https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ Postings from on CircleID en Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted. 2026-03-31T21:29:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/posts20110520_a_true_final_ultimate_solution_to_the_spam_problem https://circleid.com/posts20110520_a_true_final_ultimate_solution_to_the_spam_problem FUSSP -- Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem. It's used (usually derisively) to describe the latest proposed scheme to end spam once and for all. Usually these schemes are based on false assumptions or have already been tried with no results. This time - be still, my beating heart - it looks like some researchers at the University of California might really be on to something. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081110_researchers_hijack_storm_worm_spam https://circleid.com/posts20081110_researchers_hijack_storm_worm_spam Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits. Bottom line: a one-in-twelve-million conversion rate of spam to sales seems to be enough to keep the spam economy going. The article covers a project by researchers at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, who managed to infiltrate the Storm Worm bot network and take over a small portion of it. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts831110_wikileaks_boycott_domain_registrar_enom https://circleid.com/posts831110_wikileaks_boycott_domain_registrar_enom Julius Baer, Wikileaks has called for the boycott of registrar eNom. eNom is best known as the domain registrar that complied with the federal government's order to shut down a Spanish travel agency because it did business with Cuba -- the agency was not under U.S. jurisdiction and so was hardly violating U.S. law, but their domain was registered in the United States, and that was good enough for the feds. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts83420_controversial_domain_names https://circleid.com/posts83420_controversial_domain_names E360 vs Spamhaus case, in which accused spammer E360 Insight sued anti-spam organization Spamhaus for labeling them as spammers and won by default when Spamhaus insisted that U.S. courts did not have jurisdiction over them in England and didn't appear. Unfortunately, U.S. courts did have jurisdiction over Spamhaus' domain registrar, who was nearly ordered to shut Spamhaus down (a court order was under consideration). Fortunately, Spamhaus was able to move their registration overseas before any shutdown order could be issued... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts791712_ameritrade_leak_hacker_x https://circleid.com/posts791712_ameritrade_leak_hacker_x Ameritrade leaks its customer information yet again, and I don't even bother to report it because it's not news anymore. Well, recent updates to the story have prompted me to correct that omission. Yes, it happened again. Roughly a month ago, correspondents began to receive pump-n-dump spam to tagged email addresses which they had given only to Ameritrade... This now marks the third major confirmed leak of customer information from Ameritrade. In addition, the Inquirer reported the loss of 200,000 Ameritrade client files in February 2005. One correspondent informs me that this has happened to him on four or five previous occasions. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts070807_phishing_domain_name_registration https://circleid.com/posts070807_phishing_domain_name_registration More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00