Tag Archives: spam lawsuit

Anti-spam watchdog The Spamhaus Project is back at it again, providing prime fodder for anyone who appreciates a good brawl. This time, the guardian of all things spam challenges a Dutch ISP to a measure-off, and it looks like the …

In an increasingly litigious world, it’s easy to tune out when you hear that one company is getting sued by yet another company for infringements – real or imagined. But in this edition of Spamfoolery, you’ll want to stay tuned …

In the Michigan Eastern District Court, Federal Judge Patrick Duggan delivered a verdict in favour of the plaintiff in the case of Experi-Metal Inc. v Comerica Bank. The case, originally filed 2009-12-17, alleged that Comerica Bank should have prevented the …

On April 13th, the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that they have disabled an international botnet infecting more than 2 million computers and responsible for the theft of corporate data, user account details and financial information.

If a big fish like Condé Nast can fall victim to a simple spear phishing scam, what does that say for the state of enterprise wide security to protect against these types of schemes? With phishing schemes becoming more sophisticated (relatively speaking), is anyone safe?

Asis Internet Services, the ISP known both for its flood of lawsuits against alleged spammers and for winning a $2.6 million judgment from one of them last May, has dropped its lawsuit against Subscriberbase claiming the lawsuit it filed (and …

Apple has joined Google, Dell, and Yahoo! in the list of companies being sued by InNova. The company claims they, along with 32 other companies, have been using their spam filtering technology without permission for an unspecified amount of years. …

Federal authorities say two men accused of running a spam campaign in Columbia Missouri that targeted college students reaped in the profits to the tune of over $4 million.  Investigators say Amir Shah, Osmaan Shah, and Paul Zucker began their …

California based ISP Asis Internet Services won their lawsuit against a group of spammers and was awarded a $2.6 million judgment.  Asis sued a company called Find a Quote after being hit with nearly 25,000 spam messages from them. They …

An FBI investigation of two alleged spammers from New York has led to the first ever search warrant issued for a cloud computing application. Levi Beers and Chris de Diego are accused of being the masterminds behind Pulse Marketing, which …