Re: BlueSecurity/Blue Frog
"Petzl" </@/.cn> Tue, 9 May 2006 22:38:51 +1000
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user |
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| Organization | SpamCop |
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"Turan Fettahoglu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... >I do not exactly trust BlueSecurity, but they have kicked several spammers >into their butts, more than SpamCop ever managed to. > SpamCop itself only reports spammers and logs the IP after "scoring" on its SCBL However this evidence" is then often used by authorities to target spammers which then often end up facing the courts a recent one http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept or http://tinyurl.com/km3qj registration required ****extracts***** Hacker Sentenced in Spam Case By Charles Piller, Times Staff Writer May 9, 2006 A Downey man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison Monday for using malicious software to seize control of 400,000 computers and then selling access to the "zombie" machines to spammers and hackers. "Every conviction raises the barrier to entry for these guys," said Scott Weiss, CEO of IronPort Systems in San Bruno, Calif., which produces anti-spam software. ************* Petzl -- Check your computers security (free) <http://security.symantec.com>