Tag Archives: SpamHAUS

Spamhaus was hit with a DDoS attack this past weekend and although it was connected to WikiLeaks the site’s supporters weren’t to blame. It’s believed that the attack was motivated by revenge after Spamhaus sent out a warning that a …

IP Blacklists are a great way to help combat spam, but they aren’t the most obvious thing to set up in Exchange 2010. This article should help with that.

The Latvian government is quite upset with Spamhaus and was not shy about showing it. The spat began when Spamhaus placed a block of IPs belonging to a Latvian service provider called Microlines due to a large amount of spam …

Blacklists (or block lists) are a spam prevention technique that uses lists of IP addresses or domain names that are associated with spamming to determine whether to block or allow a particular email transmission. Although the technique falls under one …

Continued growth of snowshoe spam has prompted Spamhaus, a leader in the war on junk email, to craft a specific response to it. Earlier this month, the spamfighters rolled out a CSS component of the organization’s Spamhaus Block List. The …

In my last blog post Why Is It Really So Hard to Tackle Spam I mentioned that a lot of spam originates from compromised home computers, not email servers, and that many of these computers end up on blocklists such …

There is no question that spam is a problem for businesses who must deal with thousands or even millions of unsolicited advertising, phishing, and hoax emails every year.  But the problem of spam becomes more than just how to deal …

When you boil the spam problem down it becomes quite simple – someone is sending you emails that you don’t want to receive.  This makes the anti-spam solution a simple one too – stop unwanted emails from arriving in someone’s …