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spamNEWS 09/28/2013

CAUCE posts regularly on topics related to spam. Here are our picks of the most interesting news items of the day.

You can follow them in real time on Twitter on Google +  or on LinkedIn

Facebook wins $3M injunction against spammer Steven Vachani aka Power.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57604866-93/facebook-wins-$3m-injunction-against-spammer/

Revealed: UK secretly arrested 16-year old boy for world’s ‘biggest’ DDoS-attack http://rt.com/news/uk-boy-arrested-ddos-attack-411/

Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service/

DMARC Forward Reporting: Why Network Owners Should be Informed, too http://blog.abusix.com/2013/09/24/dmarc-forward-reporting-why-network-owners-should-be-informed-too/

LinkedIn Class Action http://www.linkedinclassaction.com

A Study of Whois Privacy and Proxy Service Abuse by @MAAWG STA Dr. Richard Clayton http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/09/25/a-study-of-whois-privacy-and-proxy-service-abuse/

Is Fake iMessage App Malware or Not? http://www.enterprise-security-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121000A6NWYX&nl=7

Do not use iMessage Chat for Android – it’s not safe [Updated] @digitaltrends http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/imessage-chat-android-security-flaw/#ixzz2gDyzRIv1

ICANN and Your Internet Abuse By Garth Bruen @circleid http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130924_icann_and_your_internet_abuse/

Twitter's User Growth Slows, Perhaps As A Result Of Spam Account Purges Ahead Of IPO http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitters-user-growth-slows-2013-9

Spam Arrest's Sender Agreement Fails Because Email Marketer's Employees Lacked Authority http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130919_spam_arrests_sender_agreement_fails/

Apple's a tasty phishing target for scammers http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049287/apple-is-a-tempting-phishing-target-for-scammers.html

Ransomware Puts Your System To Work Mining Bitcoins http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/09/ransomware-puts-your-system-to-work-mining-bitcoins/

KETLER INVESTMENTS CC vs. South African INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS’ ASSOCIATION http://badwhois.info/Ketler_Invest_v_ISPA_JMNT_REVISED.PDF

SpamNEWS 09/17/2013

CAUCE posts regularly on topics related to spam. Here are our picks of the most interesting news items of the day.

You can follow them in real time on Twitter on Google +  or on LinkedIn

 

"Rachel from Card Service's" real name(s) are Willy Plancher and Valbona Toska and the The FTC just slapped them hard.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/09/ambrosia.shtm

OPT IN CANADA!
CAUCE Board member Shaun Brown is presenting at a ConstantContact webinar on Canada's Anti-Spam Law 09/26
http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/business/223668331.html

CAUCE President John Levine on 'How not to stop spammers' - an analysis of the @spamarrest lawsuit http://t.co/5VimZhghLB
http://jl.ly/Email/spamarrest.html?seemore=y

ICANN WHOIS Privacy Plan Draws Fire - Brian Krebs
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/whois-privacy-plan-draws-fire/

Spammers Daniel Pessin and Jacob Engel Settle FTC Charges They Sent Consumers Bogus Offers for "Free" Gift Cards
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/09/rentbro.shtm

The Story Behind The New Twitter Spam Epidemic
http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/heres-the-person-responsible-for-all-that-pesky-twitter-list

How not to sue spammers, a cautionary tale

Spam Arrest is a company that sells an anti-spam service. They attempted to sue some spammers and, as has been widely reported, lost badly. This case emphasizes three points that litigious anti-spammers seem not to grasp:

• Under CAN SPAM, a lot of spam is legal.
• Judges hate plaintiffs who try to be too clever, and hate sloppy preparation even more.
• Never, ever, file a spam suit in Seattle.

CAUCE president John Levine has all the details on his blog.