Earlier this week, I reported that James Gordon had lost his lawsuit against Virtumundo on summary judgement and that Virtumundo had been awarded approximately $111,000 in legal costs from Gordon. To nobody’s great surprise, Gordon has appealed [SpamSuite] the summary judgement, which presumably will put the award of legal fees on hold.

The legal document shown at SpamSuite does nothing more than notify the court of Gordon’s intent to appeal. No grounds for the appeal are given yet.
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“She’s tried to do that, but she’s just looked like someone spinning out of control”

Roseanne’s ‘Drunk’ MySpace Rant Holds Lessons for Others By JONANN BRADY, ABCNews.com Posted: 2007-08-08 07:37:19 - Some recent posts on actress Roseanne Barr’s MySpace page created a minor stir in the world of … via AOL News
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Stock spammers pumping Prime Time Group Inc have released a flood of PDF spam, which some security vendors claim as the largest ever such flood. It’s certainly intense — we’re seeing hundreds of messages a day, spread across a wide range of addresses. Addresses targeted include a large number of ‘non-existent’ addresses, including addresses that were created by other spammers for use in ‘From:’ lines and have now been picked up and are getting spam in their own right.
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“Google Custom Search, is the wonderful product from Google which many webmasters have been looking and dream for”

Readers of Google Inc.’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. via ITworld
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Steven Levitt makes a good point on the Freakonomics blog about the spike in cellphone usage after the Minneapolis bridge collapse which alerted at least one carrier to an emergency before the news hit. His conclusion: This would seem to…
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“The success of blogs, forums, etc, has not gone unnoticed to cyber crooks, who use them to try to infect as many people as possible”

Script kiddie tool foils captchas Virus writers have created a malicious tool capable of automating the publication of spam and links to sites hosting malware on forums and blogs. via Channel Register
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Well, today I’m off to the Conference on Email and Antispam, in Mountain View, California. It’s on Aug 2-3, 2007. I’m not speaking or presenting anything this, but maybe next year I’ll present a topic like “How to write an antispam blog.”
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“The success of blogs, forums, etc, has not gone unnoticed to cyber crooks, who use them to try to infect as many people as possible”

Script kiddie tool foils captchas Virus writers have created a malicious tool capable of automating the publication of spam and links to sites hosting malware on forums and blogs. via Channel Register
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“Trying to define ‘good’ for every blog is impossible”

Back in January Amit Agarwal wrote a post called ” How to Reduce RSS Stress In Your Online Life ” in which he talked about managing enormous lists of RSS feeds. via Read/Write Web
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Published at 18:12 on July 28th, 2007 by Paul O’Flaherty We’ve got quite a few sayings for doing stupid things or doing things in the wrong order back home in Ireland. via O’Flaherty Blog
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Okay, I know that spammers aren’t really going to read this, but legitimate webmasters can promote their blogs on social networks like MyBlogLog, too. via Marketing Pilgrim
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In March, I reported that Sanford Wallace was being sued by MySpace for what else spamming.

Today, the U.K. Register reports that the judge has banned Sanford Wallace and his agents from accessing MySpace in any way. No mention is made in the Register article of any damages has Wallace effectively gotten away with it?

Interesting point brought up in the article: Even after he was sued, Wallace sent another 110,000 messages from 76,200 hijacked accounts.
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“There will always be people who try to make a campaign about make up, clothes, and now, even cleavage”

Senator Clinton during Monday night’s debate. So we were about to send the email with the subject “Cleavage” into our spam box when we noticed it was actually from Ann Lewis, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s … via The New York Times
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Anyone missed ” V Series”? A Being in the IT industry , i have been involved in fighting spam. via KuwaitBlogs
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“It’s the most sustained attack that we’ve seen. There’s been nine to 10 days straight days of attack at this level.”

The e-mail seems friendly enough, telling you that you’ve got an electronic greeting card from a friend, relative or co-worker. Gripped by the warm fuzzies, and with more than a touch of cluelessness, you click … via Houston Chronicle
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Well at least Bad Macro had company earlier this week - in the Google ‘bots zest to stamp out SPAM blogs they also took down The Bondad Blog . via The Mess That Greenspan Made
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As previously reported, stock spammers are now increasingly using attached PDFs to carry the payload of their messages. Recently, PDFs even seem to have replaced plaintext stock spam. Out of curiosity, I graphed the trends since the start of the year.
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