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Yikes! Cyber-Criminals Increasingly Using CAPTCHA Walls in Phishing Attacks

From Infosecurity Magazine: "New research from Barracuda Networks has revealed that cyber-criminals are increasingly using official reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems and trick unsuspecting users."   Read more here . Meaning, if a phishing email's landing page blocks content until and unless a user solves a CAPTCHA or CAPTCHA-like proces…
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Scunthorpe Redux

Well, it looks as though we haven't solved the Scunthorpe Problem just yet, according to Natalie Weiner, whose last name still gets blocked by filters. Read more about it over on Slashdot . Gotta love content filtering. Previously .

Unroll.me to close to EU users

As mentioned on Slashdot, TechCrunch is reporting that unsubscription service Unroll.me is saying that EU users are no longer welcome, claiming that it's not possible to comply with GDPR.

Oops: Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds

As reported on Slashdot: "[After recent spam filter changes at Gmail, Linux inventor Linus] Torvalds said his own experience [is] that around 30 per cent of the mail in his spam box turned out not to be spam." I see lots of false positives in my own mailboxes as well,…

Payday Loans in the News

It looks like email permission is not the only challenge for some payday loan marketers. Case in point: This weekend I ran across this story on Slashdot explaining how a Wordpress plugin was hacked to include a link to a UK payday loan site .

China cleans up spam problem

Techworld reports: "Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems' IronPort group ranks it at number 18 in terms of spam-producing countries. That's a big…

Is there a war on small mail servers?

A few days ago, a Slashdot user asked , “ Is there a war on small mail servers? ” The admin went on to state that he or she works for a company hosting their own mail server. Their two ISPs (Comcast and Verizon) both block port 25 outbound, and they’re complaining of getting ca…

Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit over Deceptive Emails

TechFlash reports: "Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school were reaching out to connect -- only to disc…

Spamhaus, Snoeshow spam, and You

From Slashdot: "Spamhaus [has] announced they are releasing a new list of IP addresses from which they've been receiving "snowshoe" spam — unsolicited email distributed across many IPs and domains in order to avoid triggering volume-based filters." The…