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Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers
Talkback Steve Linford SpamHaus.org (Spamhaus Project) to aquire SPEWS blacklist and adopt the SPEWS technology platform and non removal policy. Steve Linford AKA Spamhaus, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SPEWS Blacklist and its...
[August 19, 2006, 7:31]
Microsoft turns to Spamhaus for security help
Talkback Steve Linford SpamHaus.org (Spamhaus Project) to aquire SPEWS blacklist and adopt the SPEWS technology platform and non removal policy. Steve Linford AKA Spamhaus, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SPEWS Blacklist and its...
[August 20, 2006, 19:46]
Microsoft turns to Spamhaus for security help
Talkback Steve Linford and Spamhaus Internet Terrorists Power has corrupted Steve Linford and Spamhaus anti-spam vigilantes. Steve Linford and the Spamhaus SBL is a perfect example of this. Here you will find examples of Linford bragging he can shut any...
[August 20, 2006, 19:45]
Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'
News Steve Linford, director of The Spamhaus Project, warned on Tuesday that these gangs are supplying US-based spammers with details of compromised PCs that can be used to send out their unsolicited commercial messages, and creating viruses that will...
[June 8, 2004, 18:20]
Email meltdown claims slammed
News Linford said on Friday that many ISPs had contacted him about the problem asking for advice, and reiterated his concerns. Earlier this week Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, warned that email infrastructures were on the verge of collapse because...
[February 4, 2005, 13:10]
Faster than speeding spam - 2004's Internet Hero
News Among the nominees are Steve Linford of Spamhaus, for work on spam; the Law commission and, separately, Mary Tait from the DTI, and the Information Commissioner, for work on laws relating to the Internet, and e-commerce minister Steven Timms, for...
[December 23, 2003, 12:15]
Verisign wins Internet Villain award
News Meanwhile, as predicted by ZDNet UK, Steve Linford of Spamhaus walked away with the award for Internet Hero. Linford was nominated "for educating people about spam, endeavouring to thwart spammers, and urging the US to reject the opt-out approach...
[February 20, 2004, 7:30]
Spamhaus rebuts vendor accusations
News Last week anti-spam software vendors Vircom and Postini attacked claims by Spamhaus' director Steve Linford that a virus is threatening the email infrastructure of numerous ISPs around the world. The vendors disagreed with Linford's claims that...
[February 7, 2005, 13:00]
Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers
News Spamhaus founder Steve Linford revealed told the Openwave messaging anti-abuse conference in London this week that this legislation has had a counterproductive effect. For the first time we have very tenacious spamming gangs setting up in the UK...
[June 10, 2004, 14:15]
Microsoft turns to Spamhaus for security help
Talkback Steve Linford From: Steve Linford - Find messages by this author Steve Linford Why is it working closely with the world's largest spammers? Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: MICROSOFT SPAMS AGAIN!
[December 14, 2005, 1:26]
On-the-run spammer caught and canned
News According to Steve Linford from Spamhaus, who traces the movements of the world's worst spammers, Smith then went on the run with a fake passport. According to Linford, Smith was a particularly prolific spammer.
[July 6, 2005, 16:55]
Spammers hide behind a friendly face
News This is extremely common now," said Steve Linford, who maintains a London-based blacklist of mass emailers called the Spamhaus Block List. Linford said that in some states, such as California or Washington, deceptive spam is illegal, giving...
[April 15, 2002, 11:32]
Anti-spam lists bar Yahoo! stores
News site off its list after hearing from the Web portal that it plans to have a new team in place next week to respond to spam complaints, said Steve Linford, director of the Spamhaus Project. They just weren't being acted on," Linford said.
[September 13, 2002, 9:18]
Take on the spammers with Aussie rules
Leader The true heroes of the spam wars are people like Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus. Linford played an important role in helping the Australian government to write its own anti-spam law. In contrast, after Britain's feeble anti-spam law was...
[October 26, 2004, 12:00]
Spammers 'tricking ISPs' into sending junk mail
News The Trojan is able to order proxies to send spam upstream to the ISP," said Steve Linford, director of SpamHaus. Linford believes that this Trojan was written by the same people who write spamming software.
[February 2, 2005, 16:05]
Spam servers in China named and shamed
News Steve Linford, a leading anti-spam campaigner, warned back in June that many American spammers are using servers based in China. Linford told the Openwave Messaging Anti-Abuse conference in London that some 70 percent of spam is sent from China by...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Spamming tool goes on the run
News The amount of heat it [MCI] was getting was too much," said Steve Linford, director of anti-spam campaign group Spamhaus. Linford said this is where the Send-Safe owner makes his money. Linford has lobbied MCI over recent months to remove the site...
[February 28, 2005, 16:30]
High noon for the spammers
News Steve Linford from Spamhaus told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com his organisation has been working closely with Attorney General Abbott to get these operations shut down and expressed delight at the way Texas is going about achieving that.
[January 14, 2005, 15:50]
Spam law compromised by direct marketers
News Steve Linford from Spamhaus said the process was "shameful". For the DTI to have been suckered in by this is very bad," said Linford. A consultation by the Department of Trade and Industry in advance of drawing up the UK's much-criticised anti-spam...
[June 2, 2005, 14:10]
Spammers' goods go on sale on eBay
News Steve Linford from Spamhaus said his foundation has repeatedly asked eBay to stop these kinds of sales, but says the response from the auction house has been underwhelming. But Spamhaus' Linford believes eBay should be more vigilant about what...
[January 21, 2005, 9:20]
