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

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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