, Where Art Thou?

• Comment posted Sep 04, 2009 5:56 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  The domain chabad.org was originally listed on my list and has been subsequently removed.  It is a false positive that was being abused by spammers and subsequently listed on a URL blocklist.

Think China Is the Highest Spamming Country? Think Again

• Comment posted Jul 20, 2009 9:48 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  It's true that I did not measure where the spamming domains are hosted.  I only did this study based upon who is sending the spam, not where the spammy domain is located.  That would be another good study to compare.

Spam Fighting: Lessons from Jack Bauer?

• Comment posted Jan 18, 2009 8:23 am PST — by Terry Zink
  When I alluded to the Ritz case, I was not implying I agreed with the ruling against him.  Rather, I was framing my post by loosely painting it against a backdrop of a real life situation.

Top 10 Spam Stories of 2008

• Comment posted Jan 02, 2009 5:54 pm PST — by Terry Zink
  Typo in point 7, e360 was not the plaintiff in the ND case. Accused spammer Jerry Reynolds was the plaintiff.

How Spammers Get Around SPF

• Comment posted Aug 22, 2007 3:55 pm PDT — by Terry Zink
  I'm actually aware of many of these points.  This post is part of a larger series on sender authentication that I started writing on my blog about two months ago, the rest of the series is available here.  The series…